Shipbucket

Excellent work, you are certainly on a roll! I don't think I ever remember you being as productive as you are right now.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

If you're interested in this period definitely pick up "Neptune's Inferno" by James Hornfischer - it describes the early actions in the Solomons very well and the BOISE and HELENA feature heavily in it.

Thanks all for the comments. Re: me being productive, that's mainly because I've had a pretty slow period at work over the last few months and have had the opportunity to devote plenty of time to this stuff.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

This is ST. LOUIS (CL-49) in October 1944, after a refit period in California. She is camouflaged in Measure 32/2C.

ST. LOUIS was refitted in late 1943 along the same lines as the BROOKLYN class cruisers, with a cut-down bridge and heavy masts to support radar. Overhaul in 1944 added the SK-2 air search radar with its distinctive circular reflector on the foremast, with SG sets at the top masts. No radar has been fitted to the mainmast, though it has been readied to receive a second air search set (likely the new SP or SM height finder). The highly successful Mark 8 "FH" radar has been mounted on the Mark 34 directors for the 6" guns, with Mark 24 radar on the Mark 33 dual-purpose directors. An SOC Seagull of Cruiser Scouting Squadron NINE (VCS-9) Detachment B is spotted on the aft catapult.

ST. LOUIS would end the war in this configuration, going on to serve in the Brazilian Navy as ALMIRANTE TAMANDARE (C-12), where the ship served as the fleet flagship until 1976.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Awesome job!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Excellent!

Amazing pieces of work, as pretty much expected from you Colo.

If there's one single disappointment about these drawings it's the screws.

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Would you please not eat my gun...

Yeah, I've redrawn them several times. No references agree on their shape and finding close up photos is difficult, as usual. I'll have to revise them again when I get back home.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Updated these (and the Brooklyn class) with more accurate 3-bladed propellers.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Stellar work.

Ian,
Nashville oct 44 & St-Louis oct 44 still lacking 3-bladed props
(on the front page)