Are there any 1/48 Ship Plans out there

[coolpop6307]

I been wanting to build a aircraft carrier in 1/48 but i cannot find any plans for one, so I was just wondering if anybody knew where I could get some plans.

  Thanks
    Joshua

[pyro-manic]

A model of HMS Invincible (a small carrier) in 1:48 would be four and a half metres long. A Nimitz class would be just under seven metres long, and a metre and a half wide. You have a very large house, clearly!


I suspect you'll have to get some good drawings and scale them up.

[RLBH]

A friend's father wanted to do a 1:24 self-propelled model of Hood a few years ago. I remember the scale, as he asked me to do the powering calculations, and I distinctly remember that it would've been 43 feet long. The notion of a model battlecruiser weighing nearly three tonnes and longer than many yachts seems to have resulted in his wife putting her foot down.

As I recall, he'd got hold of the original builders' plans from the Glasgow University archives; other shipyard archives or national archives might be able to help. The general arrangement plans for one of the USN's dino-fuelled supercarriers - possibly Saratoga - were online a few years ago, they might still be up. Other than that, I'd expect you're stuck with photographs, profile and deck plan drawings from Janes and the likes.

[rickshaw]

There are a mob online who build 1/72 ships.  I remember reading a webpage connected to them about building one of the Russian carriers and it was a whopping 4-5 metres long.   He had a garage where he was building it.  He used styrofoam carved to the right shape (in sections) and a weighted keel with the motive and RC stuff in it.  He had a couple of 1/72 models on the flight deck as well. 

[jcf]

The classic large scale for ship display models is 1/96th (1/8"=1') which is exactly half the size
of 1/48th (1/4"=1'), so you could get some 1/96th plans from one of the ship modelling plan
sources and have them scaled up 200% at a print shop that does architectural drawings.

Taubman plan service
http://www.taubmansonline.com/

Floating Drydock
http://floatingdrydock.com/MasterPlan.htm

Note that many of the drawings are also in 1/192 and 1/384, and the enlargement factor for those
to 1/48 is 400% and 800% respectively, which you would want to do in increments of 200% at a time.

[PR19_Kit]

There are a mob online who build 1/72 ships.  I remember reading a webpage connected to them about building one of the Russian carriers and it was a whopping 4-5 metres long.   He had a garage where he was building it.  He used styrofoam carved to the right shape (in sections) and a weighted keel with the motive and RC stuff in it.  He had a couple of 1/72 models on the flight deck as well. 

That'll be 'Task Force 72' I think. One of my old friends back here in the UK emigrated to Oz around 10 years ago and caught up with those guys. He now has a garage stuffed with 1/72 R/C ships, one of which is a model of the Melbourne I think! That's got to be BIG!!! 

[coolpop6307]

Thank you guys for the info I think i have one in mind now.

Thanks
   Joshua