Okay folks, another barn burner of a card here on The Ship Model Forum:
Another update. I ordered the Pennsylvania stack that Model Monkey designed from Shapeways. It is designed to fit flush on the boat deck, whereas the kit stack is designed to fit through the hole and be fixed into the locator on the superstructure deck.
Here you can see the differences in length.
Here is the hole on the superstructure deck the stack fits into through the boat deck.
So, I have two options, either Mohammed can go to the mountains, or the mountains can go to Mohammed. I chose the later. I really didn't feel like cutting the extension off the kit stack and marry it to the Shapeways stack as that would have limited my options, should I have chosen to use the kit stack for this conversion. In the photo below you can see that the kit stack is ovular, whereas the Shapeways stack is eliptical.
So I made a plug for the hole in the boat deck.
I shimmed and braced it on the underside, in the picture below you can see what I did, it isn't real pretty, but it works.
I am using Plastruct Sheet plastic it is 91104 .040 X 1.0mm
Here you can see the stack sitting flush on the plug and aligned with the superstructure with some PE and kit parts to add the details to it.
I added some "handles" to the incinerator and I also wanted to see how it algins with the stack as the routing of the incinerator stack is slightly different than the AZ. It fits nice and with some cutting and splicing the incinerator stack will fit fine as well.
In the photo below you can see that I have added the PE exhaust "deflectors" in the Shapeways stack. I had to do some trimming but I am happy with the result. The Pennsy didn't have the stack cap like the AZ did.
Here you can see the difference in the stacks. The differences from a distance would appear subtle, but upon closer and second looks the difference is dramatic.
I added some bits and bobs in the observation platforms on either side of the stack. I don't know what was in there but it fills the void.
In the photo below take at Mare Island in February '42, you can see that there are what look like tool boxes attached to the stack. The anti aircraft platform was expanded during this time and the .50's were replaced with four 20mm guns in single mounts: you can see the WWI style helmets in the railing as well. I am not sure if those tool boxes were present during August of '41, but; I think I will add them as there was a water cooled .50 on either side and I am sure the gun crews would have tools and cleaning gear handy during that time as well. So some square and rectangular pieces of plastic will go on there prior to painting as well as eyelets for the stack stays.
As you can see, once again, the differences between the Pennsylvania and Arizona are noteworthy not only in their subtleties but also in their dramatic differences.
Stay tuned for more modeling excitement right here and keep those cards and letters coming.
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Mark
Master Gunnery Sergeant USMC (Ret.)
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