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Posted by waynec on Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:25 AM

LOOSE CANNONS resin kits may have a 1/700 drydock. could use that as a guide for building a 1/350.

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:05 AM

Do a google image search on "drydock" and see if you can get enough pics to do drawings.  I'd guess the size inside would just barely fit a battleship or carrier.

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Posted by joshdauner on Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:50 AM

Thank you all for the information you have provided. I have looked at Google maps at the dry dock in Boston next to the USS Constitution and the book that was mentioned and I have drawn a sketch of the model base. Now I just have to buy the materials :) So thanks everyone

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Posted by subfixer on Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:25 AM

Dry Dock  with BBs

 

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Posted by amphib on Sunday, March 31, 2013 6:09 AM

If you look at page 142 of Iowa Class Battleships by Robert Sumrall you will find an aerial picture of the USS Iowa docked in a floating drydock ABSB 2 at Ulithi Atoll in December 1944. From the size of the ship you can approximate the size of the dock.

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Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:59 AM

You will probably have to scale EarthSat or GoogleEarth images--the dimensions of such facilities being considered "strategic" in the days before satellite imagery was imagined.

The floor width needs to be approximately the beam of the longest ship anticipated to use that dock.  The sides are corbled--stairstepped--about 60º from the horizontal.  The landward end of the  dock can be square, rounded, or with 45º clipped corners.  The seaward end gate can be in several styles, from hinged gate, to crane-operated gate to floating gate strategies.

All of which can often be seen used in the same yard.  That's because, once dug, you (almost) never un-dig a dock.  You may change the gating, you may change the cranes, but, there's always a need for just that size of dry dock (and you fill up the lil' ones before tying up a big-$$$$ one)

Now, as a display idea, you can compress the perspective to need  (probably only want to show 3/4 of the thing, and let the case front be the "fourth wall in the scene--that, since the top of the dock with be 15-20% higher than the waterline to account for tides & clearance; this would obscure much of the hull)

Hardest part of that display would be a traveling crane.  Which, a person could argue, would distract from the scene--unless you wanted to show a turret of gun being hoisted out.

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World War 2 drydock
Posted by joshdauner on Friday, March 29, 2013 6:06 PM

So recently I purchased a south Dakota class battleship and I would like to scratch build a dry dock to put it in. I have enough materials to create one but I cant seem to find any plans to go off of. Does anyone know where I can find any dry dock plans that could help me build one. Huh?

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