Tinkering with new battleship

**norab** · November 12th, 2015, 19:00

not trying to be critical, only offering info, "Truman's Mule" has a slight difference between the front turret compared to the other two turrets

**NCGent** · November 13th, 2015, 09:27

Hi norab, I think Truman's Mule is post WWII, I'm building the WWII era model of BB63 and going by images from that time period. I'll double check just in case I'm wrong though. Is "Truman's Mule" fs9?

**norab** · November 13th, 2015, 10:57

"Truman's Mule" was a nickname crewmen of the "New Jersey" used for the "Missouri"

**NCGent** · December 18th, 2015, 10:43

**NCGent** · December 18th, 2015, 10:44

***huub vink*** · December 19th, 2015, 05:32

Thanks for the update, looks great!

**fliger747** · December 19th, 2015, 22:07

Note on the turrets, the sides are not straight but have a jog with maybe a 10 deg angle. The forward rangefinders for turret one were removed post war on all four ships. So the various features vary as to the date and also vary from ship to ship.

T

**NCGent** · December 20th, 2015, 09:15

Here's a top view of the turret. I'm building the ship the way it looked in 45.

**fliger747** · December 23rd, 2015, 10:33

There is a good reference for the turrets and mounts at HNSA.org, a turret and mount "catalog" with drawings of most all of those used during WWII. Many but not all have dimensions as well.

Cheers: T