U.S. S. Navy Nimitz Class CVN-68 1-500 by Trumpeter

by Trumpeter Models

Product Features

• Assembly Required Skill Level 2. Ages 12 and up.
• Glue and Paint sold separately

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0006MJ57Q
• Item model number: 5201
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,643 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Product Description

1/500 Scale. This kit 26 3/8 inches long when complete. Features Realistically molded deck, Aircraft included are F-4 Ghosts, F-14 Tomcats, F/A-18 Wasps, A-6 Medium attacker, EA-6B, S-3 Sea Thieve antisubmarine plane, E-2C Eagle Eye, SH-3 helicopters, One-piece hull, Metal shafts, Waterslide decals and a Display stand. Skill level 2

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Terrible Model, May 24, 2011

By 

Jon Vogel "Jon Vogel" (Mount Juliet, TN) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: U.S. S. Navy Nimitz Class CVN-68 1-500 by Trumpeter (Toy)

After reading Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" for the umpteenth time, I was in the mood to build a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. I saw that Trumpeter made a large scale model of the ship and I excitedly purchased it. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with the result.

Although Trumpeter has a good reputation in ship modeling, this particular model is not one of their best. The kit is designed to be motorized and is very toy-like as a result. My particular model was missing the hardware packet that contained the electric motor, wiring, screws, etc., so I was unable to install those parts.

Construction of the model is a bit difficult. It has many ejection pin marks, sink holes and ill-fitting parts. The three-piece flight deck refused to go together without gaps between the sections until I removed the location pins on the rear deck piece and just glued it. The tower is very basic and rather crude. The antennas are crude solid blocks of plastic instead of the wire frame one would expect. The aircraft are crudely molded with many sink marks and poor detail, especially considering the scale at 1:500.

All in all, this model is very much a "toy" and not a "scale model". The details are simplified to make this kit "playable" and it's not really worth the effort to fix all the mistakes and add the detail that is needed for a model this large. This was the first large ship model that I'd built in years and I was very disappointed with it.