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Re: Railing prototype for heavy cruiser
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lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military
Date: 
Thu, 16 May 2002 19:07:33 GMT
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This is the pattern.  My intent is to do the interior of the
ship in light grey, and the exterior in dark grey and tan.  It
should be possible; for the layout, machinery, and deck fittings,
I have a copy of Janusz Skulski's superlative _Heavy Cruiser Takao_
in my beloved library.

I may, however, need to go to a slightly smaller vessel because
of time and space constraints here in the apartment; if so, I'll
go with an Aoba or Furutaka type:

In both cases I'll go for the post-1942 pattern of the ship with
bonus AAA and "Rufe" floatplanes.  I have reference for this in
Jentschura's _Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy_; however I
shall have to base most of the routine fittings and internal sub-
division on those present on Takao/Atago/Maya/Chokai.  There will
be compression; it can hardly be avoided.  But I'm hoping to get
the compression scale down to 1:5 or less, because it messes up
the superstructures otherwise.

Dear me, either way you go you'll have lovely heavy cruiser for yourself.
Have you thought of how to deal with that bow flare yet? It's got an awful
curve to it by all appearances!

I've said before, I'll say it again: I can't *wait* to see her.

Good luck!

Kenneth Tam



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  Re: Railing prototype for heavy cruiser
 
(...) The obvious solution for me is a frame-by-frame construction, with each stud being rendered into a "frame." So I'll be building the flare out SNOTwise below deck level. I have frame-by-frame diagrams of _Takao_ which shall be adequate. It's (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military)

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(...) (URL) is the pattern. My intent is to do the interior of the ship in light grey, and the exterior in dark grey and tan. It should be possible; for the layout, machinery, and deck fittings, I have a copy of Janusz Skulski's superlative _Heavy (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.military)

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