Re: NöNö Bärs Shipyard (WIP: Dutch Coast Defense ship, still unnamed)

[Logan Hartke]

I would have a hard time not "neighing" every time I looked at that box if I were you.

Cheers,

Logan

[Captain Canada]

Nice. A bit of a history lesson as well !

[nönöbär]

Right now, its more planning than building, but at least, there is a green underwater part of the Petropawolowsk. Like several soviet ships had



Project 152 - as the former cruiser is now called - should become a ballistic missile cruiser, carrying several ICBMs. It was planed as a fallback solution, if missile carrying submarines would not work.
So, the plan is to remove the gun turrets "C" and "D" and use the backward part of the ship to carry several nuclear missiles.

A first attempt how this could be look like is on the pic above. But nothing is fixed yet.

[DogfighterZen]

A floating threat! 

[Captain Canada]

Beauty. Less talk more boat lol

[NARSES2]

Interesting project, looking forward to it 

[Joe C-P]

Inspired by the Long Beach and Guiseppe Garibadi?

JoeP

[nönöbär]

Inspired by the Long Beach and Guiseppe Garibadi?

No, not really. Actually I saw someone who sold a "conversion kit" for the Prinz Eugen on Ebay, for a Prinz Eugen 1947 conversion with a little missile hangar at the stern of the ship. So this gave me the idea for the Ballistic Cruiser Petropawolosk.

[nönöbär]

The easy part is now done, the hull is painted and completed.



I now work on the "missile hangar", the paper version is now replaced by one made from plastic. Additionally, all the torpedo tubes are removed from the main deck. This old Revell kit has many guns directly molded into the decks, so they all have to be removed.

[Captain Canada]

Looks like a big boat ! Lovely !

[nönöbär]

After two busy weeks in the office, time to continue work on the Petropawolowsk again

As all of the WW2 era AA guns were removed, the upper deck is prepared to get some more modern AA guns


The "missile hangar" will have a little helicopter hangar at its stern side. Behind it, the helicopter landing platform will be located.


The forward superstructure will be more or less the same as on the original ship, however, the radar equipment will be modernized.

[NARSES2]

Starting to take shape 

[nönöbär]

The helicopter landing pad and the updated hangar structure.


The forward superstructure which will be equipped with light AA guns.

[Captain Canada]

Looking good. I really like the landing pad at the back. Always nice to see a chopper on the deck of a ship.

[nönöbär]

A little progress here:

Some AK 630 as liight AA guns


The missile hangar, now with launch tubes on the top


Everything put together