Model Fleet: Section VII: PORT-MIDSHIPS

Section VII: PORT-MIDSHIPS

Posted by Matty on October 11, 2009, 17:49:27, in reply to "FLIGHT DECK-Edge PIERCINGS"
Message modified by board administrator November 16, 2009, 10:42:16

(Editor's Note: This analysis was REDONE 11/16/09, the graphics below updated with the new results, which should be much less prone to errors than presented earlier.)

This segment is actually offset aft; extending back along the port side from the deck-edge elevator over the next 8 hangar doors, proceding aft (see below). The analysis was able to utilize 3 reference pics showing examples of the nearly unmodified CVS/LPH-fit:

Click on Image to Enlarge At left and center, Valley Forge in her CVS fit (again, very much like I am depicting for Boxer) in March of 1956 and undated from the late '50s, respectively, and at right, Princeton in LPH fit, January, 1967.

Although the above pics are excellent - in truth, well able to provide the desired layout for Boxer - to maintain consistent results, I again included additional pics, sufficient to obtain 16 references, mainly from WWII-fit ships:

Click on Image to Enlarge At top left and -center, Franklin on 2/21/44, and at top right Yorktown on 7/17/44. At middle left, Bennington on 12/13/44, and at middle center and -right Bunker Hill in January, 1945 and undated circa 1970, respectively. And at bottom an entire nest of decommissioned Essexes in 1948, all 5 of which in the foreground were selected: Essex, Toconderoga, Yorktown, Lexington and Bunker Hill, from the foreground moving back, respectively.

Finally, supplementing all the above (amounting to only 14 references) I employed the following 2 best references of ships in SCB-27 fit:

Click on Image to Enlarge At left, Wasp in November, 1951, and at right Hancock in March, 1954.

The following graphic of the result is clickable to reveal the full coverage, as this Section proved too large to fit in the desired screen (since I kept its resolution/scale identical to all the other drawings):

Click on Image to Enlarge Again the "bad news", using 16 references is the "smearing out" of errant hits (pinkish) - particularly for the WWII-fit set, which included by far the most (11 out of 16) references. The bona-fide wartime pics, in particular, were frequently difficult to interpret where obstructed by 20mm batteries, as well as very dark features of the disruptive camo schemes.

However all sets exhibit definite clustering, including direct, repeated hits (darker reds) - even in the small (3-pic) set for the LPH/CVS fit. Again, the patterns of clustering do not appear to be the same between different fits, however there is enough commonality - and clarity - to pretty easily "guestimate" a generalized layout (middle), which I think looks quite reasonable.

This Section was again a lot of work - but it is the largest/most dense of all, so later work should be (and already is) going faster from here.

Cheers,

-Matty