Alternate battleship New Jersey, BB-62

[Joe C-P]

A rebuild of a wreck into a what-if - the new New Jersey BB-62 armed in the same arrangement the older BB-16.





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

[kerick]

Interesting!

[Cobra]

Very Cool Have You been playing "Naval Ops Warship Gunner"? this looks Almost like something from that Game! Keep up the Superb Work Dan

[NARSES2]

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

JoeP

Special finish for night actions ? 

Nice one Jo

[Captain Canada]

That's a neat arrangement. Looks sinister in that dark paint !

[zenrat]

Paint job for deployment in the Black Sea?

I'll get me coat...

[DogfighterZen]

Powerful and scary!! 

[Rheged]

A neat piece of work!   The ammunition feeds to the superimposed 6" guns must be an "interesting" design.

[Joe C-P]

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.