I bought a USS Texas kit from Rcengr a few months ago and have been making steady progress. I have reached the point I call "kit complete" - all the excellent, tight-tolerance parts that came with the kit are now installed. In order to install Indiana cannon, I will need to alter the sub-deck.
Building and shaping the rudder is absolutely my favorite part of building these models. Next steps are boring: balsa blocks between the ribs and plywood sheeting the bottom.
Unfortunately, moving to a new house resulted in my workshop being overrun with still-packed boxes. In short, I haven't made much more progress. However, you have just added some more motivation
Nice to hear there is a resurrction of the project taking place. Can' wait to see the progression. :-D
excellent! I just dug the radio system from my old Northampton out of storage and am just waiting by the mailbox for my Texas to come in. I even grabbed a ton of sand from Kenai lake this weekend to use with resin as a ballast
Hey, did you get to the point of putting magnets in the deck yet? what size are you going to use? I'm looking at getting a bunch of 0.25" diameter neodynium magnets and tapping the holes out with a drill, but am not really sure how powerful these things are and don't want to make the deck hard to detach
I'mma keep pestering you til you're done, bro. my Texas is going to be breaking ice on her launch date soon. I'd really like to see how the different deck layouts work out!
right on dude. I made one of these Texas hulls a few years back for fastgun, and have been building another wood hull for quite a hot minute. My Texas is in stem-to-stern if ya want
yea, i was lookin at it, very nice, texas seems like it would be a spooky big gun ship, 10 cannons if you somehow managed to put them all on.
the hull is roomy, but turret 3 is going to be difficult to arm. Nevada is similar size, ten guns, and would probably handle similarly to Texas.
