1/350 Enterprise

[US Navy Vet]

Been working on my 1/350 Enterprise, coming up on completion. inserted are build photos. Been a bit of a challenge but the thrill is about to surface with completion.

 

[urumomo]

Welcome Aboard , shipmate !
MM on CVN-71

 

[Pantherman]

Been working on my 1/350 Enterprise, coming up on completion. inserted are build photos. Been a bit of a challenge but the thrill is about to surface with completion.

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Hi and welcome to the forum. Pantherman

 

[US Navy Vet]

Hi and welcome to the forum. Pantherman

thanks for the welcome. hope to get advice and tips to improve my building.

 

[Pantherman]

thanks for the welcome. hope to get advice and tips to improve my building.

Lot's of great advice to be had here, ask away, I'm sure someone will have the answer. Pantherman

 

[US Navy Vet]

Lot's of great advice to be had here, ask away, I'm sure someone will have the answer. Pantherman

I take from your profile pic you are into armor? I like to spread myself across all aspects of military models. My next project for the bench will be the B17-F Memphis Belle.

 

[Pantherman]

I take from your profile pic you are into armor? I like to spread myself across all aspects of military models. My next project for the bench will be the B17-F Memphis Belle.

I mainly do German armour as my go to subject but since I joined I have done several group builds which has expanded my building and have been so much fun, I would highly recommend doing one. Pantherman

 

[US Navy Vet]

I mainly do German armour as my go to subject but since I joined I have done several group builds which has expanded my building and have been so much fun, I would highly recommend doing one. Pantherman

Will look into that thanks

 

[US Navy Vet]

Welcome Aboard , shipmate !
MM on CVN-71

was a BT on the Detroit AOE-4

 

[urumomo]

Ha ha , cool !
Another snipe .

I had a convo with another BT , off an AO , back months ago here .
He was visiting the site asking about I don't remember what now , dang . hold on .

Let me find it ....
....
..... , ah ! , oh . yes , asking about explody bits : https://www.scalemodeladdict.com/threads/hello-from-socal.15264/

 

[US Navy Vet]

Was reading the convo you two had. I did my stint in the early 80's. I was one of the fortunate ones who sat off the coast of Lybia when Kadafi decided to send up some of his top notch fighter pilots against the jolly rogers off the Nimitz. 0730 in the morning, just got back from the mess deck getting ready to head down for watch. Then shortly after that spent 3 months off the coast of Egypt when Sadat was assassinated.

 

[urumomo]

Gulf of Sidra ?

Ya know , it happened again in 89
I had completely forgotten about it until I was watching a YouTube video not that long ago and remembered , " Oh , yeah , we were on the way to relieve the Kennedy when that happened "
haha ,
We thought for sure we were heading into a hot conflict .
But ,
nothing happened after that shootdown .

 

[US Navy Vet]

You know they used that incident as part of the Top Gun movie......I think its listed as the gulf of sidra incident. Oh by the way I have a Question for you, what were the colors of the tow motors and the crane on the Teddy? Want to be accurate cause Tamiya has them as yellow.

 

[US Navy Vet]

We were doing drone missile exercises there at the time . The Detroit was 20 miles of the coast of Lybia when that all went down.

 

[urumomo]

Yeah , I think all those deck tractors were yellow .
Everything was yellow .
There should be tons of pix on the net .

 

[urumomo]

Good looking ship !

 

[US Navy Vet]

Well the pics I'm looking at here for the Enterprise.....https://www.seaforces.org/usnships/cvn/CVN-65-USS-Enterprise.htm......show everything white with designation stripes.

 

[US Navy Vet]

I actually have a 1/700 of the Sacramento. it was the sister ship to the Detroit so all I need to do is change the hull number and find a 1/700 Detroit name. Would be way to difficult to do it by each individual letter.

 

[urumomo]

Haha ,
IDK , I wasn't on the Enterprise .

What year too ?
I wasn't an airdale either , remember
They might have changed things up

https://picryl.com/media/a-sailor-d...espots-an-f-14a-tomcat-aircraft-on-the-c74601
https://picryl.com/media/a-sailor-d...espots-an-f-14a-tomcat-aircraft-on-the-c74601

Yeah ,
looking at older photos off like the Kitty Hawk , tractors are white .
Might be what year it was or the yellow is a Nimitz thing ,,,, but , I doubt the Navy wouldn't standardize colors on flight deck equipment .

 

[US Navy Vet]

Well I'm doing it for the 70s and early 80s. She was in dry dock from 79 to 83. but the photos I'm referencing are in the 2000s. So IDK. Want to be as accurate as I can for the time period ya know.

 

[urumomo]

Well .
here's a start .
If you trust this Rob guy , lol , " The color changed from yellow to white around 1990 I believe. "
From this , http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/topic/351905-us-navy-deck-tractors-etc/

 

[urumomo]

They're def white these days I guess ,
https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/Shipboard-Tow-Tractor-STT

 

[US Navy Vet]

I've seen photos with her having both white and yellow. That's in navsource archive photos in the mid 80s in Hawaii. Maybe I'll just make a couple of each and cover all the bases

 

[US Navy Vet]

Kit came with 8 and 2 fire carts

 

[Eagle-1]

Welcome!

Rob.

 

[US Navy Vet]

Thanks for the Welcome

 

[Eagle-1]

Thanks for the Welcome

Yes sir, but I wouldn't even have known you joined had you not faked me out with...

1/350 Enterprise.

I mean, I had heard there were others but I always thought that was a lie.



Rob.

 

[US Navy Vet]

Yes sir, but I wouldn't even have known you joined had you not faked me out with...

1/350 Enterprise.

I mean, I had heard there were others but I always thought that was a lie.



Rob.

Well I'm not real good at what to put on these things so I just put what I'm working on. Then I go from there.

 

[Eagle-1]

No sir, your description is 100% perfect.

I'm a sci-fi nerd, well, more of a geek really, so instantly clicking your post when I saw it had me thinking I was headed here to see THIS...

Nevermind the fact that we're in "WATERCRAFT".

I never paid attention to that.

You're doin' a fine job.

Rob.

 

[Down Time]

Welcome!!!!
Many great people here with good advice, ask away.....
Your Enterprise is looking fantastic!!