New MSW crew-mate Dave Hill (DaveHill) sends in his second MSW submission, this time he shares his fine build of the USS North Carolina, Late War Configuration, in this MSW Photo Feature!

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Thanks!
~Gunny

Very Nice!!

An excellent model indeed! There appear to be curved basket looking things in a few places, what were these used for on the real ship?

Anthony,

If you are talking about the things circled their called "Floaternet Baskets"...the baskets contained strings of cork floats used as life-saving equipment by the crew if the ship sank. I didn't add the floats because I could't come up with a way to make them.



HTH!!!!!

Dave

Now that is a very nice looking North Carolina. Loaded with detail right down to the hand wheels on the water tight doors.

Thank you for sharing her with us.

hello Dave,
great looking ship.do you have any close up photo's of the mast and supporting wires?that is one of the places i have a hard time figuring out how to do.
thanks for sharing.
cheers,
Bruce

Nice build Dave, but the gun barrels look to long, they look like 50,s as on the Iowa, appossed to the 45,s on NC

very nicely done, thanks for sharing!

I did this one a year or so ago. Tough kit, but with some patience and that excellent Lionroar set, it comes out looking great. I used Kenny's Gator masks on mine to do that 3 color camoflauge pattern (MS - heck if I know). Really love all the goodies that came with that Lionroar set, just disappointed that the follow on sets they make are all well over $100 a pop. I think the one I got for this one was around $50.

Ron,

???...those are the brass barrels from the Lionroar PE set!

Dave