1/200 USS Nimitz 2003. Scratchbuild

I had forgotten about this build for a while, I have been busy, some amount of detail has gone into this, it's incredible, I take it this is not the first ship you have scratchbuilt?  Are you planning on making any other huge models after this?

Thank you very much guys. i will submit to Finescale but when the ship will be finished

Thank you Dean for your kind words. This is not my first scratchbuild model, but this is the first for a long time. Of course i continue building this kind of ships, the next will probably be a frigate, but i think that i have a great amount of work with this current ship

Hello guys. After a short period of inactivity, i´m here again working on her.

I have been working on some pieces of the hangar. These are two structures in the hangar celing near elevator nº 3.

And this is another structure that i think that open or close the main doors of elevator nº4

that´s all for the moment. Thanks for your attention :thumbs_up_1:

wow! been a way for a while. 10 thumbs up.

Thank you very much for your comment raider.

Thank you very much for your comments.

Now, i have decided to leave the hangar and start with some detail in the hull. These are the weld beads on the hull made from stretched sprue and then sanded.

And these are some other details,

And this, the place for the anchor

Thanks for your attention

WOW!!!!  You are doing some AWESOME work!!!  Please keep it up and keep us posted!!!!!

Well, i continue working on the ship, and i´m moving now to port side, to detail the RHIB place. I´m also working in the reinforcements of the port stanchion of flight deck. Here are the photos

And here is the place for RHIB

New photos soon.
Merry Christmas.

Can't think of anything to say.      

Jim 

I can, WOW!

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Thank you friends, and happy new year

Wow, that is amazing! So small but extremely detailed!

There are no words that can bring justice to what is being done here.  Completely astonished.  

Thank you very much friends.

This is an amazing build, but I am curious as to the choice of scale.

Thank you Gsr, i selected this scale because i found detailed plans on the internet at this scale. 1/144 is too big to diplay at home, and i wanted to try the challenge of build my own planes.

The small boat is superb, you could never wish to even get a kit with this level of detail. I am assuming you have made other scratchbuilt ships? I think I asked before but not sure. If possible and you have made others would you post photos? I would love to see them.

That Zodiac is awesome.

WOW!

Thank you friends, you are so kind with me.

Dean, i built some ships in scratch many many years ago, when i was in the institute. This is the first big scale ships that i confront. Of course i have built some airplane and tanks but they were kits, but nothing in scratch.

Jorge

Well that's an incredible build I think the detail is brilliant, is that the grey primer on the hull or is it the colour that it is going to be when finished?

gsr

but I am curious as to the choice of scale.

Not that odd, if you think of it a different way, 1/16" = 1'-0" is 1:192, or most of 1:200.

Which is a bit like combining 1/144 and N scale (1/146 to 1/160)

Thank you friends, Dean, the grey color on the hull is Tmaiya grey primer.

Jorge

I was hoping to see more of this, man that's just so huge! Where on earth are you going to put it? Or you going to put your house inside your model instead lol?