USS Washington BB56 - Pyro 1/1200

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Re: USS Washington BB56 - Pyro 1/1200

by davinort » Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:46 pm

Build completed, photos here: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=317521

Re: USS Washington BB56 - Pyro 1/1200

by davinort » Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:24 pm

It's starting to look more like a battleship here. Basic paint applied and initial details highlighted. I can sure tell my eyesight and hand-steadiness are not what they were 10 years ago.

Lots more to go of course. Guns, cranes, masts, and Measure 12R camo.
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Port side forward.
Port side forward.
Port side aft.
Port side aft.
Top view.
Top view.
Starboard view.
Starboard view.

Re: USS Washington BB56 - Pyro 1/1200

by davinort » Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:47 pm

Not much progress the last two weeks. This is fortunate because I (almost too late!) realized that there's a clear visual difference in the conning tower silhouettes of USS Washington vs. USS North Carolina. Specifically, the NC has an extra external platform level* halfway up the tower.

Well, easier to remove than to add.

I will mention the alignment pins of the tower and stack structures are (surprise surprise!) not 100% right. So there ends up a tiny misalignment, but in-scale it'd probably be something like 8" to 12" akimbo. So lots of fine-detail sanding needed.

*I'm sure there's a "real" name for this feature....
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Conning tower as supplied. Extra conn level as on USS North Carolina.
Conning tower as supplied. Extra conn level as on USS North Carolina.
Modifed to match USS Washington's tower profile.
Modifed to match USS Washington's tower profile.
BB 56 11 ModfConn.jpg (26.56 KiB) Viewed 672 times

Re: USS Washington BB56 - Pyro 1/1200

by davinort » Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:26 pm

Rough dry fitting of the upper and lower hulls, deck and main superstructure. I will get all these put together and do the main paintwork before adding the "little pieces" like masts, cranes, and the gun turrets.
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BB 56 09.jpg

USS Washington BB56 - Pyro 1/1200

by davinort » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:51 pm

I'm back in the ship-building world, after not doing it (for no valid reason!) for several years. The focus will be old 1/1200 Pyro and Eaglewall kits.

To see what I did with 1/1200 kits in years past, here are links to:

Pyro 1/1200 USS Hornet

Pyro 1/1200 IJN Yamato

The newest build is the Pyro 1/1200 USS South Dak.... uhm, wait a minute. This kit is NOT a SoDak class ship at all! Pyro advertised four USBB kits (North Carolina, Washington, South Dakota, Massachutsetts) but used the same mold for all four. So - this will become USS Washington, Atlantic Service early 1942. (I also have a Pyro 1/1200 KGV and a Bismar... no it's really a Tirpitz kit ... on the shelf, thus the Atlantic choice.)
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Box top, nice generic title.
Box top, nice generic title.
End cap, oops!!
End cap, oops!!
Side panel listing the various kits in the series.
Side panel listing the various kits in the series.
Upper and lower hulls, plus the main deck. Fairly clean molding with not much flashing.
Upper and lower hulls, plus the main deck. Fairly clean molding with not much flashing.
Single sprue of smaller parts. SMALLER being the key word here. Again, the flash is minimal for such an old kit.
Single sprue of smaller parts. SMALLER being the key word here. Again, the flash is minimal for such an old kit.
Instruction sheet. All done by number. Note the "S. Dakota" title in upper left, but clearly a Washington model. So it's not a matter of the wrong parts getting into a mislabelled box.
Instruction sheet. All done by number. Note the "S. Dakota" title in upper left, but clearly a Washington model. So it's not a matter of the wrong parts getting into a mislabelled box.
Here are the paints I will use. I've not used this brand/style before, so it will be a learning curve.
Here are the paints I will use. I've not used this brand/style before, so it will be a learning curve.

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