With their pointy clipper bows and angular 14-inch turrets - both inherited from the New Mexico class design - BB-43 Tennessee and BB-44 California were likewise considerably different-looking from Arizona, but still with recognizeable similarities in (particularly the) hull features.

Both among the more heavily-damaged BBs at Pearl Harbor, they were rebuilt rebuilt into true, "Missing Links" between the "Old" (WWI-vintage) BBs and the latest, '40s-era Big Guns - looking much more modern (at least, above the waterline), as well as nearly identical to each other, during their subsequent historic participation in many of the subsequent engagements of the Pacific War.

This is the thread for all concerning these two ships, and modelling them from the Revell 1/426 scale Arizona.