Postwar navy.

Tom@JAG · Post by **Tom@JAG** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:55 pm

You can get plans for an AOE at Floating Drydock. Be warned that it is the Vietnam era version you will be getting. You will have to make your own conversions for a modern era AOE.

gtb -red · Post by **gtb -red** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:51 pm

These are 3 really bad photos of a 1/350 dio I did ten years ago for a friend,I lost the pattern of the Merrimack a "Cimarron" class oiler. It was done with cardboard and GMM photoetc. Anyways will tried again with either a Henry J.Kasier class or a Supply class.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226 ... 0_0442.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226 ... 0_0443.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226 ... 0_0445.jpg
I have the 16th edition of the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S Fleet, so I'll use that as a starting point. Or copy Nektarious.

Nektarios · Post by **Nektarios** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:01 am

gtb -red wrote:These are 3 really bad photos of a 1/350 dio I did ten years ago for a friend,I lost the pattern of the Merrimack a "Cimarron" class oiler. It was done with cardboard and GMM photoetc. Anyways will tried again with either a Henry J.Kasier class or a Supply class.
I have the 16th edition of the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S Fleet, so I'll use that as a starting point. Or copy Nektarious.

Looks great gtb althougt the photos aren t of good quality.

Tom@JAG wrote: Got to start convincing guys to do dioramas instead of being "one ship wonders"

So lets start trying to convince them Tom.

kidcurrie42 · Post by **kidcurrie42** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:26 pm

Happy Birthday for Yesterday Nektarios, Your really Old Now, Hope you got everything you wished for................... big wish list though.

John

Avery Boyer · Post by **Avery Boyer** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:21 pm

J Goodacre · Post by **J Goodacre** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:27 pm

Happy Belated Birthday Nektarios!!! As for the build where would one display a dio of that size? Great stuff though.

Nektarios · Post by **Nektarios** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:49 am

Thank you all guys.
O.K. i turned 31 yo I just wish that by the time i ll get 40 i ll have realised the 600-ship U.S. navy which is my modelling dream. I m about halfway there. 14 out of 15 CVBGs done, only 3 Iowas have to be built to complete the 4 BBSAGs, most of the subs are done but lots of work is still required for landing and replenishment ships.

kidcurrie42 · Post by **kidcurrie42** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:58 am

Well get your Priorities sorted out, Stop the holidays and get building, No need to reply, Get Building........

Nektarios · Post by **Nektarios** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:47 am

Some closeup photos of CV-63. The aircraft have been improved using some starfighter decals left from other CVW sets added to the decals that came from Fujimi sets. After using starfighter decals on some airwings i just feel that all 15 CVWs should look like that.

gtb -red · Post by **gtb -red** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:33 pm

Happy Belated Nektarios,31yrs is not old try 51 and going down hillfast man.

mine was 2july,anyway I was looking at all of the 1/700 support ships and got very jealous. Tom's Cimarron,your AOE-1 and AE-35 and J Goodarce AOE-3 are very outstanding. So I just looked at some photos of the Henry J. Kaiser class and started making one in 1/350.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226 ... 0_0447.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226 ... 0_0446.jpg

Nektarios · Post by **Nektarios** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:05 pm

gtb -red wrote:Happy Belated Nektarios,31yrs is not old try 51 and going down hillfast man. mine was 2july,anyway I was looking at all of the 1/700 support ships and got very jealous. Tom's Cimarron,your AOE-1 and AE-35 and J Goodarce AOE-3 are very outstanding. So I just looked at some photos of the Henry J. Kaiser class and started making one in 1/350.

Thank you gtb. You are very talented in scratchbuilding. Hope to see it finished ASAP.
I have decided to start a major shipbuilding program (see below) 15 kits.
I hope i ll finish them by the end of October.

J Goodacre · Post by **J Goodacre** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:46 pm

Nektarios - What are you up to?

1xSpruance class DD 1/700.
4xTiconderoga class CGs 1/700.
4xArleigh Burke class DDGs 1/700.
4xKidd class DDGs 1/700.
2xOHP class FFGs 1/700.

That's a lot of building you better get busy.. Does this mean the supply ships are on hold?

gtb - looking forward to see the rest of the ship when it's done and thanks for the comments.

I will be posting more progress pictures tonight.

John

Tom@JAG · Post by **Tom@JAG** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:14 pm

John, It's my fault. I'm out of stock of Cimarrons at the moment and can't get Nektarios' to him fast enough.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:13 pm

Oh and I thought it was because you did not want one ship wonders any more!!!!!!!

J Goodacre · Post by **J Goodacre** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:14 pm

That was me, Sorry

kidcurrie42 · Post by **kidcurrie42** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:29 pm

Its a Mid life crisis he is going through John, Hey Nektarios why no USS Coral Sea in there ? Cimarron is progressing well.

On and Around the bench:

USS Saratoga
USS Ranger
USS Independence
USS Kitty Hawk
USS Enterprise
USS America
USS JFK
USS Missouri
USS Macdonough DDG-39
FGS Lutjens
Under Bench: Trumpy USS Nimitz, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C Stennis, Harry S Truman and a Midway(Roosevelt CV-42)

J Goodacre · Post by **J Goodacre** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:40 pm

kidcurrie42 - I will start the Cimarron maybe after this kit is finished (or close to being done) I do not think they are ever done in my mind. Please post some pic as you progress. Here are some pics of the progress so far.

I still have the masts, RIBs, the rest of the PE, crew, helo and actual supplies. Does anyone know of a way to produce the cargo nets in this scale?

enjoy John

kidcurrie42 · Post by **kidcurrie42** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:07 pm

I know what you mean John, i always feel that something more can be added or altered, for the cargo nets maybe a gauze bandage or something similar will do the trick. My Cimarron will be done as USS Platte AO-186.

John

Nektarios · Post by **Nektarios** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:32 pm

J Goodacre wrote:Nektarios - What are you up to?

1xSpruance class DD 1/700.
4xTiconderoga class CGs 1/700.
4xArleigh Burke class DDGs 1/700.
4xKidd class DDGs 1/700.
2xOHP class FFGs 1/700.

That's a lot of building you better get busy.. Does this mean the supply ships are on hold?

John

John,
this is my way of building faster. I believe that (and proved it so far) building 1 ship at once slows you down. As long as you keep building in the same scale, same navy and of course postwar ships which do not have the difficult camouflage of WW II ships this will be helpful. Also sometimes you get tired to build one ship. This way you can switch and build something else till you feel like coming back to the first ship.
The supply ship status is as follows.
AE-35 is finished minus PE. I ve decided to wait for this. So when it becomes available i ll finish it in 4-5 days.
As for Cimarron i ordered it but got unlucky once more in the last month.
I hope this bad luck thing doesn t continue.

Tom@JAG wrote:John, It's my fault. I'm out of stock of Cimarrons at the moment and can't get Nektarios' to him fast enough.

Of course as you understand this means war Tom. I m gathering a task force and will attack ASAP.

See the photos below.

kidcurrie42 wrote:Its a Mid life crisis he is going through John, Hey Nektarios why no USS Coral Sea in there ? Cimarron is progressing well.

On and Around the bench:

USS Saratoga
USS Ranger
USS Independence
USS Kitty Hawk
USS Enterprise
USS America
USS JFK
USS Missouri
USS Macdonough DDG-39
FGS Lutjens
Under Bench: Trumpy USS Nimitz, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C Stennis, Harry S Truman and a Midway(Roosevelt CV-42)

Well that s impressive so i guess what you re having is called a late life crisis John?

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Coral Sea will be built when i will feel better and be able to concentrate on this project.

Nektarios · Post by **Nektarios** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:17 am

J Goodacre wrote:kidcurrie42 - I will start the Cimarron maybe after this kit is finished (or close to being done) I do not think they are ever done in my mind. Please post some pic as you progress. Here are some pics of the progress so far.
I still have the masts, RIBs, the rest of the PE, crew, helo and actual supplies. Does anyone know of a way to produce the cargo nets in this scale?

enjoy John

It looks great John nice custom made decals too. Try using PE nets for cargo nets. Look at the photo below.