Here are some pics of my N Scale scratchbuilt US Navy guided missile cruiser, the USS Canberra CAG-2. It took two months to complete. There are several more in my New Railimages album.
Bill: Very nice!:thumbs_up: As this is a modified gun cruiser, is it therefore a "tranisition era" ship?
Hi Eagle, You are right, she was a converted WWII Baltimore class heavy cruiser. She was the second US guided missile cruiser, her sister ship the Boston being the first.
speechless :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: As a Navy brat I have sure seen my share of these, you have nailed it. I have built scores of kits but scatch built is soooo much better.
Bill....That is really something. Excellent. Just about as good as it can get....Really Awesom...WOW!!!!!!!!
USN Bill??? Maybe your username should be changed to USN Bill???!!! :teeth: :teeth: :teeth: Kudos! I love the details, where's she to be moored?
wow! WOW! that is amazing, i would pull my hair out glueing the first peice together, let alone making the peices for all of it! sweet job man!
Bill, That is one excellent looking ship, do you have room for it on the layout? would like to see some shots of it in port.
I kind of got burned out on trains for a while. After tearing down the old layout and painting the room, and then adding new benchwork and track, I needed a break. Building these is a nice respit. Here is a shot of the pier are on the new layout. The Canberra is as big as a ship could be to fit in the space length wise. I'm going to build a shelf to go on the wall to hold the excess ships in the train room I'm thinking my wife would like to have the coffee table back in the front room when the battleship I'm currently building is done, but we'll see!
Unfortunately the problem is they take up a huge amount of room. The battleship West Virginia I'm building now is actually wider than the carrier in the picture and a couple of inches longer.
Bill, I still have space on the layout for one more big ship. My problem is width--anything with a beam of more than 75 feet will overhang. That battleship is really coming along. What was the final count at Pearl Harbor--eight torpedoes? When she rejoined the fleet late in the war, she had been modernized considerably, and I think I see you are doing the modernized version. Battleships kept expanding, mostly in length, during WWII (and the years leading up to it), until the Iowa class topped out at 889 feet. My latest efforts are 109-foot Navy tugs, two of them. Really puny little boats, with foam board hulls. I just painted the hulls--let's see if the paint attacks the foam despite all my precautions.
