Aircraft carrier builds - Page 5

**Mode One Charlie** · #41 06-09-2013, 09:18 PM

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Steve, wow what a small world! I think it must have been in...1986 or 87 that we did Vancouver for the Expo. That's very cool! I smile to think of you goggling at the ship and me (all of 18 at the time) goggling right back at you! Have you settled on a project yet? Don't be put off by vast numbers on any of these ship models. If you look at my or anyone's threads you will see that it its just a matter of building many small sub assemblies that slowly come together over time. Really, the only thing to get the hang of is the small scale (generally, 1:200, 1:250, 1:400 for ships). PM or email me if you w

Cris

Yes, 1986.... I was in Stanley Park along the sea wall when you sailed into English Bay that day...Hope you had a good time at Expo...That was a great summer that changed the city forever. If you haven't been back since, you probably would hardly recognize the place. Glass condo towers everywhere...

I kinda get your point about taking these large projects and breaking them down into small manageable builds....less intimidating. Haven't decided on anything yet but It'll be something simpler than a carrier build to start off. Thank you for the pm offer...Might take you up on that!

Steve

**herky** · #42 06-10-2013, 12:20 AM

we used to skive of school and get into the naval base.had a massive collection of ship badges and zippo lighters from them all.dont think there were many of the essex cariers we never got on.

**herky** · #43 06-10-2013, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by SJPONeill

Found these over at Diderick's shop

Veritas-Scaldis, Karel Doorman en Drenthe, 1:250

Paper Trade, Johan de Witt, 1:400

JSC, Invincible 061, 1:400

JSC, Weser 401, 1:400

Depending how far you want to take 'aircraft carrier' there are also paper models of the USS Macon airship, the Dutch aircraft-carrying subnarine Surcouf (Fly Model 1/100 and JSC 1/400), and the Japanese I-19(?)

Thanks for that.have ordered the karel doorman today.

**Papercaptain** · #44 06-10-2013, 06:35 PM

Oh, and one aircraft carrier model I forgot, although I've bought it as a 1/250 scale cardmodel around 1996, is the "Graf Zeppelin" by GPM, published in both scales, 1/200 and 1/250. Like the Schreiber "Graf Zeppelin" it's out of print for some time now, but occasionally is offered at e-Bay.
Kind regards.-
Papercaptain

**herky** · #45 06-10-2013, 07:28 PM

thanks for that i have the jsc and angraf models of this ship on fil

**Royal Navy Fan** · #46 06-12-2013, 02:36 PM

Hello, Gents!

I served in the US Navy for 24 years on submarines and remember making quite a few simulated torpedo runs on those big, giant targets!

I love ships of all types and look forward to my first carrier build in paper.

Bill