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Offline smeds

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USN Nimrod
« on: April 02, 2012, 10:00:52 PM »
Some of you may have seen this elsewhere, but here is my USN Nimrod. All comments, good or bad welcome.







She's been zapped, during Fincastle competion


Weapon load, mines and torpedo's
« Last Edit: April 04, 2012, 01:38:53 AM by smeds »

Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 10:13:40 PM »
That is lovely, smeds!  Welcome to Beyond the Sprues.  Though, I must say, as someone who lives near NAS Jax in the perpetual shadow of the P-3 Orion, there is an element of sacrilege to this!

Cheers,

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 10:29:29 PM »
Very nice!  :)
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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 11:47:55 PM »
Nice one ! Dare i say it a better colour than the "brown" real ones !! lol

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2012, 12:29:19 AM »
VERY NICE!!!!! 8)
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Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2012, 12:37:27 AM »
Nice one ! Dare i say it a better colour than the "brown" real ones !! lol

Agreed!

Cheers,

Logan

Offline smeds

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2012, 12:54:56 AM »
That is lovely, smeds!  Welcome to Beyond the Sprues.  Though, I must say, as someone who lives near NAS Jax in the perpetual shadow of the P-3 Orion, there is an element of sacrilege to this!

Cheers,

Logan

Yeah, some will say the same about the Nimrod in USN markings lol

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2012, 01:01:05 AM »
Very nice looking Nimrod.  Wondering now what the number of this beast have been if it were to have actually been adopted by the U.S. Navy?  P-4 was taken by the Privateer, P-5 was the Marlin, P-6 was the Sea Master, P-7 is a good candidate. 
« Last Edit: April 03, 2012, 02:38:55 AM by Jeffry Fontaine »
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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2012, 02:30:47 AM »
Outstanding!
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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2012, 02:48:13 AM »
Looks like it "belongs" in that scheme & those markings!

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2012, 06:00:07 AM »
Looks like it "belongs" in that scheme & those markings!

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Same goes for me.  High quality build too.   8)

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2012, 10:39:31 AM »
Very nice looking Nimrod.  Wondering now what the number of this beast have been if it were to have actually been adopted by the U.S. Navy?  P-4 was taken by the Privateer, P-5 was the Marlin, P-6 was the Sea Master, P-7 is a good candidate.
P-7 was a 1980's replacement for the P-3 that was supposed to make considerable use of P-3 tooling; it turned out that they needed to make most of it anew and the price went beyond what the USN was willing to pay; leading to the project's cancellation.

Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2012, 03:54:32 PM »
Smeds, like they've all said, thats a cool looking build. Its a better fit than the P8 Poseidon IMHO.

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2012, 07:31:33 PM »
That is exceptional in both concept and execution  :-* Welcome aboard!! And thanks for sharing  :)
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Offline Dr. YoKai

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2012, 10:12:05 PM »
 Well I am partial to anything colored hemp, but this is a nice execution.

 and I'd like to thank whoever modified my 'personnal text'  ;) ( however did you know? )
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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2012, 01:33:54 AM »
One newbie to another - welcome! I like the US Nimrod, and it looks like a really beautifully made model - envy! (I can never get a really smooth paint finish on my models - I've got to find out what one of these air brush thingies is, and try and make it work).
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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2012, 09:36:03 AM »
Awesommmmmme!

It looks right in those markings, it just does. And, nothing would annoy the USAF than the USN buying from somebody other than Boeing!

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2012, 10:52:18 AM »
Gorgeous bit of work there and I'd love to see the "EP" variant, having worked on the EP-3E on a previous job.

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2012, 12:08:23 AM »
Nicely done!

That looks so very right.
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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2012, 01:37:52 AM »
Amazing work

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Re: USN Nimrod
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2012, 11:21:22 PM »
Nice work! It looks the part in USN colors.