Posted on 02/18/2017 11:56:55 AM PST by Jeff Head
That’s a lot of work you put into the details and it paid off dividends. This is a spectacular group of models and I could spend an afternoon just admiring them. Thanks for sharing your journey in assembling them and for the all the awesome photos covering each step of the way!
Neat. When I lived in Bremerton, WA, I got to see a lot of the carriers that were based there and the Lincoln up in Everett. Saw the Nimitz when it was there, the Carl Vincent, Stennis, and others. We got to tour the MO before she went to Hawaii. They have the destroyer, the one the North Vietnamese fired on that started the Vietnam war, there in the harbor in Bremerton and you can tour it.
I looked at the photos first, and thought it was cool. I went back and read what you did and now it is really cool.
I enjoyed it big time it took me 10 minutes just to go though all the pictures i imagine you must have 100 and 100 s of hours into this amazing work Sir
The model looks great but the time and details to make this post is equally impressive.
I built a lot of models when I was a kid but never had the patience for such an endeavor that would eventually be blown apart with firecrackers.
What an amazing project. Well done, sir!
Hehehe...when we were kids on the ranch we would glue in compartments to give them more water tight integrity, and then take them down to the creek and plink away at them with 22s and 4-10s.
But now, when I do all the electrical work to light the hangar deck and build the details into the deck...no way am I going to “blw them up.”
Anyhow, I like building entire Carrier Strike Groups and Marine Exidionary Units, or ARGS at least.
Just WOW!
Very Nice.
Meanwhile: “and the scratch built Mk-29”
Oops, I thought, a MiG-29? Crashed from a flyover?
NO. A MK-29 Launcher!
I’d heat my model cars up in front of the fireplace so they’d “dent” and crash them into each other, after I got tired of them. Too bad, some would be regarded as somewhat rare today. No value built by an amateur kid though, probably. I was picky but didn’t really know what I was doing. That Testors glue especially created problems. Too much and you’ve marred a surface or melted a delicate part into goop.
What? No picture of it floating in the bathtub?
Just kidding. Great work and thanks for sharing!!
As to the cancer...it started in 2009. Had major surgeries in 2010. Major radiation in 2012. More surgery and radiation in the spring of 2016...and now it is in my liver and been dagnosed as terminal.
You cand read the entire hostroy here:
http://www.jeffhead.com/chordoma.htm
(Be forwarned...it is lng)
But I am okay with it. It is all in God’s Hand and He has blessed me through this to live lnger than we thought, and to meet so many really special people and to be able to witness for His name.
I know where I am going...and I am not afraid of that. GEtting between here and there may prove even more difficult...but that is okay. As I say, it in in His hands and I trust Him and know that ultimately I will be there with all my loved ones.
It looks fantastic. Well done.
Just awesome work Jeff. My hat if off to you.
Hope you are feeling well.
You are always in my thoughts and prayers my FRiend.
Delightful post. Maybe this can become a FR Sunday tradition with Freepers posting their craft projects.
Outstanding work on the carrier. Meticulous to the max!
Perhaps consider getting an airbrush of powder of some sort to make the carrier surface a bit more dirty.. tire marks, cable grime, thrust deflector burns, etc.. I know there is a technique to 'dirty up' tank models but not sure how to do it.
Outstanding, though!
My God, Sir! Any Snowflakes that accidentally happened upon this thread are reeling from the microaggression!
They panicking and desperately looking for crayons, coloring books, putty and puppies in a special safe space.
Have you no consideration for the humanity?
You are a profile in courage,Jeff. Thank you for sharing your skills and love of life with us.
LOL!
Got to run the A4Ws after I worked on the core design in the 70s. Quite the machine; had to stay 5 steps ahead of it any given moment.
Relay nice model. By the way, one of the top nuke desingers, a very good friend, was into modeling big time.
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