Tamiya Big-E - USS Enterprise 1/350

Jockster,

Yes, I do have Big "E" waiting in the wings, and, thanks to your recommendation, I have ordered that disk! Thanks for the recommendation!

Bill

OOps, I think I got you and Warshipguy confused, unless I read that he's doing the big girl too, but Raider-hall, I mentioned a photodisc you may want to checkout!

Hi Guys,still waiting for my stuff to come by mail. in the mean time i'll be sanding off the parts of the hull that will not be needed.

Bill, I know you have the 'Big E' waiting in the wings, check out the photo disc I mentioned above, lots of good stuff on there!

Jockster

I would be nervous handling the island with all that photoetch! I'd be afraid of damaging such a nice job!

Bill

Awesome work bro!

We are almost at the same stage in our builds.  This kit and I have a love/hate relationship.]

Hi A.M., this might be too late for you, but I have recently bought a disc from White Ensign Models covering the Big E from 1961-2011. It's by a chap called Ray D.Bean and it is packed with over 750 pictures of the Enterprise, Hangar bay, Equipment and Airwings. It cost me £14 uk, I reckon that's about $20 us. Well worth the money and I'm glad I got it before I fully start my build.

Regards,

Jockster.

I"ve been looking at my brass kit from WEM, it looks very similar to the GMM set so watching your build has given me plenty to plan ahead with! As always, nice work A.M., won't be long before your doing the airwing! Jock

That is some beautiful Etch work. She is coming along very nicely indeed.....Cheers mark

Almost there ...

Mast details. Lots of PEs!

Follow the assembly of the Command Bridge. The fit of this kit is much worse than I bought twelve years ago.

This is something" near to non manipulate " antenna. Extremely small.

The bridge of fire hose. Too small, too.

Details of the mast. Antennas and more antennas...

Have you thought about the cleaning lady looking for all these little antennas? It must gives her a temptation ...

Nice etchwork A.M., good to see the comparison with the kit parts, shows off the GMM brass a treat!

Once the hull is almost done, let's assemble the bridge. The "base" is done. Time to add the mast and a lot of details.

Radar still in the tree ...

... folded and assembled ...

... at the place.

Original and PE.

At the place.

Insect radar!

Nice one again A.M., The P.E. nets look so much better than the molded kit stuff, I think I read that you are using the Gold Medal set? It'll be interesting to compare that with the White Ensign Stuff which I now have, along with the new Gold Medal decals and a CD with 400 odd piccies of the big girl herself. Feels like Xmas!

Raider, cool, it's going to be interesting watching the Coral Sea take shape! Looks like a good head start already, Alameda must be nearby, is it a place you can visit for reference or museum etc.?

Your BigE looks great.

still wainting on my stuff from PH so i can work on BigE. this the Nam Coral Sea i,m working on.

Now it is safe in my locked window.

The hull is done. I need to do the bridge and the admiral's boat.

Then, the airwing.

Wainting for your Big E's topic.

All safety nets in place:

Excellent A.M., a lot of us have been waiting with baited breath for your next upload of pictures and you have not dissapointed, she looks great, you alone got me hooked into this site when I was first researching my Enterprise, you are printing a book that I cannot put down. Well done!

Hours and hours adding PEs and onther details:

yes I am. san francisco ca. have to go to the hardware store and pickup a few things. i'll check out your build when i get back.

Having seen your last build, my jeans just twitched! Now I'll be on this damn thing all night waiting when I should be building. I've started a thread on my Big E already, You'll see why if you give it a look. I intend doing the prep work on that when I'm waiting on glue/paint drying on the Slava cruiser. Are you in the U.S.?

naw, diffrent type of carrier. way bigger. i'll post tonight on a new thread.

That's the one you've been doing on the shivermetimbers site isn't it?

once i get all of my parts for it i'll post. working on a scracthbuilted 1/350 Nam Coral Sea at this time.

Still looking good A.M., I have a lot to live up to! Nice one Raider, are you going to post your build? Did you look at the Gallery aircraft?

All Trumpy aircraft.

looking real good.