Carrier Antennae

Looking at photos from google images CdG seems to have 4 antennae in two pairs.  They are horizontal except when the ship is against a pier. 

They seem to even be sown while UnRep (Underway Relenishment), which is odd, since you are letting a collision hazard get to 200' of your hull (you really do not want people inside your own turning radius, which, for a carrier is probably 1500 yards).

Fine wire is likely going to be your friend, for being a bit more repeatable than stretched sprue for the length required (from the images, the things are as long as a Mirage).  Against that, the prototype antennae are tapered, and visibly so at scale model distances.

Hi ;

I have gotten to the deck on my CdG and I am going to be using piano wire for those selfsame antennas . They are usually up except during flight ops . To my knowledge they should NEVER be down during UnRep !

 Unless it's a vertical type ( Helo ) on a smaller ship ( cruiser , destroyer . During which they would be down so as not to pose a danger to the helos )  T.B.

Tanker - Builder

To my knowledge they should NEVER be down during UnRep !

Would concur, except:

et aussi:

c'est esci, like cat whiskers.

Only photos on google images of them up are pier or quay side.

Ainsi:

Go figure.

Yeah ;

 Hmm. Go figure ?

Great reference shots. Got any more of the lower exterior perimeter or the island? 

The dots that cover major sections of the deck, are they tie-down holding pts?

I may have to leave them off the build.   

They are some sort of antenna. While flight operations are going on they are lowered. I've built quite a few 1/700 and 1/720 scale CV(N) and I've noticed that the number of antenna have decreased since the 1950s.  I'm not sure what they are for. I used to think they were radio antenna for communicating with aircraft, but they might also be related to ECM.

Bocks Suv

The dots that cover major sections of the deck, are they tie-down holding pts?

Probably so.

Really too tiny to paint at 1/350; decaling might be the answer.

At 1/700, probably not worth fucssing over.

Bunch of good photos, just go to google>images> and enter "charles de gaulle carrier deck"

Sometimews you need to give some thought to what a repeated pattern will do or not do to a model. It can become "all about the dots'.