Great Scale model of Battleship for your Layout

Whew!  That's amazing....

Certainly a beautiful model. It does vividly point out that not all 1/48 items will fit nicely on most O-Gauge layouts.

Wow.  It is beautiful model, and I love battleships, but it both too early for the time period I model and much too big to fit anywhere in my trainroom.  

USS Louisiana, BB-19, was one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the US Navy.  Imagine if Kennedy had decided to build BB-71, also to be called USS Louisiana, which was the last battleship ever authorized for construction - and cancelled in July 1943 when it became clear the US needed carriers, not more battleships.  A 1/48 model would be over 19 feet long!

I have a bunch of model warships in 1:350 and have really wanted a 1:48 warship on my layout. A destroyer maybe, ideally either the USS Bedford (The Bedford Incident) or USS Haynes (The Enemy Below) but at around 5 - 6 feet and 9-10 inches wide, either would still be a stretch.

I would need a swimming pool to fit that on the layout.

Tim:

You sure make a good point. 

And that is why I gave up putting a Saturn V on my Layout.

It would have hit the roof before I got it standing up !

Now that I have a BARN to build in...

... we're going to need a bigger beach.

Copter

A labor of love.

I have a rather large collection of 1:48 military model aircraft.  Once I considered building just the flight deck of an aircraft carrier to display them.  I think I calculated it to be around 20 feet long.  Fortunately, brains won out over stupidity.  That would have been a huge project and probably would never have been finished. LOL

Rick

For those of you who want to see the real thing, one of the 2 remaining ships of the the pre-dreadnought era is here on the east coast.  The USS Olympia, Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay, a protected cruiser, is at Penn's Landing Philadelphia, preserved at a museum. Not a battleship, but a good representation of the overall design.

The other is is the Mikasa, Togo's flagship at Tsushima Straits. It's in Japan.

Beautiful model. Many people don't realize the time and skill it takes to plank hulls/decks, rig sails etc etc etc. Job well done.