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USS New Mexico, 1944

Hello, I would very much like to ask advice from my readers. Obviously many of you are better versed in these matters than I am, and some of you have even served in the Navy. Here are some photos for mood (not all of them are Resolution, but it doesn't change the essence of the matter): In the story of the diorama, my battleship is standing on a barrel in a base somewhere in the Indian Ocean and receiving an ammo. Some of the crew is involved in loading, some of them are standing with their hands in their pockets, some of them are sleeping, and some of them are sleeping right on the deck. It is understandable - it is hot in the cabins. Question: in this situation should there be watchmen on the bridge near the observation devices (all these ALO, ADO, PPD etc.)? And in the directors of anti-aircraft guns?

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You're right! I'm even surprised I didn't notice it(((

WIP:

Thank you for your kind words. Of course, it is a bit early to say that I have already managed to build the bridge. On the one hand, the lower tiers are larger in area and therefore more difficult to fit. On the other hand, the upper ones are fancier and can be seen better on the finished model. And - the final touch is the two sloping rear legs of the mast, penetrating the whole structure. All in all I am cautiously optimistic, as I already have experience of building a similar superstructure on Malaya. But there is still a lot of work to be done.

The original three-legged searchlight and signal platform perched on the shelterdeck like a bear on a birch tree: The first boat is almost ready: Cheers)

Well done

It's a position of a very large Oerlikon: actually a 4 inch anti-aircraft gun. The Polish drawing shows the wrong texture of the deck. The correct one can be guessed from this photo:

That's how much the shelterdeck has grown in a month! Of course, there are still 16.5 tonnes of work on, under and around it. But why not take a picture of it like this?

And radar antennas type 279, as usual with Trumpeter, don't look like themselves

I watched this video. It's pretty funny. It's hard to assess the realism of such constructions, although it's a real shame that the Royal and Imperial Navies never once in real history met in an artillery night battle.

it's not because they're not there, it's because I didn't take a picture of them. I was too modest BTW, I've been meaning to say for a long time. There are obviously a lot of people here who learnt Russian well in the BRNC or poorly in a Soviet secondary school. Probably, they will be interested in the same building in Russian.: https://karopka.ru/forum/forum190/topic33394/ My posts are almost verbatim the same, but the discussion raises completely different issues

Are you sure it's interesting? Because my English is a bit weak and I have to watch subtitles. So I can't combine listening with some boring work. Does it make sense to make time?

I've recently learnt that our Sevastopol-type battleships were more expensive to build than the Queen Elizabeth)