One of the best model ships ever?

That's one nice and BIG model.  I always liked this 1/72 USS Enterprise that was featured in FSM about 10 years back.  It's sitting in a museum now.

More pics via this link

http://www.carrierbuilders.net/gallery/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1-72/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1-72.htm

A big to them for all the time and effort involved ... God alone knows where you put monsters like that when you're done building them, though ...

Some ships in forward areas would paint over the boot topping as they were upkeeping the paint, but if that were what they were trying to represent, the paint would have to be weathered and patchy.

Yeah, could pick some nits, hull number location; how the decks might ought be a darker color; that, underway, the whale boats are rigged outboard against a gripe (which could be fixed by just shifting the Colors).

Still, only nits against the effort of completing a 1/48 Fletcher, which, by my ciphering, would be 94" x 10", just shy of eight feet long.

Hmm, hull of CV-6 ran 770 x 83 x 26 draft, which--at 1:32 scale--would be 289" x  31" x  10" (round numbers); so a hull about 8 yards long, not quite a yard wide, and not quite a yard tall. 

Flight deck is, what, 825 x 109' ?  Which would be 310" (not quite 26') by 41" (3'-5").

Would not need a base so much as a boat trailer.  Figure a stock Dilly trailer is 8' wide, a person would have room for a plane guard DD--a 1:32 Fletcher would be 140 x 15 x 15" or so.

Which makes me wonder if a person could blow-mold a 0.5mil mylar wildcat powered by a servo motor . . .

All that work and no black boot topping!  Oh, well, it is otherwise an excellent model!

Bill

I want to see a 1/48 USS Enterprise CV-6, stocked with AM Dauntlesses and Hobby Boss and Tamiya Wildcats. THAT would be pretty much the most impressive thing ever. Well, except for a 1/32 scale build. But that would be what, the size of a house?