1/350 USS Carl Vinson CVN-70
Here is my project of the USS Carl Vinson. This represents how she was at the start of her maiden deployment on March 1, 1983. This deployment was a World Cruise starting in Norfolk Virginia and ending in San Francisco California. I served aboard with VA-37 on this cruise. The kit is the Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Nimitz that was converted to the USS Vinson. The project took 9 months and 777 hours to complete. It has over 500 feet of fiber optic lighting and 40 LED’s to illuminate it. The hangar bay decals and air wing decal were made by myself.
You can view over 330 photos of this build at https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-350-uss-carl-vinson/
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Robert Royes said on February 9, 2020
This is awesome! The lighting affect is spot on.
Tom Cleaver said on February 9, 2020
Magnificent. Superb work and great result.
Rob Anderson said on February 10, 2020
Excellent! I think I did a short CQ det on Vinson...Unless it was Stennis... I was in VS-41 we did lots of short dets on a lot of different of ships! Pretty sure it was Vinson though! Anyway nicely done!
Anthony Alvear said on February 14, 2020
Nice buil David...excellente work...congrats!
Allan J Withers said on February 14, 2020
Wonderful David, well done, I like !