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Originally Posted by alan2525  I was asuming you must be either an experienced boat builder or it was a very late April Fools Joke!
What's the storey with the 1:7th scale aircraft carrier - Is the build a comission for a naval museum or something or do you have a very large front room with a very large empty glass case waiting for something to go inside? As far as plans - I'd go for purchasing the largest scale kit I could find and then making a set of plans from that - in something that scale a foot here or there won't notice too much!
Also what are your plans for modelling aircraft for the flight deck? Would be worth spending the time making moulds and then producing the parts in bulk! What was the reason for modelling the ship 1:7th it seems an odd scale - If you went for 1:6 you could use action men as crew!
You could also check out the thread on a proposed build of a 21foot HMS Hood on these very forums: http://www.scale-models.co.uk/showth...highlight=hood (Is it okay....?) I would have thought the problems you both face regarding sourcing plans and scaling up details from smaller models, reliance on images and photographic images for research, etc would both be similar for the two builds. |
The project is purely for my own enjoyment, the model won't be a display, when complete it will ride at a mooring in front of my house. I hadn't considered a kit. Setting the hull design aside, it would be a good idea to have a three dimensional model for reference purposes before and during construction.
As for the air group, I planned to acquire all of the aircraft as rc kits, or scratch build them if not available in the required scale. Although I plan to assemble a mixed group of between 30-40 airframes ( Corsairs, Fulmars, Avengers and Albacores) to display on the flight deck, obviously not all of these will be in flying condition, maybe only one of each type, depending on my time and budget. There will be aircraft elevators and a functioning hanger beneath the flight deck. I have not decided how to handle the aircraft when struck below, maybe a center isle deep enough for a person to stand in would work, since to scale the hanger would only be about thirty inches high.
The scale was selected based on my available building area, at 1/7 scale it will be close to 106 feet in length at 1/6 scale it goes to over 123 feet, oh it would be grande, but I just can't squeeze it in. I would build it smaller, but I very much want the ship to be a working vessel, able to launch and recover rc aircraft and accommodate a small crew to handle them while aboard.