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USS Missouri to USS New Jersey 1944

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  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: Groton, CT
Posted by warshipguy on Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:55 AM

Yankee Modelworks offers a 1945 USS Iowa resin and photoetch conversion set, much of which can be used as a basis for a 1944 USS New Jersey.  I am in the middle of a conversion to the 1943 USS New Jersey with the open bridge using the old Tom's Modelworks 1/350 conversion set.  The only issue that I have with it is that I have only been able to find pictures of her in Measure 21 camouflage, which is  d*@#$d dark. 

Anyway, check out the Yankee Modelworks set.

Bill

  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:18 PM

vmi1966

Have Tamiya 1/350 Missouri 1944 version.  Converting it to the USS New Jersey.  Solvec the bridge issue.

Can't find decals and cant find a good picture of the New Jerseuy to determine the paing schema

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Iron Shipwright offers a decal set of WWII hull numbers in black & vibrant white.    Shaded numbers are a pre- and post-war thing.   

 

As far as a name for the stern -- don't worry about it.   The raised welded-on letters were painted over during the war.   Seeing a piece of quarter-inch thick steel in 1:350 scale will take a good pair of magnifiers. 

If you must,  apply some rub-on letters of appropriate size, then paint them over with the hull color

  • Member since
    December 2010
USS Missouri to USS New Jersey 1944
Posted by vmi1966 on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:13 PM

Have Tamiya 1/350 Missouri 1944 version.  Converting it to the USS New Jersey.  Solvec the bridge issue.

Can't find decals and cant find a good picture of the New Jerseuy to determine the paing schema

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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