I would think fabricating them would be a choice worth considering, given those prices.
After all, your ship is a fantasy anyways so you have lots of leeway.
Bill
Oh, so true !!
The Intrepid kit pieces / parts would be more era correct, as David pointed out (sort of), so that would probably be the better option on that account. I’d have to carve up the hull of the LHD to get the elevator surrounds, and I don’t think that the WWII deck edge elevators are big enough for 1970’s-80’s aircraft (helos).
Hi,
If I am understanding correctly, the Hangar deck on an LHD is only about 1/2 the length of the ship, because there are so many additional things that an LHD has to carry (such as a vehicle deck and stern ramp). Where as on a WWII carrieer the hangar may actually consume much more of the length of the ship.
For reference, here is an image of a cut away of the LHD Wasp.
Although its not fully clear from the picture the actual air hangar ends about the same location of where the aft deck cut out ends (a little forward of the port side lift).
On a ship like the Essex class though, as shown below, the hangar extends from fairly far aft forward to the forward lift.
As such, using an LHD as a starting point may leave you with kind of a short hangar.
Pat
This build is a hybrid large cruiser (Alaska Class CB); thus the hangar deck is about 246’ long and the flight deck is about 300’. That’s why I was trying to get the length of the LHD kit’s hangar deck.
Below is the basic hangar deck layout (the white part) set on the kit’s main deck.
With present finances (fixed income) and the now doubled cost of hay (we’ve got six horses), I can’t afford to get both the LHD kit and the angle deck CV kit. So, it’s a matter of figuring out what my best option is; bouncing between what would be easier and what would be era ‘correct’. Decisions, decisions, decisions . . .
those sponsons only 9’ wide? what aircraft? why not cut back the aft superstructure to just aft of the stack as you have that empty spot between the stack & the forward superstructure to fill in?
That is do-able. I was going to add structure at that mid ships area, as there will be Armored box launchers above it (similar to the modernized IOWA’s). Since I have been fiddling with this off and on for a while, I can’t remember why I was keeping the aft super in place. I’ll have to check, but it still doesn’t change the hangar length much, it just opens it up a bit (quite a bit!) I figured on putting the AIMD spaces at the aft end of the hangar, and I still have not decided as to how many fire doors to put in (one set or two).
In case you had not caught it in other posts, the hangar deck is like six feet above the main deck at it’s forward end, and tapers as it goes aft. This would effect what spaces would be chopped out if I removed the aft superstructure.
look at Sheet 5 Inboard Profile of the Alaska plans to see what is in that area as most can be removed or relocated.
I was just looking at that! Actually, those spaces are primarily repair related; Blacksmith, carpenter, sheetmetal shop, and heavy machinegun repair. The ones that still pertain can move to between the forward and aft superstructures, and the former aircraft hangars forward will become staff spaces. I’m looking at leaving a wide passage between the fwd super and the relocated repair shops. Thus, I can expand the new hangar deck per your suggestion, after rerouting a bunch of vent ducting (in theory) under the hangar deck along with a fan room.
what is the sponson widths?
About 11 feet right now, but I was probably going to ‘inlet’ them into the hull side some, and double doors into the hangar bay for line handling.