Useful information. See my attachment for my advice on how to do 20mm guns; pedantic post above notwithstanding, it's more or less correct, and at this scale, it's pretty irrelevant to begin with. :P ;) I feel your description of my information as "pedantic" violates Rule 11, "11. Mutual respect to...
Atomsk, Please be kind with my states Name-sake battleship, the USS Washington. She deserved better than she received. Awesome work on the USS New York! I chose Washington as a project because of her accomplishment at NBoGc. She did not fight the last BB vs BB action in history, but surely the last...
The height of 20mm mounts depends on the mark of the mount. The cast iron Mark 2 had a trunnion height of 46" (about 8 pixels above the deck). Whereas the Mark 5 mount had a height of 62" (10 pixels).
The steel tripod Mark 10 mount had a trunnion height of 52"(9 pixels).
The 6"/47 and 8"/55RF both used Mk 34 directors, as did earlier 8" mounts. Here's the fwd. director on USS Salem, on the right of the picture: http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/139/0413920.jpg The Mk 7 and 8 16" mounts all used Mk 38 directors, as shown on the right, in this picture of USS Washin...
does somebody have pictures, drawings or plans of CIC's of carriers or other ships in the command role? I want to design some for my ships, but I have no idea where to start with them. thanks in advance....... For WWII era, take a look at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/CIC-RADSIX/CIC-5.htm...
After reading the chapter from Friedman's "Battleships...", regarding US battleship modernization, both proposed and actual, between the wars, I got to playing some "what if" games in my head. Friedman states that the original proposal for the modernization of New York's engineering plant involved t...
Permission to come (back) aboard? When we left off, I had just shown off my drawings of USS New York: 1942 http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee5/Atomsk102/Ship%20Happens/USSNewYork1942.png 1943 http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee5/Atomsk102/Ship%20Happens/USSNewYork1943.png 1944 http://i232.photo...
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