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Topic review - Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans
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  Post subject:  1/350 USS Makin Island LHD8  Reply with quote
Good day I have the wasp in 1/350 doing research right now.. how hard would it be or is it possible to convert to the Mankin Island. The biggest difference I see is the stacks they are angled.. I not looking for a perfect build just something that looks like it..I saw this in Facebook said that a great project [img][img][/img][/img]


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Post Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:11 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Hi guys,

I'm currently building USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 in 1/350. One area that I can't wrap my head around is the UNREP-crane with the hose attachments on the island. Does anyone have good photos of the attachment of the hoses to the fuel pipes from the ship? How the fuel probes are stowed? I assume they are not just hanging around, only kept in place by the line that wraps around the hoses..? And preferably too of the lines go from the drums, through the crane to the hoses? The best pic I have is the included US Navy Photo.
I know I don't ask much...

Thanks!
Erik


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Post Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:56 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
You can get lots of decent LEDs on eBay from China. I've never had an issue with any of the ones I've purchased. I like to get the ones that already have the resister attached. Strip lighting vs individual LEDs doesn't really matter, they all work great. What matters is where and how you mount them. If you want a row in a hangar bay, get strip lights.

Keep an eye on voltage, many are 12v, if you don't want that, look for other voltages.
Something you may want to experiment with is putting 6v on a 12v led. Modern LEDs are very bright, way too bright for small models. Reducing the voltage will help make them look more too scale.

Also look at the sizes, there are a few standard sizes for small LEDs. Make sure you get the size you need. And finally, if you get strip lights, check the spacing. Some strips have the lights closer together. Get the one that's close to what you want.
Post Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:00 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Hi all,

I am new to the forums and have just got back into modeling after about a 35 year layoff. I am currently building a Trumpeter 1/350 USS Texas BB-35 and roughly halfway through the build.

I have a Trumpeter 1/350 USS Wasp LHD-1 with the complete WEM photo etch upgrade kit in queue for my next build. I would like to put LED lights in both the well deck and the hangar deck, so that you are able to see inside each deck.

I have a couple questions for those that have added lighting to their models:
1. What is a reputable company to buy LEDs from?
2. What is type is better to use, chip, strip or fiber-optic?
Post Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:44 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
RAM launchers and some masts and bits - Sprue I on the Peleliu kit, specifically. Compare the Peleliu pics here: https://www.super-hobby.com/products/U. ... -LHA5.html
with our review of the Tarawa kit here: http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/sh ... arawa.html

The Peleliu kit also has Harriers and LCACs, which I think are also in the Saipan kit.
Post Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:54 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Scalemates reports that the 1:700 Dragon kits of the Tarawa Class went through several boxings (alternating Tarawa and Saipan) and changes in cover art... until issue of the Peleliu, which notes "changed parts." Can anyone comment on what was changed in the release of this kit (Shanghai Dragon 7032).
Post Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:33 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Hey guys, happy new year! I got a 1:700 Trumpeter USS Saipan (3102) cheap ocasion , kit pretty poor (I thought being Trumpeter would be something better), late 90 . The issue is that the instruction sheets are very poor, with lack of clarity and details of the assembly: there is no indicated completion from deck to stern with barrel or CIWS, nothing that with photos can not be assured correct option. Some would have some data/link sheet instructions or where to see these details for mounting ?? (on 1º page where the images are located, it is not possible to see them). Thank you,

Alberto
Post Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 6:57 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Currently working on a Hobby Boss 1/700 USS Iwo Jima. I'm going to display it with F-35Bs instead of AV-8Bs. The Orange Hobby F-35B kit is fantastic, but the decals are horrible and the wrong color. Does anyone know where I can get decent 1/700 F-35B decals that are actually light gray (or even white) instead of dark gray or black? I'd honestly settle for just decent roundels if I have to.
Post Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:53 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
re the numbering of the decks:
The waterline has nothing to do with the designation of any deck. The "main deck" is identified as the highest deck that runs completely forward to aft. On a regular carrier, that is the hangar deck, as the 01 and 02 levels (officially not "decks") are not uninterrupted. The Main deck is the First Deck, and the Second Deck is below. This continues down to a point where the decks again are not continuous, and below that they are called Platforms.

On regular aircraft carriers, above the hangar deck there are two levels of galleries, that surround the hangar. These are 01 and 02. Below the flight deck is the 03 level. It is an unbroken run from forward to aft, but the galleries below it have started the 01, 02 nomenclature. If anyone is excited about the name for the flight deck, it is officially the 04 level.

I would expect that pattern to hold frow for the big gators too.

That is the standard terminology for the US Navy. I can't state for foreign navies.

So the relation of the waterline to the decks your best guess is to determine the height of a deck/level, and use that unit of measure to go down to the waterline (your call - full load or light load waterline)

Rick
Post Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:09 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
bootneck42 wrote:
Can anyone here please advise me of the naming and order of levels of the decks for the Tarawa class? Obviously the top deck (level 01?) is the flight deck but how are they named/numbered from the next one down and so forth to the keel? Is there a cross-section diagram to illustrate this?

I am currently building a waterline level model of the Tarawa class but don't know which level the waterline is at.

Thanks in advance for any help here.

Mike


Hi Mike

Just in case you are still wondering. It should be just like the carriers. The hanger deck is the main deck and then the next one up from that is the 01 level and so one as you go up. I can't help you with the lower decks.

Duane
Post Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 5:59 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
I had a few fellow modellers assist me with scaling. All i good now. So there are now hangar bay decal sets for the USS Wasp and the USS Iwo Jima! https://davidsscalemodels.com/decals/1- ... ecal-sets/
Post Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:53 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Happy Friday! I need some help. Does anyone have the Trumpeter 1/350 USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 that is not built and can check something for me? I am making a decal set for the hangar bay and need someone to verify sizes.

Thanks!


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Post Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:52 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Go here to see types of deployed aircraft and sqns for all of Iwo Jima's Deployments.

http://www.gonavy.jp/meuD07f.html

I couldn't find actual numbers for the Marine aircraft, but they may be there somewhere, the site has a lot of info.
The Navy Carrier deployments seem to have more details on numbers of each type deployed.
Post Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:30 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Thanks! As I can see in that type of mix there are no MV22s, I didnt see both CH53 and Mv22 on deck the same time
Post Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:53 am
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
I built the Iwo Jima, which you can see here. I vaguely recalling using photos to spot the air group.

A quick internet search comes up with lots of photos, like these:
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Post Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 12:37 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
Hello guys, starting in the Iwo Jima 1 350 here. Ive done some research back a couple of years but since they my Hard drive got erased and lost it.

Could you send some info or photos showing the layout of the airwings used, I would like one composed of CH53 , harriers uh1, but less Ospreys (2 to 4 Osprays would be enough haha, dont like the looks)

Thanks
Post Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 12:19 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
wvtomcat65 wrote:
In a nutshell. The USS Wasp LHD-1 kit will do LHD-1 through LHD-4. The USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 kit will do LHD-5 through LHD-7. The differences are mostly to do with the weapons layout on the front of the island. And the island windows on 1-4 are more square, where they are rectangle on 5-7.... You can do a LHD-8 with the LHD-7 kit. The biggest difference in that LHD-8 has canted stacks...

Hope my info helps

Thomas



Yes it does. Thanks so much!
Post Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 4:30 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
In a nutshell. The USS Wasp LHD-1 kit will do LHD-1 through LHD-4. The USS Iwo Jima LHD-7 kit will do LHD-5 through LHD-7. The differences are mostly to do with the weapons layout on the front of the island. And the island windows on 1-4 are more square, where they are rectangle on 5-7.... You can do a LHD-8 with the LHD-7 kit. The biggest difference in that LHD-8 has canted stacks...

Hope my info helps

Thomas
Post Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:35 pm
  Post subject:  1/350 Iwo Jima Options  Reply with quote
Hi All

I'm getting the 1/350 Trumpeter [Gallery] Iwo Jima soon and I was wondering what other members of the class can easily be made from this kit? can you do the Bataan or Bonhomme Richard from it? I do understand doing the MArkin Island would require significant rework.

Thanks :)
Post Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:14 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Calling all USS Tarawa (LHA) & USS Wasp (LHD) fans  Reply with quote
DavidP wrote:

Not much help as it says I need a subscription, at $20 per month I cannot afford that.

The info I am referring to is the name and height of each deck level. I think I've seen something about that on fixed-wing carriers, with references to Level 01, 02, Hangar deck and Platform etc., but I don't know if this is the case for the Tarawa class. If it is then I would like to know the naming/numbering sequence, from the keel up to the top of the island structure please.

I'm used to British ships and they have a much simpler convention, working downwards from FD to double bottom is 1 deck, 2 deck, 3 etc., and from FD up to top of Island is 01 deck, 02 deck and so forth.

I do hope somebody can help with this please.

Mike

Edit: The reason for my request is that I have resurrected my old 1:144 scale project which had stalled due to the lack of this info. As can be seen in the photo below (showing the dock at the back and hangar area in front) I have been unable to build the remaining decks as I don't know how many there are, what they are called or how high each deck level is.
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