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1/350 scale CVN-90 USS United States Stealth Aircraft Carrier

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Rheged

#660
September 02, 2025, 12:51:13 AM
That is extremely impressive!     Well done!
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

NARSES2

#661
September 02, 2025, 05:50:38 AM
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

kitbasher

#662
September 02, 2025, 08:24:13 AM
Absolutely fantastic.  Whiffy nomination is hereby strongly seconded.
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seadude

#663
September 02, 2025, 09:38:39 AM
Just got an email reply from 3D-Wild about the rigging for the Tilly crane. Apparently, when they shipped the crane to me, there was supposed to be some very thin wire in the box. The crane is packed inside a clear plastic box which is then packed inside of another cardboard shipping box. Which box the wire was in, I don't know because I never saw anything when I opened both boxes. They said they could send me a replacement. But the Tilly vehicle is already painted and done. And if the rigging is as fine, thin, and delicate as I believe it to be, then I'd have a really difficult time trying to add it with the limited eyesight I have. Better to just cut my losses and not add the rigging.
Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.

NARSES2

#664
September 03, 2025, 05:39:09 AM
Quote from: seadude on September 02, 2025, 09:38:39 AMAnd if the rigging is as fine, thin, and delicate as I believe it to be, then I'd have a really difficult time trying to add it with the limited eyesight I have. Better to just cut my losses and not add the rigging.

Yup, sometimes the best path  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

seadude

#665
September 04, 2025, 05:04:22 PM Last Edit: September 30, 2025, 11:31:27 AM by seadude
FINISHED! FINISHED! FINISHED!  :thumbsup:  :party:  :drink:  :cheers:

The carrier, informational plaques, row of individual display aircraft, and a US flag patch.........have now been attached to the display base and the cover has been put on.
I'm praying and hoping that nothing comes loose.........especially the carrier...........if I ever have to transport this model to a future contest. It does not take very much for the clear acrylic display case to lift off the black display base if the whole display were bumped or something else. There are small tabs at the bottom of the clear acrylic display case that fit into notches in the black acrylic base. But the tabs, and the notches, aren't very deep or wide or whatever you want to call it. So when transporting this whole display, I may have to find and use some sort of strapping to put around the display case to prevent the clear case from coming off the black base. I just need to find and use something that won't scratch the clear acrylic.

And has anybody ever had trouble keeping display cases clean? You wipe and wipe and wipe, but somehow, you still get tiny dust particles or whatever no matter how hard you try. And you never know if it's on the inside or the outside.  :banghead:  :banghead:  :banghead:

Now, let's play Where's Waldo? Except, we're not trying to find Waldo. I added another aircraft to the carrier, but it's not one of the types shown in the row at the bottom of the display. Can anybody guees the type I added and the location of it?








Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.

Old Wombat

#666
September 04, 2025, 09:52:30 PM Last Edit: September 04, 2025, 09:55:59 PM by Old Wombat
The pic's are too small for me to really have any idea, & I can't get up-close & personal enough to see in any great detail but I couldn't see anything obvious, so I'll hazard a guess at a EA-18G Growler.

Later: Nope, I can see a Growler on the base - I've got no idea.
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

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veritas ad mortus veritas est

Captain Canada

#667
September 16, 2025, 04:31:33 PM
Wow, wow wow, and wow. I'd love to come see this in person ! Great stuff. Cheers to  what I'm calling the best build thread in the history of the joint. Thanks seadude !
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

seadude

#668
September 16, 2025, 05:14:13 PM
Quote from: Captain Canada on September 16, 2025, 04:31:33 PMWow, wow wow, and wow. I'd love to come see this in person ! Great stuff. Cheers to  what I'm calling the best build thread in the history of the joint. Thanks seadude !

LOL!  ;D  Well, I don't know about this being "the best build thread in the history of the joint".
I'm sure it probably comes close.
All I have to figure out now for this beast is how I'm going to transport it to future contests. I sure hope it fits in the back bed of my model friend's truck.
If this fails to go to any contests in the future for whatever reason, then the only way anybody is going to see it is here on this website forum or in some Facebook modeling groups............which I haven't yet posted the carrier to.
Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.

Gondor

#669
September 17, 2025, 11:11:24 AM
That looks very good. Lots and lots of work in that for sure.
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

seadude

#670
September 22, 2025, 07:23:46 AM Last Edit: September 22, 2025, 07:25:43 AM by seadude
As probably a last post to this model thread, I often get asked from time to time why I painted the lower hull blue when ship lower hulls are supposed to be red.

My answer: Why not? I like it.

Red is just too normal. In the first three pics below, the US Navy experimented with a new antifouling blue paint in the early 2000's on the TICONDEROGA class cruiser USS Port Royal. But sadly, this was only for experimental evaluation purposes. To the best of my knowledge, the US Navy never did apply the blue paint to any other vessels.
The last three pics below are Canadian warships that have had their lower hulls painted blue. How long the Canadians have been doing this to their warships, I do not know. But I do like the color.
So if anybody ever thinks a carrier (or other ship type) can't or shouldn't have a blue lower hull and that it would look really weird, think again. Blue is starting to catch on. ;)














Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.

Charlie_c67

#671
September 22, 2025, 08:10:36 AM
There is also the option for a nice dark copper too, though not sure if the stuff can be applied to boats that large...

https://coppercoat.com/coppercoat-leisure-antifoul-applications/#coppercoat-leisure-image-gallery
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seadude

#672
October 13, 2025, 11:00:31 AM
I just now thought of something.
It's probably really good that I did finish this carrier this year...........and right before October too.
October 13, 2025 is the United States US Navy's 250th birthday.  :party:
So I got this carrier done just in time.  :thumbsup:
And I think the name fits well too for the carrier.
Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.

NARSES2

#673
October 14, 2025, 05:48:55 AM
Quote from: seadude on October 13, 2025, 11:00:31 AMI just now thought of something.
It's probably really good that I did finish this carrier this year...........and right before October too.
October 13, 2025 is the United States US Navy's 250th birthday.  :party:
So I got this carrier done just in time.  :thumbsup:
And I think the name fits well too for the carrier.

Fortuitous in all respects  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

seadude

#674
March 08, 2026, 07:43:35 AM
Sometimes, I just love messing with people's minds.  :wacko:  :wacko:
I was finally able to take my carrier (Not easy as this thing is very big to transport) to the Mad City Modelers Contest in Madison, WI yesterday.
From what I saw and heard, it was very well liked.
But then...........
From time to time, I would hear comments like:
"Is this being built for real?"
"Is this actually in service right now?"
"I don't remember the Navy having this ship?"
............and so on and so on.
I could have corrected some people. But sometimes it's just funner to let them believe what they want to believe.  ;D  :wacko:  ;D  :wacko:
Anyway, I did get a 3rd Place award for the carrier. Pics are below.

Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.
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