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Somebody should punish you for that

Great job, you raised the bar on plane detailing! Slightly too much wash for those panel lines, but I haven't ever done anything like this myself, so I'll forgive you

Anyhow great work which requires a lot of patience

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The merchant shipyard

After a much needed break, I'm back to finishing up the airwing, specifically wrapping up VF-41.

Finished the last two Cats with open canopies. I ran out of GHQ weapons so I'm stalled for another week until I can get the other two sets needed to complete the ordinance on the F-14's. Only three more birds to finish and I can start the process of gluing everything down topside, and laying out the crew and vehicles.

-Blake

Crummy iPhone photo again.

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

You seriously suggesting that these are 1/350 - i have seen 1/72 with much less detail.
I think these are unbeleivable

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1/350 Slipway:
USS John C Stennis

Stennis CBG 2002:

Operational:
CG73 USS Port Royal
DDG73 USS Decatur
CG57 USS Lake Champlain
FFG33 USS Jarrett

LHD5 USS Bataan

HMAS Vendetta II D08
IJN Yamato
HMAS Vendetta I I69

Planned
DD967 USS Elliott

Incredible detail at that scale, mate! As someone who is much better at aeroplane modeling than ship modeling, I can appreciate how difficult it is to get that kind of depth on such a...tiny...aircraft. Bombs and AA missiles at that scale? Madness!

Dave may be on to something...

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Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)

On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Beautiful work on them Tomcats. Kevin

Dave, Sean and Kevin, many thanks guys

At roughly 6-7 hours per Cat to complete, the work is mind numbing Thank God there's only 10 of them.

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Great looking build Blake. Those are some sweet Cats too!!! I was wondering how the GHQ ordanance would look on them. Can't wait to see your finished build.

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Doug

Currently building:
Tamiya 1/350 CVN-65 USS Enterprise 2001
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=120496

http://modelshipgallery.com/gallery/use ... index.html

Thanks Doug!

Had to go back and fix a couple of missing things on the first two like the red warning stripes behind the wing bags and the dark grey missile stripe on the AIM-9s. If you look at the photos of the JR and Aces Tomcats from three pages back, the red warning stripes are much longer on the Aces' backs that the JR's.

Another thing to note, again the Starfighter decals are a bit inaccurate (but boy I am still glad that somebody is making decals for these). The roundels should be small and low-vis, not the high-vis roundel that came with the sheet. I'm okay with that as I'm just being nitpicky at this point. Believe me, I'm tired of going back and fixing things

Seats, RIO panel and pilot heads done, decals done, canopies are painted, got to shoot Dullcoat, spine aerial and just waiting on the GHQ sets and we're done with the airwing. The Dullcoat as you can see from the photo above, really tones down the wash a good bit. Two of these Cats will be taxiing out towards the Waist Catapults.



We're almost there!!!!

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

300+ hours for the topside Airwing....holy carp...the aircraft are finally done...

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

hello Blake

300+ hours OK , may be! but for a extraordinary results,I have never seen such a aircraft fleet also convincing at this scale it is very simple, it looks like at of 48em
I do not know if my "English" happens to translate my enthusiasm....... but you make a model worthy of a museum, a true masterpiece
"bravo l'artiste "
cheers
nicolas

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https://ladiagonaledubosco.blogspot.fr/

I think Nick may be onto something. That is flat-out extraordinary aircraft detailing at that scale. Really makes the whole thing come together in an organic, living flight deck.

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Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)

On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Nicolas, merci beaucoup! Your english was just fine sir and many thanks!

Sean,
Thanks man, I'm getting ready to start putting crew members down to have a party on the flight deck

Now the process starts of nitpicking, fixing a few flaws and wrapping her up, gluing down the topside, whip antennas, some extra ladders, an extra decal for efficiency award, etc. Next photo post will most likely be near the end of this build.

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

That is an awesome build right there truly incredible work and Neil Patrick Harris ? breakdown makes me laugh .regards Kevin

So this is what a Nimitz looks like WITH aircraft on it???!!
Well, this is what a Nimitz looks like with an exceptionally detailed airwing!!!!! Very nice work!!!!! Your work is inspiring me to try to better than I planned! Damn you for setting the bar so high!

I am just super-busy with my USS Vincennes, and I see your next ship is a destroyer?! Can't wait!

Cheers: Laci

Justin Timberlake

Laci,
Many thanks sir and can't wait to see your progress on the flight deck

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Hey! The party's on the flight deck!

After a much needed break, I glued in the catwalk braces and started placing the flight deck crew. All aircraft on the topside are now glued down! Not shown in this pic, but the port antennas are now glued into place also.

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

Hello Blake

I'm just speechless ......this is simply beautiful
Cheers
Nicolas

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https://ladiagonaledubosco.blogspot.fr/

Nicolas,
Many thanks my friend.


Spent today nitpicking and finalizing the port and starboard whip antennas, built a couple more boxes, nitpicked some more. Lastly, Ryan generously donated the bow netting from his stash and I was able to completely rebuild it.


And she's done....my God, I never thought I would say that. It's done...

I'll move to the completed builds section with full pictures, write up and what not once the display case arrives in a couple of weeks.


Holy crap, it's done.

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

Planned: Nimitz fixes and sprucing up

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! She looks great. I look forward to the photo finish!

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Doug

Currently building:
Tamiya 1/350 CVN-65 USS Enterprise 2001
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=120496

http://modelshipgallery.com/gallery/use ... index.html

Don't forget to include a picture of Data fist-pumping and saying "Yes!" from ST: Generations!

And then when he says "...oh $#@&!"

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Sean Nash, ACG (aircraft camo gestapo)

On the ways:
1/200 Trumpeter HMS Nelson
1/700 Tamiya USS Yorktown CV-5

In the stash:
1/35 Italiari PT-109
1/35 Tamiya "Pibber" Patrol Boat
1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10