pascalemod wrote:
Betelguese90 wrote:
Progress on a 1/700 Trumpeter USS South Dakota I am currently working on. Used brass barrels, scratch built blast bags from putty, using small brass chain and Tom's photo etch sheets.
Which fit are you building? Trumpeters ship is post Savo Island right? But reasonably accurate otherwise? Does it need huge work (like Washington)?
Correct, the kit is actually of the South Dakota in her final layout in 1945. I predated mine to just before that but after Savo Island. I pulled this from my review of the kit. Nothing catastrophic, but some big errors that can be fixed with scratch work.
So for accuracy on the overall model: there are actually several insistence that scratchbuilding and modification was needed to be accurate to the true South Dakota.
1. It is missing the forward 20mm location behind the 40mm Bofors at the bow of the model.
2. The kit is completely missing the yardarms so had to scratch build them.
3. The area around the officer quarters (where the missing 5" would be located) actually is not accurate in the sense that the 40mm 'overhang' is to low and should be a level higher.
5. A wall should be just behind the 20mm which was the officer quarters rather then it being empty space.
6. Missing platform extending out from the director structure towards the aft mast.
7. Spot light overhang is to high and needs to be lowered slightly.
8. 40mm director platform on the aft main battery director structure is to large and needs to be shortened
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Complete:
1/700 USS California BB-44 (Trumpeter)1/700 USS South Dakota BB-57 (Trumpeter)in progress:
1/700 USS Montana BB-67
1/700 USS Houston CL-81
Waiting Drydock
1/700 USS Guam CB-2
1/700 Sigourney DD-643
1/700 USS South Dakota BB-49