1/200 USS NIMITZ - 2003

[Jaguar]

Hello everybody. I�m new in this forum although i have been reading your posts for a long time. Finally, i have decided to post my job. i�m a fan of aircraft carriers and naval aviation. So, here we go.

First stages of the front hull




















That�s all for the moment

Jorge

[Dave Wooley]

Hello Jorge welcome to the board . Looking forward to seeing more of your build, best of luck .
Dave Wooley

[Capit�o Norbert]

Hi Jorge
good project to follow..
i love this aircraft carrier...
best luck for you

[Jaguar]

Thank u very much. I think that i will need this luck

Jorge

[gtbred]

looking forward to this.

[Jaguar]

Hello everyone.

After a short period of vacation i return to work. A little advances has taken place in my ship.
Second half of the ship has been finished and attached to the front half.





I have also started the covering of the hull with plasticard 1mm thick








That�s all folks

[Capit�o Norbert]

good. question the model is for sailing?

[Jaguar]

Thank u Norbert. No, the model is not for sailing. The hangar deck will be fully detailed, and there will be no space for electric motors or other equipment. Anyway, i prefer static models instead of RC models.

Jorge

[Fliger747]

Interesting construction method. Is the plastic card sheathing to be covered or is it the final shell plating?

Regards. T

[Uzun Elendil]

I really liked your progress so far, and very excited about the next pictures of your work.

I'm also planning to do scratchbuilt of Nimitz some time in future (maybe 2015, need lots of improvements for my skills), therefore I would be appreciated if you could give answers to my questions indicated below;

1) Where can I download the template for the nimitz (I mean the drawings that you have used for cutting the hull parts) ? If you could send me the link, I would be very happy (you could send me also via PM)

2) How do you plan to build the planes? Again scratchbuilt or is there any 1/200 planes in the market?

Thank you in Advance

[Jaguar]

Thanks to all for your attention in my Project.
Fliger: Yes the plastic card will be the final covering for the hull, after tons of sanding of course.

Uzin: I enjoy your plans to build another Nimitz
For your first question, i got the planes in Best Ship Models. Here is the link: http://www.bestshipmodels.com/index.php ... 29aue442e2. these plans costs 69,12 $. You have in these plans all the information to build the hull, including the ribs�shape. in addition to the plans, i have tons of pictures that i have been taking form the web.

The second question: All the planes will be built enterely from scratch. In fact, i have started a S-3 Viking. I plan to build a master copy, an then obatain rasin copies.

I hope i help you. For more questions, don�t hesitate to ask me.

Jorge

[Uzun Elendil]

Thanks to all for your attention in my Project.
Fliger: Yes the plastic card will be the final covering for the hull, after tons of sanding of course.

Uzin: I enjoy your plans to build another Nimitz
For your first question, i got the planes in Best Ship Models. Here is the link: http://www.bestshipmodels.com/index.php ... 29aue442e2. these plans costs 69,12 $. You have in these plans all the information to build the hull, including the ribs�shape. in addition to the plans, i have tons of pictures that i have been taking form the web.

The second question: All the planes will be built enterely from scratch. In fact, i have started a S-3 Viking. I plan to build a master copy, an then obatain rasin copies.

I hope i help you. For more questions, don�t hesitate to ask me.

Jorge

Dear Jorge,

Thank you for the all the information that you have indicated, all of them are well noted. Although I guess I could do the structure with this plan, fI have lots of doubts for scratchbuilding the planes. Probably making the hull as 1/144 scale would be more appropriate for me

I would definetly like to see your next pictures of progress with the project. Again thanks a lot

[Jaguar]

Dear Uzun:

I support your idea of building a 1/144 Scale carrier, because you have a wide variety of planes at this scale. I would choose this option if a would have enough space at home, but is not the case. Anyway, at 1/200 scale you have the challenge of build your own planes. A little more work, of course, but you will enjoy to build your own planes

I will post the pictures of my first planes as soon as posible. I�m also working in my first F-18C

Jorge

[Jaguar]

Fisrt pictures of the first plane of the Nimitz. It�s a F-18C Hornet from the VFA-86.
Here we go:




















That�s all for the moment. I hope you enjoy these pictures.


Jorge

[gtbred]

MAN,you are a artist!

[Bigdaddy Mark]

Holy Hornet Batman!!

[Jaguar]

Hi everyone.
I continue working in my project. Next pictures are of an E-2 Hawkeye an his construction process.

First, the airframe is takins his shape





Wings and tail installed and primer layer aplied




Building the radome






Preshading aplied




Masking and painting




Together with the F-18C




Radome painted and installed


Wings installed in folded position




And finally, propellers instaled and the final result










That�s for the moment.

Jorge

[ADM]

great work for this small scale

[Jaguar]

Hi again:

I continue working in ths amazing ship (amazing the real ship, not mine )

The covering of the hull continues with 1 mm evergreen sheet.


The bow bulb is made by 2 mm evergreen sheet layers glued together.




Then the bow bulb needs some sanding to get the final shape.






that�s all for the moment.

Jorge

[Wis]

Impressive works !

It's a pity that she will stay static, a such beautiful target deserve to sail !