Calling all USS Barnegat-class seaplane tender (AVP) fans

[NukeMM]

[NukeMM]

[ArizonaBB39]

[MartinJQuinn]

Nice. Other than being too "blue" for my personal taste, I love your seascape!

[NukeMM]

Thanks, again, Abram. I'm anxious for you to get and start your Mackinac kit.

Thank you, Martin! Does the fact that the USS Absecon served mostly in the Carribean Sea and Gulf of Mexico make you feel better about the blue?

[nick]

At first I thought that you found something wrong with the lines that I scribed in the hull. I thought that when you said "hull seems", I read this as "hull seams". Ha! Ha! at myself.

Hahaha! it's alright Carl!

I'm speechless! Your model is looking absolutely fantastic! I love the foam around the ship, its looks so cool!!



Nick

[NukeMM]

[NukeMM]

[BCBilly]

Awesome work Carl ! Bravo Zulu !

[ArizonaBB39]

Excellent work Carl

[MartinJQuinn]

Thank you, Martin! Does the fact that the USS Absecon served mostly in the Carribean Sea and Gulf of Mexico make you feel better about the blue?

Yes, I feel much better now!

[Sr. Gopher]

Wow Carl, you're running through these like clockwork! And great picture angles, too!

[NukeMM]

Thanks Billy, Abram, Martin, and Gopher!

I'm glad that you all like my AVP models.

I'm glad that Martin can now sleep at nights knowing that I was trying to depict a sub-tropical ocean effect.

Gopher, I think that I make models just so that I can take pictures of them. Might be a subliminal thing in my mind. I tell others that I think that I like looking at the photos of my models more than the real thing.

The Absecon is on a slight starboard list, on the base, and that adds a little to the angles of some of the photos, too.

When launching seaplanes, the man with the flag(s) signaled the pilot (the pilot first giving the signal that he is ready and which is a point-of-no-return signal) and at the next upswing of the port side, the plane was launched. The angle of the catapult being into the wind which was added to the speed of the ship which hopefully added up to the enough headwind for a launch.

I tried to depict a sea with sufficient swells to portray a somewhat windy day and the flags flowing in the general direction of the angle of the catapult and a wake that could depict a Full Bell or a Flank Bell of speed on the ship. The Foxtrot flags indicating Flight Operations in Progress on CVs so, I thought this would be appropriate on the Absecon as well as on BBs, CAs, and CLs. These small ships could only max about 18 knots, at best, less than the battleships and cruisers that the pilots would later be launching from. So, the wind was probably the major launching factor on the Absecon's launches.

[ArizonaBB39]

Excellent work Carl. Hopefully I can buy one of these kits when my tax refund check comes You are a true inspiration

[NukeMM]

I thought that these shots turned out rather realistic looking and had to share them, here.......

[Cadman]

ah so these are the photos that you based your dio on.

[Russ2146]

No, they're photos of his diorama with the camera in B&W mode. Really!

[Cadman]

No, they're photos of his diorama with the camera in B&W mode. Really!

No I have seen the diorama in person and it was definitely in color.

[NukeMM]

ah so these are the photos that you based your dio on.

Good one, Tim!! I'll have to remember to use that line, in the future.

Russ,

Tim was being sarcastic about them being reference photos for my diorama.

[Russ2146]

Tim? Sarcastic?