by BB62vet » Mon May 22, 2023 8:01 pm
Fliger747 wrote:You are doing a lot of small projects, but in doing so pushing many limits and adding to your abilities. Plan books aren't always perfect, photos often don't give us enough views but we can by their use get closer to correct than a plan book that may be wrong. It's awfully tempting to go back and replace items on a model as we can produce better ones.
Keep up the good work! Tom
Tom,
Thanks so much for your continued support & contributions to my threads. One thing that I'm noticing is that now that there are some various 3D parts makers out there and in some cases designing and printing similar parts, that not all is equal in detail and accuracy. So, at this point, I'm content to rely more on my own abilities to research, draft, and design my own parts that I can confidently say are pretty accurate. But, as we all know, modeling has it's limitations and that has to be accounted for in this facet of the hobby, as well.
Tom wrote: "I just had the brain fart that the reason the cranes may have been beefed up is the boats, boats are much heavier than aircraft, at least as carried shipboard. Wartime the Iowa's didn't carry much in the way of boats, but peacetime, showing the flag, a 26' MWB just wouldn't cut the mustard at a Med port call."
I think that's a VERY valid point to be made - and one I obviously overlooked.
Of course, that reminds me of the 1980s reconstruction aboard NEW JERSEY - when the amidship area of the superstructure was being gutted for the addition of the Tomahawks and their associated support areas (where the old triple 40mm quad mounts used to reside), the yard workers discovered the larger support beams that had been put there in the original build of the ship to support the various ship's boats that would have been there instead of the addition of the 40mm mounts. So, perhaps in the 1950 refit for Korea it was a combination of newer, heavier aircraft AND the additional need for multiple boat handling chores for (as you said) Med. cruises, that facilitated the newer, beefier a/c crane.
I now have my replacement LCD in hand and will hopefully get the printer reassembled tomorrow with successful results pending. So, further design work on the a/c crane base unit tonight.
Hank
[quote="Fliger747"]You are doing a lot of small projects, but in doing so pushing many limits and adding to your abilities. Plan books aren't always perfect, photos often don't give us enough views but we can by their use get closer to correct than a plan book that may be wrong. It's awfully tempting to go back and replace items on a model as we can produce better ones.
Keep up the good work! Tom[/quote]
Tom,
Thanks so much for your continued support & contributions to my threads. One thing that I'm noticing is that now that there are some various 3D parts makers out there and in some cases designing and printing similar parts, that not all is equal in detail and accuracy. So, at this point, I'm content to rely more on my own abilities to research, draft, and design my own parts that I can confidently say are pretty accurate. But, as we all know, modeling has it's limitations and that has to be accounted for in this facet of the hobby, as well.
Tom wrote: "I just had the brain fart that the reason the cranes may have been beefed up is the boats, boats are much heavier than aircraft, at least as carried shipboard. Wartime the Iowa's didn't carry much in the way of boats, but peacetime, showing the flag, a 26' MWB just wouldn't cut the mustard at a Med port call."
I think that's a VERY valid point to be made - and one I obviously overlooked. :doh_1:
Of course, that reminds me of the 1980s reconstruction aboard NEW JERSEY - when the amidship area of the superstructure was being gutted for the addition of the Tomahawks and their associated support areas (where the old triple 40mm quad mounts used to reside), the yard workers discovered the larger support beams that had been put there in the original build of the ship to support the various ship's boats that would have been there instead of the addition of the 40mm mounts. So, perhaps in the 1950 refit for Korea it was a combination of newer, heavier aircraft AND the additional need for multiple boat handling chores for (as you said) Med. cruises, that facilitated the newer, beefier a/c crane.
I now have my replacement LCD in hand and will hopefully get the printer reassembled tomorrow with successful results pending. So, further design work on the a/c crane base unit tonight.
Hank