gtb -red wrote:
Mark,ever thought of doing a 1/350 Supercarrier?
A valid question. 4 or 5 years ago I got back into model building to do just that. Re-build my 1/350 Enterprise. I had seen the work of Kelley Quirk online and was amazed at how far modeling had come since I was a kid. So I started putting together the airwing and working with PE and decided that I should paractice on a couple of 1/700 kits to get the hang of it since it was cheeper, or so I thought.
I started doing a couple of kits and learned how to do decals on my computer so I got into it. I had a dream as a youngster to have a model fleet of all of the US Navy since before WWII. Now that monster has been born!
I actually have almost all of the 1/350 scale Trumpeter Carriers, Nimitz, Essex, Hornet, and Lexington. I have almost all of the Airwings purchased for them as well. Now space has become a problem so 1/350 was put on hold until we move to a bigger place. I am doing Enterprise in 1996 with CVW-17 but I have not worked on it in awhile. Scratch building all of the Sat Domes has been a show stopper. I am also doing the aircraft with PE and that sucks too but the results are worth it.
So there you have it. 1/350 will come along. But it will be a while.
In the mean time. Ed tells me that you could help with an Oriskany I am building. I am doing the 70's era with F-8's and A-7's. I need to know when she lost her 5" mounts? Also, a few pics of her mast would be great as well. I am thinking that her top rigging did not change much from the late 60's which is the focus of most of Ray Beans Post WWII Essex Class Photo's.