Countering the Submarine threat

proditor · February 23, 2011, 10:04:59 AM

Gutted the Hanger, rebuilt from scratch. New one looks a lot better. Pics tonight, including a shot of the worst job on the ship.

proditor · February 23, 2011, 05:55:41 PM

Pictures! It's hard to see the Hanger door because of the flash, but I think the basic idea comes across. I like this a lot better. Thanks to Cliffy B for the inspirational line art!

Captain Canada · February 23, 2011, 06:08:52 PM

Nice ! Lots more room in that hangar as well.

Cliffy B · February 23, 2011, 06:15:23 PM

Neato man! Only critique would be I think you need to raise the after funnel. If those are meant to be AA guns atop the hangar, their crews will be dieing of exhaust gases. If you're feeling ambitious and up for some surgery, you could trunk the funnels together into a single one. You'd lose the deck space for the surface tubes but if you're doing ASW, they're pretty useless. Also, if you have any Skywave weapon sprues I'd swap everything out for them. The kit parts are pretty bad and horribly inaccurate. Just my $0.02 man, keep it up

Taiidantomcat · February 23, 2011, 08:08:14 PM

Great work

proditor · February 25, 2011, 06:29:35 AM

Pics later, but last night I raised both funnels by about a third or more. Much better clearance now. I have some wonderful new 3"/70 mounts, but since the design for those wasn't even finalized until 1956, it looks like I'll be sticking with the Quad 40's.

Jschmus · February 25, 2011, 06:34:05 AM

Could you not shorten the 3" guns a tad and say they're 3"/50s? Those were in service in various marks since before WWII, and they had more stopping power than the 40mm guns they replaced.

proditor · February 25, 2011, 06:50:58 AM

That might work, yeah...my references mention replacing 40's and 20's with 3" guns after the war as recognition that the 3" had a better ability to one shot kill a kamikazee.

I'll look through the parts I have and see what I can do as it would be neat to go to a single size AA fit.

Weaver · February 26, 2011, 07:43:31 PM

Bit late now, but another solution to the hangar problem would have been to use the system on the RN's Tribal class frigates, where the helo landed on a pad on the hangar roof which then dropped down like an elevator to form the hangar floor. Lightweight weather covers then formed the "real" hangar roof until it was time to launch again.

proditor · March 12, 2011, 10:45:41 AM

I thought about drop down and collapsing hangers as well, but I couldn't visualize how i was going to make them, so I went for the "easy" way out. Which of course, ended up being more work.

More pics, sorry they're so washed out, I missed that the flash was on. Final fit before paint starts.

proditor · April 25, 2011, 03:44:45 PM

And I think this is about where this build is going to stay. Baring a major mojo miracle, I'm putting my kits away for a while and taking a break.

Good luck guys, I'm looking forward to the final entries!