Aircraft Carrier Scale 1/72
Mikael Landin
I have heard about a retired man re-making the aircraft carrier where he
used to serve, in 1/72 scale. The airplanes and figurines where bought but
the Carrier was built from the drawings,photos and memories. I think he
built this huge modell in his basement.
Is this true???
Is there any links or photos of this?
What Aircraft carrier was it?
Thx from Mikael
Frank May
Nimitz, IIRC. The hull was in 3 sections as was the deck & there was a
detail kit which had the island & a few other odds & ends. When finished
it was about 16' long & 4' wide. FSM had an article on a build-up some
time back & back in early '85, the now defunct, I think, Scale Ship
Modeler had an article or review of the kit. ISTR FSM also had an
article about a 1/72 scratchbuilt WWII Enterprise
RC Boater
Go to www.modelwarships.com and click on "feature Articles". Scroll down a
bit, and you'll find a multi-part article by Bill Waldorf on his 1/72 scale
WW2 Escort Carrier USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73).
-Bill
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Ed
think 1/72, USS Enterprise they would use for recruiting drives. It actually
had a section of deck that could be removed so an operator could sail it on
ponds and lakes. It was always cool to see, as my uncles business was next
door to it. It was mostly on a trailer when I saw it, but was abut 15-16
feet long.
Ed
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Don Harstad
There's a 1/72nd scale USS Nimitz (CVN 68) at Nimitz museum in
Fredricksburg, TX. It's a beautiful thing.
Don H.
Bill W
in Japan (?) where a guy was in the process of making available a 1/72
Nimitiz Class card model.
HTH,
Bill W.
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Maiesm72
located in Lake Park, Florida.
The ads first ran in 1984. Only a handfull were produced and they are rarely if
ever found for sale. This is the largest kit ever produced in 1/72 (or probably
any other scale) scale.
Seveal people have done scratchbuilt aircraft carriers in 1/72. The latest is
shown in the current (May, 2003) issue of Fine ScaleModeler. This one is by far
the most unusual, the USS Wolverine paddlewheel Great Lakes training carrier.
It's almost eight feet long and sixteen inches wide.
In the same vein ESM 72 has listed 200 kits and models of 1/72 scale ships and
boats. The largest single producer was the now defunct Repilcas by Tyson which
produced "solid" ship models.
Tom
James Woody
club members talking about it.
Woody
Rob van Riel
Well, there was a scratchbuilt 1/72 Enterprise featured in FSM of
March 1997. Built by an older modeler, but no mention of it being the
ship he served on.
Rob
Bill W
Bill W
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William H. Shuey
And there was a big (1/72 ?) model of a modern carrier outside the Navy
Aircraft area at the National Air & Space Museum when I was there some
years ago.
Bill Shuey
jerry 47
There are also large carrier models at the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola,
FL.
Jerry 47
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Al Superczynski
<whs...@starpower.net> wrote:
>...there was a big (1/72 ?) model of a modern carrier outside the Navy
>Aircraft area at the National Air & Space Museum...
That one is 1/100 scale. Lots of very well done scratchbuilt
aircraft on it.
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Tim Holland
impressive, and I think they were all the same scale, either 1/72 or 1/100.
Tim
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e
in the 60's. they parked one in front of my high school for
a couple of days, but it was modern, so i didn't care at
that time. if it had been the langley........
John Alger
> I have heard about a retired man re-making the aircraft carrier where he
> used to serve, in 1/72 scale.
There are a number of aircraft carrier models around in 1/72 scale.
The EAA museum has one - USS Enterprise CV-9 (featured in FSM some
time back - done by a number of IPMS guys in team style), also a 1/72
IJN Akagi at the Pearl Harbor Museum in Hawaii, at least one other USS
Enterprise, and the USS Wolverine, currently featured in FSM. Probalby
more I am not aware of.
John Alger
IPMS 10906
Charlotte NC
Meindert
Netherlands are working on a.....
1/48 scale USS Enterprise... (26 feet in length...)
yep.... it will be made to float, cruise and a full complement of jets
of the sixties.... unfortunately no pics yet.
Meindert
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipms
Eyeball2002308
seno...@gmail.com
Mike Smith
> The air museum at the Oakland Airport has a model of the USS Hornet with B-25s, I believe.
Thanks
Cheers
Mike