BB-43 USS Tennessee Booklet of General Plans (1945) https://archive.org/details/bb43bogp1945
Thanks for the references. I mistakenly claimed I had built the 1944 USS California, when in fact it was the 1944 USS Tennessee, but the dimensions should be the same. I took the ratio of the waterline length of the actual ship (600 ft.) to its waterline depth (draft, 30.11 ft., from Wikipedia), and obtained 19.92; on my model, this ratio is: WL length = 50.8 cm divided by waterline depth = 2.4 cm for a ratio of 21.2 (measured from keel to top of boot topping). Also, this means that the WL length of the model, if to an exact 1/350 scale, should be 52.2 cm, so the hull is about 1.45 cm (just over half an inch) too short and the model's draft should be 2.6 cm. So, the model is both too short and its draft too shallow. The kit's rudder is probably the right size, though to make it look more suitable I had to sand a few mm off its depth. Interestingly, my old model of the Yankee Modelworks 1941 USS California is closer to what the 1/350 dimensions should be -- WL Length is 51.4 mm and draft is 2.7 cm. (Sorry for mixing metric and US units, but for me small distances are more easily and accurately done in metric).
is the rudder the right dimension as maybe wrong?
BB-44 USS California Booklet of General Plans https://archive.org/details/bb44bogp1953
BB-44 USS California Technical Drawings https://archive.org/details/bb44ga1943
I have the 1/350 scale 3D-printed IJN heavy cruiser Furutaka from Globaltoy and the French battleship Bretagne by SSModel on order from eBay; the former has already been shipped (per an email from the seller) but as for the latter, ordered first, no news yet (delivery when ordered was supposed to be by Feb. 23). A little more concerning is that many of these Chinese 3D-printed models I saw advertised a month or two ago no longer seem to be available. Regarding ISW releases, I recently completed their 1944 USS California; the 3D-printed parts were helpful but mostly superfluous; more than enough Carley floats and plentiful 20mm Oerlikons with gun barrels always breaking off and no useful connecting point for the shields (which tended to break off once glued into place). The most problematic issue is that, in this full-hull model, the lower hull isn't deep enough, so that the rudder protrudes below the level of the keel and the propeller shafts cannot be horizontally positioned.
Ebayer Globaltoy is selling a bunch of new 1/350 kits, other sellers on Ebay have had several 1/350 offerings as well (Lilixi is another).
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