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Re: Studfest VI: The Web Page
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:57:48 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter White writes:
> What dimensions are the HES Indescribable ?
Being an escort destroyer, she's rather long and narrow, built for speed not
haulage.
Width: 16 studs
Length: 160 studs
(approx, once I've used up all my toes it gets hard to be sure....)
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 a 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 ;-)
I'm not as happy with the bow on this one as on Valhalla. Being smaller and
sharper, the blockiness is more of an issue. Well, not as happy *yet* :-)
See you Sunday...
Richard
Still baldly going...
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