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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:10 pm 
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I just meant it'd remove the physical possibility for the gunner to move into the curved area in the heat of battle while trying to hit a plane moving across the ship's stern.

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As built the shield is straight:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/016253.jpg

It looks like it was "blistered" during her 1945 refit at Puget Sound
I would bet it was to receive a 20mm twin mount in that location.
http://navsource.org/archives/01/062/016209o.jpg

Bow gun tub has also been "blistered":
http://navsource.org/archives/01/062/016294.jpg

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Interesting photo, the bow tubs having a very short extra ready box, one that I hadn't seen before. The twin and singles had the same working circle of 60" radius, but as noted previously perhaps the idea was to increase the trainable arc a bit more, after all the Divine Wind was blowing at the time.

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Since it has been dead here recently, a little trivia:

The trainer and pointer hoods on the 16-gun turrets are not mirrors of each other. They are slightly different on each side.


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That would make sense as the equipment is different.


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Some time ago I run into an article about comparison of three different
1/350 Iowa class kits, re. what kit has the most correct bow, hull,
stern shape etc... I believe that article was about Tamiya, VeryFire and
Joy Yard 1/350 Iowa class kits, but I am not able to find that article.
Any help, please?


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Zacharias wrote:
Some time ago I run into an article about comparison of three different
1/350 Iowa class kits, re. what kit has the most correct bow, hull,
stern shape etc... I believe that article was about Tamiya, VeryFire and
Joy Yard 1/350 Iowa class kits, but I am not able to find that article.
Any help, please?


I can't show you any article but I can tell you that none of the above come close to having a correct hull form. Tamiya guessed when information was not available. Everyone that followed seems to have copied it and its errors. The Trumpeter kit looks like it did that and Tamiya's errors get magnified at 1:200 scale.

In looking at pictures now, Joy Yard improves on Tamiya's bow. The stern it totally wrong. The bilge keels are finer but have the wrong shape.

Interestingly, Joy Yard got the fact that there is a casting at the end of the twin keels but the shape is wrong because they made the shaft bossing way too short.
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The plating lines are off but it looks like a valiant attempt.
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The bow and stern on the Very Fire kit are both way off. Its plate detail is way off but there is less of it and would be easy to get rid of.

Note the rounded bow, rather than pointed:

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The rounded stern, rather than flat on the underside.

Image

IMHO, the Joy Yard is the least incorrect of the three.

Everyone misses the centerline keel between the twin keels. They also miss that the half siding (flat) starts at the front of the twin keel and continues all the way up the stern to the top of the sheer strake. There is a widening where the rudders are mounted. Yet, this tends to be rounded.

The odd thing about the bad hull forms is that the original data is available. It would cost a kit manufacturer $125 to get it.


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Thanks, BigJim for pointing that out (the hull imperfections)! As well I know how BAD the 1:200 Trumpeter kit hull is from my own experience in building that kit (as USS NEW JERSEY) - the bow area is wrong, the stern area & twin skegs are wrong. I can't comment on the Tamiya or older LIfe Like kit that it originated from as it's been way too long since I worked on those hulls, but your comments appear to be correct.

Once again, these manufacturers have the wherewithal to purchase and use the available researched plans to get the hull right - why they choose to short cut the R&D kit process is beyond me. Oddly enough, I do know of one modeler (he used to participate on this forum) who has produced a correct hull thru 3D design/printing that DOES incorporate the correct design.

Again, thanks for pointing out these deficiencies in the various kit hulls.

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If we're talking about the same individual, then it is with his assistance and input that I'm working on building an accurate hull. I will add though, that I'm taking the concept to the "Nth" degree. I am following the mantra's of:

"A job worth doing, is worth doing well"

"If you're going to do it, then do it RIGHT"

"We're not doing this, because it is easy. No. We're doing this because it is HARD"

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Good luck! The most important attribute will be perseverance . A lot of ambitious projects here never result in a completed ship model. My estimation is that a hull is less than 10% of the time and effort in a completed warship model of this type. Especially if the desire is to maintain a standard.

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bigjimslade wrote:
Zacharias wrote:
Some time ago I run into an article about comparison of three different
1/350 Iowa class kits, re. what kit has the most correct bow, hull,
stern shape etc... I believe that article was about Tamiya, VeryFire and
Joy Yard 1/350 Iowa class kits, but I am not able to find that article.
Any help, please?


I can't show you any article but I can tell you that none of the above come close to having a correct hull form. Tamiya guessed when information was not available. Everyone that followed seems to have copied it and its errors. The Trumpeter kit looks like it did that and Tamiya's errors get magnified at 1:200 scale.

In looking at pictures now, Joy Yard improves on Tamiya's bow. The stern it totally wrong. The bilge keels are finer but have the wrong shape.

Interestingly, Joy Yard got the fact that there is a casting at the end of the twin keels but the shape is wrong because they made the shaft bossing way too short.
Image

The plating lines are off but it looks like a valiant attempt.
Image



The bow and stern on the Very Fire kit are both way off. Its plate detail is way off but there is less of it and would be easy to get rid of.

Note the rounded bow, rather than pointed:

Image

The rounded stern, rather than flat on the underside.

Image

IMHO, the Joy Yard is the least incorrect of the three.

Everyone misses the centerline keel between the twin keels. They also miss that the half siding (flat) starts at the front of the twin keel and continues all the way up the stern to the top of the sheer strake. There is a widening where the rudders are mounted. Yet, this tends to be rounded.

The odd thing about the bad hull forms is that the original data is available. It would cost a kit manufacturer $125 to get it.



In fairness, I suspect the hull shape of 1/350 or 1/200 scale mass manufactured kit covering most other subjects would be found equally wanting if subjected to the same degree of scrutiny as that applied to the Iowa class kits.

In my case, I found I do naturally apply the “does it look like the real ship” standard to hull shape. If it does, I more often than not let the errors go, UNLESS the errors are very well known because of extensive discussion on forums like this. If it is, then I usually feel challenged to correct it to as high a degree as I’ve seen other people do.

I also initially explored working with someone else’s 3D printed after market hull. That fell through. So I decided to discard about 1/2 of Trumpeter’s 1/200 hull, and scratch built the complete rear 1/3 of the hull from keel to deck using styrene plank on bulkhead method to correct the generally nonsense depiction in the kit. I also scratch built the front 1/3 of the hull from keel to waterline to correct the far too skinny bulbous forefoot. The only major error I left uncorrected is the insufficient flare that the kit gave portions of the front 1/3 of the hull.

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In fairness, I suspect the hull shape of 1/350 or 1/200 scale mass manufactured kit covering most other subjects would be found equally wanting if subjected to the same degree of scrutiny as that applied to the Iowa class kits.


That is exactly what I am afraid of. In the case of the Iowas we have the actual ships for inspection.

And it's not just kits. We have not [yet?] had an "ATOS: U.S.S. Iowa" discussion in this forum. That book was a eye opening that calls into question the accuracy of the entire series


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On board USS New Jersey there are a lot of items that were removed from the ship and placed in storage. Maybe you can identify what this is:

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Fighting lights?


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ModelMonkey wrote:
Fighting lights?


Not quite.

HInt: Only one was in use.


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"Smoking Lamp" (Ship's Condition Status)?


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Jim,

Just a guess here - possibly a "come aboard" lamp post (red/yellow/green) for the Helo Deck - i.e. approaching choppers would use this similar to the landing "Meat Ball" light system on a CVA. I may have been mounted on the after side of the old Projection Booth so it could be seen from aircraft landing from astern. I don't recall something like this in the late 60s when I was on board, but then I didn't have anything to do with the flight ops and wasn't aware of how they ran their affairs.

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ThoughI have flown helicopters I have never participated in shipboard operations. There are such approach lighting systems in use, especially for night operations but I am not familiar with them. Another WAG would be for positioning another ship during UNREP?

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Fliger747 wrote:
ThoughI have flown helicopters I have never participated in shipboard operations. There are such approach lighting systems in use, especially for night operations but I am not familiar with them. Another WAG would be for positioning another ship during UNREP?
Tom


Now, that would be my 2nd thought, as well - an UNREP GO/NO GO warning light bar - given the fact that most items from the 1960s era are long gone, I would suspect that if this item is something along these ideas, then it would have been in place in the 1980s commission. Again, I don't recall seeing anything like this in 68-69, but then again, I was on the bridge during UNREP from tankers/AOE's, etc. and wouldn't have seen the station setup, etc. Also, this would have been an item stored when not in use. Good one, Tom!!!

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