I wanted to post a few pics of the dockyard base I’m building to display my Haskell-class AKA whenever it gets done. My only real exposure to ports and dockyards was around Galveston, Texas, about 20 years ago, and I, well … wasn’t really paying too much attention to the minutia. What I’m aiming for is a fairly plausible scene where the brand-new AKA is loading equipment and men in San Francisco for her first mission, the invasion of Iwo Jima.
The scale is 1/700. Dock and buildings are all from Loose Cannon Productions; trucks are from Skywave’s beachhead vehicles set, some modified to look civilian; all the railroad rolling stock was scratchbuilt since White Ensign Models quit making it. I wanted to get comments and critiques before I started gluing down all the lovely little 1/700 people:
