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Thank you friends

Truely an awesome job you are doing here. Keep up with the good work!

Thank you very much Jacques

Jorge

Hello friends, my ship has returned home after a six month deployment. See the results























Next step: install the arrestor wires.

Thank you very much.

Jorge

This environment with dirty marks and oils etc.. bring realism to the model.
looks fantastic.

What an incredible job you are doing! The weathering is amazing, excellent attention to detail.

Unbelievable Jorge! Truly! Unbelievable work and I hope I can just approach that level of craftsmanship!

If I may make one small observation? The eight diagonal pads by the arrestor cables as I recall from my tour on the America, were flat black. They were hard, thick, black rubber pads as I recall, and I asked the AB's what they were for and they told me to lessen the impact of the turnbuckles when the wire caught, and from then on I would watch when a bird trapped. You can see the turnbuckle kinda snap down on the deck right there. They do get chewed up and need replacing. AIR they were like 1-1/2 inches thick.

Maybe on the Nimitz, or later carriers they were flight deck grey? IDK? I saw that another member here was on the deck too, maybe he can weigh in as well? I was an AT-3 with VS-33, so I was not ships company, nor had anything to do with the deck other than be on it during launch and recovery cycles, and FOD walkdown's.

Just freaking incredible! Wow! Now I get a sense of how big mine will be! I got a 6' table just to assemble her on it.

Thank you very much friends for your kind comments.
Mclare, thank you very much for your valuable information. I can only get the information from the pictures that i can get from the internet and from some DVD,s of Nimitz class carriers. This is one of those pictures.



In this image, the color of this rubber pads seems to be the same color (perhaps a little bit darker) of the flight deck.

Here is another shot of the landing �rea


Thanks again for your information

I love it as it is, your paint job look superb. Your build is very inspiring.

Jorge - I hope you do not take offense, I have the same pics and have thought the same thing. Please don't change a thing on my account.

Personally, from what I remember about being on the deck (and that includes my shellback initiation where I was up close and personal with it!) was that it was flat black, not the shade of WEM US Flight Deck Grey that I use. I remember that they were always redoing sections of it with new non-skid. They would scrape a section during periods of no flight ops, and then like hot mop a new section on and it would be dry by the next time they called for a FOD walkdown.

As I said, I truly hope I can attain a fraction of your work. Truly stunning!

Don't worry Mclare, of course i have never took your comments as an offense.
I like your work in the USS Am�rica, and it is a pleasure to read your comments even when you have seen a flight deck in person. I wish i cold see i flight deck sometime in my life.
Thanks again for your comments, are much appreciated.

from Ray in WINNIPEG CANADA .....the PHOTO DVD guy...... I am blown away by your project !!! Awesome, and staggering in all the details. I would ask that when you complete it and photograph it.....I would LOVE enclose a folder of the photos to add to my NIMITZ DVD later on?? For other modeller s to use as reference guide when building theirs! BRAZO ZULU and SIERRA HOTEL!!

No problem Ray. I am thinking to make some kind of guide when i finish this project, but it is only a thought. I have a lot of photos that i have not published.

Thanks for your comments

Hello friends.

After a great amount of hours soldering and soldering, i start to see the results on the flight deck.

Currently i have just finished the center line of the landing zone, and now i am wiring the rest of the flight deck.

You can see the results in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkhf4OYR9qc

Thanks for viewing.

Jorge

You rock bro great build.

Seriously, Seriously Bitchen! Wow! You are setting a very high bar for me to follow in! LOVE the chaser lights! I see you used two layers of styrene for the flight deck. What thicknesses did you use?

Wow!

Thank you friend.

Mclare, i have used a base layer of 2mm thick, and the surface layer of 1 mm thick.

Jorge

Good morning Sirs.
I keep working on the flight deck, finishing the lighting proccess. The flight deck is almost finished. I have to put some order under the flight deck refering to the great amount of wires.
Well, there are some shots of the flight deck on both sides.













Finally, a video of the lights working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQn8hI2 ... e=youtu.be

Thank you very much for viewing

That is one really beautiful model!!!
I'll be following this!

Greetings Josse

Awesome job indeed. (can't see video due to my connection, so I was waiting for pictures). That's a great result, along of course with that splendid and realistic paint job on the deck!