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Am I Crazy?
Posted by ColGray on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:33 PM

Call me crazy but I feel very strongly about this so dont kill my dream. I just submitted my survey and in 1/144th scale I'd envy anyone with the audacity to build a U.S.S Nimitz Aircraft carrier! Now before you go all "it's too big, who's got the room and resources for that" take a look at the big picture. With a 1/144th scale model, yes you would need a garage and a half of storage but the benefits out weigh the costs. Think about it. you now have a ship big enough to see the friggin small little ladders and gun barrels and with the bigger scale of course comes greater detail and more chances to really wow with the super details. not only would the parts not be so easy to fly into oblivion but there's also a plethora of 1/144th scale naval aircraft. they're like 5 bucks a pop! thats much better than 20 bucks for aircraft so small the wing reminds you of a thick belt of gun ammo! The choices would be endless you could even switch out eras! not saying you could'nt do this prior but you could have squadrons of 1960s fighters and squadrons of todays fighters and change them out as you please. I guess what I'm trying to say is that overall after the cost of space and moolah, you're looking at a 3-5 year investment minimum of fun challenging work on one model. I would definitly apreciate some feedback and it would really make my day is a head hauncho from up top in FSM replied like maybe Matt Usher? Big Smile please give it a real thought and let me know

 

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Posted by TarnShip on Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:09 AM

you could try to contact the P-Cola Museum, ask them who builds the carriers on display there www.navalaviationmuseum.org , they might put you in touch with some of their builders

at least 4 of them are 1/144 scale

plans could come from someplace like floating drydock at www.floatingdrydock.com

and the folks that model ships at members.boardhost.com/Warship could help with advice, Steel Navy also has an older Carrier page at http://www.steelnavy.com/

a 1/144 Nimitz is only 8 feet long, any other carrier except the Enterprise would be shorter

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    December 2002
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by ajlafleche on Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:43 AM

I don't know if it's still there, but there was a 1/100 modern carrier at the NASM in the mid 80's. I've seen reports of 1/72 WWII carriers.

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  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:23 AM

Sounds like a lifetime project,but very nice.

Check this out :

http://www.happyhackerbbs.com/index.php?topic=8231.0

http://www.steelnavy.com/EnterpriseCV6NMNA.htm

 

Pretty impressive

  • Member since
    April 2009
  • From: Longmont, Colorado
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:18 PM

It would indeed be spectacular, but not many guys,  including myself, would have the patience to build it!

I say GO FOR IT, if you've got the time and space!

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    October 2010
Posted by ColGray on Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:05 PM

WOW thats a big ship! and 19 years! crazy I'm really glad that is can be done but I fell like there should be a better way rather than scratchbuild don't you all? yes you would need an industrial sized box for all those parts and maybe some plastics could not stand the weight but surely there is something a model company could do?

 

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