USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76, in 1:350 Scale

Here's the ship with the lighting system in, the ceiling laid down to the hanger deck, and the flight deck dry fitted to the ship"


At this point, I was ready to glue the flight deck to the vesel. The lighting system was in place and working with the wiring pulled through to the bottom of the ship:

...and now a few more pics of the hangar deck with the flight deck glued in place:


Looking pretty good in there.

My next session will add detials around the flight deck, with auxulliary decks and weapons and the railing for those areas.

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The Build - Weapons, Completing Flight Deck Details, Struts, Propos, Rudders, railing, Stern Structure, Safety Netting, completion of flight deck - January 31, 2017

Lots of work in this session. A lot of the details where I placed new sponsons or new structure comes from either after market parts (many from the BaconFist site on the Shapeways 3D outlet), scratch build, and some spare parts.

I started by building the weapons systems. Started with the old Sea Sparrow Launchers included with the kit, the Phalanx and the RAM Launchers on their sponsons.

Later scratch built the newer Mk-29 ESSM Launchers.

I then added a lot of detail to the flight deck including large radar dome, the landing radar tower, and other sensors and details:

I then added the struts, propos and rudders to the under side of thw vessel:

At this pint I built the elevators and painted them completely and then added the Photo Etch safety netting to each.

Once this was complete there was a lot more detail to add around the flight deck. This included hoses, fire hoses, the life many boats/rafts, photo etch railings, and the scratch built Mk-29 launchers: