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Ajax: Or the US counterpart to the Tosas, the 1920 South Dakota class (12 16" guns)

That is one tweakin' party barge!

Nice archive at http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/43.htm ...and a few more at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/bb43.htm this one's fairly blurry, but a good action shot, with an Amtrac in the foreground http://www.angelfire.com/fm/odyssey/Tennessee-3.htm Here's a...

Like Rick, I only own JSC ship kits, so I don't have a wide frame of reference. I was a bit disappointed with the USS Helena, but I realized that this older kit was probably hand-drawn, while later kits like SS United States, and Edmund Fitzgerald, were drawn using CAD. I am particlarly...

I'd like to second the endorsement of Lighthouse. I put in an order last Sunday, and it arrived here in Texas on Wednesday.

Try these: Instructions Sailor Bodies Sailor Collars

A product I'd like to try, for rigging etc. is Berksire Junction EZ Line. It's intended for HO scale telegraph lines, but it should work for rigging line in ship and aircraft scales as well. It's slightly elastic, so it will always look tight. Plus, it won't break if you just touch it...

Definitely not Arizona. Texas was a Dreadnought, she had 10 12" guns in five double turets. Arizona was a Super Dreadnought, and had 12 14" guns in four triple turets. Arizona was longer, wider and had a much larger superstructure, thanks to the absence of the midship turet. The...

USS Texas had one sister, USS New York. New York was "nuked" in 1946, at the Bikini Atoll A-bomb test, along with USS Pennsylvania, USS Saratoga, and DKM Prinz Eugen.

I'll see your thud, and raise you a "holy $417" :D I just ordered JSC's USS Helena and SS United States. I need to re-read this whole thread for reference.

I-400?