USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 Diorama - IKE Feat Big Jay by Thomas Friedrich
Brand: Revell
Scale: 1/700
Modeler: Thomas Friedrich
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Introduction

My intention to start ship modelling was more or less because of the carriers (always liked planes and built models as kid), and after i found modelwarships, i was so stunned that i thought i`ll also start doing that again!


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from th beginnig my intention was a carrier task force..but because of the space it would need i had to cut myself down to a few ships! the hole thing took me about 8 months and it was the first time i used pe and i made water with silicone.

 

The Ships

Don`t have you to tell much about them eisenhower, the second ship of the nimitz class cvns new jersey, modernized iowa class battleship oliver hazard perry, typeship of ts class of frigates and a sturgeon ssn

Tthe models (lets start with the smallest):

the sturgeon:
bought a package of 3 form JAG..nice little things, not much work on them..i just added some persicopes, 2 sailors and an american flag

the perry:
got the revell release from the dragon kit on ebay(together with a tico and a burke->for the next carriers, for only 10 euros!) built it with gmm pe (modern usn/jmsdf), wich has realy nice parts espeially for his ship..also added some gmm crewmembers


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new jersey:
the trumpeter kit..a not to bad kit(altough the next iowa will be from tamiya)..i also used the gmm pe for modernized iowa class..a really nice fret with lots of details. some parts where replace wth skywave parts, also added many sailors the seahwaks are fujimi..one of the as a rescuehawk, the other one with a sonar under the nose,nd a sonartorpedoe on the side

eisenhower:
it`s an old italeri nimitz kit.. i had to make the flight deck and island numbers myself. i used gmm pe supercarriers, replaced many parts with skywave ones and added a basic hangar deck..but i`m not totally satisfied with it..really looking forward to the trump nimitz



flight deck:
i had the intetion do write something on deck with sailors whnn i saw the picture of the lincoln with "ready now"..becsaue i had the plan to build the eisenhower (cause i like the one sponson look), i just wrote ike..and at the beginning it was a pain..but time after time it went faster and faster and better and better. you can also find some weapon tractors on deck with fueltanks and some aim-54 wich are driven to the cats

Airwing

The airwings consists of fujimi hornets and tomcats which have the better shape than skywave in my opinion, and skywave prowlers, hawkeyes, intruders and corsairs(i don`t no if it`s right to have them displayed next to hornets but i think in the earl to middle eighties, ther was some kind of chaos in the airwings) the two seakings come from dragon/skywave modern weapons sets. i know the squadron markings are nit right(there are to few!) and those small decals where the most pain of the whole thing. totally i used 2 frets of gmm sailors and one fret of prepainted eduard sailors on this dio. i really enjoyed building it most of the time, but i need a little break from 1:700 planes. therefore the next builds will be a 1:144 seawolf with a "magic flight" hornte of revell flying acorss, a dester storm wisconsin and after that i`ll go on with the italeri reagan!

Photos and text © 200 by Thomas Friedrich

August 06, 2006

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