BOATMAN's USS NIMITZ CVN 68 BUILD IN 1/144 SCALE

[boatman]

SHIP now finished

 

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[boatman]

Now for the AIR WING pics soon

 

[Mickc1440]

Just caught up with this Chris and like the others I'm simply in awe at your work. That is modelling of the very highest standard

 

[boatman]

Just caught up with this Chris and like the others I'm simply in awe at your work. That is modelling of the very highest standard

HI Mick many thanks for your kind comments an I hope you enjoyed the ship build as much as I did an now for the airwing pics soon cheers
chris

 

[Deleted member 4539]

Absolutely fantastic build Chris .
I have enjoyed seeing this come together with all you photos.

 

[boatman]

Absolutely fantastic build Chris .
I have enjoyed seeing this come together with all you photos.

Hello Ralph im really glad you enjoyed the build an all the pic's as for me its nice to make people happy I just hope you will enjoy the airwng build as much when I start to post the pics all best
chris

 

[Steven000]

A real success-story Chris, such a wonderful project.
Thanks for uploading all these pictures.
Cheers, Steven

 

[boatman]

A real success-story Chris, such a wonderful project.
Thanks for uploading all these pictures.
Cheers, Steven

HI Steven I was pleased to share the build with you guys along side all the other wonderfull builds on this wonderfull forum still got the airwing pics to show yet
chris

 

[boatman]

part 2 the AIR WING
Now sorry guys that pics are not brilliant but again all I got so got to go with these are
Now the 1st plane I started with was the most exspensive plane on the ship in real an there are 4 of them

an its the HAWKEYE an this I the very first time id treid to fit in workin nav lights an workin engines
so im afraid the work of cutting out the plastic for the wires is a bit rough bit it got better the more I did it

 

[boatman]

I used 2mm led's an you can see how small they are near my thumb

 

[boatman]

Fittin nav lights to the tails

 

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AN in fusealarge there are also the resistors fitted to regulate the power consumption an not fuse the led's

 

[boatman]

not very good pic but general idea can be seen it will get better pics (hopefully)

 

[boatman]

An here just a dry fit as I was thinking of making the radar rotatdome gently rotate but in the end I gave it a miss as I was told if the real thing did this sittin on the carrier deck
it would cook the crew with radiaion

 

[boatman]

SO the nxt thing I treid for the first time was fittin the nav light in the wing tips again a bit rough

 

[boatman]

The wires are as thin as a human hair so I had to be very carful how I handled them or they would break very easy

 

[boatman]

Nxt fittin in the motors in the engine nacelle for size against a pencil