Great job. My dad Ens. Arthur L Rausch was a dive bomber pilot in VB6 on the Enterprise for the first six months of the war. His plane was 6-B-18 with Gale Halterman radioman/gunner and later 6-B-17 with Lew Jones as radioman gunner. He flew in the attacks on Wake island, Marcus island, inner air patrol for the Doolittle launch, and attack on the Tanikazi during the second day of the battle of Midway. I'm impressed with your effort, it honors the crew of CV-6. thanks, Art Rausch Jr.
Wire would have been my first choice since it will hold it's shape. I didn't have any that i thought looked the right size so I decided to wrestle with the crazy springy fiber. In the end it worked out good.
That's awesome I've got the same model I've also got cvn-65 I've also got a shirt and a hat for both these ships my buddy Chuck served on cvn-65 for years before he retired. My grandfather my dad's dad served on cv-6
Very impressive with the cables, Boyd. I remember when you first unveiled this model well over a year ago. I'm glad your building her up. This makes me want to get an accurate USS Arizona model.
I have the Pyro Brig which is in 1/350th as the FIRST USS Enterprise. Little note: the day the scrapping of the Enterprise started, Admiral Bill Halsey died. She was obsolete as a small Yorktown class carrier when compared to the Midway Class, and people wanted to just forget the war by 1947.
@@TrekWorks Indeed. Thankfully the Mighty-O is still serving, as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida. She was an Essex class, one of the few carriers to be converted from a straight to an angled flight deck.
@@shawncarter7188 I watched when they sank her. Knowing how big the hanger deck is, it was insane how fast the water filled it up from the camera view they had there.
Boyd always like the name Enterprise looking forward to this build I have the Revell USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 Nuclear powered aircraft carrier 350 scale in my stash to build one-day thanks for sharing have a great day.
Wire would have been best because it'll hold it's shape when you lay it on. I had to fight the wild springy fiber but i finally beat it into submission lol ;)
The Enterprise's (CV-6) nameplate is the largest remaining structure from the ship. It's preserved and on display at a veteran's park in New Jersey. They blasted and repainted the nameplate some years back so it's being cared for. I've heard there are plans to preserve the nameplate from USS Enterprise/CVN-65 as well. They have a few other nameplates from scrapped carriers still in existence. The nameplates for both USS Forrestal (CV-59) and USS Saratoga (CV-60) were also saved. The Forrestal's nameplate is at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. I want to say the Saratoga's nameplate is in the Jacksonville, FL area (one of her homeports) but it's definitely in possession of a veteran's group that some of her ex-crew belong to. I don't know what happened to the nameplates of other scrapped carriers other than the USS Coral (CV-42). There were plans to preserve her nameplate but they wrecked the nameplate in the process of her scrapping (which was a 6-year-long legal battle in itself!) so it was not to be! The largest piece I think they saved from her is one of her anchors. It was donated to Australia to be used in a memorial for the Battle of Coral Sea.
Hi, just to clarify, the Degaussing cables didn't create an electrical field that "repelled" magnetic mines. The cables reduced the magnetic signature of the hull of the ship, so that it reduced the probability of setting off any magnetic mines that the ship may have sailed near. It wasn't a Reverse Tractor Beam. 😉🚀 Looking forward to the rest of your build 👍🏻
Cool. Can't wait to see. I live in NC, and visit the USS North Carolina BB-55 yearly. I have never done a ship model, but if I do, she will be the first. Peace.
I was on the BB Alabama once back in the 70's as a kid and was amazed at the ship and thinking how could something this strong and big be sunk? Been on the Lexington more recently and it's a floating city. The most modern carriers must be unbelievable to be aboard. I'm hoping to take in the BB Texas after she comes back from her massive overhall this year. We've been hoping it would happen for decades and glad she'll be saved.
@@TrekWorks I know a retired sailor that served on the USS Nimitz. He told me that modern carriers are beyond belief. Hope you get to visit the BB Texas. Continued success Boyd.
That should look incredible Boyd. I’m Canadian, but I love historical warships from anywhere. I want to build the USS NIMITZ from the movie “The Final Countdown” to go with my F-14 Tomcat that I built from the movie. I can’t wait to see you build of this aircraft carrier. 🤘🤘🤘
The U.S. National Pacific War Museum is about 45 mins north of here in Fredricksberg, TX. It's the birthplace of Admiral Nimitz. They have an incredible exhibit of historic artifacts. So many I could never list them all. There is a huge, 15 foot long model of the Nimitz there that I spent several minutes admiring. There are dozens of others, huge in scale with impeccable detail & craftsmanship on each one. They have a hatch door from the U.S.S. Arizona on display that is scorched from fire and still covered in oil stains that you can actually touch.
@@TrekWorks Wow, that sounds amazing, I love that old WWII stuff, especially aircraft carriers and Pearl Harbor relics. My mom was there once, I wish that I could have been there to see where that big catastrophe happened and the USS Arizona memorial. Even though the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor and being an aircraft fan, I still look in awe when I see a restored A6M2 Zero. They were one heck of a great airplane, until “Whistling Death”, the F-4U Corsair was born, but I think that was like 1946, when the war was already almost over.
I'm impressed so far. Just an opinion, since you are building the E as she would have appeared at Midway, I think she'd look good weathered. Your paint jobs are so good, I think she'd look amazing. I do think your idea of the fiber optic cable in place of the photo etch is brilliant. Can't wait to see more.
the hull is a beautiful cruiser-shape . totally agree re. photo etch . I hate using it and having to use blobby superglue on my carefully painted model ! my customer wanted an ARIZONA , but in the navy blue and it was almost impossible to hide the CA marks -even after using a very fine nozzle !
Very nice work about the degaussing cable replacing with optic fiber others...LOOKS GREAT...! I have her sister the MERIT Yorktown in 350th scale her degaussing cable is very annoying too massive and out of scale..I gonna replace with optic fiber too.
She was at the battle of Santa Cruz. Its where her sister ship, the Hornet was sunk. By y the end of the Santa Cruz battle, one repairman said she had more holes in her than the Titanic.
They do look good. One of the first movies I was old enough to remember watching on TV with my dad was 30 Seconds Over Tokyo. I thought wow, those guys were brave to try that mission. A build of the Hornet with the Mitchell's on deck would be a lot of fun. I thought it was awesome when they found the Hornet a few years ago and she still looked great!
Even if the photo-etch fit, it would have been inaccurate and a detail that could have easily been molded into the hull to begin with. Nice choice on the fiber optic.
Ah, the Merit 1/350 CV-6. Saw this as a pre-pro at an IPMS years ago but have never ran across one (at a non-highly inflated price). Then lost track of ‘em. Couldn’t find one anywhere for years. So, now it’s back in the forebrain…thanks, I think. Quick researching shows it looks like they changed names from Merit rather recently? The pre-pro I saw had the correct hull shape, that’s what intrigued me about the Merritt version. Later I heard the production versions may have been based on Trumpeter molds? If anyone has some info on that I’d be interested. I’ll go back and look at this vid on a larger screen a lot closer to see what I can gather from it. Been working on gathering a complete set of “Ship’s named USS Enterprise”. This is the one major missing kit. Yes, I know there’s no detailed drawing etc on the earliest ships to bear the name, those will be scratch built/bashed close approximations. I’ve got two CVN 65s for the display. One is to be a Beehive ‘66 version (STOS fans will get that year). And the second is to be an an ‘86 version (STtVH fans will get that year). Got to see CVN-65 once. It was a poignant sighting, she was next to the Ford in Va, I got real animated while driving when I saw her 😉. A good portion of her island was already gone. One day I hope to get to see CVN-80. You mentioned the Lady Lex, CV-16. My stepfather served on her as crew when she was sailing out of Japan, he’s a “plank owner”. Stayed on her overnight in Corpus with my boys as part of a couple of scouting trips. Was kinda cool walking through various portions of the ship and thinking back to some of his stories he had told when I was a kid. As always, YMMV. Just sharing. Nothing more. nothing less.
Yeah, wire was my first thought but I didn't have any the right size that would look good. Lead wire would be nice since it'll hold it's shape when you lay it on. I had quite a fight with the wild springy fiber but beat it into submission lol ;)
The only thing the navy/fedgov was thinking was about the lack of someone else's money to preserve her. The ship's age and condition had nothing to do with it.
