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JIM BAUMANN

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:59 am

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excellent work! :thumbs_up_1:

sharp and precise--and masterfully executed

cheers
JB :wave_1:

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Willie

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 7:38 am

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 681
Location: Vigo, Spain

Hi there Meister Baumann and all.

Thanks very much for your remark. It was a tricky business, but the final outcome was OK, and it is what matters.

The next step was the lights in the main leg of the mast, this thing:

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I have a couple of very clear shots of this thing, so it was not a problem.

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But Jorge Juan had two of these lights. The concept was the same, but the lower one was a bit longer, with the support bars going upwards, instead of downwards. This image was very helpful:

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I had to simplify it a bit, and I used 0.64 mm. Evergreen rod, as the 0.50 mm. one was too thin to work properly, but making it was very easy, although the upper platform supports took some time before I got the right angles in the welding points. The lights themselves were made melting a small section of 1.2 mm. Evergreen rod too:

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I hope you like it. And over to the next post.

Brgds,

Willie.

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Willie

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 7:51 am

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 681
Location: Vigo, Spain

Hi again all modellers:

The next step was the wiring trunk running behind the upper mast, with some other wiring leading to the aerials. This thing :

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I could also see that USS McGowan had a AS-177/UPX in this section of the mast in 1959, prior to her transfer to the Spanish Navy...:

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And that Jorge Juan still retained it in the mid/late 1960's :

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Making the wiring was easy. It is not regular, what would not be convenient, and the final effect is quite convincing, I think, with the AS-177/UPX adding an excelent additional note:

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I hope you like it, and best regards,

Willie.

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Willie

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:15 am

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 681
Location: Vigo, Spain

And hi once again to all of you.

The next step, the railings around the platforms, was not that easy. This is what had to be done:

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The upper railing was very tricky, as it is not regular nor simetric, has quite funny curves, and had to be made in one single piece because welding these thin sections would be for me very complicated. I had to use 0.5 mm. Evergreen rod . It is a bit too thick, but it was a necessary compromise, as the stretched sprue broke almost inmediately, with so much bending and combing. Even with Evergreen to make the curves for the dry fit took some time, but I think that more or less I have it. The final touch needs two more small sections of railing welded on the the topgalland mast supports, which will be added later:

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So, as for now this is how the mast is :

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I hope you like it, and feel free to critize it if you find something that can be done.

Nice going and very best regards from the north Atlantic,

Willie.

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Willie

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2025 9:22 am

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 681
Location: Vigo, Spain

Hi all modellers again.

While I was busy with the main mast I realized that the stanchions and handrails around gun nr.2 onboard Jorge Juan, the same as in many (not all) other US Fletchers, were slightly displaced offboard, no doubt to allow the mount to revolve without ruining the stanchions everytime it happened.

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Unnecessary to say, very easy to do, using 0.75 mm. Evergreen strip:

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And back to the main mast again.

Very best regards,

Willie.

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Willie

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:04 am

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 681
Location: Vigo, Spain

Hi again to all.

The next step was the main signal yard, that even with wide variations in the different units, seemed to have a standard
basic structure, with two different diameter tubes, fixed to the main mast with two legs in a smaller caliber tubing, a kind of fork-shaped supports at the end of the main sections, and several supports for what seemed to be anemometers.

Here the port yard :

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In this interesting picture of USS The Sullivans, it is possible to see the bare structure of this yard, along with the supports for the navigation lights, anemometers and the AN/UPX-5, a IFF aerial, as fas as I can remember. It is also surprising, to state it very mildly, how stripped of virtually everything this ship was delivered to the museum where it is now.

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It was very easy to build:

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USS The Sullivans's yard other side had a AN/UPX-5 aerial and another supports for the anemometer, as can be seen in this other picture, and both were retained by Jorge Juan years after her delivery to the Spanish Navy.

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Again, it was very easy to build, and it gives much life to the structure:

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Both together, complete with wiring and other supports:

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As for navigation lights, Jorge Juan had a different arrangement, with two sets port and starboard instead of one in the US Navy, plaved on the legs of the main mast :

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Very easy to make as well, and the effect on the mast is excellent:

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And over to the next post.

Very best regards from this side,

Willie.

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Willie

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:14 am

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
Posts: 681
Location: Vigo, Spain

Hi once more.

The last step for now was the navigation lights at the end of the main yard. For whatever reason they had a big, round base.
The elements are these ones, with the lights themselves made with a button of molten 1.2 mm. Evergreen plastic.

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And already in place:

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And just a question : Does anybody know what was the reason of the dish base for these two lights ???

The main mast is then like this at the moment. It will need two more supports for aerials with the corresponding wiring, and after that it will need only some small touches:

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I hope you like it, and very best regards from this side,

Willie.

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FFG-7

Post subject: Re: 1/144 Jorge Juan (ex USS McGowan)

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2025 10:39 am

Joined: Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:45 am
Posts: 514

I presume the base plates prevents the actual light from lighting up parts of the ship & maybe preventing the messing up the night watch lookouts nightvision.

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