a real masterpiece Smike! I like the name ;)

lookin good mate, but does the US really use the comanches? i heard the deal fell through :(

o wow file is about 14.5 megas i thought the max was 10 mb haha but who cares :P

greate model it has alot of detail on it i could never had done something like that :)

thanks alfredix

i think it was sady there came up with the name in a comment on one of my other models..
must admit i had to skip many of the planned details/items since it got very big in the file size..
so the tower and bridge interior was dropped.
the lca landings craft inner habour bay was dropped..
the fire station was dropped..
the seaplaine aircraft launcher was dropped..
fuel tankers and fuel area was dropped..
folded rotor blades was dropped.

they have some/few rah-66 helicopters but it was the apache there was selected as usa’s main attack helicopter..
but i wanted it to be only sikorsky helicopters and since a helicopter carrier heavely depends on a fast heavy strike force consisting of a troop transport and a attack vehicle i selected the commanche for the model..

5 Stars for another stellar model smike! The name really is great – good teamwork with sady!!

I have a dumb question – what are the tall “masts” for? It seems like they would be difficult to maneuver around in rough seas.

Just amazing details – it keeps driving my Player crazy and I have to reload it LOL!

i really dont now but all fotos i have seen does these mast apper

i noticed when placing the helicopters on the deck that these antenners made the landings arraya on the deck very narrow.
in my eyes they are completly destroying the acces to the main landings deck
i just placed them there like the original tarwa ship has them..
oh all notes info calls them for mast’s not antenner

Really dswavely? About every model I view from smike, even if it’s only 2 MB, it has that error with the rotate. It drives me nuts!

Awesome Carrier Smike…
wonder how it would have been if you had all the “dropped” items in the model as well :)

Really awesome… I wonder how long it took to create such a huge model with lots of detailing??

thanks Abu and XQH

i would never has been able to make it with all the items i wanted since sketchup gets really slow when the file size gets so big..
it means that every time i make a command like clicking on a item it takes several seconds (15-30 sec) before sketchup reacts and performs the command.
so if i want to move an item i have to do it very gentle and then sit completly still for 20-30 seconds until sketchup perform the move
if i move it just a tiny bit before sketchup has reajted it takes 30 seconds more before somethings happens and then it makes both moves at wonce which results in that the item ends up a totally different place..

about the time i have used its hard to say..
i started on the model 3 weeks a go but havent worked entireally on this model but on several other models also..
but some days i have worked from the morning to late evening on it.
and since i many times has worked on a item for a while and then changed my mind and deleted it (like the lcv crafts inner harbour bay which i had nearly finisehed when i decided to not include it and deleted it.
used 6-8 hours on that just to make the picture of it to use as a fake interior image of the bay…
but i will say than a average of 5-8 hours every day in 3 weeks..

i think it was ‘smikEworsky’,but thanks a lot for selecting it
the carrier is gorgeous,and i wait the full version

but since is a tarawa calss,isn’t a japanese carrier?(carriing american helicopters that even don’t existed on that time)
i’ve heard of some secret submersible carriers,from rising sun’s armies
just they were taking off,but couldn’t land back(wich sin’t a problem for kamikazes,wich never came back)

@tomy – Thanks for confirming the Player problem.

I usually only see it on very large files. if I am very slow and deliberate when I click (or do anything) it seems to help.

I have my mouse pointer speed set as fast as it will go, so I suspect that I just beat the software call response. The development team is aware of this issue, but it is difficult to duplicate exactly the same way.

Juan has just mentioned that the frame rate keeps chugging away no matter what you do, so if I add another command before the frame rate has caught up, then the new command can confuse things and cause odd behavior.

i like the most the way you placed the flaks and how the interior can be seen from the back or left

Congratulations smike! Your model has been included in the 32nd weekly Top 10 models blog with pictures and links to your model.

Go to http://www.3dvia.com/blog/3dvia-top-10-models-032/ to check it out!

very nice..clean model

Wow, such a masterpiece! The best ship I ever seen! Great!!!

thanks gerhardv for the nice words