one for the ship chaps....
- Thread starter BarryW
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I hope they do.
Hope you have a great day at Telford Barry, or are you there all weekend.
Hope you have a great day at Telford Barry, or are you there all weekend.
boatman
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HI Barry just seen your telford pics of that Q/E with the F35 on an I must admit it looks a nice ship what was the scale ? an how big as it looks about 6ft long to me am I right or is it bigger ?
chris
chris
boatman
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Well Ian I think it would be a very nice model in 1/350 for those that like a static kit but I would not buy it as all my dosh is goin into my tiger
chris
The model shown is 1/350. It is a large ship...YEA its sad Ian only 1/350 airfix docor just think what it would be like in 1/144 scale proberly like the pic above as that looks about 1/144 scale like my Nimitz
chris ps just think as well of the price it would be wow
boatman
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HI Barry you say its a 1/350th to me it looks to large for 1/350 how long was it approx. ? im not sayin you got it wrong at all
chris
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There was a written explanation of how it was constructed. It said 1/350 and parts from the 1/350 T45 and Illustrious were used along with a lot of scratch building. I think it looks a bit bigger due to perspective.
davecov
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I can confirm that it is 1/350 in scale. I must admit that in some pictures it looks about 30 feet long! Here it is the day it was completed, two days before handover to Airfix at Telford:
The Airfix parts mainly consist of the weapons, 4 Merlin helicopters and a few domes, in total less than 60 parts. Inside there is part of a Tamiya USS Enterprise hull for added rigidity. Almost everything else including all radar (apart from other aircraft and the props) has been scratchbuilt.
Dave
The Airfix parts mainly consist of the weapons, 4 Merlin helicopters and a few domes, in total less than 60 parts. Inside there is part of a Tamiya USS Enterprise hull for added rigidity. Almost everything else including all radar (apart from other aircraft and the props) has been scratchbuilt.
Dave
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boatman
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HI Barry I apologize about the size of that Q/E as im amazed at how small it is as I think you are right in the top pic it must be due to the angle perspective of the photo when taken as to me it looks a lot larger but when seen by the gent holding it I am bambozzeled as victor mildrew said( I DONT BELIVE IT ) LOL
Chris
First welcome to the forum and I hope we see a lot more from you.
Secondly well done on building the model. Very nice work and I hope that Airfix do bring it into their range.
boatman
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AN I second that
an I think Dave has done a fantastic job on the build considering its been scratchbuilt from other models very well done indeed an has she got four props ? chris
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davecov
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Thanks for the welcome. I actually joined in 2014 but have been a long-time lurker!
The QE class have two props.
Dave
The QE class have two props.
Dave
boatman
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HI Dave thanks for the info on the props only two im really surprised as its about 65000 tons of ship most ships ive seen in this tonnage normaly have four props
chris
I suddenly realised who you were from the name plate on the model. Great work, she certainly looked impressive at Telford. Welcome to the Forum.
boatman
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HI again Dave is there any chance that you took pics of the build as you went along ? as it would be super to see the build on here ? as we not got many floaty things on here an yours would be top notch build as I think the more I see of her the more I like an the F35 as well SO DAVE ANY CHANCE ?
Chris
Chris