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From Combined Fleet TROM for Batleships Kirishima and Hie

12 November 1942:
In the early morning, BatDiv 11 is joined by Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Kimura Susumu's (former CO of HARUNA) DesRon 10's light cruiser NAGARA (F) and destroyers AKATSUKI, AMATSUKAZE, IKAZUCHI, INAZUMA, TERUZUKI and YUKIKAZE that arrive from Truk
Battleship Yamato was on this day also at Truk

For a brief period in November 1942 all these vessels were at Truk (as far as I can tell)
I have Yamato, Kirishima, and the Akatsuki
Now for the Hiei, to one day re create that day, and even, if lucky, we might get first naval battle at Guadacanal re created

So, another build begins!
Still learning, but this one should be even better, I have the hull already,
I am also going to use a few 3D printed bits for detailed fiddly bits I have already built previous builds

I have a proper man cave this time too, and a proper work bench as well
The electrics no longer scare me, I got Yamatos all re done last week (sail in a few weeks time)
Im looking forward to this build

Hull is again from Tim

Off to a great start mate! Are you in Victoria now?

Cheers Bruce

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building:
1/72 RC USS LONG BEACH CGN9
1/72 RC USS CALIFORNIA CGN36
1/72 RC USS SAIPAN LHA2
1/72 RC USS JOHN PAUL JONES DDG53
1/72 RC USS SHARK SSN591
1/72 RC USS SEAWOLF SSN21
1/72 RC USS ALBANY CG10

We begin, portholes, intend to place lights behind them

Following.............

Port holes done, once I figured out how to stop the glass chipping around them as I drilled the holes (DON'Tuse a pilot hole) this went really well.
Interesting, every drawing, model I have seen shows a cowl? over the top of the porthole
Close up photos of the wreck show plain holes, with the glass set well back into the hull

Have begun the bilge keels, scary cutting more holes, but they too are coming along
Will glass in new year
Then, its the motors and shafts ect

They're referred to as "eyebrows". Basically to channel rainwater away from the glass.

Ok
Interesting photo as the wreck photos of same
Area do not show them......
Anyway, another question
At 1/72 scale just how fast in real life is 30 knots, I just can't
Do the maths
Last sail of kirishima seemed too slow, the bow wave and wake seemed a lot less than photos show, thinking of bigger
Props

Yamato which is a fair bit faster seemed about right

I'd love to know at 30 knot scale speed how long to cover
50 netres

30 knots is 30 nautical miles in one hour.

A nautical mile is 1853 meters, so 30 knots is 30 x 1853 meters per hour = 55590 meters/hour.

If you just divide this by 72 you get 55590/72 = 772.1 meters per hour.

60 minutes/772.1 meters : X minutes/50 meters

X = 60 * 50/772.1 = 3.89 minutes.

Phil

PS: I see videos of R/C model warships skimping along like they are pulling water skiers, and they look ridiculous in my opinion. Ships don't move very fast, even at maximum speed. And they rarely move at maximum speed. The cruiser I was on was capable of 32 knots - but it shook and vibrated a lot! It was hard on everything in the ship.

Mostly we traveled at 15-20 knots. It took us four days to go from Yokosuka, Japan, to DaNang Vietnam. A subsonic airplane could make it in about 2 1/2 hours.

Ships are slow.

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A collision at sea will ruin your entire day. Aristotle

Thankyou ever so much

I agree with everything you said too............
Mind you, best thing eva was working our DDG up to 35 knots
4 burning, 2 turning
awesome..........

slow progress as we put in the shafts and construct rudders ect

we are getting there though

Nice work.

The bog looks messy as :censored_2:, but it works
motors, shafts, couplings and rudders installed
I feel a major milestone achieved

another

Coming along nicely.