One from the very first days of this forum.

Martin H · August 04, 2009, 01:55:01 PM

I'm some time heard talking about the carrier flight deck I built a bit before this place opened for business.....

the year was 1998. Her name was Furious. And the deck plan was based on that for CVA01. She was 15 feet long and 3 1/2 feet wide at her widest point. She broke down into three sections that just fitted in the back of the Nissan I had at the time. I was finally forced to scrap her in 2002, when the MDF her flight deck was made from warped badly. her stern section appeared on the What if? SIG stand at the 2000 UK Nationals.

Photos are all pretty low res due to the fact that they were all taken on yee olde Sony mavicka digi cam.

Heres the beast in my old home's living room while under construction. It was made from 2x1 timber and 5mm MDF sheets.

Here she is while still a work in progress at her first "public" outting. On display at the Air Training Corps South midlands wing (as it was then) feild day. The venue was the upper floor of the Airmans mess at RAF Whittering.

The bow shot. Still at whittering.

A stern shot from a high approach angle.

Here she is at her one and only full public display. in the model tent at the Hollowell Steam and heavy horse show.

Now for some of the Air group.

Boy! this lot brought back a few memories

philp · August 04, 2009, 03:23:24 PM

Now that is cool.
I think the SIG should make another for Telford. Maybe this time you can add a little bit of hull to it as well.

I have always wanted to do a diorama of an airshow. Would let you display many different types of planes in the same setting. Add a few thousand people milling around, some vendor tents, a few vehicles, etc. Would be neat.

One time at the Montana State Fair (the IPMS club got to judge the Model Contest) we painted up a piece of news roll to reflect the different type of display. Had a runway for the aircraft entries, ground for the armor and water for the ships. Will have to see if I can find a couple pics of it.

puddingwrestler · August 04, 2009, 03:23:47 PM

You sir, are a nutter. A turbo nutter.

AeroplaneDriver · August 04, 2009, 03:26:20 PM

Impressive!

Love the Hawk 200!

Martin H · August 04, 2009, 03:26:44 PM

Quote from: puddingwrestler on August 04, 2009, 03:23:47 PM
You sir, are a nutter. A turbo nutter.

You say the nicest things LOL

Martin H · August 04, 2009, 03:27:43 PM

Quote from: AeroplaneDriver on August 04, 2009, 03:26:20 PM
Impressive!

Love the Hawk 200!

that one was fun, grafting the italeri tail section and wings onto the matchbox hawk kit wasnt easy.

As for the rest of the Airgroup almost all have survived, the lightning has just been restored, two of the four tooms are being repaired, and the rest is happyily gathering dust on the shelves in my room lol

Captain Canada · August 04, 2009, 05:43:39 PM

Beautiful, just beautiful Martin !

Love al the Phantoms, but my favourite has to be the Corsair.

The Rat · August 04, 2009, 08:15:50 PM

A Gannet in hemp is the dog's bollocks!

van883 · August 04, 2009, 11:18:33 PM

Very impressive!

Van

JayBee · August 05, 2009, 12:11:03 AM

Martin, say it is not true, please.
Those are surely not RW Tooms and Lynx?

JimB

Thorvic · August 05, 2009, 12:16:56 AM

Quote from: philp on August 04, 2009, 03:23:24 PM
Now that is cool.
I think the SIG should make another for Telford. Maybe this time you can add a little bit of hull to it as well.

Well TsrJoe has a hull based but that's a long term museum project and not practical for transporting and displaying at model shows.

Regarding the What-if SIG(UK) ever doing a similar display, it is highly unlikely as too many active members from the length and breadth of the country to be able to coordinate the building of such a display in advance and too much interest in own subject matters to ever do such a specific joint display.
Somebody will always want to do their own thing what ever the general consensus may be due to the SIG covering such a broad spectrum of interests. Its highly unlikely that we can match the more specific themed SIGs and their special themed displays, as those tend to be created by just a handful of close knit modellers, wheres as the Whif SIG has to go with a very loose theme and a general none theme display to account for the wide variety of models created by its broad spectrum of active members

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We can't do the fancy displays but at least we're a large friendly bunch, which fills the tables and allows plenty of cover for others to wander at displays

Aircav · August 05, 2009, 12:22:46 AM

Ah, nostalgia ain't what it use to be

Spey_Phantom · August 05, 2009, 02:48:02 AM

yawza

, now thats one big carrier.
i would love to have seen it if it had a hull underneath, maybe one day, someone will build one with a hull and deck elevators

nice

Weaver · August 05, 2009, 03:51:21 AM

Wow - impressive!

I like the Corsair in particular.

If such a thing were attempted again, an alternative to putting a hull on it might be to put a hangar deck on it. That doubles the available display space (as long as there are plenty of large deck-edge elevators to see through), and with a bit of careful design, it could still all dismantle into flat-pack form for transport.

kitbasher · August 05, 2009, 04:33:04 AM

Excellent!
And does it solve next year's SMW SIG theme perhaps?
This year the Royal Navy keeps banging on about ' 100 years of faffing about in planes and stuff'. Next year why don't we do '101 Years of Naval Aviation'? Any year will do, but should it be limited to the RN or would any naval air arm do?