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Picture Post => Current and Finished Projects => Warships and Ships => Topic started by: Joe C-P on June 21, 2015, 12:35:14 PM

Title: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: Joe C-P on June 21, 2015, 12:35:14 PM
A rebuild of a wreck into a what-if - the new New Jersey BB-62 armed in the same arrangement the older BB-16.

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She has 6x16" in two triples, with a triple 8" above each 16", plus a triple 8" port and starboard amidships, in the way of BB-16. Also torpedo tubes, though I know such would be of lesser use for a battleship in the WW2 era. The remaining is twin 5"/38s, 40mm, 20mm. No aircraft.

I think I went a little dark on the paint color.  :roll eyes:

JoeP
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: kerick on June 21, 2015, 09:05:15 PM
Interesting! :mellow:
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: Cobra on June 21, 2015, 09:45:04 PM
Very Cool :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Have You been playing "Naval Ops Warship Gunner"? this looks Almost like something from that Game! Keep up the Superb Work :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: Dan
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: NARSES2 on June 22, 2015, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: JoeP on June 21, 2015, 12:35:14 PM
I think I went a little dark on the paint color.  :roll eyes:

JoeP

Special finish for night actions ?  ;D

Nice one Jo
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: Captain Canada on June 22, 2015, 06:59:30 AM
That's a neat arrangement. Looks sinister in that dark paint !

:cheers:
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: zenrat on June 22, 2015, 06:19:12 PM
Paint job for deployment in the Black Sea?

I'll get me coat...
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: DogfighterZen on July 01, 2015, 01:35:55 PM
Powerful and scary!!  :wub:
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: Rheged on July 02, 2015, 01:22:33 AM
A neat piece of work!   The ammunition feeds to the superimposed 6" guns must be an "interesting" design.
Title: Re: Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62
Post by: Joe C-P on August 15, 2015, 01:04:16 PM
The paint is based on the real BB-62, which did sport a dark blue overall paint job during much of her service in WW2, so that she was nicknamed the Black Dragon.
However, I think I'll rework it with some haze gray one of these days soon, once I finish a couple real-world builds I've nearly done.

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