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Jason M. wrote:I may be pushing my luck here, but do you have any of Nimitz in the 90's?

Which year/operation exactly? There are so many differences especially in domes/radomes, electronics and other stuff that you have to specify what you 're asking for.

Nektarios!!!!!!

The first 4 pictures I never seen before!! Super!

Thank you very much!


..I 'm love with my ...

Duncan,
four more photos from the same operation.

gtb -red wrote:I'm spoil now

We like spoiling you

Duncan wrote:Kid,
CVN68 period 1976~1980, nowadays its not hard to find NIMITZ pictures in todays configuration.

Cruisebooks do show a lot (crewmembers), but still the ships pictures don't reveal much. Old Kokufans ocasionnaly popsup with some.

Motion picture 'The Final countdown'is still one of my best reference.

Darren & Dan, provided me useful information aswell, here on the forum.

I've seen lots of the same pictures used in books and just seeing your pictures, tell me a diffrent story.

Just wished there was some kind of 'Detail&inScale' USS Nimitz.

we need to get some modellers on all the carriers, Cruise books are all about the sailors, maybe they should do 2 cruise books, 1 dedicated to the Ship and CVW, maybe we shoud email the carriers PAO's send them pics of our builds and ask for pics of the ship and CVW for future builds, i had good response when i used to write to all the USN warships, cost a small fortune in postage. Most ships and squadrons have their own websites now.

is Bert Kinzey still alive? His D&S vols. are still in my stack .

Great Pics once again! Just 'v put 'em in my pocket

Where these from Nektarios?
Cruisebook 1980~81?
Some come with the book from 1979 I have, but not as many like these.

I did discovered GMM and WEM used Ikes cruisebook do to work on the PE, some things are not used on Nimitz atall and the small radardishes aside the catwalks counts 3, instead of 2! These are just small details one can find in the right pictures.
Ofcourse it can't beat the real thing, but its much more pleasant seeing your kitship close to it.

Thx for the pics, I sure will study em closer, might do the HM16 decals for the ISW Sea Stallions and already removed one pole from my Island, which didn't belong there. I need to add two more on the mast and one somewhere else.

Jamas !!

John

I dont kn ow how you do this but your pics are the end. Thanks I love to look it every time really d job thanks.

You mentioned to contact the ships. Pleas rtell me how I can do this asa this info is new for me as far as I understood it was impoosible to contact people on board of the fleet.

I have tried on the first Gulf war to be in contact with Amwerican people on the fleet so far withour good luck. Hope that you can tell me more about this

regards

Wim


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kidcurrie42 wrote:

Duncan wrote:Kid,
CVN68 period 1976~1980, nowadays its not hard to find NIMITZ pictures in todays configuration.

Cruisebooks do show a lot (crewmembers), but still the ships pictures don't reveal much. Old Kokufans ocasionnaly popsup with some.

Motion picture 'The Final countdown'is still one of my best reference.

Darren & Dan, provided me useful information aswell, here on the forum.

I've seen lots of the same pictures used in books and just seeing your pictures, tell me a diffrent story.

Just wished there was some kind of 'Detail&inScale' USS Nimitz.

we need to get some modellers on all the carriers, Cruise books are all about the sailors, maybe they should do 2 cruise books, 1 dedicated to the Ship and CVW, maybe we shoud email the carriers PAO's send them pics of our builds and ask for pics of the ship and CVW for future builds, i had good response when i used to write to all the USN warships, cost a small fortune in postage. Most ships and squadrons have their own websites now.

Ok, here is the next set of pics of the Kutznetsov, this time covering the Island...........

















Thats all for now

Happy Modeling

Hi Wim,
Here is a link that will give you every ships postal address,

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/shi ... p-fpo.html


John

Here are pics showing markings and detail of Kutnetzsov's deck............ first couple show a USN style whit marking in the landing zone, later pics show these markings to be either badly worn or showing through after being over painted.





A very good pic for weathering those Kutznetsov decks














Happy modeling

John

Here are some more pics of Kutznetsov, showing weapon launchers, these include the SAN-8 VLS Silos, CADS system, 30mm ADG's and the ASW RBU launchers............



Look above the crane, there is a CHAFF launcher and what looks like three Infra Red Decoy launchers, also visible are SAN-8 silos, one CADS system is far right.









Happy modeling

John

amazing photos~
thanx!!!

gzez! thats what i call closeup shots..

Here are the remainder of the Kutznetsov pics....................













Happy modeling

John

OK, on to a more popular subject, hopefully this will help those modeling CVN-75 Harry S Truman, these are the pics i took during her visit to Portsmouth UK in May 2003.
First pics cover from Stbd bow to just fwd of the Island

























Enjoy, hope they are of use to you all

Happy modeling

John

An upcoming project of mine is to convert a 1/700 Hasegawa Hancock (I have one to many) to USS Oriskany in 1965. Yes, I know Dragon is doing a SCB-125, and yes I'm going ahead with my project. Am I insane? Probably. Wish me luck!

I think we are all a little insane, good luck, hope to see pics of her as you go along,

Regards

John

On the Bench

USS Coral Sea 90%
USS Saratoga 60%
USS Ranger 80%
USS Independence 60%
USS Kitty Hawk 50%
USS Constellation 40%
USS Enterprise 30%
USS America 20%
USS John F Kennedy 50%
Then the luxury of Trumpy Nimitz class, Yes we are Insane.........................

All this eye candy is not good for you.(sic) Keep em comin' Kid

Here are more of the Stbd side, these go from the Island to the Stern........





















Next lot will cover the Stern, then up the Port side.

Happy modeling

John

On the Bench

USS Coral Sea 90%
USS Saratoga 60%
USS Ranger 80%
USS Independence 60%
USS Kitty Hawk 50%
USS Constellation 40%
USS Enterprise 30%
USS America 20%
USS John F Kennedy 50%
Then the luxury of Trumpy Nimitz class, Yes we are Insane.........................