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Evening all,
The largely Mega Bloks Minifig Escort Destroyer HES Indescribable made her
maiden cruise on the weekend (after salvage and refit) at Studfest VII. I
will get around to some Port Block Yards shots in due course, but for now
(temporarily), here are some happy snaps from the last Studfest:
Overview: http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-12-n.jpg
Bridge: http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-13-n.jpg
Amidships: http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-09-n.jpg
Aft(ish): http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-14-n.jpg
Being an escort destroyer, she's rather long and narrow, built for speed not
haulage.
Width: 16 studs
Length: 168 studs
Height: 32 blocks (waterline to top of bridge, ie excl main mast)
Armament:
1 x Twin 5" turret (forward)
3 x quad 40mm pom pom (midships, aft, and stern)
2 x depth charge drop racks (stern, well duh)
2 x 20mm MG (lower bridge wings)
The original British Hunt Class mounted 5" guns aft and occasionally two
torpedo tubes amidships, but AA and anti-sub is what Valhalla needed, so
that's what PBY built. The originals also had a two pounder mounted right
up in the tip of the bow (for batting away torpedo boats). I had a few
attempts at that, but they all looked silly. I took some solace from the
fact that the original also looked silly in that configuration ;-)
Careful with your follow-ups :-\
Richard
Still studly going...
http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/welcome.htm
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Richard Parsons writes:
> Evening all,
>
> The largely Mega Bloks Minifig Escort Destroyer HES Indescribable made her
> maiden cruise on the weekend (after salvage and refit) at Studfest VII. I
> will get around to some Port Block Yards shots in due course, but for now
> (temporarily), here are some happy snaps from the last Studfest:
Excellent! I do hope we'll get more shots of that 5" DP turret,
I'm always interested in how people deal with that particular
(and ubiquitous) mounting. Someday I will be able to get more
than one minifig into a 5" twin mount...(I may use a train door
to do it...that glass won't last long.)
> Amidships: http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-09-n.jpg
Hey, those carried boats look awfully LEGO to me! ;)
> Aft(ish): http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-14-n.jpg
I especially like those pom-poms. That's what makes it
look "not-American," as opposed to rendering the Bofors
quad-40s that appeared on almost everything during the war.
> Being an escort destroyer, she's rather long and narrow, built for speed not
> haulage.
>
> Width: 16 studs
> Length: 168 studs
> Height: 32 blocks (waterline to top of bridge, ie excl main mast)
>
> Armament:
> 1 x Twin 5" turret (forward)
> 3 x quad 40mm pom pom (midships, aft, and stern)
See above. Spiffy!
> 2 x depth charge drop racks (stern, well duh)
As a general rule, I didn't think even DEs simply dropped
ashcans--I thought most had Y-guns so as not to be at the
mercy of their own ship's turn radius.
> 2 x 20mm MG (lower bridge wings)
>
> The original British Hunt Class mounted 5" guns aft and occasionally two
> torpedo tubes amidships, but AA and anti-sub is what Valhalla needed, so
> that's what PBY built. The originals also had a two pounder mounted right
> up in the tip of the bow (for batting away torpedo boats). I had a few
> attempts at that, but they all looked silly. I took some solace from the
> fact that the original also looked silly in that configuration ;-)
US DEs were also odd birds--those DP turrets really looked
like someone had parked an oversize crate on each end of the
ship! I'll have to dig up some images of the Hunts, as I'm
trying to visualise the troublesome 2-pdr mount and I can't.
> Careful with your follow-ups :-\
Careful is as careful does! :)
best
Lindsay
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> Excellent! I do hope we'll get more shots of that 5" DP turret,
> I'm always interested in how people deal with that particular
> (and ubiquitous) mounting. Someday I will be able to get more
> than one minifig into a 5" twin mount...(I may use a train door
> to do it...that glass won't last long.)
Square(ish) box on turntable, door in back, independantly tilting barrels
(um-ah :-), and I don't do interiors unless thay can be seen from the
outside. I doubt I have much to interest you in this Lindsay. MB, being
focussed on the 2x4 block, provide far less 1x blocks, reducing the
opportunities for interiors. Ok for me, but...
> > Amidships: http://www.hinet.net.au/~rparsons/stud/101-09-n.jpg
>
> Hey, those carried boats look awfully LEGO to me! ;)
Indeed. The two six wide bow blocks, two six wide bow plates, and a
steering wheel - the rest of the pieces have Lego equivalents, but they are
MB. The zodiac thingies are Lego too. And the figs. Other than that,
she's MB and hat elastic all over.
> US DEs were also odd birds--those DP turrets really looked
> like someone had parked an oversize crate on each end of the
> ship! I'll have to dig up some images of the Hunts, as I'm
> trying to visualise the troublesome 2-pdr mount and I can't.
http://website.lineone.net/~jimmer/HTM-DE-hunt.html
Richard
Still baldly going...
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