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U.S.S. Texas BB-35 Dreadnought Trumpeter 1/350

Swordsman

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I finally got my kit pre-ordered back in march ... Squadron over sold it ... still only received two kits ... one is sold & the other is for sell ... This one is all Mine ...

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The box un opened ............. :captain

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Start-up Date photos ... Couldn't get it all in Here ... :woohoo:

U.S.S. Texas BB-35 - the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.

Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic, and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II, and is now a museum ship near Houston, Texas.

Among the world's remaining battleships, Texas is notable for being the only remaining WW1 era dreadnought battleship, though she is not the oldest surviving battleship; Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought battleship ordered in 1898 by the Empire of Japan, is older than Texas. She is also noteworthy for being one of only six remaining ships to have served in both World Wars. Among US-built battleships, Texas is notable for her sizable number of firsts: the first US Navy vessel to house a permanently assigned contingent of US Marines, the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US ship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers (analog forerunners of today's computers), the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, from a catapult on Turret 3, one of the first to receive the CXAM-1 version of CXAM production radar in the US Navy, the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship, and the first battleship declared to be a US National Historic Landmark.

I replaced the bad English with a bit more detailed report ....

The info on this Ship ... Quite impressive ... Received 5 Battle stars

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The bits inside the Kit ............ Nice stand looks like the proposed Dry-dock to help from having to pump 9,000 gals of water out a day ....
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Side profiles ...... I didn't know She had a Plane ... this is all new Tooling ... Looks like they got it right

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Lots of PE ... I'll be ordering a better bender & some other goodies .... Need paint and I will be picking your brain on this one Mark .... :ro: :dude
 
Think they need a proof reader for the info but she does have an impressive battle record.

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Great model!...following :popcorn

Luiz
Yes, I'll be following also. I agree that's some battle record, but who ever wrote that piece out, needs to learn how to write out and more than likely speak out proper English. An English teacher would have a field day with all of that broken English.


Nice ship though!

Clear up right!
Tim
 
Thanks Fellers ... I have a book on the ship I bought 2 years ago so I do have the references available ... This ship is the last surviving Dreadnought I've been on Her when but a wee Lad .. So I do want to go back soon and get all the photos I can ... in the mean time I'll just use the Squadron book I bought at Scale fest ... and Tim it is always clear Up ... Until You hit the bottom of something ... :rotf ... I Hope to get the proper paints ordered & a few other tools ... I spent the night looking the kit over ... I'll have questions ... because I want to do this model justice ... :captain

As for the English I'll re-write that info soon ... I took technical writing in college and I learned it is very hard to convey a thought in text ... (y)
 
Think they need a proof reader for the info but she does have an impressive battle record.

:captain

Not too bad since the writer was Chinese... :good:

Impressive model thar Gerry!! Word of advice,make sure ya got good magnification on your Optivisor.....jus' sayin'... :blink :S :gogo


:popcorn :popcorn
 
Yeah I know ... there are a lot of small Guns and other bits ... this one needs to be done in a 1/200 ... It will take Me awhile to build so stay tuned ...
 
I'll be watching this one too. I've always wanted to visit the museum. As for the poor English writing, it probably is a direct translation done by a computer of what was originally written in Chinese. So yeah, someone who reads and speaks the language should have proofread it.

Bring it on Gerry!
 
Ok She has slipped Her Bags of confinement and is in Dry dock now ... :woohoo: (y) :D

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Nice Hull detail ... Trumpeter did a very nice Job on this all pin marks inside the Hull ... :captain

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On with the hull Assy ... There is a large gap shown here .... :captain

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These pieces should fix it ... but I did the dry fit thing and You need to take just a bit off the ends of the pins so you can pull it together good .... :captain

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And WA-la with some clamps and Ten-X 7R ... the hull is welded together good ... :captain

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And Here she is sitting in Her Dry Dock .... :captain
 
Ok She has slipped Her Bags of confinement and is in Dry dock now ... :woohoo: (y) :D

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Nice Hull detail ... Trumpeter did a very nice Job on this all pin marks inside the Hull ... :captain

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On with the hull Assy ... There is a large gap shown here .... :captain

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These pieces should fix it ... but I did the dry fit thing and You need to take just a bit off the ends of the pins so you can pull it together good .... :captain

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And WA-la with some clamps and Ten-X 7R ... the hull is welded together good ... :captain

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And Here she is sitting in Her Dry Dock .... :captain
 
Thanks James & Ed ... Now I've been looking at video's and pictures to see the color of the deck ... it has wood in places ... Most of the pictures show it as this

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But would it have been this color or would it be a wooden color ???

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Swordsman, yeah it's always clear up right when your hanging out the crew chief window looking up at takeoff.
But in a helo, running into something would definitely ruin our day for sure.
Helicopters don't fly too well when there rotor blades aren't there. We tend to fall like rocks!

Clear up right! ( it's a Blackhawk crew chief thing!)
Tim
PS- keep up the good work on her, she's looking sweet!
 
Well Gerry, lemme ask ya a few questions... What era does the ship model represent? What era are you wanting it to represent?
 
Swordsman, yeah it's always clear up right when your hanging out the crew chief window looking up at takeoff.
But in a helo, running into something would definitely ruin our day for sure.
Helicopters don't fly too well when there rotor blades aren't there. We tend to fall like rocks!

Clear up right! ( it's a Blackhawk crew chief thing!)
Tim
PS- keep up the good work on her, she's looking sweet!

That's what I was talking about ... no rotors ... no auto gyro ... Thanks For your Service ... (y)
 
I guess I'd go with WWII so that still doesn't tell me if the decks were wood Or Blue Gray I'll call the information office when I get back to work Thursday ... think I'll go ahead and glue the decks down ... aft deck is a bit snug I may have to spread the hull just a bit to get them to drop in ... Well the 'ol lady is playing taps so I must sign off for a bit ... on the big machine ... I can use my Phone in the TV room ... :captain
 
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