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Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier (USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76)
Finally, after several stressful weeks of designing, this 7,805 piece, 1:240 scale monster is complete. There are still some things I’m not content with, like the transition from the SNOT angled deck to conventional deck, but I am still very happy with how it came out. I would also like to thank @kh.bricks for giving me a couple of pointers on the angled deck. Closeups will be coming Friday.
The Nimitz Class Carriers were designed around the time of the Vietnam War for the purpose of complimenting and eventually replacing the Forrestal’s, Kitty Hawk’s, and the legendary Enterprise CVN-65. The Nimitz Class was to be a class of 10 modern, nuclear-powered super carriers. They were to be the first full production nuclear-powered carriers in the world, considering that the Enterprise served as a test bed as the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier. The first ship was commissioned in 1975 and the last one in 2009. The 2 newest additions to the class, the Ronald Reagan CVN-76 and George H.W. Bush CVN-77 had many improvements made to their designs to fix issues discovered on preceding vessels.
The USS Ronald Reagan’s construction began in 1998 and was completed in 2001. She was commissioned in July 2003, about a year before the ship’s namesake passed away. In 2006, she went on her maiden deployment, which had her taking part in Operation Iraqi Freedom. After multiple deployments and humanitarian operations while home-ported at San Diego, she was reassigned to Carrier Strike Group 5 of the U.S. 7th Fleet based out of Yokosuka, Japan. She is the USN’s only forwarded deployed carrier.
Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier (USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76)
Finally, after several stressful weeks of designing, this 7,805 piece, 1:240 scale monster is complete. There are still some things I’m not content with, like the transition from the SNOT angled deck to conventional deck, but I am still very happy with how it came out. I would also like to thank @kh.bricks for giving me a couple of pointers on the angled deck. Closeups will be coming Friday.
The Nimitz Class Carriers were designed around the time of the Vietnam War for the purpose of complimenting and eventually replacing the Forrestal’s, Kitty Hawk’s, and the legendary Enterprise CVN-65. The Nimitz Class was to be a class of 10 modern, nuclear-powered super carriers. They were to be the first full production nuclear-powered carriers in the world, considering that the Enterprise served as a test bed as the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier. The first ship was commissioned in 1975 and the last one in 2009. The 2 newest additions to the class, the Ronald Reagan CVN-76 and George H.W. Bush CVN-77 had many improvements made to their designs to fix issues discovered on preceding vessels.
The USS Ronald Reagan’s construction began in 1998 and was completed in 2001. She was commissioned in July 2003, about a year before the ship’s namesake passed away. In 2006, she went on her maiden deployment, which had her taking part in Operation Iraqi Freedom. After multiple deployments and humanitarian operations while home-ported at San Diego, she was reassigned to Carrier Strike Group 5 of the U.S. 7th Fleet based out of Yokosuka, Japan. She is the USN’s only forwarded deployed carrier.