Posted by Matty
on October 12, 2009, 9:36:49, in reply to "Yeah but........."
Message modified by board administrator October 12, 2009, 14:24:51
And it's really "coming full circle" for me, since my early days of bashing radars out of Plastruct rod, like on my New Jersey. I didn't reallize how affordable PE can be - particularly if you scavenge all of the available parts off most frets - and of course it is far faster than building in plastic, not to method crisper (especially at your 1/700 scale)! Can you imagine trying to scratchbuild all of Akagi's girder-work - which could be done nicely, in 1/350 scale - out of plastic rod?!!
The plastic kit that I'd really like to see, to go "PE hog-wild" on, would be a 1/500-ish USS Langley. In its absence, I have identified a readily-available (and cheap-cheap!) kit, whose hull would provide a decent foundation for "scratch-bashing" Langley, in (around) that scale. All that's missing is to find a PE set with lots of the right X-truss girders, and affordable enough to buy the multiple sets you'd need to complete "The Ironworker's Dream".
As for all those other builds of Jonnie's, remember he also has to put them in a huge Pearl Harbor diorama - so yeah, there's the rest of his life, spoken-for! 
Cheers,
-Matty
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