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Nektarios wrote:Here are a couple of photos of Kitty Hawk during OEF. During OEF Kitty carried

VFA-192 DET. (FA-18C)
302 164911
304 164954
305 164971
311 164969

VFA-195 DET. (FA-18C)
407 164964
410 164900
411 164904
413 164908

VS-21 DET. (S-3B)
706 158870
707 160135
710 160604

HS-14 DET. (SH-60F/HH-60H)
610 164460 (SH-60F)
616 164841 (HH-60H)

VRC-30DET.5 (C-2A)
430 162148
431 162173

Plus several Special Ops Helos

think a 1/350 Kitty Hawk would look nice with that deck.

ASFC wrote:USS Ingraham is finished . In the end I went for the AN/SPS-52. Couldn;t be asked to scratchbuild anything more up-to-date to take its place:

As usual, all comments, questions and rude remarks are welcome!

Looks great ASFC.
You could also replace the STIR radar with another (better) director since you now have a 3-D radar on your Perry.

gtb -red wrote:think a 1/350 Kitty Hawk would look nice with that deck.

Cool idea.

ASFC wrote:USS Ingraham is finished . In the end I went for the AN/SPS-52. Couldn;t be asked to scratchbuild anything more up-to-date to take its place:
As usual, all comments, questions and rude remarks are welcome!

Looks great ASFC!

Thanks for the comments guys!

Here is a Saturday afternoon treat, a NATO Amphibious Task Group:

USS Boxer and USS Ingraham make up 2/3 of the ATG.........

Why is there a Lynx on deck you ask??

Thats why-HMS Gloucestor provides the other Escort.






Happy Modeling!

Nice clean ships! I will be opening up my LHD kit soon. Hopefully mine will be as clean looking.

John

Nice builds ASFC, they look great, you actually have 3 ships of an ATG! UK ships often form part of US/NATO task groups, so leave the 42 there as AAW cover

John i have seen your work, so i know well that your LPD will be Top Shelf

Happy modeling

John

orb wrote:

ASFC wrote:USS Ingraham is finished . In the end I went for the AN/SPS-52. Couldn;t be asked to scratchbuild anything more up-to-date to take its place:
As usual, all comments, questions and rude remarks are welcome!

Looks great ASFC!

Heiko two DVDs are underway. Lots of Soviet/Russian navy stuff there including Admiral Kuznetsov videos that you ve never seen before.

ASFC wrote:Thanks for the comments guys!

Here is a Saturday afternoon treat, a NATO Amphibious Task Group:

USS Boxer and USS Ingraham make up 2/3 of the ATG.........

Happy Modeling!

Looking great ASFC

ASFC wrote:Thanks for the comments guys!

Here is a Saturday afternoon treat, a NATO Amphibious Task Group:
USS Boxer and USS Ingraham make up 2/3 of the ATG.........
Why is there a Lynx on deck you ask??
Thats why-HMS Gloucestor provides the other Escort.
Happy Modeling!

VERY cool

Nektarios wrote: Heiko two DVDs are underway. Lots of Soviet/Russian navy stuff there including Admiral Kuznetsov videos that you ve never seen before.

Wow, many thanks Nektarios! Definitely looking forward to that!

orb wrote:

Nektarios wrote: Heiko two DVDs are underway. Lots of Soviet/Russian navy stuff there including Admiral Kuznetsov videos that you ve never seen before.

Wow, many thanks Nektarios! Definitely looking forward to that!

I forgot to mention that i modified my shipbuilding program and i ll start next week the two Mashu class AOEs. They are easy kits compared to the Towada class. They are stealthy and much less work is required to finish them.

Thanks again for the comments!

Nektarios wrote:
I forgot to mention that i modified my shipbuilding program and i ll start next week the two Mashu class AOEs. They are easy kits compared to the Towada class. They are stealthy and much less work is required to finish them.

I look forward to the pictures.

Nektarios wrote:I forgot to mention that i modified my shipbuilding program and i ll start next week the two Mashu class AOEs. They are easy kits compared to the Towada class. They are stealthy and much less work is required to finish them.

Looking forward to see you building them. I noticed that you've been focusing on JMSDF ships lately...out of curiosity, how many of their surface fleet have you already built? I'd love to see some pictures of some of their destroyers sometime

orb wrote:Looking forward to see you building them. I noticed that you've been focusing on JMSDF ships lately...out of curiosity, how many of their surface fleet have you already built? I'd love to see some pictures of some of their destroyers sometime

I have 98 JMSDF ships including surface ships submarines, auxiliaries mine warfare vessels etc..

I ll post pics of my JMSDF fleet one of each class.

Nektarios wrote:
I have 98 JMSDF ships including surface ships submarines, auxiliaries mine warfare vessels etc..

I ll post pics of my JMSDF fleet one of each class.

Wow. Isn't that almost the entire JMSDF fleet?
I remember you having built some Atagos a while ago and I have a question. I saw that Pitroad is coming up with a brand new "enhanced" and more detailed (and of course more expensive) kit of the Atagos and it seems that they are phasing out the older ones? Do you have any information about how good these new kits are and if its worth paying the extra money? I surely want to get my hands on at least one Atago destroyer... Thanks!

orb wrote:

Nektarios wrote:
I have 98 JMSDF ships including surface ships submarines, auxiliaries mine warfare vessels etc..

I ll post pics of my JMSDF fleet one of each class.

Wow. Isn't that almost the entire JMSDF fleet?
I remember you having built some Atagos a while ago and I have a question. I saw that Pitroad is coming up with a brand new "enhanced" and more detailed (and of course more expensive) kit of the Atagos and it seems that they are phasing out the older ones? Do you have any information about how good these new kits are and if its worth paying the extra money? I surely want to get my hands on at least one Atago destroyer... Thanks!

I have around 30 subs all postwar classes. I have most of the surface warships they have their landing ships minesweepers, auxiliaries,training and UNREP ships. I still need some surface warships and some more auxiliaries to have the entire JMSDF fleet.

There are two "enhanced" Atago kits one with a posibility to show the interior of the helicopter hangar and a second one with some VLS tubes opened and SM-2 missiles. I don t know if they have more "enhanced" kits as future releases. Where have you seen the "enhanced" kits you mention???

These are some photos of a couple of my older kits (i think i finished them in 2001). They are the Hi-Mold resin kits of Haruna and Hiei.
I was never satisfied with how they looked (the kits resin mast looked very very bad ) and more than a year ago bought the dedicated PE set for this class. Five days ago after finishing(almost) the Towada class i started adding PE to these kits. The result makes me atisfied although if i waited a little longer i would have paid less for the same ships since they were released in plastic a couple of years ago.

Enough said time for some photos.

DDH-141

and DDH-142













As always questions and comments are welcome.

Next in line are Mashu class.

Nektarios

Nice job as always! How do you do the banners on the railings. I want to give it a shot one day.

kidcurrie42 wrote: John i have seen your work, so i know well that your LPD will be Top Shelf

John

John, thanks for the kind words, I just received the missing part for the bridge of my CVN 71 from HLJ. So I will hopefully be finishing it shortly. I might have to get a regular surface ship to do next. After working on all the aircraft, I do not know if I have it in me to do the LHD right away. I am still considering how to fill the flight deck. I know I want to use the AV-8 from WEM that I have on hand.

John