I am interested in building a 1/72 scale US Navy carrier deck similar to the photo below which is a 1/72 scale Imperial Japanese carrier deck (available on Ebay). However, I cannot find anything like this on Ebay or doing any other kind of search for US carriers. I suppose the island will have to be scratch made with sheet styrene. Where would I find dimensions, etc, to make this an accurate build? I know Ebay sells those square carrier decks which fit, maybe, one aircraft? I’d like to make this such that I can put around 4 - 5 1/72 scale Navy AC on it.
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Library of congress may have blueprints, If not you could buy a model of the CV in question perhaps even a trashed built one on ebay, and use it’s bridge to get approximate dimensions and placement of details then fill in those details from photos.
I like that idea. Thank you!
jbw857, what class of aircraft carrier & what time period?
hello Joe.
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Thanks for asking. I was thinking of the Yorktown, Enterprise, or the Lexington, for example. Say, early to mid WW2 in the Pacific.
CV-2 USS Lexington Booklet of General Plans (1941) USA - CV-2 USS Lexington Booklet of General Plans (1941) (version 1) : Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/compress/cv2bogp1941/formats=JPEG&file=/cv2bogp1941.zip
CV-5 USS Yorktown Booklet of General Plans (1940) USA - CV-5 USS Yorktown Booklet of General Plans (1940) : Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/compress/cv5bogp1940/formats=JPEG&file=/cv5bogp1940.zip
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Wow! Thanks for this information. I’m anxious to view this.
Thank for those links! Should we call you “Oliver” or is it “Mr. Perry”?
Amazing find, I may seriously consider printing some of those on my 24" wide format plotter!
you are welcome but the cleaned up versions on my computer look better.
both Oliver & Mathew are my ancestors.
this is why i am cleaning up those files saved on my computer.
You might be interested in having a look at a similar project, a scratch-built USS Wolverine in 1/72 scale. The Wolverine, along with her sister, the USS Sable, was one of two training carriers the Navy operated on Lake Michigan during WWII. They were converted from paddle-wheeled lake steamers and provided a secure place to train carrier pilots, that the enemy could never reach.
The build was featured as a cover story in an issue of FineScale back in the early Aughts, but I couldn’t find the article here on the website.
But this is a link to the build as posted to ModelWarships.com:
You can see how someone approached a very similar project. When finished, a 1/72 model of a 600-plus foot carrier is impressive!
Hope that helps!
Best regards,
Brad
A PS, those figure sets above are in 1/48 scale. The Tamiya set especially is very nice, but bigger than you’re looking for. CMK makes some 3-figure sets of WWII USN personnel in 1/72:
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@ffg7 Don’t know whether to thank you again or curse you, that archives link has been a time suck the last day! I found deck logs for one of the ships my dad served on in Vietnam, including OOD entries made by him! All sorts of interesting things abound, although sadly not all are available online. Really tempted to make a trip to MD to see if I can get copies of engineering drawings…
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what ship are you looking for?
AGTR-3, USS Jamestown. Found it, but the drawings aren’t online, so if I want a closer look, it’s a trip to MD for me!
this link will give you links for plans of liberty ships that the Jamestown is based on so that it will give you the basic hull & main superstructure.
also take a look at this link Technical Research Ship Index (AGTR) & this link NavSource Auxiliary Ship Photo Archive
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/153713572
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