Building and A/C Carrier deck diorama (or part of)

Just Plane Stuff makes an excellent resin carrier deck section in 1/48th scale. Well worth the money. I see Squadron carrying Just Plane Stuff products.
Cheers
Bob S.

A nautical or military museum should provide good sources. I have seen some excellant books on carriers that had scale drawings.

I always wanted to build a modern carrier launch area (blast deflectors)

but no one could tell me where to find some drawings in Portugal (or if someone coulde send me a scan...), i'll just try to get the correct measurements from my 1/720 USS Enterprise... even if with an error the deck could be more 2/3 meters wide...
Since i don't have any other source, i'll have to stick with it...
Currently i'm building all the aircraft types that served with the CV(A)N-65, and i think i'll get them all, but are a few that are tricky to find (HUP-2 Retriever, E-1B Tracer), and others i have, that finding the USS Enterprise decals are leaving me nuts (E-2C Hawkeye, EA-6B Prowler, S-3A Viking)...
But, hey, that's all modeling is about... if it was too much easy, it wouldn't be fun, right???

The just plane stuff site is awesome. However, the prices are very very high. They cost more than many models. Anyone know a site to show you how to build these things yourself? For instance, a section of Horney deck?

F14 Fan,

Mach 2 produce an E-1B Tracer in 1/72 if that helps.

Cheers,

Rob M.

Rob

I've already sent them a lot of e-mails, and zippo!!!!!!
Besides, they kits are not very cheap.... but anyway, getting a Tracker and the conversion for the Tracer would be more expensive...
And they also have the HUP-2 Retriever, but i know that the oldie Siga kit has the decals i'm after (USS Enterprise)...
So that's my "problem", should i get the Mach2 expensive kits, or hope that someone spot an HUP-2 from Siga????
Besides, i've read that the Mach2 aren't very accurate....

Hi Ricardo,

I got my E-1B from www.hannants.co.uk.

I'll admit, as a limited run, it's going to take a bit of work to get a decent result, but it is one of those obscure subjects that Hasegawa/Revell are unlikely to cover.

Not sure on the markings of their HUP-2, but the kit is definitely not a copy of the Siga one (At least, not according to SAMI)!

Anyway, Good luck,

Rob M.

Well, i've spotted both on hannants, but the decals from the HUP-2 aren't for the USS Enterprise (but are for US Navy, thought...)...
I'll have to think about it, since the price on hannants is more 5 US$ for the Mach2 price...
I know they have to get some profit, but...
And besides, with the limit of 30 Pounds for the overseas buyers....
I'm from Portugal, and i don't think they'll make an exception to me....