CV-6 Enterprise Flight Deck

Here is the Doolittle Raid flight deck marked to reflect the Neutrality Patrol days, i.e. Yellow Wings and silver fuselages perched on the stained wooden decks of the bow of U. S. S. Enterprise CV-6 (EN) for a made-up fighter leaders conference. I intend to add in yellow wing livery a Carousel 1 F4F-3 Wildcat and a Franklin Mint Marine SBD-2 Dauntless to the Hobby Master Brewster Buffalo F3A-1 and Grumman F3F-1to this deck all in 1/48th scale all with the markings common to our military planes flying in America First isolationism. EN is an easy symbol in this scale vice RNGR let's say, so it was painted on. Indeed I experienced warping but I thought glueing to a wooden base under a hundred pound weight for two days would straighten it out. Wrong! Hence the screws. I read your warm water remedy a leetle too late. Your products are great and I have used the Norfolk Blue 251-N Camouflage Measure expressed in Testor's Intermediate Blue as bases on eight other naval aircraft dioramas so far (Two Hellcats F6F -3 and -5; Two Corsairs F4U-1A and F4U-1D, a Bearcat F8F-2 and a Tigercat F7F-3 as well as two Dauntless SBD-3s). Stains from oil, grease, gasoline as well as rubber streaks further augment the realism. Prewar decks maybe were more pristine because there was time and something to do to keep the swabbies busy.