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

[superhornet1015]

Carl, that looks awesome .Do you know if Richard OMalley is planning on making his 1/48 into a complete kit for sale? I would be very interested in possibly purchasing one. Have to ask the financial adviser( aka the wife).lol


Pete

[NukeMM]

Carl, that looks awesome .Do you know if Richard OMalley is planning on making his 1/48 into a complete kit for sale? I would be very interested in possibly purchasing one. Have to ask the financial adviser( aka the wife).lol


Pete

Thank you, Pete.

From what Richard has told me, and I hope that it isn't confidential, he plans a large kit besides just the hulls in 1/48. Give Richard a PM for more information about that.

[NukeMM]

Playing with the dio layout.

[NukeMM]

The Quad 40mm mount with ammo racks and canvas.

[superhornet1015]

Ok, Carl thanks I'll do that. Nice quads.

Pete

[NukeMM]

1/350 PBM5 Mariners of VPB-27 for my diorama by ISW.

I chiseled out the doors, filled in the portholes and replaced them with decals, sanded one to the waterline, replaced the cowlings on the full-hull one, created beaching gear for, and chiseled out the bow turret on, the full-hull one.

[superhornet1015]

Nice job Carl, Are those resin kits? Both look great in those photo's.

Pete

[NukeMM]

A few more details added to the Dux.........

Bomb Booms...........



Canvas covered Mk52 director and Range Finder, sky lookouts, Mk51, and Radio Direction Finder and Search Lights..........



Stack Stays and Accommodation Ladder and Floater Net Baskets..........

[NukeMM]

Gun Director Tower with 6MC Reproducer, mooring line reels, and crane boom storage support..............



Empty Bowser Tank frame, sky lookouts, cable reel, winch, and ladders............

[bwross11]

Looking really good Carl. Shoot at this rate I won't have to continue studying drawings, I can just use your Dux as a reference and copy!! But, really it looks amazing.

BZ,
Bruce

[NukeMM]

Thanks, Bruce! I'm trying to make it as close to "per plan" as I can and according to the inspiration photos.

Here are some more details.

Canvas on the depth charge racks.

[NukeMM]

Rigging on the boat boom.



Small boat details: ties downs, empty cradle where the deployed boats were stowed, etc......

[NukeMM]

Foremast is attached and beginning of the rigging with the lower stays.

[Richard J OMalley]

Nice set of plans to rig her with .

[Russ2146]

Man, with all that rigging, and I include the boat boom, this is going to be incredible..

Materials wise, what are you using?

Russ

[NukeMM]

Man, with all that rigging, and I include the boat boom, this is going to be incredible..

Materials wise, what are you using?

Russ

Thanks Russ!

I'm using that Caenis thread that I keep asking you for the online retailer's link. And for the stays/guys, which have starting and stopping points that a thread couldn't be pulled past and glued and clipped, I'm using 009 steel guitar string and white glue globs for the turnbuckles.

I wish that I had some plastic or non-ferris tweezers. The guitar string keeps sticking to the tweezers, magnetically.

I've been doing it this way since my USCGC Bering Strait build and then the Oyster Bay and Absecon.

[Russ2146]

Ohhhhh, Ok.
http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/category/63500

Scroll down, Caenis is a Uni product.

http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/ite ... hread.html

Here you will see this forum's contibution to this particular site. The diameter was determined by a forum contributor because caenis is sized by weight rather than thickness. Being incorrigibly helpful, I let JS know. I never dreamed that they would put it on their site.

So if the thickness at 1/350 is 0.04938mm (0.00194"), what does that make it at 1/1?

[NukeMM]

Ohhhhh, Ok.
http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/category/63500

Scroll down, Caenis is a Uni product.

http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/ite ... hread.html

Here you will see this forum's contibution to this particular site. The diameter was determined by a forum contributor because caenis is sized by weight rather than thickness. Being incorrigibly helpful, I let JS know. I never dreamed that they would put it on their site.

So if the thickness at 1/350 is 0.04938mm (0.00194"), what does that make it at 1/1?

By my calculations, that'd be 0.679" or between 5/8" and 11/16" in real life. Correct me, if I'm mistaken.

[Russ2146]

Carl.

That's close enough. For signal halyards and long wire antennae, thinner would be more accurate but probably unworkable. 3/8" is probably closer to what those items were, which is why that the halyards and antennae are so hard to spot in period photos.

By the way, here's the new photo of Casco that can be found under "Unidentified Destroyers" at Navsource.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/9999/05999972.jpg

[NukeMM]

I'm thinkng that the pennant on the starboard halyard is the Alpha flag to indicate for others to pass by slowly but, I cannot make out if it is pointed like the Alpha flag is, or not. I'd like another opinion.

I've read that the Alpha flag means that there are divers in the water and to pass by slowly but, does there have to be actual divers or can it be hoisted to indicate to just pass slowly.

The tender was at anchor in an area of seaplane moorings and small boat traffic at Kerama Retto and it had a repair barge tied up along side.



The only other pennants that resemble this are the Kilo and Hotel flags and I don't think that their meanings relate to the situation.