1:48 Engine Room #3 Battleship USS New Jersey for Permanent Display on Board.
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Great work so far!
N4521U
Plastic Pirate
Need some decals for alllll them gauges!!!!!!
I know someone!
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I don't do well making gauge decals in 1:48. Inkjet, decals when really small, get water intrusion under the seal coat and the ink runs ruining all the details. And the 1:1 gauges have very fine pointers and graphics exacerbating this problem. I discussed it with Ryan and we decided to not fret over it. Getting them made commercially surely was an option, but I'm giving this model away and was constantly working to minimize my out-of-pocket costs. Even so, it cost many hundreds of dollars to build.
Today is the official completion day with all the figures epoxied into place and the case reinstalled. Delivery to the ship will be at 9:00am on Monday, December 29. John Miano, the man who got me the drawings and making the model possible, is going to be there along with my nephew and two other fellows who live in the area and want to see it. I'm also going to do the first finding tour of the steering gear compartments, which you can now surmise will be the next model I'm going to attempt. To that end, John sent me the actual engineering drawings of the propellers. My atttempts to draw them based on two pictures is not really correct. John says he has drawings of the steering gear, so that project should be a go.
You've all seen these views before, but now the crew members are permenantly fixed—at least I hope so—and the model is in its final form. I can lift and carry the complete model, but it's a bit heavy and unwield. Just to be safe I'm going to need help getting it out of the basement and into the car.
Looking a little closer… I've added a bit more crew than the standard 8 member watch to place folks around more of the equipment. I was able to reshape one of the new figures into a step-climbing position and have him coming up from the lower level. I inadvertently used Tamiya normal blue instead of flat to do the denim mixes. I went back and used Tamiya flat clear, but still was dull enough. Then went over it again with Testor's Dullcoat brush laquer, but it's still shinnier than I want. But I'm not doing anything more… to many opportunities to screw something up.
This view lets you know just how big the gears are in the gear box. The folks really help in that understanding.
When I see the model in its final form, I really am amazed that I built it, and frankly, not quite sure how it was possible. There were so many variables that had to work just right that it's existent was never a sure thing. I'm not as concerned about the steering gear. With the necessity of having to form part of the aft hull shape, the model will bring in some different skills more akin to building an RC aircraft model. Luckily, I've done that before.
And with this post, I am declaring the Engine Room Project DONE! The Steering Gear project, when it begins I'll post it on a new thread.
Thanks to everyone's attention for all the time you spent reading all of this. It was a fun, challenging and rewarding build and I hope that the thousands of people who will see it over the coming years will appreciate what it takes to make something like this. These models are truly my legacy. The ship will be a museum long after I'm gone.
Today is the official completion day with all the figures epoxied into place and the case reinstalled. Delivery to the ship will be at 9:00am on Monday, December 29. John Miano, the man who got me the drawings and making the model possible, is going to be there along with my nephew and two other fellows who live in the area and want to see it. I'm also going to do the first finding tour of the steering gear compartments, which you can now surmise will be the next model I'm going to attempt. To that end, John sent me the actual engineering drawings of the propellers. My atttempts to draw them based on two pictures is not really correct. John says he has drawings of the steering gear, so that project should be a go.
You've all seen these views before, but now the crew members are permenantly fixed—at least I hope so—and the model is in its final form. I can lift and carry the complete model, but it's a bit heavy and unwield. Just to be safe I'm going to need help getting it out of the basement and into the car.
Looking a little closer… I've added a bit more crew than the standard 8 member watch to place folks around more of the equipment. I was able to reshape one of the new figures into a step-climbing position and have him coming up from the lower level. I inadvertently used Tamiya normal blue instead of flat to do the denim mixes. I went back and used Tamiya flat clear, but still was dull enough. Then went over it again with Testor's Dullcoat brush laquer, but it's still shinnier than I want. But I'm not doing anything more… to many opportunities to screw something up.
This view lets you know just how big the gears are in the gear box. The folks really help in that understanding.
When I see the model in its final form, I really am amazed that I built it, and frankly, not quite sure how it was possible. There were so many variables that had to work just right that it's existent was never a sure thing. I'm not as concerned about the steering gear. With the necessity of having to form part of the aft hull shape, the model will bring in some different skills more akin to building an RC aircraft model. Luckily, I've done that before.
And with this post, I am declaring the Engine Room Project DONE! The Steering Gear project, when it begins I'll post it on a new thread.
Thanks to everyone's attention for all the time you spent reading all of this. It was a fun, challenging and rewarding build and I hope that the thousands of people who will see it over the coming years will appreciate what it takes to make something like this. These models are truly my legacy. The ship will be a museum long after I'm gone.
syscom3
Pacific Historian
This was a fantastic thread. I am sure we all learned new things!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Once again you have entertained and enthralled us with this amazing reproduction of the engine room of USS New Jersey.
Thank you and well done.
Thank you and well done.
Excellent work so far!
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I got nothing. That build is way too impressive to articulate. Great stuff!
