Weekend Work Sucks!!!!

Whomever decides our schedules should be forced to eat a 10 ton pile of dog shit. Three FUCKING weekends in a row. What kind of lunacy is that I am pissed beyond belief. More later. Work beckons

The Southy will rise again

Well I took the plunge. I brought the USS South Carolina off the shelf and started looking at what I would need to get it on the water. Just as an aside the USS South Carolina (would have been the world’s first all big gun Battleship but the US Congress held up funding) is listed as BB26.  Her Sister ship was BB27 the USS Michigan.

Anyways i took a look at what needs to be done. Remarkably very little needs to be done. When i mean little I mean nothing major.  What it means is I have to purchase three servos. I have the cannons for the boat. It would be a matter of installing the guns and then plumb in the pneumatics. Some of the pneumatics  can be installed before the cannons go in as it will be all on quick disconnects. So I figure It will take me about an hour to install 3 cannons. Pneumatics will be about another 30-40 minutes.

The servos can be cheaply obtained and then it is a matter of tool dipping them to make sure they are waterproof. That takes about a day as there is drying time. Actually it really can be used 2 hrs after it is dipped soonce I get the servos I will dip them before I go to bed. Installing the servos is about 30 minutes.

The only delay in getting the boat combat ready is the lack of a regulator.  the PE has my other regulator and CO2 bottle so I have to wait until it arrives back before I can test the pneumatics for leaks

I hope this will be a smooth quick rebuild.

It’s Balsa shredding time!!

Well the Bama went out Sunday for a sail. It was testing speed and handling. During the time I was the unarmed ship in the middle of a battle between the IJN Nagato and the DKM Scharnhorst. The Scharnhorst (aka scharny, scharnroast) was taking the worse of the action until the engine blew and you could see smoke coming from the ship. A part went on the motor. So to test how well the Bama was sheeted it was subjected to fire from the Nagato. Point Blank range (less than 6 inches into the siode of the balsa. i would say about 50% of the bb’s bounced off the side. That is not a good thing. I am debating stripping the balsa off and resheeting or take out the palm sander and sand down the paint.

So now I am considering taking the USS South Carolina (BB26) out of retirement and get her armed and ready for CANNATS in September. The Southy was my first combat boat and what a great ship she was. I have the gear so I will see what happens this week.