Good Day I suppose it is in the Uk plodding along, don't seem to be to many comments so I must be doing something correctly.
I was sitting building the F14 B/D Super Tomcats when I thought of an idea which will probably sound stupid to you, but never the less it's a workable idea I think and, as there are not many comments really with this build I will work on it further. Maybe a lot of you are tied up with their Lindberg Blue Devil conversion haha or maybe there is no real interest in Aircraft carriers.
Don't know why they are a lot more work than a lot of the Destroyer Models and the final build I think will be well and rewarding. I will plod on regardless as they say, I know one thing it will be an expensive model when finished.
I also ordered the last of the Aircraft today to
A. Bring up the correct Aircraft total as she was in 1975 and
B. To keep her completely up todate with the present Aircraft on board and thanks Trumpeter, I even managed to get 2 x C2 Greyhounds which are used as land based Aircraft but able to land on the deck of a carrier. These aircraft are the next generation up from the Hawkeye and a few Hawkeye's have been converted to the Greyhound specs in the beginning of it's test flights.
As people on the forum have advised me, doing this to the Nimitz like R/C conversion, the model will be Top Heavy and either heaps of ballast or removable keel or whatever you can think of.
Well my idea is that as the Nimitz is going to be sailing with the 2 Destroyer Escorts, why not keep them as airtight dummies and use them as floats like an Outrigger system.
You perhaps could utilise something say about 2 feet long and removable and use the lot like an Outrigger system. It would be under or just in line with the waterline and would also look good too.
So the Escorts would be airtight and all done up as warships correctly but acting as scale floats, The Nimitz would still contain some amount of ballast which I would have to weight out but I believe it to be a workable idea.
Ok enough said about that, here are some more pictures of what has happened. Still waiting for Paint, as I have to order it via Ebay.
Pictures are the 2 destroyers with Nimitz to show what I mean re Outrigger system.
Then USS Ingersoll being slowly fitted out.
Also the F14 B/D Super Tomcats now waiting for their paint and decals fitout. I actually ordered at long last Decal fixer which will be great.