BOATMAN's USS NIMITZ CVN 68 BUILD IN 1/144 SCALE

[boatman]

An now she looks like a flat top

[boatman]

[boatman]

An after a heck of a lot of sandin an painting the hull with 6 coates of sandin sealer I sprayed her with about 10 coates of first red pimer an then gray an then finished with grey to make her water tight an firbre glassin her in side an out I then fitted all 4 prop shaft's an 4 rudders the real ship don't have 4 just 2 but I needed to make her do tight turns as I still found that on the crowded boat pond when she was sailin she still went over the top of smaller craft as this ship couldn't be stopped on a sixpence due to her wheight

[boatman]

NOW here after about a yr an a half of costrucion my m8 an I took her to the pond with about 50 pounds of batts wheight in the hull to see how she sits in the water test an she passed with flyin colours ( did a little dance again to celebrate :smiling4::smiling4::smiling4::smiling4: people were lookin at me very strangely :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:lol )

[Guest]

Good to see you’ve got the pictures sorted That is one impressive model. I’ve seen plenty of large ship models built from wood, and this looks better than many already.

[boatman]

Good to see you’ve got the pictures sorted :smiling3: That is one impressive model. I’ve seen plenty of large ship models built from wood, and this looks better than many already.

Hi Jakko many thanks for your kind comments an tryin to help me with the pics as it did get a bit tedious swoppin them one at a time from bitmap to jpeg but got there in the end I will fit more pics of the build tomorrow

[boatman]

HI all some more pics of the build
here I have made an fitted the aircraft evevator shuttle rails as this model had working aircraft elevators 3 working an one dummy over the batt bay

[boatman]

A shot of the front half

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an the stern end with the bilge keels fitted an if looked at closely you can see the tubes comin through the hull for the push rods to work the aircraft elevator up an down

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A shot of the aircraft elevator lift bar fitted with the push rods

[boatman]

AN the megtronics aircraft elevator unit I call it as it half mechanical an half eletronic's this unit is what pushes the aircraft elevators up an down an there are 3 of these in the ship

[boatman]

NXT the lift bar fitted into the shuttle rails

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two shots of the exess hatches cut outs an these will be held in place by small screws an tiny magnets where I will open them alot

[boatman]

[boatman]

here is her motive power 4 grupner 12v 600 motor's with cam belt drive reduction gear ratio 3 to 1 step down with aircraft elevator megtronics fitted for lifts no. 3an 4
at the rear of the carrier