Trumpeter 1/350 Nimitz whatiffed

[cthulhu77]

Had a client call for a fast build, so starting on friday, I just wrapped up this monster. Whew, what a build!  Will have pics as soon as I get enough daylight.

[cthulhu77]

Decided to do it on a water diorama. That plaster and aluminium foil techniqe really works!

[Supertom]

 

[Ed S]

Tremendous diorama.  The water and the crewmen, with the great lighting, it just looks real for some reason.



Ed

[thedarkmaster]

oh yeah very cool

love the detail and the way you took the picture, it`a as if you were flying above the real thing 

[cthulhu77]

Didn't sleep all weekend!  Thanks!

[Brian da Basher]

Awesome work, Greg and you got it posted for April 1st .

Amazing!

Brian da Basher

[Joe C-P]

You could have done a better job cleaning up the seam on the island.
Those aircraft, come on, you should have gotten those cockpits right!
And your deck markings are all wrong! I have a reference in the back of a comic book that shows a drawing of an alternate universe sister of Nimitz that clearly shows those lines are canary yellow, not off white.

Sheesh, the things some people try to pull on us reel navel fanboys...

JoeyP

[John Howling Mouse]

Hmmm, not bad, not bad....but I'd sure like to see some of your "in-progress" build pics!   

[cthulhu77]

Well, I would have loved to share more of the workinprogress pics, but the timeline was just soooo, just sooo...tight?

[sotoolslinger]

A one to one model is not a model it's an aircraft carrier. You should have built it to scale. A-

[GTX]

Well, I would have loved to share more of the workinprogress pics, but the timeline was just soooo, just sooo...tight?

Greg,

Don't you remember - you did take those in progress pics - you sent them to me:






Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

Hmmm, it's good, but it could be great if it wan't for a few minor points.  The wake should 1.5mm wider for the Nimitz's speed & the prevailing conditions, it says so on the IPMS Stockholm site.  The buttons on the tunics of the crewman are of the wrong type, they stopped using those on the 1st Aril 1976.  Oh & the one glaring fault, you missed the stain that was left after a crewman managed to snaffle a burrito from the galley & a Tomcat blew it out of his hand in 1981.  It's been permanently baked on by years of jet efflux & despite many attempts, they've never managed to get rid  of it!!!

[lancer]

It looked soooo real....

[cthulhu77]

Thank You !  It was pointed out on another forum that my haze gray was off tone...will have to fix that.