Didn't Someone Ask About A 72nd Carrier

[philp]

This is pretty nice72nd USS Enterprise

[Jennings]

I could do that, I just don't like to show off

Oly scheet!  Amazing...

J

[Howard of Effingham]

it was me philip and well where's that jaw-droppingly staggered smiley gone?

this is good, very, very good indeed. so this is the second one i have seen.

trevor

[CanisD]

I know in Scale Ship Modeller back in the 80's they used to advertise a bare-bones 1/72 Nimitz designed for either radio control, or it was actually big enough to ride in with your head sticking through a hatch in the flight deck. Somewhat like the small scale boats they use to train helmsmen and captains. At least he didn't have any trouble finding aircraft to scale!  

[Swedish Mick]

 

Well done!    

[Glenn Gilbertson]

Wow! Now that really would test one's partner's tolerance level!  

[Archibald]

  Feck!!!!!

Some years ago, for fun, I've tried to imagined how big would a 1/72 carrier would be. I did that for the Clemenceau, CDG and Nimitz (no CVF at the time   )

Just imagine... a 1/72 scale Nimitz is as big as a car !            

Well, at least this guy didn't try to model the world biggest ship (a 600 000 tons tanker, can't remember its name).
A model of this one would be as large as a bus!!!        

Hmmm 1/24 Nimitz...

[B777LR]

Imagine what a nightmare it would have been just to build all those grey aircraft!

[Captain Canada]

Amazing ! That guy had patience, and talent !

He wouldn't want any of us coming over, tho, and doing a few touch-and-goes on his flight deck ! It would also be fun to slip a WI in there on him, like a Flanker or somat painted in USN colours !

 

[Archibald]

Something fun could be parking unusual aircrafts on the flight deck
(Backfire, C-130, anigrand C-17   Mi-24, some tanks, SR-71)

see what I mean ?  

[philp]

uh, thought we were talking about large carrier models.  Go start your own thread  ^_^

Anyway, There are some decent sized models out at the NAS Pensacola Museum.  Most were 72nd but think there was also a couple in 1/100 or 1/96.

[B777LR]

Theres a 1/144 R/C USS Enterprise at a castle not far from here. Its on display with a ton of F-14s and F-4s  

[Hobbes]

Theres a 1/144 R/C USS Enterprise at a castle not far from here. Its on display with a ton of F-14s and F-4s

Egeskov castle? I've been there, during a Denmark holiday a few years ago. Fantastic model (I think it was a Nimitz, though).  

[B777LR]

Theres a 1/144 R/C USS Enterprise at a castle not far from here. Its on display with a ton of F-14s and F-4s

Egeskov castle? I've been there, during a Denmark holiday a few years ago. Fantastic model (I think it was a Nimitz, though).

Yup B)

(there was also a german diesel engine for airplanes near the carrier model)

[anthonyp]

Now THAT took talent!  And patience!  And money!  Incredible model!

But...

Now, I'm not taking away anything from that incredible 1/72 CVN-65, but I'm having a JMN moment here while looking at the pics...  And I can't help myself!

The AIM-7's on the wingroots of all the F-14's on the deck with missiles are mounted wrong.

There, better now.  I think.