I know I know... It seems everyone is hot to make a Jersey or a Nebraska or a Georgia... Wait.... While not -years- legal (yet.. come on.. Nov 1904 and the cut off is Jan 1905!) I am building a Virginia Class PDN for fun.
I love it and I am actively writing a rule for it to propose at this coming NATs because it’s a really awesome boat and will be a fun cruiser battle or just mess around with boat.
FYI, I asked the CD - if the admirals and CD agreed - if these could be used at Nats this year etc. etc. (This admiral has no problem with it, but I'm not the CD, nor is he in my pocket. It's kind of uncomfortable there anyway...) The answer I got was no, propose a rule, and if it passes you're good to go. Given that the ship is essentially identical to a Connecticut (1" shorter), and is larger and has more target area than Mississippi, I don't see why people would have an issue with it, but yeah. I was told that you'd be welcome to use it on Wednesday in "unscored" battles, for whatever that's worth. Kind of a bummer, because my weird ship fetish (such as it is) would love to have one. Yeah, like I need more botes at this point, right?
I’m not going to Nats so it doesnt matter much to me. There is already a rule change proposal to allow them for 2024.
I have the rule proposal already written up for it and will be at NATs this year. I was originally the one that really wanted it and in talking with Darkapollo he had started work on it already and he finished it to be printed. I also already asked the CD and figured we would need a rule’s proposal before anything could happen but I’ll be bringing mine to NATs to play around with. Justin “War Crimes” Ragucci
She is gorgeous. What's up with the metal rods, if it's top secret, send the answer in morse code. There's an app for that.
They are there to provide an impact surface for BB’s. They are backed by ½” wide plastic stringers but those are structurally weak due to how the boats are printed. A good BB impact can break them. They are also there to protect against ram damage. I chose brass because it is malleable to hopefully absorb impacts better. I have steel stringers on Derf without the backing (because I goofed and had to remove them). Just testing out different materials.
I took a screenshot, put my glasses on, zoomed in on the picture and then I figured it out, it took a few minutes. Thanks for the explanation. Are you just making one or gonna print and sell a few?
Right now these are in the beta testing stage. Ive already made changes to the model for my beta testers. They are also not currently battle legal until the rule change is proposed and approved. I have not mastered the support settings for certain areas either so the quality is not to my standards.
Of course, you know, everybody's going to want one - or two. I really hope that proposal passes, because those things are so dang cute.
