Takom Bismarck secondary turret

[spanner570]

A warm welcome back from me Bob.

Hope everything goes well for you and good to see you model making once more.

[BattleshipBob]

Welcome back Bob, hope the health issues are not causing too many problems. It'll be a pity if you have to move after all that work on your mancave.
Pete

Cheers Pete. We live by Roath Park lake and on the side of a hill. So steps to get in and a staircase to get to the garden. So I feel we really have no choice but to move, Julies arthritis plus Cancer recovery then add my ME means it's a struggle most days then you have the internal stairs as well.

Great to see you back at the bench and posting again.
An interesting 'little' project you have there!

Afternoon Ian, many thanks. Had to sweep the bench to get the dust off lol

Nice start Bob. Kinda like a Stug with too many guns and not enough tracks…. Hope the move goes OK. Pick somewhere with an inside man cave….it really helps the mojo in the winter…..

Hi Tim, yep a room to do modelling and painting is at the back of my mind. A lot of bungalows have dorma rooms which although will have stairs would be ideal. Easy access to the loft space and I could move my books and bookcases up there as well that would please Julie. We will have to see?

A warm welcome back from me Bob.

Hope everything goes well for you and good to see you model making once more.

Hi Ron, many thanks. Kind of you

[BattleshipBob]

Chris

Here goes, sorry no nails on show, been in garden so not upto the sites dress code lol

[adt70hk]

Not small is it........ Neither is the turret though for that matter.....:smiling5:

[BattleshipBob]

Not small is it........ Neither is the turret though for that matter.....:smiling5:

How dare you sir

[scottie3158]

Sorry Bob who? :smiling:
Good to see you stranger, welcome back. Nice looking build. It would be good if the manufacturers did big scale kits of all the interesting parts of the big ships along with the turrets. ships catapult's, bridge sections ,AAA etc.

[BattleshipBob]

Sorry Bob who? :smiling:
Good to see you stranger, welcome back. Nice looking build. It would be good if the manufacturers did big scale kits of all the interesting parts of the big ships along with the turrets. ships catapult's, bridge sections ,AAA etc.

Yes its bob honest Paul!! I know you can get the Yamato bridge but not sure about the scale. Would like to see Hood or Warspites turrets

[boatman]

Yes its bob honest Paul!! I know you can get the Yamato bridge but not sure about the scale. Would like to see Hood or Warspites turrets

WOW Bob boyo that turret is pretty big an youre exscused
as no nails on show lol an what size shells did it fire an why range finder on some an not all ? an great to see you back on here boyo
chrisb

[stillp]

Roath Park lake is a lovely area, but yes, very hilly.
Pete

[Ian M]

That photo kind of explains why they only made the auxiliary guns in 1/35 and the main guns in 1/72.

[BattleshipBob]

WOW Bob boyo that turret is pretty big an youre exscused
as no nails on show lol an what size shells did it fire an why range finder on some an not all ? an great to see you back on here boyo
chrisb

Hi Chris

They were 5.9 inch and I think about 24/25000 yrds. Will have a look about the reason for the range finder on only these??

Thanks for your kind words

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Chris

They were 5.9 inch and I think about 24/25000 yrds. Will have a look about the reason for the range finder on only these??

Thanks for your kind words

Quite possibly all controlled centrally from the same rangefinder?

[BattleshipBob]

Quite possibly all controlled centrally from the same rangefinder?

From what I have found, they were fitted to provide data if the secondary directors were knocked out and fitted to the middle turrets as they were more stable and less affected by the sea.

[Guest]

Great ,but still sad you have gone over to the wet side Bob . :crying:
Maybe one day you will build that big StuG .

[BattleshipBob]

Great ,but still sad you have gone over to the wet side Bob . :crying:
Maybe one day you will build that big StuG .

Still luv me StuG's John, rest assured you WILL see more StuG builds!! Just luv battleships as well.

Had battleship books etc for longer than StuG