Posted by Mike Kozlowski on September 11, 2010, 19:09:27
...Gonna have to scratch build some for the Barney, and I'm having a little difficulty finding dimensions for the doggoned things. What would help the most would be the dimensions of the largest ones, and I could then Mk I eyeball the dimensions of the smaller ones. Can anybody help out on this?
Mike, I was just thinking of the same thing today, looking at some oval forms that might be copied for decent-looking floats - and I, too, have never seen/heard any dimensions for the size(s) of Carly Floats, nor the (pretty much identical) "Oval Rafts" of the USN.
What (and all) I have heard, in the way of specs, for some of them, is the number of men they were (recommended) to carry - and I can't remember those numbers now. Judging from (especially USN) photos and models, though, there were at least three distinct sizes of them. Perhaps the most classic example: the stacked rafts on the Revell Yorktown-class mold. Carly floats on Airfix (600-scale) kits tend to be far, far smaller - but you never know about the scale-accuracy of such tiny details.
As a last resort, what could be done is to measure the raft parts on many models (of known scales), back-calculate their dimensions, and see what size(s) the majority "cluster" around - no doubt some round number(s), like 15-foot, 12-foot, etc.. I'll try to remember to think of it, next time I've drunk too much coffee!
Mike, did you send the writeup on your Barney pics? (I didn't receive any.) Send (or re-send) it and I'll post your pics - already have everything to get Craig's Gato posted, shortly.
I love you guys - among many, many others of The American People - and think about that on a day like today.
Semper Fi, Amigo!
-Matty
Re: Must've been telepathy!
Posted by Mike Kozlowski on September 11, 2010, 21:29:07, in reply to "Must've been telepathy!"
Matt -
Now there's an idea - we know how many the rafts were supposed to carry, so we might be able to extrapolate from there based on, say 20" space per person! Working this now...
BTW, the Barney write up is a paragraph or two from done, finished on its way tomorrow as soon as I get back from lunch with my son - he's on duty with the SCANG this weekend and we've been invited to sample the cuisine of the Swamp Fox Inn at McEntire ANGS. Probably won't be as good as the lunch I had on a 688 once, but then, Navy chow always had a certain edge over everybody else.