Holy cow!! I haven't updated this since June???
navydave1989 wrote:
I do have a question for you though...based on all the photos of the wreck as well as a great article by Anthony Tully, it's clear that the deck where the 1.1 inch mounts were located was covered in a layer of concrete to lessen damage from the dummy bomb hits while acting as target ship. Have you decided how you're going to portray that texture/color etc.?
Here's the article I'm talking about, if you haven't seen it:
https://www.oocities.org/historypost/Utah/utahpage.htmNavyDave,
Sorry for spacing out a response. I have a feeling that some sort of deck covering was in place while she was operational. The wreck does show concrete patches on the deck, however these are mentioned as being added during her salvage as anchor point for the righting cables.
I had not read that linked article before. It's not the first one that references that she had 20mm's aboard when lost, but after scanning the last high resolution image of her under refit I can't locate them. With that being said, doesn't mean they weren't added after that image. Hope you post some pics of your 1/700 version.
Awesome find Jeff! almost identical to the image that showed the MK33 but with the dog houses in place. Indeed it was a large one, would really love to find documentation on those things. I know that the deck timbers were secured(however haven't read how) and the yard would remove them. The dog houses were similar but they must have been quite the heavy affair to hold up to the 100lb water bombs.
Unfortunately I have not progressed any on the Utah, too many other distractions. I was actually looking at her today and pondering what I need to do to get back to work on her. Need to track down some 1/350 anti slip mat decals before I can start gluing down the forward guns. Also trying to figure out what her boat situation would have been while underway as a AA training ship. Hopefully more to come after the New Year.
Matt
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