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Such beautiful battlecruisers

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Would you please not eat my gun...

were there plans to arm them with 3/50s?

CB-1 and 2 went into mothballs almost immediately after the war ended - I'm sure had they been reactivated they'd have received the 3"/50 guns. I think there were plans to arm the proposed CBC-3 with at least 3"/50s, but I'm not too sure. My area of expertise ends at 1945.

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10-4

Updated with the new information I found regarding the antenna rigging arrangements... such a shame most of it's lost at this tiny scale...

The plans I received finally put to bed a five-year-long question regarding the receiving antennas ahead of the fire control tower - they did indeed exist, as some photos hinted at, but I could never be sure of their exact locations. The wire antennas ahead of the fire control tower will be the most obvious new addition, but I've also been able to draw the exact configuration of the antenna lead-ins aft of the stack (mostly visible on the portside view). These were lead-ins for the TAJ, TBM, TBK, and TDE transmitting antennas that ran fore-and-aft between the yardarms.

At some point I'll try to add all these edits onto the 1944 versions and also onto the CB-2 drawings...

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VERY nice work Colosseum

Well Done!

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Excellent!

Beautiful!

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Very nice.

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Good work, extensively made, a perfect post for the 4th of July

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Thank you Kim for the crest

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