25 Years In The Making: HMS Ark Royal In Miniature | Forces TV 

25 years in the making, man that's quite long and too much effort. Building this replica takes longer than building an actual aircraft carrier. Well done!

im a model builder and i have SO MUCH respect for this guy, this is an incredible amount of effort, skill, time and dedication to make this. it is INSANE

I am 76 and been interested in models all my life. I have seen many great models and model builders. This is without a doubt the most impressive model I have ever seen. I gave up model building because I was always comparing my work to professionals like this fellow. I also seen the cost of model building go from being very inexpensive to ridiculous. Testors paints when I was a kid was ten cents a bottle: now they run around five dollars for the same amount of paint. They want as much for that one-tenth of an ounce as you pay for a pint of paint in many cases. You can buy many spray cans for a buck if you caught it on sale. This guy is truly an expert at what he does. He deserves the praise of all model builders.

I really liked the two guys sitting there holding hands. Really captured the spirit of the Royal Navy

My grandfather served on the HMS Ark Royal (r09) in Suez, and I've never stopped asking him questions about it

An amazing model, hats off to you sir. In the 1960's I was a member of the Royal Marine detachment on board H.M.S. Centaur, a carrier a fair bit smaller than the Ark. I completed the whole commission on board, which was the Centaur's last one, and eventually she went for scrap, which was sad. I thoroughly enjoyed being a Bootneck sailor!

My right ear loved the music and my left ear loved the info.

In the early 1980's I seem to remember seeing the hulk of Ark Royal lying at the breakers yard in Scotland as I was sailing past on a ferry. A sad end to a beautiful ship. This 1/72 scale example is a great testament to her memory.

A brilliant model keeping the memory of a fantastic ship alive. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing. And what a ship overall. Canada should have gotten her.

I was one of the three SAR pilots on The Ark for the last two years before she was sadly decommissioned. Wonderful to see "Make" (the Wessex Mk1 046) with it's rotors turning again. Beautiful job, bringing back great memories. Thanks David.

Brilliant!! Loved the Ark Royal and the show Sailor with Rod Stewart’s intro -all filmed on that aircraft carrier

love that touch of the chopper with the spinning blade, working radar and elevators.. you're a genius sir..

This is awesome, my grandfather was an engineer on the ark, and worked on every single aircraft u can see in the video

As a former ABH3 V1 Div USS Boxer lhd4 I can really appreciate this. Great job!

Absolutely magnificent, I served on her in the early 70's, brought back a lot of memories.

Epic reconstruction, thank you :)

Awesome model well done Dave.It was a sad day when they retired this beautiful ship.I remember the BBC doco about the last commission before it was withdrawn from service.

i have a picture of My late grandad's frigate he served on (F-15/HMS Euryalus) escorting the Ark Royal edit: I am happy he has made this model and it looks fantastic

Did you ever see the huge Ark Royal model that was at the Glasgow Transport Museum. They have it in storage at the moment . It's Ark Royal as built .

A proper aircraft carrier, excellent.

Magnificent. Cheers From USA

The love and care in creating this masterpiece is amazing. Beautiful.

Bloody brilliant! I was so made up to recreate a Harrier scenario based in Germany at school during the mid-seventies. 1/72 to, no where near this superb production! ,

Damn that's frickin awesome. Thanks for that build.

Kudos from a fellow naval electrician and modeler. I have spliced the mainbrace in your honor sir, bloody marvelous!

Fantastic! Well done sir, this was worth every minute that you gave to it.

That's amazing. Level of detail only form crew could do. Fantastic job. Love it.

I truly enjoyed watching this video. Beautiful model with great detail and accuracy, well done sir!

Magnificent! You must be very proud of this outstanding model.

Absolutely astounding! Your attention to detail is admirable. Well done Sir.

I want this in a glass box, such a cool model and beautiful ship.

A incredible model especially in 1:72 ,the sheer size displays the majesty off a wonderful vessel,well done thankyou

Absolutely a fantastic model of the Ark Royal and her air group. Also some very fine modeling work.

Is he started with the new one? He deserves help by the UK navy with his next project. Awesome!

Well I bet that kept him off street corners for years ! :) Beautifully constructed.

My brother-in-law was a PO on the Ark Royal in 1976. He worked on ejection and missile systems and I still remember getting to board her and visit the PO's mess. An amazing ship and a stunning model!

7:19 Wow! Instrument clusters and even the Rolls-Royce decal!

Marvelous work.

Keep in mind the real one only took 7 years.

Imagine Karen's letting their kids destroy this masterpiece

absolute work of art sir...beautifully done

A labour of love. A fine model.

Rusty Lusty and Ark Royal. What great ships.

Fantastic model, well done!!!

I remmber being aboard this ship in 1971. I was 15 and Ark Royal was making a call at Port Everglades. Florida. I especially remember a very impressive ASW aircraft with propellers at both ends . I also remember riding up that big elevator in the flight deck. I really enjoyed that ship!

Work of a true model engineer

That is utterly superb! Fantastic stuff. 👍🇬🇧

An utterly superb and truly dedicated passion project! As a fellow "Ark" lover from my visit on board during Navy Days 1967(?), I salute you!

Pretty shure that's the finest Aircraft Carrier in the entire's UK history... I do think the "baby carriers" that replaced her were a decisive step back in UKs history. Good luck for us Argentineans it was decomissioned by 1982, since their F4 Phanoms II with their AIM-7 would had blasted all of our strike force from a much greater distance in 1982

outstanding piece of work.

Absolutley incredible, great work. 👍

Beautiful craftsmanship.

Absolutely stunning!! Well done!! 👍👏👏👏👏👏

Thats really nice, good job!

Fantastic model of a fantastic ship!!

Well done Dave!

That's dedication to detail

excellent model very impressive, well done sir your dedication and skills are to be commended

Great work. Clearly a man who created a labour of love.

It should be put in one of the British Museums. Well done, very well done.

Incredible

Wow! Mindblowing model!

So awesome its actually fully rc and able to float !!

Excellent stuff, amazing detail :-)

great job! love it

Simplesmente Fantástico. Perfeito Congratulations from Brasil👏👏👏

Very impressive. What a talented man

Fantastic model of a fantastic ship! If only we still had her in 82!

Very nice, a lot of time and work and a great replica in 1/72nd scale. Nice.

My Dad was a draughtsman at Swan Hunter on the Tyne he worked in the drawing office and created a lot of the drawings for the Ark Royal while she was being built.

Brilliant! Great model making skills.🖒🖒 Keeping our historical history alive in miniture.

attention to deatail is amazing well done.

Great job.

Looks great

Outstanding effort. I served on the latest Ark, great ship.

Amazing! Well done you!

Wow, just wow!!

My favourite vessel ever!!

Superb build.

Amazing model. 👍

Fantastic! Awesome!

Nice job..well done...my mate flew Sea Hawks from HMS Ark Royal.. thanks from NZ👍🇳🇿

Simply brilliant. Where theres a will there's a way...

Great model.

a true craftsman

Awesome. This would easily sell at auction. Though that's really not an option for you I'm sure. Great to see this, thank you for sharing. I hope this is around for many many future generations to see and appreciate.

Teacher:students today we are making boats Students:make wooden boats That one kid at the back of the class: makes this

Great work and committment to a famous ship.

Well done from Canada 🇨🇦

Fantastic !!!!

This is absolutely awesome - many thanks for capturing this. (Ex RN, Ex Ark Royal)

A labor of love!!

My great uncle served on ark royal

Amazing!

Awesome!!!

Simply Awsome!

Very impressive!!

thats freaking amazing sir i love it

Very impressive!