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Viking are done and on the deck



On to the Tomcats!!!!

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~Blake
Completed:
1:350 Trumpeter CVN-68 Nimitz, "Eagle Claw"

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

OK, now you've done it. Now You've done it!!
You may have just put a strain on my marriage.
I'm going to have to start collecting parts to build the Ranger, and it's those Hovers that've done it.
Your 350s look as good as my 48s.

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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
~ Chester W. Nimitz ~
My Builds ~ http://ussnorthcaroilna.shutterfly.com/

LOL!!! Mark, many thanks bud.

Here's another shot of all three of them together.

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~Blake
Completed:
1:350 Trumpeter CVN-68 Nimitz, "Eagle Claw"

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

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James

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/James-Guard/user-index.html

Digging them hawkeyes when I was in my teens [25 plus years ago] and living in Long Island I would see them on a daily basis as they flew over my parents house.. Looking at your E-2 brings back some good memories... Thanks for posting....

Thanks guys

Will take a little break in between aircraft building. Purchased a set of Black Dog deck tractors this morning, so I'll work on them next to break up the boredom.

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~Blake
Completed:
1:350 Trumpeter CVN-68 Nimitz, "Eagle Claw"

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Finished up the forklifts this morning and got them on the flight deck. Pretty happy with their dirty and grimy appearance. Still waiting on the deck tractors to come in next week and I bought a micro cutting bit for my Dremel to open up the Tomcat cockpits (got to get a micro chuck though). Got to fix the rear portion of the starboard elevator and smooth it out a bit more.

The deck equipment is definitely starting to breathe life into her.

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~Blake
Completed:
1:350 Trumpeter CVN-68 Nimitz, "Eagle Claw"

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Holy gosh!!!

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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
~ Chester W. Nimitz ~
My Builds ~ http://ussnorthcaroilna.shutterfly.com/

Awesome job!

Just great! A real eye candy!

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On the workbench: 1/72 Revell VIIC/41 Platinum Edition + 1/1 F-16C Blk. 52 Cockpit
... and Murphy tinkering with ALWAYS !

Beautiful job. Airwing looks great. She lives.

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James

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/James-Guard/user-index.html

Helo Blake
a great job for a result of more realistic congrats
cheers
nicolas

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https://ladiagonaledubosco.blogspot.fr/

Very impresive work. Congratulations

Jorge

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Beautiful Girls in your city

Man that is awesome. That deck is going to look nice and busy with all those aircraft on top. Keep up the good work

Mike

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Mike

Many thanks fellas

While I'm waiting on my stuff to arrive from WEM, I decided to try my hand at cutting one of the cockpits open on the Tomcats. Got to clean it up a little bit but I'm pretty darned happy to be able to plop that PE cockpit tub in it.

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~Blake
Completed:
1:350 Trumpeter CVN-68 Nimitz, "Eagle Claw"

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Blake!!!!!

You managed to turn those horrible, inaccurate Trumpeter pieces into a VERY impressive ship!!!
makes me think that I may have gone a tiny bit overboard for accuarcy on mine..
and the airwing is fantastic!!!!! are you going to put a cocpit in every Tomcat?!
Let me know if you accidentally built 2 or 3 too many E-2-s, and I can take 'em off your hand. I would be proud to put them on my ship! ( I actually love all your planes, but I need low-viz paintjobs for my carrier)
keep it up!!!!!

Cheers: Laci

Laci,
Thank you much bud! I have 10 Cats total and four or five of those will get open cockpits. Even though the GHQ Weapons set is slightly overscale, I'm going to pick up a couple of sets of them too.

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~Blake
Completed:
1:350 Trumpeter CVN-68 Nimitz, "Eagle Claw"

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Outstanding work there Blakeas always. Keep up the GREAT JOB!!!

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Jim Varnell
ABH2 USN/RET.
89-00
Eastern NC Modelworks

Up coming projects:
1/700 scale rebuild of diorama project 960 square feet.
(Table 1 underway)Feb.2017
1/350 USS ALASKA CB-1(started Aug. 2017) 70% completed

Amazing job. I think that i will take some ideas for my 1/200 Nimitz

Beautiful.

Jorge

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Beautiful Girls in your city

Amazing. Jaw dropping work.