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Old 02-06-2022, 04:45 PM
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USS Juneau CL-52

Hi All;

Actually the first installment of this thread wound up getting attached at the end of the DD-793 thread. So this part is really the second entry. Last weekend we got two feet of snow. This weekend we had about an inch of sheet ice. After cleaning up from that there are a couple of very aggravated arthritic knees and a whole bunch of complaining muscles. Still, it provides time to get some work done on CL-52. There's a nav source photo of the ship taken during the Battle Of Santa Cruz it looks as though the forward hull and superstructure are gray, but the after section of the hull is distinctly lighter. I took a picture of the midship section of the profile drawing and colored the after section Montbatten Pink. The forward section of the hull was colored dark gray. The picture was then printed out in black and white. The gray tones of the result are very close to the original picture. The ship was sunk in November and now the question occurs, were the vertical surfaces Montbatten Pink at the time of her sinking? Lots of color research ahead.

Today, the size and shape of the central keel drawing came to an acceptable measurement. The waterline is .005 inches short and the length over all is .05 inches long. The beam is 3.3 inches. These differences would not be noticeable on a thirty three inch model. The importance of the keel is that the weather deck size and the base plate can adjusted to it. That sets up the proportions of the bulkheads, which will be one inch apart. We are now in business for getting the mock up hull together and everything else can be projected from that. This procedure is, of course, about as fascinating as watching rocks grow, but it is the heart of generating an accurate model. The build will have lots of pictures, but this part consists of dull looking drawings.

Regards, rjccjr
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