USS Enterprise CVN-65 by Louis Carabott | |
Brand: | Tamiya |
Scale: | 1/350 |
Modeler: | Louis Carabott |
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Gold Metal and white Ensign Photoetch used to detail both the ship and the air wing. However, there was a lot of scratch building Available yellow gear equipment in the kit was detailed adding more scratchbuilt equipment mainly twin agent fire fighting units…more trucks, gpu’s, asu’s,tow bars, trolleys,heavy forklift and even a sweeper. L’arsenal figs were used…don’t know how many but many were altered and converted . All the aircraft were detailed with fuel tanks fashioned out of simple toothpicks. All ordnance was scratchuilt which include sparrow, phoenix, maverick missiles and side winders mainly consisting of 10 different parts. They can be seen on the port side as well as behind the island near the armament elevator. Alterations were also added to the maindeck which include an LSO platform new JBD’s on cats 1 and 2. the AN/SPN-41 automatic landing control radar in stern starboard was scratch built. Acrylics, enamels pastels and oils were used overall to achieve the different shades that I wanted to achieve on the ship.
Photos and text © 2009 by Louis Carabott January 12, 2009 |