Revell USS Arizona 1/426
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Yup, all of what Tom said!
A few more details. Cranes, shafts, propellers and a thingy on the side. Need to paint up top wings on the misrepresented planes. I was going to leave the stairs the same deck steel color but I may paint those same color as hull. Need to highlight the cables on the side and paint up life boat insides. Also need to figure out how these antennas on. I'm starting to dig doing these ships.
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I'd have to be retired to even consider the rabbit hole of PE Pantherman is in!
Added life boats, planes and did some small details. I think I'm going to order another boat to do but also looked in my stash and I have a trumpeter Uss Forrest Sherman in 1/350 which apparently is a great kit so I'll probably do that next. Anywhoo, tonight will touch up the exterior stairs and the bar thingy on the side. Then decals and rigging. Not really going to weather this.
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I think I like the fact that all the detail work is up front and center on a ship. On a plane you spend days working on cockpit interior, details inside the fuselage, building the motor and then seal it all up 90% of the time. I'll always like doing planes because they're just cool and I'd love to learn to fly but the ships display more of your hard work- also your mistakes!
Thanks!
Well, Ron has inspired me to bust out my 1/426 Arizona which I started in 2023 and then shelved. I'll be starting with this:
The deck is not attached to the hull yet, as I need to do a base and find a couple stands for it. The kit comes as a mix of modifications which are incorrect for the Pearl Harbor attack (the biplane scouts and fore topmast) but correct for the Pearl Harbor timeframe (the machine gun nest on the aft tower).
I'll be building mine closer to 1936:
which means I use the biplanes, no machine gun nest, and the fore and main topmast with the main topmast mounted on the fore side of the tower:
I might also leave off the two gun directors, but I have to do more research on that.
The deck is not attached to the hull yet, as I need to do a base and find a couple stands for it. The kit comes as a mix of modifications which are incorrect for the Pearl Harbor attack (the biplane scouts and fore topmast) but correct for the Pearl Harbor timeframe (the machine gun nest on the aft tower).
I'll be building mine closer to 1936:
which means I use the biplanes, no machine gun nest, and the fore and main topmast with the main topmast mounted on the fore side of the tower:
I might also leave off the two gun directors, but I have to do more research on that.
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WELL Ron firstly what happened to me seeing the full size pics ? an yes you on about parts that dont seem to fit an you think you have learning diffs well i feel the same way on my big hornet as the makers have put near every part of what should be on mountin or other on about ten different sprues an im forever lookin through the sprouse to find the part i want an like you i have half a day just hunting for the parts an the instruction book is useless as when i have mangded to find all the parts an fitted them togeather then ive got to hunt through through instructions to find out just where it should be fitted so hunting all through the loads of sprues an then hunting through the blasted instructions backwards an forwards to find the info that i want an yes near a day gone on a simple thing an frustraion buildin up im surprised i havnt binned it as yet but them glass plaastic planes gave me a PITA thank goodness she is near finished oh cant wait till i can get back to my big 1/32 planes AARRRGHHHHHH an i will never do another big ship kit exceptin the tamyia enterprise now that should be easy
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But you are the Boatman!
Got her mounted to the base. Cheap base from Hobby Lobby, stained and then coated with clear polyurethane. I use couplings from the local hardware store for mounts, and toggle bolts hold it all together locked in with some JB Quik.
Such a simple but elegant solution!
I'll have to do that for my next build. Well, my next, next build since I threw the hull together today for a Revell Uss MO. Looks good! Way better than the plastic mount I used!
Here's where I'm at in the build.
I had the deck glued to the hull but pressed down too hard when installing some of the deck guns and cracked it at the seams. Glued and braced again. Hearing a CRACK like that is infurating!
I had the deck glued to the hull but pressed down too hard when installing some of the deck guns and cracked it at the seams. Glued and braced again. Hearing a CRACK like that is infurating!
All hands (and clamps) to the gunwales! 
That sucks- maybe cut back on the coffee!
Nice way to detail the boats!
the Baron
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I just realized that there is a paravane attached to the barbette of turret #2. That's an interesting detail. I didn't know any battleship carried out any minesweeping.
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I found out on my USS IOWA build they had them on board, along with a chain that ran from the top of the bow to below the waterline for paravane deployment. My reference book only showed them on board during WWII, I don't know if IOWA used them or not.
I don't even know what a paravane is!
There's two on the port side as well.
the Baron
Ich bin ja, Herr, in Deiner Macht
You need to watch "The Caine Mutiny"
A paravane is a float that is attached to a wire and is used for minesweeping. The ship deploys one or two, one on each side, the paravane floats on the surface, and the wire is supposed to cut the anchor cable of any mine it encounters. The mine floats to the surface, where it can be collected or otherwise destroyed. But we have specialized ships for that job, and I was surprised to see a paravane on a battleship.
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the Baron
Ich bin ja, Herr, in Deiner Macht
I'm sure the Navy drilled on using them, but I wonder if any of our battleships ever deployed them for actual minesweeping operations.
I'm reminded now of the torpedo tubes that were installed on the "super-Dreadnaught" classes, like the Pennsylvania, the Nevadas, the New Yorks, and others, but which were removed only a few years after each ship was launched. Tactics were changing rapidly, battleships weren't going to use torpedoes, and they took up space and displacement.
I'm reminded now of the torpedo tubes that were installed on the "super-Dreadnaught" classes, like the Pennsylvania, the Nevadas, the New Yorks, and others, but which were removed only a few years after each ship was launched. Tactics were changing rapidly, battleships weren't going to use torpedoes, and they took up space and displacement.
