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[TOMLABEL]

They are looking great!!! The Pri-Fly looks super!!!

Kelley

[ModelMonkey]

Thanks, Kelley! And thanks for all the great photos you sent.

Here's the design at 85% complete. Some of the design differences between the ships have been identified.

Some adjustments are yet to be made as well as further detailing.

[ArizonaBB39]

Looking good Steve! See below for some pictures I found of Enterprise in Mid-Late 1941. I hope it is ok for me to post them, as they are from the 'Life' collection. (http://images.google.com/hosted/life/16 ... ca6c8.html I started here and kept looking at the related images and found all of these and a ton more interesting pictures.) Maybe you've seen them before, but I know I hadn't so I thought I'd share.

These are ones I saved to my harddrive and forgot I had: (I didn't want to search through the pictures again from the link above)























Here's two of Hornet fitting out:

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/db37d8de8361e841_large

http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/9bae99eab5100300_large

[ModelMonkey]

Thanks, Abe!

Excellent photos. Based on them, the height of the battle lookouts has been adjusted upwards in the design.

[TOMLABEL]

Awesome Steve!!!!

They are looking FANTASTIC!!!! Love the wind deflectors on the bridge platforms and the sky lookouts look great!!!

Kelley

[Angeliccypher]

I do not know if you plans for this or not; A friend of mine is looking to do the 1/200 Hornet in her Santa Cruz configuration. The front gun tub on the bow is one of a small handful of things that would be needed to do this. He would also like to get some Avengers to put on the deck. Is this something you would be interested in doing?

[ModelMonkey]

I do not know if you plans for this or not; A friend of mine is looking to do the 1/200 Hornet in her Santa Cruz configuration. The front gun tub on the bow is one of a small handful of things that would be needed to do this. He would also like to get some Avengers to put on the deck. Is this something you would be interested in doing?

Hi Gabe!

PM coming.

[ModelMonkey]

Closer....

[TOMLABEL]

The girls are really shaping up!!

Really amazing work here Steve!! Can't believe my own eyes!!!

I love all of the detail you have incorporated into these!!!

The second image looks like the pic Abe recently posted.

Email inbound.

Kelley

[ModelMonkey]

Thanks, Kelley!

I'll tweak the radar shack, as you requested, no worries.

90% complete.

[ArizonaBB39]

Looking excellent Steve. These will be available in 1/720 and 1/700, right? I got the Tamiya Yorktown kit, but I'm thinking of getting the Trumpeter kit or Tom's kit and converting it. The Tamiya kit looks good, but you can tell it's too small.

[TOMLABEL]

Thanks. Steve!!!

The platform/catwalk bracing looks fantastic!!!
Great job on these!!!

Looking forward to 100%

Kelley

[ArizonaBB39]

Steve, quick question unrelated to the Yorktown islands. I can use your New York class and Pennsylvania class turrets for a Nevada class ship, right? I'm pretty sure they're the same (except maybe rangefinders), but wanted to double check before I bought some.

[ArizonaBB39]

1/700 actually

[ModelMonkey]

Looking excellent Steve. These will be available in 1/720 and 1/700, right? I got the Tamiya Yorktown kit, but I'm thinking of getting the Trumpeter kit or Tom's kit and converting it. The Tamiya kit looks good, but you can tell it's too small.

Yep, Tamiya's kits measure to 1/719 scale. I think the designs will be printable in 1/700 and 1/719 for both Tamiya and Trumpeter and plan to make them available for "divine scale" fans. There will be two different designs, one at precisely 1/700, and another at precisely 1/719.

Steve, quick question unrelated to the Yorktown islands. I can use your New York class and Pennsylvania class turrets for a Nevada class ship, right? I'm pretty sure they're the same (except maybe rangefinders), but wanted to double check before I bought some.

David is correct, the New York class turrets are different than Nevada class' twins (different barbette diameter, different glacis - New York/Texas glacis is curved, Nevada's is flat, different dimensionally). Although having about the same barbette diameter, the New York class turrets are comparatively smaller than Nevada's, being several feet shorter and the roof is about 16" lower.

So, for the twins, in a nutshell, same guns, different gunhouses.

IIRC New York class guns could elevate independently within the same gunhouse. Nevada class twins may have been able to, too. At that time, a turret with two guns that could elevate independently was called a "2-gun turret". A turret with two guns that were mounted in the same sleeve was called a "twin gun turret". The Navy's turret catalog calls Nevada class turrets "2-gun" indicating that they could elevate independently. Their three gun turrets are called "triple turrets" indicating that the guns were sleeved together. (See drawings below.)

As you know, Pennsy's triples were mounted together in a sleeve and elevated together in the same gunhouse. Some models of Arizona have been built with guns at different elevations. Looks great, but the real guns couldn't do that.

Pennsy class triple turrets were the same length as Nevada's and had the same working circle and same distance from centerline trunnion to centerline turret. They are probably a bit different in detail so check your references to be sure.

I hope to be able to design Nevada turrets late this year or early next. The project queue is very full!

[ModelMonkey]

Smile, Kelley!

Weather shelter in place. Perhaps the real shelter was a temporary or semi-portable structure. In one photo, it is erected comparatively far to starboard as in the bottom photo (and the design) but in the sinking photo below it is a bit more to port.

Which position do you prefer?

95% complete.

[ArizonaBB39]

Thanks Steve, I was going they were the same, but I'll wait until you produce the correct ones. In the mean time I'll be buying at least one of these Enterprise islands

[TOMLABEL]

Smile, Kelley!

Wow!!! Those look awesome!!!

Which position do you prefer?

It looks good right where it is!!

As always, GREAT work Steve!!! FANTASTIC!!!
Kelley

[ModelMonkey]

See:

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=162105

[JTninja]

Sweet! Any plans for a late war CV6 island?