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WWII, Pacific theater? Perhaps "Rocky Road". Did any other Navy have ice cream? USN was thought beyond the pale for having a laundry on their destroyers. In the Solomon Islands enterprising sailors and marines made an ice cream churn to attach to an F4U bomb rack, rotated by a small propeller, just flew it to altitude to cool! Everybody else didn't even have fuel for training. Logistics went a long way to winning the war. AO 85 was part of the "Fleet that came to stay".

I reprinted 3 times, the boat rack and the gangway, not being satisfied with the result, by my fault. The fact that the printer takes half the time to print helps to reprint again. I also test the printer to know its extreme limits, we come to the conclusion that it is the resin that reaches the end of its mechanical resistance for small details, the printer is really effective at this level.

I had to increase the diameter of the tubes because it was well printed with the rings to pass the end, but really too fragile during handling to pass the thread through the ring, worse than a thread in a needle . I represent the gangway, at the sea station, it is rarely, the tubes and the ropes are disassembled. But it is prettier that way and it is more visible in its corner. I still have the hose park to design. Some paint touch-ups to do on the boats, the black boot toping

The lashing bars for the boats are to be designed as well, I have rings on the supports for the lashing.















Painting boot toping today, manufacturing the support of the LVCP, and the gripping bars of the two boats, installing the decals of the boats, one by one.















Under the utility boats, a raft can be seen to do paint touch-ups along the hull, homemade with 200 liter drums. We made a few like this too.  

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

Thank you for showing the support arrangements for printing the boat supports. The arrangement of these seems to be quite essential for good results!

Cheers: Tom

Yes Tom, the arrangement of the object's supports is essential to produce an acceptable part. A program like Chitubox can do this automatically for beginners, but often you have to intervene in the management of the supports to get a good printing.

At this point, only experience will lead you to success. Do not hesitate to start over again several times if you get horrors at first. I have a whole drawer.

Filter the resin well after each failure.

Then later, it is the miracle that works...

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

Yes some experience is required. There is an old joke in aviation that Good Judgement is a result of experience, experience is a result of bad judgment. Good results are satisfying, blobs are not!

Cheers: Tom

We can't say it any better!

A bit of painting and weathering / patina today.

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

I saw an interesting photo of a tanker with the whole well deck covered with a supporting plank structure and holding a dozen or more P47 aircraft for transport, assembled but with protective wrap!

A later war type K Gun fitted to Fletcher Class destroyers. These typically used the streamlined late war depth charges.

Thanks for the drawing.

"Examination of this rather crowded deck scene reveals a Northrop P-61 Black Widow, two P-38 Lightnings and a pair of P-47D Thunderbolts on a superstructure of girders bolted and welded to the decks of the ship - probably a tanker - to allow the aircraft to be transported. What the white-encircled areas on the P-61B in the foreground refer to is unknown without the key which originally accompanied the pictures."





Not a tanker. Belfast 1943.

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

I came across these scaled 5"38 mount drawings in my Intrepid AOS book. Scanned at original size, scale 1:37.5

Thank you Tom, this plan will be very useful!

I still have a lot to draw!

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

You can see on this picture the fuse setters.

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

That's a good photo showing the 5" ready box.

T

Spray shield is not present.

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

A picture is worth a thousand words!!

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HMS III
Mocksville, NC
BB62 vet 68-69

Builder's yard:
USS STODDARD (DD-566) 66-68 1:144, Various Lg Scale FC Directors
Finished:
USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) 67-69 1:200
USN Sloop/Ship PEACOCK (1813) 1:48
ROYAL CAROLINE (1748) 1:47
AVS (1768) 1:48

Indeed..

Some pictures of the beginning of the rigging of the load masts, 2 to 3 hours of work for one piece, still 4... But it will go faster for the others, the layout is defined as well as the procedures. The rigging of the masts is assembled with 0.121mm Infinity IR1101B lycra wire, a very good product.











The panoply of the good bosun...

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

The hook as rigged on your ship looks good. .121mm scales out to be 1", a pretty reasonable wire size!

Cheers: Tom

Tks Tom.

I'm looking for American flag decals around 1/200, 48 stars. Any ideas?

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Pascal

•Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
•SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
•SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
•USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
•USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ

Probably not much help, but I remember kits used to come with paper ones that you folded in half, maybe you could print something like this? If you come up with a good solution be glad to hear!

Microscale makes a set of N scale (1/160) 48 star flags. Several different sizes in the set. I think Bluejacket makes paper 1/200 ish scale 48 star flags also