USS Washington, Guadalcanal 1942 [Trumpeter]

[Quincy]

Great work Greg! Love those winches!!



Bob Pink.

[blacman]

Great work Greg! Love those winches!! ...

thank you all.

IJN winches sometimes need to be repaired:

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Getting back to USN:

Still finding errors from Trumpeter kit. Stern superstructure had different ventilation exhausting channels between two BBs

NC:




Washington:



Or I am wrong... Does anyone know where can I find a clear view of stern superstructure showing the vents?


Midship parts finished. Went for etching. Deck fittings also completed:







blastbags designed in 3 elevations: 0, 10 i 20 degrees. Higher level during Guadalcanal I assume was not necessary...




hawse-holes will be replaced:

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and paravanes:




vents also will be replaced:




I designed the life rafts, this is how they look :

[PetrolGator]

Incredible.

[LE BOSCO]

HI Greg

I like your work You're a Professional with its own brand
cheers
nicolas

[MatthewB]

Why did you not make the rafts in 2 pieces, one Resin/3D-printed (the cloth-wrapped balsa floatation device), and a PE latticework for the bottom)?

That is what I was planning to do for my US Cruisers (and, may eventually do for this ship as well, adding to your PE set, if you produce this set to sell).

MB

[Dan K]

Astounding detail, Greg. It boggles my mind.

[JIM BAUMANN]

How will you deal with the gap Barbette to wood deck?

I have in the past solved that issue by wrapping a strip of styrene to increase the diameter of barbette.

Is the kit at fault--or the wooden deck?

Intrigued

Your work--as ever is most excellent!

Jim Baumann

[zs180]

Greg,

you managed to raise the bar even higher: after self designed PE now self designed 3D printed parts with beautiful details.
I guess you are the man behind Shelf Oddity, aren't you?

Looking forward to seeing this ship develop - it is more than promising!

George P�k

[Aekold]

Is paravane self-made or some aftermarket?

[J. Soca]

I can see you've been busy lately and i agree with George on the bar keeps getting higher!




Jose

[marijn van gils]

Amazing detail!
This build is really fun, and educational, to follow.

Cheers,

Marijn

[blacman]

thank you All for kind words ....

Matthew - the rafts are still Beta version. I considered to add PE insert but I decided to make first 3D print test. Looks not bad but needs to be redesigned...

Jim - the laser deck is designed by myself and will be redesigned once again in order to correct barbettes holes. The kit has proper placement. I will make smaller holes and a bit displaced. Actually it is already done. But there is an error of Trumpeter on spardeck level. Location of 127mm AA unit.

red line - contour of Trumpeter injection layer over Drydock plans



Yellow lines - Drydock plans layed over Trumpeter parts


I wonder why in so easy place there is so big error. There is nothing which required over or under scaling or moving. A lot of space around...
Anyway since I will create new spardeck with laser cut planking this issue doesn't bother me.


George - yes, I'm a part of ShelfOddity project.

Aekold - this is my design and after validation of dimension and quality check they will be available through SO. But IMHO they went out very good after first trial.

[MatthewB]

I am still trying to find plans for the South Dakota.

Floating Drydock lists a set (which says it is one of four) of the SoDak in 1941/42, but does not have the other three sets.

Since I am trying to do the SoDak from the Deck up, as you have done here, I would like to get the Trumpter Kit corrected, as you have done here.

Speaking of which, any progress?

MB

[Aekold]

Amazing work so far!
Are the vent pipes your product or they are from the kit? Because it seems to me nobody makes correct vent pipes in 1/700 for ww2 USN, I would love to see your product filling this niche (especially for cruisers, and, if existed, dds)

[blacman]

Amazing work so far!
Are the vent pipes your product or they are from the kit? Because it seems to me nobody makes correct vent pipes in 1/700 for ww2 USN, I would love to see your product filling this niche (especially for cruisers, and, if existed, dds)

the vents are not from the kit. This is my design. I guess (i'm not very familiar with USN vessels since BB56 is my first one) that on CAs and DDs vents are the same kind....

[Aekold]

Amazing work so far!
Are the vent pipes your product or they are from the kit? Because it seems to me nobody makes correct vent pipes in 1/700 for ww2 USN, I would love to see your product filling this niche (especially for cruisers, and, if existed, dds)

the vents are not from the kit. This is my design. I guess (i'm not very familiar with USN vessels since BB56 is my first one) that on CAs and DDs vents are the same kind....

In any case, I will be really looking forward getting those

[blacman]

etchings arrived


I can continue...
main turrets lost their liferafts - they going to be replaced. But got new tops :






i need to work a bit on front armor plate...




laser cut decks also arrived:








all fits very nice

[biegacz90]

amazing as always

[ModelMonkey]

Absolutnie pi?kny, Greg!

[MatthewB]

Just as a possibility, would you like some new Blast bags made for this ship.

The Draping on the Blast bags you have made just doesn't look natural (The Draping is as if they were pointing straight up into a vertical, and not as if they were pointing along a horizontal plane).

I could have them in a couple of days (I have a Washington, but have not yet opened it, to use as a reference for the Blast bags).

MB