SHIP now finished 
BOATMAN's USS NIMITZ CVN 68 BUILD IN 1/144 SCALE
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Now for the AIR WING pics soon
Just caught up with this Chris and like the others I'm simply in awe at your work. That is modelling of the very highest standard
HI Mick many thanks for your kind comments an I hope you enjoyed the ship build as much as I did an now for the airwing pics soon cheers
chris
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Absolutely fantastic build Chris :smiling3:.
I have enjoyed seeing this come together with all you photos.
I have enjoyed seeing this come together with all you photos.
A real success-story Chris, such a wonderful project. :thumb2:
Thanks for uploading all these pictures.
Cheers, Steven
Thanks for uploading all these pictures.
Cheers, Steven
HI Steven I was pleased to share the build with you guys along side all the other wonderfull builds on this wonderfull forum still got the airwing pics to show yet
chris
part 2 the AIR WING
Now sorry guys that pics are not brilliant but again all I got so got to go with these are
Now the 1st plane I started with was the most exspensive plane
on the ship in real an there are 4 of them
an its the HAWKEYE an this I the very first time id treid to fit in workin nav lights an workin engines
so im afraid the work of cutting out the plastic for the wires is a bit rough bit it got better the more I did it
Now sorry guys that pics are not brilliant but again all I got so got to go with these are
Now the 1st plane I started with was the most exspensive plane
on the ship in real an there are 4 of theman its the HAWKEYE an this I the very first time id treid to fit in workin nav lights an workin engines
so im afraid the work of cutting out the plastic for the wires is a bit rough bit it got better the more I did it
I used 2mm led's an you can see how small they are near my thumb
Fittin nav lights to the tails
AN in fusealarge there are also the resistors fitted to regulate the power consumption an not fuse the led's
not very good pic but general idea can be seen it will get better pics (hopefully)
An here just a dry fit as I was thinking of making the radar rotatdome gently rotate but in the end I gave it a miss as I was told if the real thing did this sittin on the carrier deck
it would cook the crew with radiaion
it would cook the crew with radiaion
SO the nxt thing I treid for the first time was fittin the nav light in the wing tips again a bit rough
The wires are as thin as a human hair so I had to be very carful how I handled them or they would break very easy
Nxt fittin in the motors in the engine nacelle 
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