The Ship Model Forum

gtb -red wrote:Hey John, first let me say that all of your builds (1/700) are great. Second if have the old Plastic Ship Modeler 1995/2 and 1995/3 that Ray Bean did a xollent job on a 1/700 27c. Matter of fact this buildup was in the old Scale Ship Modeler magazine with color pics. Ray used a Hasegawa's 1/700 scale WW II Essex class to convert to a waterline Nam modeler.So you might want look that over and use all that good info.

Hiya gtb, i had every copy of Plastic Ship Modeler and the only 3 copies i kept due to my move here were 18,19 and 20 all with the 27C build, i wonder if Ray would let me scan it and post it here, i will ask him

Hope the cut has healed

Happy Modeling

John

I hope Ray let's you, by the way it's Daniel H.Jones mag. As far as the hand it's better, when I work on these projects I should take my time and wear my glasses.

Hey gtb,
I have mailed Ray.
With regards to the X blade, all i can say is Been there ( Seen it ) Done it and have the T-shirt , Glad you are well and looking forward to more on the FDR.

Happy Modeling,

John

Hi All,
I recieved a reply from Mr Ray Bean and he has very kindly given me permission to use his articles, so here is part one of the 27C article
















continued next post

Page 30 and end of paert 1


Pic from back page

Again thanks to Mr Ray Bean, check out his CD's at http://www.stillmotionsphotographics.co ... ographics/ a great aid for the ship modeler

Happy Modeling

John

Great article. Thank you John for posting and thank you RDB for allowing John to post this.


Please more more more.

I had both the Midway 1970 and BigO from Jim Shirley and sold them. Nice kits but way to small. John package by Saturday afternoon.

Hey Nektarios, Parts two and three are ready to post

Hiya gtb, Thanks and you was sitting on a gold mine with those two kits, i also feel that Dragon will make a killing with a 27C.

Happy Modeling

John

kidcurrie42 wrote:Hey Nektarios, Parts two and three are ready to post

Hiya gtb, Thanks and you was sitting on a gold mine with those two kits, i also feel that Dragon will make a killing with a 27C.

Happy Modeling

John

Come on John post them

Thanks for posting and thanks to Ray for letting them be posted. Wish I had this when I started my Oriskany conversion.

Part 2 is here
















enjoy

Happy Modeling

John

Here is the Pic from the back of the magazine that had Part 2 inside



and here is Part 3










I hope you all enjoyed this and that some may have found it useful

Regards and Happy Modeling

John

Here is some progress on the Reagan: Stephen C
intruder500

Hiya Stephen,
Looks like a great start you have made, i am looking forward to seeing more of her as you progress

Happy Modeling

John

Right all carrier builders out there. I've come to an empass. I'm soon to start on another nimitz carrier (350) i've narrowed the choice down to the Truman, Nimitz 05 or the Reagan. I can't make my mind up so some thoughts would be welcome !

Hey Simon,whatever you have in mind that you like do it. One Regan is being built by Kin M.and I think Kelly's doing the Truman and I've done the 05 Nimitz. So whatever you do I think all of us carrierbuilders will back you. By the way I have a 1/350 Nimitz sitting in the back room waiting to be built into the CVNB 7O. Happy Modeling One pic of 70 http://www.news.navy.mil/management/pho ... 2A-003.jpg

Yeah, that Vinson sures looks a little different. I would imagine thats how the main nimitz class will turn out. (CVN 70-75)

Hiya Simon,
All three sound like great builds, most difficult i would say is the Reagan due to the changes with the island, Nimitz 2005 and Truman both have many differences to make them very interesting builds, I have pics starting on page 10 of this post covering Truman all round.
The pics i took during her visit to Portsmouth UK in May 2003.

Hope this helps and look forward to seeing your choice.

Happy Modeling

John

Hi All,
Here is another article from Ray Bean, this one was in Plastic Ship Modeler issue 1995/2.














Happy Modeling

John

John, i forgot all about those truman pics towards the start of this thread !

I'm leaning towards the Truman now anyway as the CVW11 artwork looks abit bland and doesn't have any Vikings or cats.
If i was to do the Reagan, the nimitz airwing would also be the most suitable.