Nihon Kaigun 1946

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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#291 Post by BB1987 »

if Emperor does not mind, i've tried to fix the "bugs"
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#292 Post by Navybrat85 »

Ring kissing, BB1987?

Aside from a friendly jab, looks better than the 12 x 14" original work I've been playing with for a week or so now....I like the Alaskas, and I like this take on it.
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#293 Post by Colosseum »

You've left the aviation gas line on the hull, which doesn't make much sense as there's no aviation contingent on this ship (which also doesn't make sense). You should give it a stern catapult like the other BBs and cruisers.

There's no reason for this not to have a mainmast with an SP fighter direction radar. Place a large lattice mast just ahead of the aft Mk.38 director.

By 1945, I would expect that the catwalk around the armored conning tower would be enclosed. It might not have actual glass windows but it will still have an overhead canopy.
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#294 Post by BB1987 »

Navybrat85 wrote:Ring kissing, BB1987?

Aside from a friendly jab, looks better than the 12 x 14" original work I've been playing with for a week or so now....I like the Alaskas, and I like this take on it.
uh? :?
don't get me wrong, i'm not offended at all, but i simply did not get the joke

Colosseum wrote:You've left the aviation gas line on the hull, which doesn't make much sense as there's no aviation contingent on this ship (which also doesn't make sense). You should give it a stern catapult like the other BBs and cruisers.

There's no reason for this not to have a mainmast with an SP fighter direction radar. Place a large lattice mast just ahead of the aft Mk.38 director.

By 1945, I would expect that the catwalk around the armored conning tower would be enclosed. It might not have actual glass windows but it will still have an overhead canopy.
i've updated the drawing in the form of a rough WIP with some points amended and others not yet, so ican fix them again if they still don't work; moreover may i ask you if you have a clean version of the aircraft catapult? i've extracted it from your 1945 Guam, but because there was some superstructure behind it i don't know wich parts are to be deleted and wich not.
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#295 Post by Colosseum »

Yeah - it reminds me that I need to post the sheet of the Alaska specific parts so all the kitbashers can use it. :)
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#296 Post by emperor_andreas »

I don't mind at all...looks good so far!
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#297 Post by Colosseum »

The superstructure is just too tall. I feel like this ship would capsize in the first heavy seas...
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#298 Post by emperor_andreas »

The hull would be wider to accommodate the 14-inch gun turrets, so that might cancel out some of the problem.
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#299 Post by Erusia Force »

Colosseum wrote:The superstructure is just too tall. I feel like this ship would capsize in the first heavy seas...
I was getting that feeling too.
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Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946

#300 Post by emperor_andreas »

And yet nobody says anything about the Fusos...:lol:
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