I ain't selling. I'm a Naval Historian first, have been for 25 years. I got back issues before for when I build up Kearsarge as AB1. Takes a couple of days to get a response generally.
In addition... I have also found out that the Spanish Naval Archieves has the original plans for the ship availilbe for copy... However, I'll hold off on those. I found out the plans in Warship International were done by Bill Jurens, who does very good work.
Kearsarge would be cool ship to build as a battleship if you could get a scale set of superimposed turrets to work [}]
Yes, but as early USN BB's go they are ugly. Do a VIrginia if you must do superposed turrets. For that era USN I like the Maine (BB-10) class or of course the Connecticut. The turret would not be too hard in 1/72 or 1/96. Conceptually it is just two turrets on a common rotational mount. The plumbing is the tricky bit.
