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Hello Joe,
I agree with Barry, Yu-san and other gentlemen, which one is the plastic? Fine craftmanship with beautiful results ... With lovely greetings the Wilfried |
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Great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Finally some additional work.
I love summer but it does not leave much time for modeling. Good thing though. In the next series of pictures I have added the rails to the bridge works. The rails were adjusted and then fitted. I really wish Tom's primary sets came with a larger grouping of the closer stanchend rails as these seam to be very needed in the upper works. Next I built the range finders from my very old hand drawn GPM Arizona kit. These assembled easily and I believe they are a little over scale from front to back but good in width and height. Not too distracting. I was so excited when I made the support poles until I fitted the assembly to the ship. I measured the height of the bridge on the glass table thinking how clever I was, built the poles, painted and then the big OH S@@T when I placed the assembly on the ship. Initially I thought the fix would be to tare off the poles and make a new set. However I quickly realized this would not be wise, I used tubular styrene to make the poles and CA glued them to the underside of the range finders. I lightly tugged at the poles back and forth thinking the laminated paper would give but soon realized the underside of the range finders was going to tear off. Fix number two, I added solid plugs to the tibes then fitted additional tubes to take up the length. This seemed to work OK and eventually will be covered up when I add the small stabilizer plates that jutt out from the lower deck to the tubes. The last photos are the assembly as viewed on the ship. The main bridge is not glued in place yet and the range finders are only set in place. I will finish the main mast of OK before going back to AR. |
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more pictures of the ship
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Building up to the flying bridge. I added a home made aircraft warning lookout not present in the earlier retrofit of Oklahoma, it is situated like Arizona just above the main bridge and in the case of Oklahoma wrapping around the maimast forward pole. I hand painted the white on the aft pole after installation and by eyeballing it.
The last photo sort of lines up the two ships to give an impression of Oklahoma's flying bridge uper works. Very little difference from one U.S. BB to another with these structures. |
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Great work Paperfan. Love those side-by-side photos of the Arizona and Oklahoma. It really contrasts the differences in the two smartly.
Lovely craftsmanship. Keep up the good work!
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Recently Completed: 1/700 USS Nevada (resin) In the Shipyard: 1/350 USS Washington (resin) On the Horizon: Dom Bumagi USS Helena 1/200 (60% complete) |
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Gaining more ground.
I am finishing the main mast for Oklahoma and so far the results are promising. The flying bridge is a one piece assembly for the two lower levels and extreme care is required while cutting out the windows. The last photos show it in place but not glued, plenty still to do. Interesting, I still have to square up both assemblies since niether is glues but just standing under its own weight the paper model is squarer to the hull. |
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Can you tell me what thickness balsa you used? I would think it's 1/32 in thickness...... |
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The hull frames are 3/32" and 1/16" was used for the decks. I adjust the slot widths accordingly. I have been using this formula for a long timeand it seams to give me very warp free decking.
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I have added paper strips all around the mast head to give it the 3D framing present on the real ship. I placed a small rod on the interface deck to aide in positioning the mast and to keep it from falling off. The mast is painted white and shown placed on the ship.
The model is a real pleassure to build. |
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