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1/200 USS Nimitz 2003. Scratchbuild

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  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Sunday, October 20, 2013 4:48 PM

Get a copy of Building Model Warships of the Iron and Steel Eras, edited by Peter Beisheim (Naval Institute Press).   The chapter by Stephen Henninger describes his build of the 1:100 scale USS Enterprise which is now on display at the Air & Space Museum in DC..

 

He ended up building the hull one and a half times while he was on long term deployment

There is a lot of good information on the processes and problems of scratch building a large scale ship model

  • Member since
    April 2012
Posted by flaver 2.0 on Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:48 PM
Very impressive. I've thought about doing a scratch build. Have you done any boxed wooden ships such as amati? If so how do they compare difficulty wise? I have done a couple from them.
  • Member since
    February 2011
  • From: St louis
Posted by Raualduke on Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:45 PM

Wow ! Just did the math,5 1/ 2 feet long

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    November 2012
Posted by Jaguar1969 on Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:33 PM

Thank you Gregbale. The plans are from Best Ship Models, But i discovered some major mistakes during the construction, comparing the plans with the real photos.

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:30 PM

Looks like an extremely impressive start so far! (Very glad you decided to share your project.)

Whose plans are you working from?

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    November 2012
1/200 USS Nimitz 2003. Scratchbuild
Posted by Jaguar1969 on Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:14 PM

Hello friends. After a long time trying to decide if i have to share or not to share my work, i finally decide to share. I think that currently she is about a 30% finished, so i have a lot of work in front of me.

I will try to sumarize with a few photos the entire process till now.

I hope yo enjoy my work, and of course, i will wellcome any critics.

Thanks to take a look

  

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