DD 886 u.s.s. Orleck design process - Page 5

**aansorge** · #41 07-09-2022, 06:18 PM

I would have held out for Studio A or Bee. Might have gotten better pictures?

**FRD** · #42 07-10-2022, 04:30 AM

That's pretty funny!

**FRD** · #43 07-10-2022, 04:50 AM

So I photographed the Port side and took 100's of photos from every conceivable angle, too numerous to show, I'll be sorting through them today.

A shot of the gangway, I was the first one on the ship and the last to debark.

Greeted by our bearded guide Jim, he poured us a customary shot of "Navy Rum".

He explained that it was referred to as such because it was at least 57% alcohol, (114 proof)

Stating that the ships rum used to be stored with the gun powder, if it leaked, anything less than 57% would render the powder unusable.

It could be, "an old Navy tale" or simply an excuse to enjoy some stiff rum, whatever the case, it made the ship's tour and designing paper models just a little more interesting!

**FRD** · #44 07-10-2022, 05:05 AM

The first photo is something that kept me up at night!, I had photographic evidence that this object existed but not enough information to determine what it looked like or what it was, I was enlightened to learn that it was the refueling point and now that I have photos it will be included on the model.

Next is the ASROC launch control, a shielded structure where they could watch the rocket launched, nuclear torpedoes loaded by hand, (i'd hate to be on the receiving end of that torpedo!) next is a photo of the actual launch control and another of the ASROC as viewed from the control shelter.

Behind the ASROC control center, our guide and Captain Wally of the Studio Sea inspect the, "Toilet seats", these hinged, round orifices were where the ASROC rockets were stored, in the event of a accidental explosion, the theory was that rather than destroy the hanger, it would blow open the toilet seat instead allowing the concussion to escape.

**FRD** · #45 07-10-2022, 06:47 AM

I've got 400 photographs to go through...

**FRD** · #46 07-10-2022, 07:56 AM

This first image is of the crew of the Studio Sea standing in front of the forward turret, note the protrusions on the back of the turret, the interior of course was white because of the low light environment.

The gunners with, "oven mitts" would catch the spent, hot shell casings as they were ejected from the non-recoiling guns and then they in turn would simply drop them down a rear shoot onto the deck behind the turret, they would then roll off of the deck and into the sea.

This particular ship dropped over 11,000 spent, brass casings into the sea off of the coast of Vietnam. (a scrapper's paradise!)

The last photo is the one that I REALLY wanted as all I had were profile views and the flight deck was not visible, when the Museum is opened to the public, the fully restored, DASH drone will be prominently displayed on the flight deck.

**FRD** · #47 07-10-2022, 08:14 AM

This last series of images is of the operations center located adjacent to the bridge, filled with primitive computing equipment, it must have been bustling with activity during operations and lastly, a photo of the bridge.

If you found this information informative or appreciated, the credit all goes to the Jacksonville Naval Museum and the Studio Sea, feel free to drop them a line and thank them personally for their significant contribution and support of paper models, I'm sure that they would appreciate hearing from you and your support as well.

Now that I have all of the reference material that I could possibly hope for, it's time to put the DASH "back on the shelf" and resume where I left off modeling the U.S.S. ORLECK.

**BigGiraffe** · #48 07-10-2022, 08:44 AM

Good Morning! Besides these being great photos, I see that the museum is taking excellent care of this ship -- no rust!

Best regards,
Kurt

**FRD** · #49 07-10-2022, 10:09 AM

Kurt, it was recently dry docked and repainted from the keel up...

**FRD** · #50 07-22-2022, 08:16 PM

Okay, you guys can say that you saw it here first!, these are the renderings that I was supposed to send the museum today just to let them know that I haven't been twiddling my thumbs. I was supposed to send them this afternoon but my computer crashed and it took me until now to get them rendered, I'll send them tomorrow.... to make up for the delay I might include a couple of animations such as a, "fly-by" and a, "walk around"...

I've only now completed the first deck/starboard (right) side, I'll be starting the port side tomorrow.... once the first deck is done I'll then start on detailing the upper decks, plenty of detail to add up there... still have a lot to do on the drone. If you look closely you can see that EVERY LAST RIVET is accounted for, this is just to keep the, "rivet counters" happy.... so you may ask, "when will this thing be done?" and my answer would be, "when I run out of things to draw"....

My personal objective is pretty simple, it's to have, "The most complete and accurate representation ever devised in any medium", this model is detailed to a high degree that it might be used for many applications such as renderings and animation, paper models are almost a, "by-product" of the computer model.

What is really interesting is that this model resides in a virtual 3D environment FULL SCALE (390.5 feet long) being this big in a virtual 3D environment allows me to get, "infinite" with it, I could, "walk around" (virtually) and squash a virtual ant on the deck if I wanted to or venture inside to model the interior.

The advantage of having it reside full scale is that it gives you nearly 400 virtual feet to work in (plenty of room) it can then be output in any scale as need for any particular application.

Of course many of these 3D features will be relegated to a 2D representation when I tear it down in to it's 2D components for the model, the museum is very happy to have this done.