ArizonaBB39 wrote:
Looking excellent Steve. These will be available in 1/720 and 1/700, right? I got the Tamiya Yorktown kit, but I'm thinking of getting the Trumpeter kit or Tom's kit and converting it. The Tamiya kit looks good, but you can tell it's too small.
Yep, Tamiya's kits measure to 1/719 scale. I think the designs will be printable in 1/700 and 1/719 for both Tamiya and Trumpeter and plan to make them available for "divine scale" fans. There will be two different designs, one at precisely 1/700, and another at precisely 1/719.
ArizonaBB39 wrote:
Steve, quick question unrelated to the Yorktown islands. I can use your New York class and Pennsylvania class turrets for a Nevada class ship, right? I'm pretty sure they're the same (except maybe rangefinders), but wanted to double check before I bought some.
David is correct, the New York class turrets are different than Nevada class' twins (different barbette diameter, different glacis - New York/Texas glacis is curved, Nevada's is flat, different dimensionally). Although having about the same barbette diameter, the New York class turrets are comparatively smaller than Nevada's, being several feet shorter and the roof is about 16" lower.
So, for the twins, in a nutshell, same guns, different gunhouses.IIRC New York class guns could elevate independently within the same gunhouse. Nevada class twins may have been able to, too. At that time, a turret with two guns that could elevate independently was called a "2-gun turret". A turret with two guns that were mounted in the same sleeve was called a "twin gun turret". The Navy's turret catalog calls Nevada class turrets "2-gun" indicating that they could elevate independently. Their three gun turrets are called "triple turrets" indicating that the guns were sleeved together. (See drawings below.)
As you know, Pennsy's triples were mounted together in a sleeve and elevated together in the same gunhouse. Some models of
Arizona have been built with guns at different elevations. Looks great, but the real guns couldn't do that.
Pennsy class triple turrets were the same length as Nevada's and had the same working circle and same distance from centerline trunnion to centerline turret. They are probably a bit different in detail so check your references to be sure.
I hope to be able to design Nevada turrets late this year or early next. The project queue is very full!
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