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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 26, 2007 4:07 PM

Basically, get an Italeri USS Nimitz, an Italeri USS America, and as many references as you can find, and start kitbashin'...

A couple of good sources for photos (search for "cv-67"): http://www.navy.mil/index.asp and http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ .

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  • From: Exeter, MO
Posted by kustommodeler1 on Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:41 PM

Rick's quite a bit right. The JFK was a "transition" ship, kind of a one off. The stern looks like a Kitty Hawk class, up to about mid-ships, but from there forward, the resemblence is more Nimitz class, especially at the forward end of the angled deck.

 

Kitty Hawk has a rather square-cut look to the leading end of the angled deck overhang, where Nimitz has a much smoother, more angled end, in fact JFK's is more angled than Nimitz.

 

So my idea would be to take the stern of a Kitty hawk, and join it to the bow of a Nimitz and you'll have it made. 

Darrin

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  • From: Palm Bay, FL
Posted by Rick Martin on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:45 PM
Hi, served in JFK from 1989-91 when I retired. The Nimitz might be a good start but since JFK was the last fossil fueled CV to be built I think the general layout of the hull, sponsons, and flight deck look a lot more like the America, Kitty Hawk etc. The island structure would take a combination of scratchbuilding and modifying of the kit supplied structure. With some decent photos its probably really do-able. When I was aboard I neglected to take any pics but there's got to be plenty of references around. "Rick the ancient mariner"
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  • From: Boston
Posted by forbiddenplastic on Monday, April 2, 2007 11:26 AM
Okay. Start with a Nimitz. Thanks for the advice!
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Posted by jpk on Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:20 PM
With the proper reference material a reasonable JFK could be made from a converted Nimitz. Flightdecks are similar as well as the sponsons. You might be able to use the forward section of the island scratching the after. Italieri's 1/720 Nimitz would make a good starting point.
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Posted by redbird15 on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:35 AM
Monogram released several kits in the 70's & 80's in roughly 1/800 scale boxed as every carrier in the Kittyhawk/America/Kennedy class. All were the same mold based on JFK, with her unique canted funnel island. Im pretty sure you can find any 1 of them fairly inexpensively on eBay or in a deep dark corner of your LHS.
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  • From: Tucson, AZ
Posted by Archangel Shooter on Monday, March 26, 2007 9:44 AM

Hi!

I believe there is a 1/700 JFK out there, thinking it's made by Italiari?? Might try searching on Great Models or Squadron.

Scott

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  • From: Boston
CV-67
Posted by forbiddenplastic on Friday, March 23, 2007 11:14 AM

I'm not really a ship modeler, but I was pretty inspired by the recent visit to Boston of the USS JFK. I thought it would be great to build a model of one, but I can't seem to find one. Is there a styrene model available of this ship? If not, does anyone know what I would need to convert an existing model kit into the CV-67?

 

Thanks for any advice!

Steven

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