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HI Jim THANKS for the welcome an the kind comments an it must be fantastic to see the ships all lit up at night i have only ever been there in the day time out on the watertaxi but my wife an i really enjoyed ourselves an i hope to come down to portsmouth later in yr in my touring caravan
chris

HI Dave glad you like the build an when i have finished posting this build i will try an post the NIMITZ build. But it sure takes time postin the pics as i am putting them on one at a time so it keeps the build all in the proper order
all best to you
chris

HI Guys PART 2 of the build
stumpmast an foremast built

an the mainmast built an now all sprayed in primer to look for small cracks or holes to fill

here all sprayed up in top colours

an now the deck an i always paint the model white inside as its makes it easy to spot any lose wires that may have come adrift



build well underway here

in test tank lookin for any leaks passed ok

balance test passed ok

Hi Chris,

very inspirational - thanks for sharing!

I particularly love the idea of splitting the hull; all the machinery is rear half, I suppose?

Jorit

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HI Jorit thanks for your comments an no the machinery is in the two halfs as there is quite a bit as you will see in the comin pics
chris

HI AGAIN guys
now this gadget is a sevo fitted with a red cam that activates the knock on switches as it turns from commands from my R/C an it works these functions

no 1 bridge lights an nav lights an running lights on mast
no 2 starts all four radars
no 3 switches on red 2mm anti collision LED's on all masts
no 4 ll ll helo motor an hanger bay lights
no 5 ll ll all white LED's floodlights
an this unit is fitted in the bow sec of hull under the seadart launcher

here a shot of the underside of the bridge main S/S an the main motor that powers all 4 radars if you look closely in the nxt few pics you will see the gears system that joins up at the hull jiont to work the rear radars as well as the big search radar an the small nav one on bridge



the rear funnel S/S

an here a shot of it from the underside

hanger bay S/S with working open an close hanger door

an a underside shot

more to come soon
chris

hi guys PART 3
HERE a shot into the main eleltronics bay in the front section

an the smoke unit

motors section

an a overall veiw of her

here my good lady wife poseing with ed


in dock with my freinds sealords avenger


an that the lot of the build
chris

Hi,
great to see this build. I'm pretty curious about that smoke unit as I was kind of planning to use one too. So a few questions about that.
What brand is it? And how does it work?
Does it give any pressure to the smoke or does it "float out" by itself? And what is creating the smoke? A special type of liquid I assume? And does it consume a lot?

A small remark/ Question:
Are you sure about that plimsol/draught mark ? Normally it should be in the middle of your perpendiculars, never seen one placed aft... Don't even know if it applies for warships, never really looked at it and can't quite remember seeing it on most warships either.
And the green light on the aft part, just in front of the funnel, is that there in reality? Do you know what its purpose is? (according to regulations there should be only one green sidelight on starboard (with a back-up mostly installed on top of each other in the same place)
Great ship nonetheless, very nice work and use of different materials. Love those in-progress pictures too, gives a good view of the massive amount of work involved in building something like this!

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HI Neptune thank you for your post an ill try an answer your qeustions as best i can

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Are you sure about that plimsol/draught mark ? Normally it should be in the middle of your
perpendiculars, never seen one placed aft... Don't even know if it applies for warships, never really looked at it and can't quite remember seeing it on most warships either.
And the green light on the aft part, just in front of the funnel, is that there in reality? Do you know what its purpose is? (according to regulations there should be only one green sidelight on starboard (with a back-up mostly installed on top of each other in the same place)
Great ship nonetheless, very nice work and use of different materials. Love those in-progress pictures too, gives a good view of the massive amount of work involved in building something like this!

on these matters i used moddler's licence as just trying to make the model more intresting WELL SPOTTED an it shows to me you have really been studying the model pics.Now onto the subject of the smoke unit well its a HUNTER SYSTEMS SMOKE UNIT an i run it on 12v power an it run for about 10 to 15 mins an it gets v-hot an it ues's a special blend of hunter's smoke oil which you buy in a fair sized bottle from hunter systems an they last quite a while.Now im not sure how it works but it seems to me it builds up pressure an blows the smoke up the tube into the funnel an as you can see from pics it works quite well an i was v-pleased with the effect if you want to get one an want their address i think i can find it for you just let me know.Well i hope that answered your questions an thank you for takeing the time to look at my post
chris

This is simply Amazing! You know that if you need a horse trough to hold your model, you are doing it right. Thank you for sharing the build, and simply knock-out work.

First nice job! Nice to see the variety of mechanics and electronics. Are all of the the lights that you used LED's or are there regular incandescent bulbs in use also?

HI NEARLY ALL LED'S but a few regular incandescent bulbs in use on the masts for steamin lights
chris

completed
chris

Hello Chris,

You've assembled a beautiful model, I will reference the above photo and mention a few things that are probably unknown by folks who don't or haven't spent a number of years on a warship at sea.

Right now, in fact, my ship is at "Flying Stations", and a Sea King CH-124B landed above my head a few minutes ago, the rotors are still spinning and they just shut down one engine. (The joys of (slow) internet access at sea.)

Anyhow, a few minor points, that may be worth pondering on future projects:

Point 1. During flying stations, particularly when the helo is running, the hangar door is ALWAYS closed.

Point 2. Helos in the hangar go in nose first, rather than tail first. There isn't generally enough space to spin them around on the flight deck, and the traversing gear (RAST or "Beartrap") is what is used to traverse the helo. (This may be different in UK service.)

Point 3. The pipe over the PA system on the ship for Flying Stations is: "Flying stations, weather decks abaft the hangar are out of bounds. Off Caps." There would be no-one on the upper decks wearing a cap or hat during flying stations. Even the OOW on the bridge takes his/hers off.

Point 4. When launching/recovering the helo, the guardrails on the flight-deck are lowered, ie instead of pointing up, they're pointing out (they hinge at the base).

I don't mean to come across and tell you that your magnificent project is bad in any way, these are detail points that those of us in uniform know, and because they're so routine to us, we don't think to mention or document them.

I'll see if I can dig up a couple of photos of our helo ops that I might be able to share the next time I'm in port.

You have done a fantastic job on this, and your attention to detail is a delight to see, thanks for sharing!!

NavyShooter

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HI ALL i just want to say i no longer have this model HMS EDINBURGH as she' gone to a freind as in my opinion she was gettin on a bit an he has revamped her as i dint have time MYSELF as for the last 5 yrs i have been scratchbuildin the ship below in pic an its
USS NIMITZ IN 1/144 SEM SCALE
chris

An THANK YOU NavyShooter for your comment's an intrest
chris

Two very nice models,

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Simple but effective.

THANK YOU for your nice comments ARH
chris