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KotoBuilds wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2026 6:43 pm Hello. Do we know whether or not the Iowas received the Mk.8 mod 3 radar atop their Mk.38 gun directors? It seems that the Mk.8 mod 3 shares the same tear drop dome as the Mk. 13 radar.

Iceman 29 wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:20 am Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) having its radar removed to pass under the Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia on the way to drydock - January 11, 2024.

Source: FaceBook- Battleship New Jersey

Fliger747 wrote: Sat Feb 07, 2026 1:44 pm I'd have to look though my files but I designed and printed some detailed Quad Bofors in 1:120 for my USS Randall (see scratch build section) but I think I don't think those have the shields. I printed many many Bofors with the shields but this are in 1:192 and not suitable. Not at home at this moment but I may or may not have printed and designed a larger scale Quad with shield. I may have done a 1:120 Bofors w shield for my ARL 12 project USS Poseidon also one in scratch build. I have sold printing rights before for some open mount 5" 38's for use on a pre war destroyer.

Timmy C wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 8:29 pm

196IOWA wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 2:53 pm Hello everyone. I am new on here as of today. I am building a remote-control 1/96 scale USS Iowa from scratch. One of the things I do not want to do is try and make the quad bofors. I have found some on DS 3D printing. However, I would also like to afford food. So, my ask which may have been answered one million time before is this. Where do you find some reasonably priced 1/96 scale items. (mostly Bofors)

HR Products use to make 1/96 quad Bofors, but I'm not sure they're in business anymore. John Haynes used to but is no longer in business. Floating Dry Dock used to stock them and a few others that are also no longer in business: https://floatingdrydock.com/fittings.htm

You could also ask on the Scratchbuild forum (and look through the links at the sticky there, though I already did for you to no avail: https://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/v ... m.php?f=13)

I think the expectation these days is to 3D print (whether your own or someone else's printer) or old school scratchbuild.

196IOWA wrote: Fri Feb 06, 2026 2:53 pm Hello everyone. I am new on here as of today. I am building a remote-control 1/96 scale USS Iowa from scratch. One of the things I do not want to do is try and make the quad bofors. I have found some on DS 3D printing. However, I would also like to afford food. So, my ask which may have been answered one million time before is this. Where do you find some reasonably priced 1/96 scale items. (mostly Bofors)

Sutho wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 4:51 pm I am scrolling through these pages looking at all the good information and was wondering if we have a kind of encyclopedia of information for modelling.

For example, I know it would be on one of the pages somewhere, but I am trying to look up the WWII rigging configuration for the USS Missouri and USS New Jersey in 1943. From photos it appers they both have rigging of 6 wires between the two masts. From that horizontal rigging there appears to be rigging that is central and attached somewhere midships. Does anyone know where it is secured to on the ship?

Most ships its easy to figure out with photos where the rigging is attached to. However the Missouri during WWII is proving difficult.