Found another shot of Nevada rafts location. This is a view of the raft stowed on the portside casemate bulkhead just like the starboard one discussed earlier.
Also, thought I'd share some thoughts about the Tom's Modelworks USS Nevada kit presented in today's "What's New". The 3-D parts are what's really going to set this apart from the old offerings in this scale. My main concern with the kit at this point is the vegetable locker. The photos show how Oklahoma's was, not Nevada's. I'm hoping this was just an oversight and Oklahoma's photos were shown by mistake.
Nevada's vegetable locker was quite different from Oklahoma's.
In all of the kits of her that I have purchased over the years, Iron Shipwright's 1/350 version came the closest to the correct design but still didn't get it quite right.
Unlike Oklahoma, Nevada did not have wire mesh for bulkhead on the upper part of the locker. In this shot you can see it was solid steel with vent slots.
On the back end of each corner there was a large square vent. In this view, a sailor is writing on the trunk of the port side vent.
This view is a good look at the portside vent.
This view shows the starboard vent and it also shows another detail that is constantly represented wrong on kits. The large steel plated deck hatches that were outboard of the vegetable lockers on the main deck were not exposed and raised above the teak decking. Teak decking covered these hatches.
I'm excited to add this kit to my collection. It's awesome to see multiple companies collaborating on a kit like this.