USS Hornet sunk AGAIN!

[Eddie M.]

I just came back from a day trip down to Galveston and the Lone Star Flight Museum. They are making a good recovery after Hurricane Ike devastated the museum. I was enjoying myself because the aircraft that were on display were undergoing maintenance and had almost all the the engines exposed. then, as I was leaving, I came upon one of my favorite exhibits. The USS Hornet. Ike spared no mercy.

As she appeared in years past.


And now...

[sequoiaranger]

Since it is already damaged and rusty, maybe they could display it as how it looked on the sea floor off Santa Cruz! 

Dam*n shame. What a beauty she was!

[Taiidantomcat]

Its crazy how that went from a very realistic model of a floating carrier to a very realistic model of a sunk carrier... my broken models don't even look that real.

[Shasper]

Look on the brightside, the weathering is spot on

Shas

[B777LR]

Wow! The weathering is just fantastic! Too bad the model was broken Anybody know where it rested in the debris field? In a muddy pool perhaps? Or is it the PE parts that have begun rusting? Im gonna try something along those lines!

[Geoff]

Somehow I don't think your neighbours will be very happy if you have a hurricane in your garden.

[Eddie M.]

This ship was put together one steel hull plate after another. The detail was and is meticulous. I hoping to see her in a better state in a few years. One thing I did think was that someone with mad photoshop skills could really make this look like it was at the bottom of the depths as descibed by Taiidantomcat.
Here's another of her in her finer days and a couple close ups of the bow and fantail..

[PanzerWulff]

Beautiful Model of the "Shangri La" as president Roosevelt called it now It looks like a ship sitting in Mothballs.I hope it can be restored to it's former glory
"Panzer"

[B777LR]

Ah, so the model is made from metal. Perhaps some strips of metal stuck loosely to the plastic hull, and then submerged in salt water for some days will give the same result?

[Eddie M.]

Ah, so the model is made from metal. Perhaps some strips of metal stuck loosely to the plastic hull, and then submerged in salt water for some days will give the same result?

The only way I know of to stop rust is to grind down to clean metal and work from there. In this case, it seems it will take quite some time to accomplish. The rust will be hard to remove from every space. Here's the hanger bay.