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Absolutley amazing, I have a carrier as well want to make Nimitz or Carl Vinson, you inspire me to do this, but since i have never attempted a ship yet, i think i will go with a destroyer or Crusier first. Any Updates???

I'm sorry to be this late, but if i see the position where the catapults start i would say the starboard catapult would be ending a bit further forward.
The picture below shows that i'm right (and Trumpeter as well), or has this been changed on Theodore Roosevelt? :


Greetings Josse

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Here's a shot of the bow and as you can see the #1 cat is even with the #2.

The photo also shows the do NOT stop at the same point.
The ship is under a small angle on the photo, so just drawing a line straight down from the highest catapult won't give you any realistic idea of where they end.
The line should be running parallel with the bow.

Greetings Josse

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Here's some better shots guys

http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/061021-N-9362D-010.jpg
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/080723-N-7571S-003.jpg
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/061217-N-9708H-028.jpg

If you look CLOSELY you can see that the port cat track is a little bit longer than the starboard track.

But then you look at these shots and they look even....

http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/080427-N-7241L-018.jpg
http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/080427-N-7241L-024.jpg


Notice that the TR carries "Big Stick" on the edge of the forward flight deck. It would be a nice touch hint hint


They start at two different places on the deck and the JBDs are noticeably uneven so I don't know why the tracks would be different lengths. I'm confused now too...

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After looking at some of the photos that Cliffy posted, I agree. They don't stop even, however, the staggering isn't nearly as severe as the Trumpeter picture makes it look like. It's only a few feet. The trumpeter instruction sheet makes it look like it's over 10 feet in difference.

Also, it would be a nice touch if someone did an unrep diorama and had "I Want to Get Away" by Lenny Kravitz playing (The CO of the ship when my wife served on the TR played that song whenever they did an emergency breakaway drill after unrepping)

I think the difference still is pretty big, might indeed be more then a metre, or about 3 to 4 feet.
I also asume that they'll start at differant places as well seeing the fact that they will need to have a certain length in order to be able to launch the aircraft.

Greetings Josse

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Did this build ever get finished ?

Port = Left, Starboard = Right, so which is too long??????????

Happy Modeling

John

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HI THERE any updates on this splendid build ?

chris

Thanks for the interest guys! Unfortunately I have not made much progress in the past couple of years, my interests switched to 1/72 aircraft, see links below:
Tomcat: http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=221838&st=20
Super Hornet: http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=252750

The CVN-71 project is not completely dead though, I will finish it sometime, promise

Arnaud

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