U.S.S. Connecticut - 1/250 Scratch Build

[shipbuild]

Clean and precise ! Really coming together beautifully.

[birder]

Very nice Mike, the plates look really cool and add a lot to the hull, I don't recall seeing individual plates is that new with this model? It's a great look for a steel hull. Rob that is a cool relic from this age, cool that part of one of these ships can be seen, probably there aren't any extant vessels anywhere to view ? It is really cool that the Star of India is still floating...

[Michael Mash]

Originally Posted by shipbuild

Clean and precise ! Really coming together beautifully.

Glad you like it Shipbuild.
Mike

[Michael Mash]

Originally Posted by birder

Very nice Mike, the plates look really cool and add a lot to the hull, I don't recall seeing individual plates is that new with this model? It's a great look for a steel hull.

I used a similar technique with the last project, but did not print the rivets on the plates. This time I printed rivets. The technique is fun, but not intended as the final hull surface.
Mike

[rgmarine]

Great work!

[Michael Mash]

Thanks Rgmarine and hello craftsworkers,

The lower hull now has its final finish with coats of flat red paint. The propellers and drive shafts have been installed.

The Seven-inch gun casemate decks are next. Connecticut get six of these guns on each side.

I included an historical photo from “Navsource” to show the actual drive shaft installation. It’s a great view of all the stern detail.

Regards,
Mike

[Don Boose]

Much progress on this beautiful ship, Mike!

Do you have any idea what color the ship would have been as depicted in the last image? Red lead? Gray primer? Unpainted steel?

Don

[Michael Mash]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Much progress on this beautiful ship, Mike!

Do you have any idea what color the ship would have been as depicted in the last image? Red lead? Gray primer? Unpainted steel?

Don

Good Question Don. I can only speculate. I know the Red Lead was/is used on wooden hulls to help prevent corrosion by microbes. But I don't know if they used it when the navy went to steel. While building French ships, I discovered the green hulls were painted that way for the same reason. Could it be unpainted Steel? I don't think so, since there appears to be a thin white stripe marking the waterline, and there seem to be numbers painted down toward the keel just in front of the rudder attachments.
Mike

[Don Boose]

Gray primer seems most likely to me, but it's a lacuna (one of very many) in my knowledge of ship building methodologies of that era.

Don

[Michael Mash]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Gray primer seems most likely to me, but it's a lacuna (one of very many) in my knowledge of ship building methodologies of that era.

Don

Yes, I tend to agree with you. The entire hull from top to bottom looks so uniform in color. And that thin waterline mark would be needed when they begin to paint the underwater hull. She has a little way to go before launch, as the rudder and propellers are not yet installed. No doubt, a member of this site with the answers to your question will spot our conversation and provide some insight.