My build and conversion of a Trumpeter 1/350 USS North Carolina circa 1944 to a USS Washington circa November 1942. Here is a link to this product: amzn.to/38NI0G1 amzn.to/3kDctJM
That would be great if you could get those pictures someday or if she could at least send you a digital copy of them. Do you know what kind of ship it was?
I was considering same conversion, but even before i started, i bought a piece of North Carolina teak deck from NoCar online gift-shop - so having a perfect BB55 model stand, there was no way i was going to build it as Washington (Maybe one day Trumpeter will do something silly - like 1:200 model? :D ) Overall i like the changes and research you've put into it but also have couple of questions/observations: 1 is linoleum - I've never seen a single picture of a US WW2 warship with linoleum deck - and even if it was there: are you sure it wasn't coloured/stained in blue? 2-nd are cranes and catapults... Just no - throw away the plastic ones and replace them with etched parts - makes a whole world of difference (those cranes and catapults were standardized for us navy so finding them in 1/350 is easy)
Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting. As far as the cranes and catapults go yes down the road that's something I will be doing but number one I hate photo etch and number to it takes a long time for me to be able to do just one catapult so I wanted to be able to display the model while I still work on it over time. Since this video was made I have done a bunch of weathering and also added 3D printed 20 mm guns to it. I have also started putting on some of the photo extra railings. Now for my favorite part of the question. Linoleum was used quite widely in US ships particularly battleships previous to WWII. I recently did a video on that if you would like to check it out. There was also a memo that you can find on the researcher at large page, from December of 1942 that talks about removing linoleum and other combustible materials from all us warships. That comes because of the actions off of Guadalcanal where several of our ships took hits and the linoleum flooring caught fire and made the damage to those ships worse. While I do not have any pictures of Washington or North Carolina with linoleum on the bridge decks I took creative license with the theory that since the ships were built in the late 30s they had linoleum on their upper decks. And since this model depicts Guadalcanal campaign itself would be previous to the memo to remove all linoleum. I posed the question of linoleum decking the group of experts. People like Steve wiper, John Schneider, and others who are recognized experts in u.s. ship camouflage in World War II. None of them could disprove the use of linoleum and several of them did admit to the fact that it was used in American Capital ships in certain areas. When you get a chance check out my video about the linoleum decks and see what you think. I'm not saying it was a for sure thing but I do like to stimulate thinking.
Very nice work mate 🇦🇺👍🏻
Nice video Merv. I really enjoy the history of the ship you are modeling. The ship looks great. Thanks for sharing. Jeff
Thanks for watching Jeff, this one has a very interesting history that is for sure.
Very cool 😎. Those old pictures are great, my Dad had some of his old ship, would like to get them from my stepsister. They were fun to look at.
That would be great if you could get those pictures someday or if she could at least send you a digital copy of them. Do you know what kind of ship it was?
great looking build so far sir
Thank you, I still have a long way to go on it but I'm taking a break to get some other ships moved along
Nice conversion. It's always stressful to start chopping pieces off a model but it turned out well.
That it is, fortunately I have a good spare parts box and have alot of experience scratch building. Thanks for watching.
I was considering same conversion, but even before i started, i bought a piece of North Carolina teak deck from NoCar online gift-shop - so having a perfect BB55 model stand, there was no way i was going to build it as Washington (Maybe one day Trumpeter will do something silly - like 1:200 model? :D )
Overall i like the changes and research you've put into it but also have couple of questions/observations:
1 is linoleum - I've never seen a single picture of a US WW2 warship with linoleum deck - and even if it was there: are you sure it wasn't coloured/stained in blue?
2-nd are cranes and catapults... Just no - throw away the plastic ones and replace them with etched parts - makes a whole world of difference (those cranes and catapults were standardized for us navy so finding them in 1/350 is easy)
Thank you for watching and thank you for commenting. As far as the cranes and catapults go yes down the road that's something I will be doing but number one I hate photo etch and number to it takes a long time for me to be able to do just one catapult so I wanted to be able to display the model while I still work on it over time. Since this video was made I have done a bunch of weathering and also added 3D printed 20 mm guns to it. I have also started putting on some of the photo extra railings.
Now for my favorite part of the question. Linoleum was used quite widely in US ships particularly battleships previous to WWII. I recently did a video on that if you would like to check it out. There was also a memo that you can find on the researcher at large page, from December of 1942 that talks about removing linoleum and other combustible materials from all us warships. That comes because of the actions off of Guadalcanal where several of our ships took hits and the linoleum flooring caught fire and made the damage to those ships worse. While I do not have any pictures of Washington or North Carolina with linoleum on the bridge decks I took creative license with the theory that since the ships were built in the late 30s they had linoleum on their upper decks. And since this model depicts Guadalcanal campaign itself would be previous to the memo to remove all linoleum. I posed the question of linoleum decking the group of experts. People like Steve wiper, John Schneider, and others who are recognized experts in u.s. ship camouflage in World War II. None of them could disprove the use of linoleum and several of them did admit to the fact that it was used in American Capital ships in certain areas. When you get a chance check out my video about the linoleum decks and see what you think. I'm not saying it was a for sure thing but I do like to stimulate thinking.