USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76, in 1:350 Scale
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Then it was time to add the trap wires. I took some vey light guage wire, inserted them into the holes in the deck for the trap wires, and then straightened them with wire tools, bent them and inserted them into the other hole and then added glue to each hole. Worked out very nicely. Here's the fifty cal machine guns, the ship's name, and then the trap wires:
...and here are the trap wires:
...and here are the trap wires:
And that about does it for the ship itself. Here's some nice pics of her:
...and I like this one closing off this session (and essentially closing out the model itself without the airwing on the flight deck:
Now I will start building the air wing for the vessel, along with more tugs and cranes.
...and I like this one closing off this session (and essentially closing out the model itself without the airwing on the flight deck:
Now I will start building the air wing for the vessel, along with more tugs and cranes.
Miragedriver
Brigadier
Does the vessel float and is it self-propelled?
I suppose I could build it to do so...but it is too fragile, and far too much money and time put into it.
So I build them as static displays...and I have a bunch of them.
I wanted to build the Ronald Reagan in honor of the Nimitz class and in honor of one of the greatest men, and greatest US President's in my life time.
Anyhow, I have all hte vessels to create and show an entire US Navy Carrier Strike Group and all of the vessels to showw and Amphibious Expeditionary Group at the same time.
I also have the same ships to show similar things for the Chinese Navy, and carrier groups for the British, French, Japanese, and Russian Navies.
You can see them all on my model site:
The Build - Bulbous Bow, Air Wing, Life Buoys, Personnel, Completion, CSG< - February 18, 2017
I began this session by scratch building the bulbous bow on he front end of the Ronald Reagan. The Reagan is the first Nimitz class to receive this addition, which helps with stability and maneuverability, paricularly at high speed. I found a 1/72 scale fuel tank that had the proper width and then worked on its shape and then cut off the apprpriate swection of the bow from the Trumpeter Nimitz model and added this to it, painted it, and then it was done.
T hen built, painted, and addded the decals and tuch up to the air wing on the carrier. This took quite a bit of time. I had already added 12 aircraft to the hanar deck. I decided to add 28 aircraft to the flight deck. They included:
12 x F-35C Joint Strike Fighters
04 x F/A-18F Super Hronets Strike Fighters
02 x FA/18E Super Hornet Fighters
04 x EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare aicraft
03 x E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft
02 x HCM-22 COD Osprey aircaft
01 x MH-60R SAR/ASW Black HawkHelicopter
This makes a total of forty aircraft on the model. Typical peacetime air wings consist of more than this, usually close to 60 aircraft. In war time, whith a full load, the Nimitz class carriers can carry 90 aircraft.
I used Orange Hobby resin kits for the F-35Cs along with several Sjyway 3D models. I used Trumpeter 1/350 scale models for all of the other kits except the COD Ospreys, which were made from GAllery MOdels, US MArine aircraft kit in 1/350 scael.
These took some time. For example, each Hawkeye consisted of 28 puieces itself. All of these are small kits. Then adding the painting, some of which consisted of paint schemes from actual US NAvy squadrons for the HAwkkeyes, the Super Hornets, the the Grim Reapers for the Super Hornets, and the Growlers.
Here's how that turned out being built:
I began this session by scratch building the bulbous bow on he front end of the Ronald Reagan. The Reagan is the first Nimitz class to receive this addition, which helps with stability and maneuverability, paricularly at high speed. I found a 1/72 scale fuel tank that had the proper width and then worked on its shape and then cut off the apprpriate swection of the bow from the Trumpeter Nimitz model and added this to it, painted it, and then it was done.
T hen built, painted, and addded the decals and tuch up to the air wing on the carrier. This took quite a bit of time. I had already added 12 aircraft to the hanar deck. I decided to add 28 aircraft to the flight deck. They included:
12 x F-35C Joint Strike Fighters
04 x F/A-18F Super Hronets Strike Fighters
02 x FA/18E Super Hornet Fighters
04 x EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare aicraft
03 x E-2C Hawkeye AEW aircraft
02 x HCM-22 COD Osprey aircaft
01 x MH-60R SAR/ASW Black HawkHelicopter
This makes a total of forty aircraft on the model. Typical peacetime air wings consist of more than this, usually close to 60 aircraft. In war time, whith a full load, the Nimitz class carriers can carry 90 aircraft.
I used Orange Hobby resin kits for the F-35Cs along with several Sjyway 3D models. I used Trumpeter 1/350 scale models for all of the other kits except the COD Ospreys, which were made from GAllery MOdels, US MArine aircraft kit in 1/350 scael.
These took some time. For example, each Hawkeye consisted of 28 puieces itself. All of these are small kits. Then adding the painting, some of which consisted of paint schemes from actual US NAvy squadrons for the HAwkkeyes, the Super Hornets, the the Grim Reapers for the Super Hornets, and the Growlers.
Here's how that turned out being built:
Then it was time to complete building the deck equipment. This included the newer tugs for the F-35Cs, the older tus, Fire equipment, cranes, eelctrical servicing carts, etc.
There is a LOT oe equipment on the deck of aUS Navy super carrier when it is conducting high tempo operations...and the deck is a finely tuned, orchestrated busy...and dangerous...place.
I also buiilt some crates and packed equipment for the fork lifts to be moving around on the deck.
Here's three pics to show how that went:
