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As promised long ago and as I'm resuming construction of my 1/350 2001 CVN-65 thus undertaking the hangar's scratchbuilding, I decided to draw plans for all bulkheads to be seen through open doors. I needed first A LOT of photographs (and those for the fwd and rear bulkheads are very rare...) as D&S book pics are very very small and not upto date concerning those fwd and rear bulkheads. Then I handsketched all details on plasticard rectangles cut to 1/350 scale, scratchbuilt the detail and finally I drew my plans using Corel designer technical suite measuring all my scratchbuilding.

Soooo, maybe my plans won't be truly exact engineer speaking BUT they are more than enough to achieve true to pics details in 1/350 !!!

Today, I submit you the first episode, forward bulhead, just before # 1 elevator door :
Once all hangar construction'll be ended, I'll have drawn all 6 to be seen bulkheads (all except between # 1 and 2 elevators, # 2 elevator and fire blast doors).

Be patient for next episode as construction thus plan transcriving is rather slow...

Patrice

Nice!!! Those are going to be really helpful to a lot of modelers I am sure!

A small update with port side bulkheads between Elevator 4 and Bow structure as I'm now beginning painting my scratch built blukheads (see my CVN-65 WIP thread).
Note Bow structure profile not shown yet, but it will finally. Original files are 1/350 scaled.
When all bulkheads'll be drawn, I'll issue a ready to print PDF file scaled 1/350.

A superb Patrice,

This is worth waiting before I start with my CVN 65 1982 fit...hope the hangar doesn't made to many changes from that year on....

Thanks for your nice work

DEBVD wrote:A superb Patrice,

This is worth waiting before I start with my CVN 65 1982 fit...hope the hangar doesn't made to many changes from that year on....

Thanks for your nice work

Unfortunately, in 1982, bulkheads were much more desert. There were indeed a lot of changes between various overhauls and even until the last cruise as the phototour I have from 2011 shows differences between 2001 (what I've drawn) and 2011, mainly on placards hopefully.

IIRC the whole front overhead compartment wasn't installed until the 1984 refit.

A rarity follows as detailed pictures from this area are very hard to find. Hopefully, I had them included in 2011's phototour !!!
More to follow soon...

Port side finished :
I won't draw (and won't scratchuild either) all starboard side bulkheads as some are not visible from the external observer once flight deck is glued. I'm not a masochist !!!

Those excluded will be :

- between bow structure and elevator 1 : only elevator doors edges are visible from there.
- between elevator 2 and 3 : only elevator door stops and doors actuator platform are visible from there
- between elevator 3 and blast doors : nothing visible there except for the elevator doors actuator platform.

Only two more bulkheads to come and I'll call this ended !!

Thanks guys,

Minor change.....Will be the refit of 1989-1990 I want the front overhall

Patrice you are doing great work.... for every part you have also an above view ??

I'll include cut views later.

whoops, initially posted on wrong topic...

Despite what I said, I couldn't resist doing this bulkhead even if it's impossible to see it. Just one left and front views'll be all done.

Another one, just missing now the bulkhead between jet engine shop and elevator door 3.

On the Bulkhead between EL. 2 and EL. 3, the two doors you have painted blue lead out too the afterbrow. There was a big flag holding contraption above the doors it was there in the 80's and early 90's, is it gone now? It had dozen's and dozens of tubes for flagpoles and looked like it had been there a long time. Don't forget the basketball hoops too. Folded down from the overhead just forward of the blast doors.

Ned Wilson

Edward Wilson wrote:On the Bulkhead between EL. 2 and EL. 3, the two doors you have painted blue lead out too the afterbrow. There was a big flag holding contraption above the doors it was there in the 80's and early 90's, is it gone now? It had dozen's and dozens of tubes for flagpoles and looked like it had been there a long time. Don't forget the basketball hoops too. Folded down from the overhead just forward of the blast doors.

Ned Wilson

My photos don't show there anything except the two gray life vest lockers just above the two blue doors (they show blue on my pics). There are on each side , on perpendicular bulkeads, two sliding doors, usage unknown, that don't show in my facing plan. I'll draw cut sections of there later.

Sorry about my ignorance, but by basketball hoops, do you mean the ceiling hangers were are put external tanks ? If that's the case, indeed, I haven't shown them anywhere but they should be where you mentioned it. They'll be in place on final plans.

Sorry about not being able to post the latest pics of the real thing I have from 2011, but I'm not authorized to publish them by the author.

If the flag pole holder was still there I think your pictures would show it, it was pretty big. It was never used in the 6 plus years I was on the ship, so it must be long gone.
The basketball hoops fold down from the overhead in HB 1 on the approx. centerline. a court was painted on the deck then, but again I have no idea for a post 1999 fit.

Ned Wilson

Well, neither are on my pics, so they must be gone. Might be a nice addition for pre 99. Any pics ?

I'll dig around and see if I can find any. SO many of the pictures I took back then have vanished over the years, bu I have some.

This one concludes the Front Views serie. Coming next will be cut sections and some above views.
As starboard and port full length bullkhead front views don't fit on A3 size paper (total length of one view is 57 cms, ie ~22 inches), I might have to split bulkheads on several A4 pages. This way, I'll be able to include cut sections and above view convenient for each bulkhead. Total plans size should be around 8 A4 pages. Can't include reference photographs due to copyright problems.

Most people have access to a printer that can print on "Legal" sized paper, which is the same width as A4 but is 14 inches long. I believe it is mostly used in the US though.

rtwpsom2 wrote:Most people have access to a printer that can print on "Legal" sized paper, which is the same width as A4 but is 14 inches long. I believe it is mostly used in the US though.

Guess I'll have to issue an European and a US version then.