Jura The idiot
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thanks, actually I meant a word for the shape of that part of the ship, though (it looks almost like a ski-jump
USS New Jersey, BB62, in 1/350 Scale
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thanks, actually I meant a word for the shape of that part of the ship, though (it looks almost like a ski-jump
Well, the Iowas, like the North Carolina class before them, emphasized speed.thanks, actually I meant a word for the shape of that part of the ship, though (it looks almost like a ski-jump
An additional 10,000 tons, more length, and more freeboard amidships allowed the Iowa class to top out in excess of 32 knots!
The lengthened forecastle with the long sweeping lines helped allow for the speed.
But I am unaware of a specific name for it.
Jura The idiot
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I checked Garzke & Dulin and didn't notice in there a word for it either
(but they describe what's much more important in this part of the Iowas: "... sudden and extreme widening of the hull lines forward of Turret I" (page, let me see, 143, in the middle)
The Build - Decals, rigging, and completion - November 30, 2015
I started this session by adding the decals, including the pennant numbers fore and aft, and the campaign ribbon markings on the bridge. I then added the rigging to the main and secondary masts. The rigging is made with some fine, black thread. I tie off and glue it at each point.
I started this session by adding the decals, including the pennant numbers fore and aft, and the campaign ribbon markings on the bridge. I then added the rigging to the main and secondary masts. The rigging is made with some fine, black thread. I tie off and glue it at each point.
Once this was completed, it was time to do some touch up paint work and then add the two coats of dull coat (or what sometimes is called Flat Coat). The flat coat allows the completed model to have the same finish. When you add the railing and photo etch, and the glue for the rigging, the glue that holds these features in place, although generally transparent, has a different finish than the paint. So the dull or flat coat gives the model the same overall finish.
Once that was completed it was time for the finished pictures of the vessel.
Once that was completed it was time for the finished pictures of the vessel.
This was a really fun build. Lots of details and allowed me to go back...after twenty years...and rebuild the model I built that long ago. There are lots more aftermarket detail sets out for it now so it allowed me to add more to the build.
I think she turned out very well.
That's the USS New Jersey, BB-62, the most decorated US Navy battleship in its history, and shown here after her 1980s modernization.
I have decided to next build the US Air Force B-36 Peacemaker.
Over the holidays I saw Jimmy Stewart in "Strategic Air Command," which is a movie about the development of the Strategic Air Command after World Wr II, first using the huge B-36. Many people do not know
it, but Jimmy Stewart was a highly decorated combat veteran bomber pilot of World War II who went on to become a US Air Force general in the US Air Force reserve and who flew those B-36 bombers. He also went on to fly the B-47s and the B-52s. The movie goes on to the advent of the B-47, but most of it is about the B-36, the largest production bomber every built.
Anyhow I have a Monogram 1/72 scale model kit of it and intend to build her next. It's a HUGE model.