CVN-70 Project. Mounted the fiber optic lights for the GSE area and tunnel. (They will be trimmed flush after painting) Detailed the starboard wall of hangar bay 1 and added more details to the port wall. Need to finish detailing the port wall. Also made the first hangar bay fire doors.
Wow, your work is outstanding at this scale. I love specially the fantail lights.
Jorge
that is some beautiful work !!
CVN-70 Project - I have completed the port side wall of hangar bay 2 and the hangar bay fire doors. The Unrep tower motors have been made and will be rigged to the towers when I do the starboard side. Starting on the bay 3 port side and aft wall now.
CVN-70 Project - Hangar bay walls are all detailed. Now ready for paint, highlighting, and decals. Need to still make the hangar bay external doors. Then paint, decals and weathering of the hangar bay deck.
CVN-70 Project - Added some more decals to the decal sheet. Warning stripes that can be cut to proper widths as needed, the ship and air wing logo’s, and the Naval Aviation logo’s.
If anyone needs a copy, message me your email address. Also if you want, tell me the ship and airwing and I will replace the Vinson ones with your choice. (These are 1/350 scale)
I just found out that depending on the ship and the year, The AFFF signs can be either blue or green. If you want them in green or both, let me know.
Hey Wolfman,
First off thank you on the tip for model masters flat clear. It is my favorite flat clear, and believe me I’ve tried about 6. I decanted straight into my airbrush cup, let sit for about an hour then airbrushed.
Secondly, I’d like to issue a formal request :D. I’ll get back to you for airwing, I have the yearbook for 2003 I believe.
Also, apologies if you said this already but where do you get the larger 70 that goes on the deck or on the island? I thought I saw gmm was discontinued for those decals but was was wondering if there’s another source.
Keep up the killer scratching!
Kyle
I was able to get a GMM set on Ebay. There was one for sale on Ebay and the seller was actually local to me. I emailed him if he would end auction and sell it to me (for the average price they go for on Ebay) and he said he doesn’t want to stop the auction but he had a second set that was missing the CIWS circles. I bought that set from him for a very good price. I wasn’t concerned about the CIWS circles. I already made my own decals for them.
GMM has stated they will not re-issue them but Boatswain is suppose to re-issue their set sometime this summer. http://www.boatswainmodel.com/products.html
If you cannot locate your cruise book, This website has them online:
I had some time tonight to start detailing the hangar bay walls. I started with the small wall between bay 2 and 3. Below are the pictures. How is it looking so far?
(NOTE: I have not painted the fire doors, just put logo on it to see how it looks)
Kind of a slow week as I was busy with some other things this week. I was able to get the starboard walls and doorways mounted and detailed. The aft walls are detailed but still need to be mounted. Will be starting to paint and decal the long port walls and to detail the GSE bay tonight.
The hangar bay deck is finished. All walls mounted, deck markings and painting done, weathered/stained deck, and GSE area lighting done. I even added toolboxes and benches to the back wall of the GSE area. Here are numerous pictures. Will be starting the flight deck next. (Hangar bays to be filled with aircraft and GSE equipment later)
Close up of GSE area with toolboxes and benches.
CVN-70 Project - After 5 attempts I finally figured out how to do the landing light “meatball” It’s difficult to get a good picture due to the brightness but it does look cool.
Good day Wolfman,
Happy Independence day! I am glad I stumbled across your build as I am doing the same exact version of the Carl Vinson. My Nimitz model is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. I will be using the hangar bay details released just last week on Shapeways. I am Very interested in your decal set graphics. Are you planning to do a CVW-15 airwing set? I have searched hi and low, but no one seems to do this wing yet? Your build is looking great!
-Woog
Thanks! I just sent you the Hangar bay decal sheet picture.
As for air wing from 1983, Starfighter decals has VAQ-134’s decals but all others are not available.
However, when I get to the aircraft I will be making my own sheets for each squadron.
I already built a plane from each squadron in 1/48 scale (see http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/2/t/165305.aspx ) so getting pictures will be easy. Just need to scale them from 1/48 to 1/350.
CVN-70 Project - After I cut off all the catwalks (have PE version) I put flight deck together and made sure it fit the hull. I then started the long process of drilling and routing the fiber optic deck lights. I have the rear approach line done and am working on the foul line. The approach line will use a white LED and the foul line will use a blue LED. I drilled the holes at an angle so the optic lines will lay flat. I also mount them sticking up. Once the deck is painted and detailed I will trim the optic lines flush. They will be nearly invisible until the lights are on. Once all the lines are installed I will make them look like overhead pipes then prime and paint. The hangar bay LED’s will be mounted after painting. I will need to do the island before I install deck to hull so I can run the wires for the island lights.
CVN-70 Project - I finished the runway optic lines and halfway done with the foul line. Have about 28 more lines to run. I have quite the bundle. It’s going to be a while to get them lines up and laying flat.
Here is a preview of the lights (just used a table lamp to see how the pattern looks)
CVN-70 Project - All the fiber optic lines have been laid out. Starting to glue them down so I can route them. It’s slow going. Have to do it in sections.
Wow! Gonna keep an eye on this!