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  1:700 USS Tarawa LHA-1
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Posted: Monday, January 30, 2006 - 09:48 PM UTC
Hi All

Jon Bersabal, aka mangernie2 sent us a few pictures of his USS Tarawa LHA1.

Here are some info, given by Jon:
DML 1/700 USS Tarawa, there was already a PE set included in the box, definitely AM but can''t recall the brand, i also used some GMM and eduards from my spare the one that was included wasn''t enough, the small radoms are made LEDs and the large ones are resin w/c i casted myself, the antenae are made from spinal and acupuncture needles, the decals were basically worn off from the sheet so, mostly i masked and painted them only the small deck numbers are decals from Trumpeters 1/144LCM(3).
i gave it to my friend who have me built it for him...although, he did alow me to enter her in our 3rd IPMS Natls and took 2nd place.

Enjoy

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks,

Skipper

PS: Of course, this is also a great motivator for !
Garry Beebe's Flattops Campaign

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USS Tarawa LHA-1
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Posted: Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:11 PM UTC
Beautiful job, Jon!
I'm constructing a ship very much like this one for the Flattops Campain, the USS Saipan...I love this class of ships, personally! Looks great, thanks for the feature!
Gunny
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