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Re: Minifig Escort Destroyer HES Indescribable (MB)
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Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:35:07 GMT
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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.
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> Width: 16 studs
> Length: 168 studs
> Height: 32 blocks (waterline to top of bridge, ie excl main mast)
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> 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)
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> 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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