Thank you, Martin, Abram, hypno7, Bob and Kamil!
Elvis965 wrote:
Question.....how are you going to make the flight deck tie down strips? I've been wondering that since your flight deck update! Bob
No worries, Bob. Thankfully for this model, flight deck tie down
strips are a feature of later classes.
Lexington class ships had tie down
points, similar to what we see on modern US Navy carriers, but much smaller. So small, in fact, that they are nearly invisible in photographs and too small, IMHO, to be seen in this scale with the naked eye.
Work on the
funnel cap continues. Uptake partitions are not yet installed and there is one last platform yet to fabricate and install at the top of the funnel at the aft end.
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File comment: The funnel cap has the arched shape of the cap on the real ship. The uptake exhausts are correctly "lipped". The uptakes still lack interior partitions and exhausts lack the grilled "grand arches" of the real ship but they will come. The rounded tops of the splinter shields and the bridge venturis have yet to be fabricated. Soon, though.
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File comment: Tracy White photo (thanks, Tracy!). The SK radar visible on the platform at the top of the forward face of the funnel dates this photo to 1942 or 1943. By late 1944, the rectangular SK "bed spring" radar will be moved from this position to the foremast and a smaller, circular-dished SM-1 radar will be located here. Unlike the SK, the SM-1 radar dish had the advantage of being able to search directly up - a distinct and important capability with respect to dive bomber and Kamikaze threats.
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File comment: Port side. Small, grilled vents have been fabricated along the bottom of the funnel cap, a conspicuous feature missing from most plastic kits of Lexington class ships.
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File comment: Starboard side.
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File comment: The open uptakes extend through the funnel to the flight deck. The open hatch near the funnel cap is backed with an appropriate interior deck and bulkheads and is not open to the uptakes. The rectangular opening on the flight deck near the aft end of the funnel is the opening for the ship's torpedo elevator. It will get a suitable hatch later.
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File comment: Work on the two remaining quad Bofors platforms has begun. The penciled larger circles are the Bofors tubs. The smaller circles mark the locations of future director tubs. The gentle curves of each platform are where the platforms conform to the side of the hull.
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File comment: Here's where those Bofors platforms go, on hull sponsons right up near the bow. Cutouts, seen in the flight deck, will be cut into the hull soon. The sponson's rearward extension is a paravane platform. There is another mirrored on the starboard side sponson identical in shape. There are just two more Bofors platforms to construct: two twin mounts were positioned in individual tubs on the port side of the ship forward of the boat bays.
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