Originally posted by Battleship
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I've been waiting for since fall of 2020...even bought an entire airwing of 1/200 aircraft which costed more than twice the carrier itself. I understand world events have disrupted a lot of things. Just looking for real intel on when and if this carrier is coming in stock...or should I start selling off my airwing? -
Just click on notify me as soon you get the product in stock and give them your email address and they will send you notice when it arrivesComment
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Where can you find the 1/200 aircraft for this carrier that hopefully is available at some point?Originally posted by MAVFLIGHT75 View PostComment
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Thank you. Would this be appropriate for the carrier? Daron Hogan Usn S-3B VS-21 160156 Fighting Redtails
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Does anyone have any pictures of the aircraft carrier Nimitz 1 /200 scale what it looked like in the box that it came in Cause I’m soon getting ready to puts base. The 1/200 scale aircraft carrier Nimitz please and thank u battleshipComment
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Nimitz has finally dropped someone needs to do some mod's and a bit of paint and go Final Countdown on a pair of the Kongo's modded to be Hiei and Kirisima.Comment
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Finally got my Nimitz and I am preparing to mod with rotating radars and additional 3d printed aircraft, etc. REALLY nice looking ship. I did wish it had brass props instead of plastic. I will likely have to upgrade those. You can see here the 3d printed ones I am making compared to the provided aircraft. The included ones are quite nice. The ship was VERY well packed and FedEx Ground beat the crap out of the package. I would spring for the extra cost of shipping by another carrier next time. My Titanic arrived in similar shape.
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She’s a beautiful aircraft carrier glad u got oneComment
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Mine just showed up! Awesome model!
My destroyer now is on escort duty!Comment
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Awesome I like the pictures captrkoComment
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I wanted to raise the mast mount of my Motion RC Bancroft Nimitz aircraft carrier to allow for the rotation of the radar. I chose to do this by making a small shack level on which to mount the mast, rather than a mast extension.
It is not historically accurate, but serves the purpose. I have a hole for the original mounting screw into the mast from inside the new base shack. I used a few washers under the screw to spread the load out, then glued the new base shack to the existing roof deck of the carrier island. There is also a hold for a small rod running through the shack to allow for the rotation of a radar on the mast itself.
Both rotating radars are connected to separate N20 small geared motors. These are available in a variety of voltages and speeds from Amazon and Ebay for a few dollars each. I am using a 30 RPM and a 50 RPM motor.
I made this in Tinkercad and printed it on an Anycubic Mono X resin printer with standard resin. It is hollow and open on the bottom. I printed with auto supports with the piece at a slight tilt.
I moved around some of the radars that came with the model and added some others I was able to find and print. By drilling a small hole in the base of the radar, I glued it to thin steel wire which runs to the small geared motor, which is connected to the motor with a piece of fuel tubing.
I had the paint scanned at HomeDepot and have included a photo of the label, so that others can get the paint matched. It is close, but not exact. And that is fine for a Navy ship. There are likely subtle variations in the paint on the real ship as well due to age, repairs, etc.
https://youtu.be/AHFCd21kpnE
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Nice pictures of your fletcher class destroyer and your Nimitz aircraft carrier on escort duty I really like the pictures j MitchellComment
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