Striker8241
Bockscar
Here's the CVN 65 USS Enterprise in it's half-complete state:
I'll need a magnifying glass to put the decals on those birds, and I still haven't replace the CVN-65 decal that goes on the bow-deck.
The devil is in the details, so she'll sit until, ummm, heck.....1926.....
Lol.....2026......
Dom
Wow, nice work Dom!
And that
is a lot of work - especially correcting warped decks and hulls. I built a lot of ship models in my early days but they are long gone. I wouldn't have the patience or eyesight now to do something like that. And my paint jobs never looked that good - even half finished.
BTW, you seem to have a lot of nautical knowledge, especially about ship structure and capabilities. Is this another one of your many lives? Were you in the Navy or merchant marine at one time? Just when I think I've got you figured out, you develop another corner 
.
Russ
Russ, many thanks for your compliments.
Yes, i fell in love with machines as a tiny tot. The first ship I fell in love with was the Nautilus, from the Disney movie "20 Thousand Leagues under the Sea" -also fell in love with monsters from that giant squid scene. I almost got the resin version, then got the rattles when I had the chance to spend $250 to buy it.....
Yeah, that great Life Coach at the Hotel AlcaTropics said i had a lot of corners too....lol....
Yes, that was a former life......lol.....
(only kidding editor)
i don't know, no one thought i was particularly smart as a child and youth. i wasn't too fast at learning. It wasn't until I was about 40 when people started telling me "how can you remember what you learned in high school...I forgot all of that''
i attribute it less to expertise on any subject and more to just not being able to forget stuff I learned, but as I mentioned, I was never particularly gifted in the learning department, but just kept adding to a pile of stuff i can't forget.
When I was a kid, i saw the power of water, which is a very heavy compound, a cubic litre of water at 0 degrees is a kilogram, so if it is moving at at 30 kilometers per hour, about 18 MPH, and you have a few thousand tons of it moving upward, that kind of power can rip the deck off an aircraft carrier, if you figure you have even 500 square feet of exposed underside, as the Essex Class did, shissh ka bob that is a destructive set-up.
i never ran the math on that, just saw some of the old films and some damage. That 'new' front end on the Enterprise is a ship-saver.
The other thing I learned from going to 15 different schools before i got out was that the only thing I could never lose was what I had learned. Kind of Like Rich, I lost a lot of stuff, but so far, have not entirely lost my mind......lol....no Rich, I didn't imply you lost your mind.......lol.....
i suppose the only other thing I never lost was my love of these dag nabbbit styrene kits......
Of course the reason I am here on these threads is because i have the opportunity to meet the guys that make up our present company. I can't be a member of the Airforce, an Army soldier, or Navy crew, or pilot in 'Nam, but i will remember all of the things you guys share from your experiences.
That makes me a very fortunate guy to share this company.
So, Russ, what is it we remember, that seems like an eternity, but goes by in an instant?
-our lives
Dom