Great finish! Will you make some weathering?

I don’t think I will, @lis, getting some wires strung on it will suck out the last bit of creativity, enthusiasm, and motivation I have left for this project. One of my coworkers often says to me “ you got a lotta quit in you, you know that?” The Arizona had been painted just a few months before the Japanese destroyed it, so I’m thinkin’ it still probably looked pretty nice on the morning of the 7th of December.

Thank you, Bob @v1pro…. I think just that little bit of scratch building improved the model… made it look a little more like it did at the time of the attack.

I think display ship without floatplane is OK.

Thank you Spiros @fiveten & Lis @lis...
I hope I’ll get back in the mood to do some work on models. After 1/2 a century ... sometimes it’s hard to stay enthused. I did enjoy the three 1/32 aircraft I built in 2021.

Already looks great at this stage, Jay @ssgt
You will definitely find the mood to finish the last bits.

Nice work Jay @ssgt, so far it looks great. Taking a break is good, it lets everything reset and one day the final touches will get done. To me it looks pretty nice the way it is right now.

Today I added the anchors, the floatplane on the aft catapult , and touched up the paint a bit. Then added the flag on the stern of the ship. I’m going to say it’s finished. I didn’t follow thru and add the rigging to it as I had initially planned.

After building two ships in a row ( see my Akizuki build on the “Empire of Japan” group build) I’m looking forward to getting back to working on aircraft models.

I took the Liberty to add some photographs of my almost 20 year old Monogram SBD Dauntless dive bomber. It fits in with the subject matter this group is interested in.

Congratulations, my friend @ssgt!
Your Arizona turned out really wonderful!
Love the photo with the SBD.
Well done!