USS Alaska CB-1 now building

I’ve looked at a few photos. On the fore deck there are at least four big capstans and two smaller ones.

The big ones are covered in fitted canvas tarps and look like big soft cylinders. They seem to look that way on the model- Trumpeter may not have given them much thought.

At the very least, there will be cable reels for mooring lines when the ship is underway.  Shoul be something like one forward, one aft and about five on each side.

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I’m looking into doing a modernized Alaska with the Trumpeter 1/350 kit and I’m trying figure out what all the junk is on her decks fore and aft.

The gun tubs are obvious but there’s all these what look like buildings all over the place. Vents? Machine rooms? Obviously they had a purpose in WWII but whether they’d be needed in a modern version is the question. I’d like to have an idea before I start chopping stuff off.

And the cable reels are another question. No clue what they were for. I have Warship Pictorial for Alaska but it’s not much help in describing what all the stuff is. 

 

Do you have a photo? Hard to picture what you are describing. Some could be ammo lockers for the smaller guns such as 20mm.