by ModelFunShipyard » Mon Feb 16, 2026 9:21 am
Greetings folks, I am here once again to ask for your invaluable insight. Either there's a discrepancy between the BoGP for Oklahoma and her actual state in Pearl on 12/7, or working so many hours has fried my brain. There are rangefinders on both #2 and #3 turrets, which coincidentally seem to be the exact same on Okie's turrets, but on Nevada are installed only on #3 and #2's rangefinder has a slightly different 'ear' shape to its extremities, but nonetheless. That's not what I wanted to get at, just an observation I wanted to point out.
My problem stems from the position on the BoGP of said rangefinders. That on turret #3 seems to be offset from the longitudinal axis of the turret, but looking at pictures of the ship during and after the righting process I can't make out if that's actually the case. In fact, it does seem to me as if both rangefinders are centred on the ship's (and the turrets') centreline.
It wouldn't be the first time a Booklet has not been faithful to its subject 100%, but still I don't feel like the pictures provide me with a definitive answer either way; at least I haven't been able to find one with a resolution good enough to tell. Please help?
Greetings folks, I am here once again to ask for your invaluable insight. Either there's a discrepancy between the BoGP for Oklahoma and her actual state in Pearl on 12/7, or working so many hours has fried my brain. There are rangefinders on both #2 and #3 turrets, which coincidentally seem to be the exact same on Okie's turrets, but on Nevada are installed only on #3 and #2's rangefinder has a slightly different 'ear' shape to its extremities, but nonetheless. That's not what I wanted to get at, just an observation I wanted to point out.
My problem stems from the position on the BoGP of said rangefinders. That on turret #3 seems to be offset from the longitudinal axis of the turret, but looking at pictures of the ship during and after the righting process I can't make out if that's actually the case. In fact, it does seem to me as if both rangefinders are centred on the ship's (and the turrets') centreline.
It wouldn't be the first time a Booklet has not been faithful to its subject 100%, but still I don't feel like the pictures provide me with a definitive answer either way; at least I haven't been able to find one with a resolution good enough to tell. Please help? :scratch:
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