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1/350 Beehive island scratchbuilted
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Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 05:13 AM UTC
Last six months have been dealing with health problems. Feeling better gonna tackle two 1/350 1961-1979 Beehive scratch build plastic islands. One for Steve other for myself. The start will be this weekend. Happy Modeling!
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Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 08:40 PM UTC
Now I am not trying to be a smart alec pr anything, but did you lknow that Trumpeter make a 1/350 Enterprise with the beehive island? I have one sitting in my stash at the moment. It only cost me $38 brand new for the complete kit. I am more then willing to help you out if you need any.

Cheers
Warren
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Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 11:49 AM UTC

Mardis

Damm!! I just won that kit on ebay yesterday ($61 with free shipping)so if you need any help I can work with you on it. I am sure what you produce will exceed the kits offerings but after I get it you can make a mold or something if you wish.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 01:00 PM UTC

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Mardis

Damm!! I just won that kit on ebay yesterday ($61 with free shipping)so if you need any help I can work with you on it. I am sure what you produce will exceed the kits offerings but after I get it you can make a mold or something if you wish.


You took my advice?!?!?!
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Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 01:32 PM UTC

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Mardis

Damm!! I just won that kit on ebay yesterday ($61 with free shipping)so if you need any help I can work with you on it. I am sure what you produce will exceed the kits offerings but after I get it you can make a mold or something if you wish.
No worries Steve. Doing this because I need to got all the plastic and glue,xblades,copperwire,plastic rods i need.R emeber I.m making two Beehives.
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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 - 02:20 AM UTC
cvan-65 1/350 island.from a modeler doing her in 1968.
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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 - 07:25 AM UTC
Holy monkey nuts, that's nice!
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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 - 02:01 PM UTC
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Posted: Monday, February 18, 2013 - 03:24 PM UTC
This is just a little bit of effort. My friend brother past away last Thursday. So this is just a starting point.
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Posted: Monday, February 18, 2013 - 04:11 PM UTC
Shoot ! It is aleady looking impressive
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Posted: Monday, February 18, 2013 - 05:22 PM UTC
Hey Mardis

Very sorry for your loss. The build is taking shape and some impressive work you have done there!! Looking forward to more.

Best wishes

Brian
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Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 01:47 AM UTC
Thanks Gents! I'll have more updates soon.
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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2013 - 01:50 AM UTC
been having bad back spams lately. have something tomorrow Steve.
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Posted: Saturday, March 02, 2013 - 08:34 AM UTC
Hello Mardis.

I did not see the post saying your brother had passed away. Very sorry to hear but I am sure he is in a better place now.

Back spasms are a bad scene as well.

Take it easy, the beehive can wait. I now have two CVN-65s waiting my attention, one beehive the other a later model, both of the el cheapo ones. Can't afford the Tamiya one.

Have a beer or two on me

Cheers
Warren
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Posted: Sunday, March 03, 2013 - 07:41 AM UTC

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been having bad back spams lately. have something tomorrow Steve.


Hey brother take care of yourself. I've had a few days of back spasms myself along with a sciattica recently. That is no joke so take it easy and get those muscles to let loose
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Posted: Sunday, March 03, 2013 - 12:08 PM UTC
Does anyone know when they changed the island from Beehive to square? From what i have found it says she underwent refit to accomodate the F-14 in 1973. I am still going to take my F-4s, A7's and A6's from my Nimitz and put them on her and the f-14 and f-18 I bought for Enterprise on the Nimitz
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Posted: Sunday, March 03, 2013 - 09:30 PM UTC

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Does anyone know when they changed the island from Beehive to square? From what i have found it says she underwent refit to accomodate the F-14 in 1973. I am still going to take my F-4s, A7's and A6's from my Nimitz and put them on her and the f-14 and f-18 I bought for Enterprise on the Nimitz


Around 1980 I think Steve. That is when the early phased array radar was replaced.
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Posted: Sunday, March 03, 2013 - 10:36 PM UTC

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Does anyone know when they changed the island from Beehive to square? From what i have found it says she underwent refit to accomodate the F-14 in 1973. I am still going to take my F-4s, A7's and A6's from my Nimitz and put them on her and the f-14 and f-18 I bought for Enterprise on the Nimitz


Around 1980 I think Steve. That is when the early phased array radar was replaced.


Interesting....they had been running tomcats for 6 years by then....still cant swap as the other aircraft are hornets
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Posted: Monday, March 04, 2013 - 07:54 AM UTC
BigE was the first CV to get the F-14 VF-1,VF-2 in 1976. Her last Nam deployment. [img] Photos from Navsource.
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Posted: Monday, March 04, 2013 - 10:37 AM UTC
One had nothing to do with the other. The main change when the F-14s were introduced was the enlargement of the blast deflectors, well that was what you could see externally anyway.
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Posted: Monday, March 04, 2013 - 03:19 PM UTC
billboards are on. They still need to be clean up.
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Posted: Monday, March 04, 2013 - 06:37 PM UTC
Rolling along there quit well
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Posted: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 - 02:34 PM UTC
Thanks,will see how these Beehives look to everyone else.
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Posted: Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 06:51 AM UTC
had my gallbladder remove yesterday. still sore. have some work done on it this weekend coming.
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Posted: Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 12:23 AM UTC

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had my gallbladder remove yesterday. still sore. have some work done on it this weekend coming.


Had mine taken out 2 years ago. Operation went bad and they had to slice and dice me instead of laproscopic. I was in hospital for 3 days now that was NOT fun. You are now gonna have a lot of stomach acid so get a good deal on bulk antiacid stuff.
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