Hi all... just checking out the forum - it's been two years since I last visited! You may not remember, but I am the fool who created and 3D-printed an "aft third hull correction" for my 1/200 Missouri. I was working on that kit along with the Pontos detail set back in 2014/15 timeframe, while learning Solidworks in preparation for a different project. It's really great to see this Iowa thread still going strong, with many familiar authors.
What led me back here? Long story, which I will convert to a reader's digest version. My original plan was to build the 1/200 model and learn about Missouri along the way. In addition I created a 1/200 e-model using Solidworks. THAT effort led to the creation of the aft hull correction parts, which I successfully (I think, anyway) installed onto the trumpeter kit. My ultimate plan for all this was to acquire and build a 1/96 Missouri, using skills developed up to this point to create accurate, custom parts using solidworks.
Soooo (and I'm getting to the good part), at some point I did purchase the 1/96 hull and associated parts, and put the 1/200 model on the shelf for the time being. "Time being" stretched into several months as I generated Missouri in 1/96 and began the process of engineering that project (if you know where to see that build log, you'll understand the use of the word "engineered"
), at which point one of my cats knocked the 1/200 model onto the tile floor, five feet below (different cat from the one that destroyed USS Boston...). Anyway, I mopped up the tears and gathered the wreckage, and "stored" it back on the shelf, where it has sat since. Mocking me.
In the intervening five-ish years, I have made reasonable progress on my 1/96 project, but the 1/200 hull - and that beautiful Pontos detail set - continued to call to me. So two weekends ago I took the hull down, dusted everything off, and took stock of the damage. Fast forward two weeks, and I claim it would take a sharp eye to tell what had happened. The 1/200 model is back where it was all those years ago, plus some additional work on one of the turrets. While working on the repairs it dawned on me that I haven't been to modelwarships in a very long time... so here I am
As I said, it's great to see activity on this thread. I'm going to lurk for awhile and catch up.
Good day all,
Randy