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Tamiya 1/350 Enterprise Carrier

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  • From: Kincheloe Michigan
Posted by Mikeym_us on Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:09 PM
really the only difference is below the waterline and the lack of Fuel oil tanks due to the Nuclear reactor she was fundamentally the same size as the KittyHawk with the same overall shape. though the Island was different with the Radar on top of the bridge versus the cutout that was prominent on Kitty Hawk Class carriers on the portside of the Island.

On the workbench: Dragon 1/350 scale Ticonderoga class USS BunkerHill 1/720 scale Italeri USS Harry S. Truman 1/72 scale Encore Yak-6

The 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron the only Squadron to get an Air to Air kill and an Air to Ground kill in the same week with only a F-15   http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mikeym_us/

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Posted by ddp59 on Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:51 PM
enterprise was totally different ship from kitty hawk class so is not offshoot of that class. jfk is offshoot of kitty hawk class
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Posted by Mikeym_us on Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:33 PM
its called the "beehive" and the Enterprise is a offshoot of the KittyHawk class attack carrier.

On the workbench: Dragon 1/350 scale Ticonderoga class USS BunkerHill 1/720 scale Italeri USS Harry S. Truman 1/72 scale Encore Yak-6

The 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron the only Squadron to get an Air to Air kill and an Air to Ground kill in the same week with only a F-15   http://photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mikeym_us/

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:00 PM

If you want to remove acrylic paint, you may want to try soaking in 99% isopropanol, which is good old rubbing alcohol.  I have used it with great success and it is not nearly as noxious as some of the other chemicals that can be used to remove paint.

Bruce

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  • From: USS Han Kiang [CS 2532]
Posted by Arcadian Winter on Sunday, July 16, 2006 4:32 PM
Enterprise was indeed a one-ship class vessel, as with the Langley [the first US carrier] and the Ranger [the first US carrier built entirely as such] most likely because she's the first carrier to be nuclear-powered; construction costs prevented any sister ships [5 more were planned].

I have an unbuilt 700 Yamato and 350 Shen zhen. I've been thinking how Yamato would look if she had survived the war, or rather, if Japan had won the war, and Shen zhen would be configured sometime in the future, say 2015. As far as creativity goes, you have a lot of choices, like if the US had joined in the Six-Day War [using the atack on the USS Liberty as a base] for tghe original configuration.

Wikipedia has a good article on Enterprise which should help in your ideas for the models.

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Posted by ddp59 on Sunday, July 16, 2006 12:55 PM
try the oven easy off as that supposedly works good but is very caustic so read the directions 1st before using
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Posted by David Harris on Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:21 AM

I think that the USS Enterprise was a class of one ship. The Tamiya kit doesn't model the ship as it was when it first entered service. Originally it had a very distinctive radar (think thats what it was anyway) on top of the island roof......see this picture http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/026519.jpg which it carried until a refit around 1980. Maybe you could backdate one to as commissioned or with an airwing from the Vietnam  war era?

As for the paint removal & glue removal. I can't suggest anything. Sorry.

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Tamiya 1/350 Enterprise Carrier
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:47 AM

Three Questions Please,

Firstly - I have two essentially unbuilt kits of the above. If I make the first into a 'standard configuration' Enterprise (assuming there is such a thing) is there anything creative (and visibly different)  I can do with the second (ie. a different carrier of the same class, if there is such a thing; or an entirely different later configuration of the same carrier, or even a carrier conceived of but never built). Please bear in mind my scratchbuilding abilities are untested.

Secondly - in the case of both of the kits I unforunately over-painted both hulls with a far too thick coat of Tamiya rust acrylic straight from the spray can (about seven years ago). Are there any dissolvants that will get rid of it without totalling the fine hull detail, so I can start again afresh.

Thirdly I also set the waterline with Tamiya colored tape (also seven years ago). I've pulled the tape off but there is a lot of adhesive burrs left. Same question I guess - is there any dissolvant that will get this goo off too. It's turning out to be a little too antiquated for goo-gone to do the trick.

Thanks fellow modellers for any tips you can offer.

Stewart

Stewart 

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