I really should visit here more often, I've just noticed that all blog image links have been broken, not quite sure how that happened, some were due to images in the photo albums being deleted, in other instances the source images are still present but the link is defunct, more probably down to some name changes in the URLs or some such technical excuse, they should all be sorted now so apologies if you visited and found a page full of little red Xs.

 

I've finally got to the point of having to address exactly which CVN I should model, so far all of the modelling has been generic, or layered parts for each type of vessel to keep options open, however the point has been reached where crunch decisions need to be made. I've finally decided on the Ronald Reagan, CVN76, primarily because she is the newest and more digital information is available, some fundamental changes were needed to sponsons and openings etc, and the bridge structure is quite a bit different from the previous vessels in the class. The largest area of change is the fan tail area and it has been cleaned up a lot from previous vessels. The original first few vessels in the class were quiet clean but later vessels have seen a profusion of pods and sponsons added over the years until, one presumes, the USN took stock and decided to clean it all up.

 

Heres a new render of the preliminary hull for CVN76, hopefully now that the decision has been made as to which model will be built, progress will once again begin to pick up.

 

 

 

I've also added some more aircraft WIP images that I've slowly been working on over the year, and finally I've left Gmax behind, the program has been deleted and several part built models were bundled up and given away for free on the Sim Outhouse and CBFS forums, I've not used Gmax in three years so decided it was time to clean up that part of the shop.