From Pacific Tide III dated Januari 7th 2008, first introduction of the PAW multipart carrier:



Aaaah, the good old days,

VonBeerhofen

Nice nuclear powered carrier.

Thx, I also have all the other ships from both Fleet Defender and PAW Gold, and they can move too! They're a great repository to be turned into anything we like for those who understand the R/S, It's not landable when it moves though, not yet!

VonBeerhofen

It's true.

Those of us steeped in the ways of rendering sequences are using the models for the basis of new, much improved models for EAW.

For example, the new SPAW carriers that Moggy built also come from PAW.

Not nuclear powered, of course.

It's just too bad as this carrier was specifically build for Korean Air War, but sadly something got in between, so it never materialised other then in my version. Strange how things can evolve.

VonBeerhofen

Hmmm, I don't think there were any nuclear carriers in Korea either.

Not every carrier with an angled flightdeck is necessarily nuclear powered. The USS Antietam had such a deck and it was involved in the Korean War, . But then again, being Dutch my knowledge on US naval history isn't my forte but it's what Google tells me.

VonBeerhofen

The aircraft carrier returned home in April and rejoined the Pacific Reserve Fleet briefly. She was reactivated later that summer and, in August, transited the Panama Canal to join the Atlantic Fleet. In September, the warship entered the New York Naval Shipyard for major alterations. In October, she was redesignated an attack aircraft carrier, CVA-36. In December 1952 Antietam emerged from the yard as the world's first carrier with a true angled flight deck. The principle had been tried on other carriers with lines painted on an axis deck. Antietam's deck was based on a rudimentary sponson. The installation allowed for true angle deck tests, including arrested landings.[3] Trials with British and US units proved during trials to be superior to the usual fore-aft deck.[4] She operated out of Quonset Point, Rhode Island, until the beginning of 1955. During the intervening years, she participated in numerous fleet and independent ship's exercises. Detachment #39 from VC-4, NAS Atlantic City was sent out on the Antietam on June 9, 1953. The stated purpose was to show off the canted deck capabilities to the Royal Navy. There were two aircraft with pilots and 13 enlisted men.

https://www.historyonthenet.com/angled-deck-new-development-aircraft-carriers

No smoke stack kinda gives it away.

I’m just relieved the thread didn’t mean me.

Wheels

OG, I believe you only want to look older then you really are,

VBH