Musashi wreck
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12 June 2015, 22:40
Holger KranichNice project you are going for! I´m curious for the result! How deep does she lay? In shallow muddy water like Graf Spee?
14 June 2015, 06:16
Christian BruerShe took a lot of torpedo and bomb hits. Do you know if she was still sunk by the immense flooding or does she got hits in vital parts like boiler or engine room that caused her loss?
There are only a few ships that got such a mass of hits.
Ah and by the way, interesting project, thx for showing it here on Scalemates!
14 June 2015, 13:55
Aghis BarberopoulosThis is quite an ambitious project, and I like it! I wish you all the best with it, it can be quite impressive once finished.
14 June 2015, 15:11
Steve LuckinbillChristian and Aghis, thanks,
Christian, I have been doing extensive research on her (something oneself ends up doing in this hobby), and she sank because she became unstable and capsized to port. From reports, she did have flooding in some of her vitals, however, the crew was working frantically to keep her watertight, but the counter flooding wasn't working. In fact, the crew cut away the port anchor in hopes of relieving the port list. The captain, reportedly, even thought about beaching her so she could be towed back for repair. She was loosing headway, probably due to a loss of one boiler and drag, and started to lose her position in the central force, which just allowed us to hit her more often and and more accurately. The massive damage she incurred after her sinking is thought to be either a magazine explosion, or implosion from the water pressure at around 100' (which shows she still had several watertight compartments intact at the time). The second idea is more widely believed, as far as I can tell.
I am uploading more pictures today.
15 June 2015, 15:27
Christian BruerShe had a massive armor and nearly 1/3 of her weight was armor and protection. Her armor was designed as a citadel along all her vital parts and main armament. Her armor was designed to withstand caliber 46cm and 1.000 Kg bombs etc. I guess form this point of view she was one if not the best protected battlewagon ever.
But as shown some years before a loss big boats are not save against attacks from the air. Bismarck got a frightful hit in the rudder as well as Prince of Wales got only month later. Bismarck was not able to steer after that hit and was gunned down by Rodney and KGV and finally sunk by torpedoes and own demolition charges. I just read an interesting report about PoW loss. She got one hit aft near the shaft. One of her shaft brackets broke off and the high revolution running shaft damaged all the gear, brakes, tubes etc. what caused a flooding along the shaft to the inner section of the engine room. Because of the heat and high temperatures some hatches etc. were open and the water start flooding more and more sections. Some of her generators failed and the flooding could not stopped.
Maybe something similar happened to Musashi – no one knows.
You made a fine progress. That comes all out very nice.
If you're interested in wrecks take a look to the WIP of this modeler. He build a wreck model of R.M.S. Titanic. I had the pleasure to see this amazing model real for a couple of years. He did a great job! Text is German but the photos will tell the story.
modellboard.net/index.php?topic=39072.0
Cheers, Christian
15 June 2015, 17:13
Steve LuckinbillChristian, thanks for that link.
WOW! that is some fantastic work. I wonder what he used for the "rustcicles" I watched a documentary (Drain the titanic), to get some ideas, and there was a segment on the "rustcicles". They are cause by bacteria and not by the usual rusting method. Hmmm. I didn't go that far, as from Mr Allan's video, I didn't see any similar decay, although I wish they would release more pictures of the wreck. I did see quite a bit or brownish/greenish sea life.
My hope is once I get the silt applied, that it will look similar to the actual wreck.
Steve
15 June 2015, 17:37
Steve LuckinbillThanks Dave,
I've decided to make a wee little ROV with a tiny LED. I still need to figure how to power it while the umbilical is mystery heading up to the surface. But being an Electronic Technician who works on micro components, I think I can come up with something.
16 June 2015, 14:59
Steve LuckinbillHere the ROV I made up with some left over PE, actual pictures of Mr Allan's ROV and a little artistic licence. The umbilical is a little out of scale and I couldn't find a white LED, but it should add some interest to the scene
18 June 2015, 16:05
Aghis BarberopoulosLooks very impressive...I like the LED and the painting of the hull.
18 June 2015, 17:07
Bernhard SchrockYou created an amazing project Steve!! Looks very realistic. I'm looking forward the finished model.
19 June 2015, 19:12
Soeren R.Awesome work so far!
I love these kind of amazing projects!
Count me in Steve 🙂
19 June 2015, 19:23
Steve LuckinbillWell I wrapped the bow and stern in some plastic wrap, sprayed some expanding foam and allowed to to expand out to simulate the disturbance of the mud after the impact. Then I applied some acrylic gel to smooth it out. Next I will paint the sea floor.
19 June 2015, 22:13
Christian BruerNever mind some photos are flipped, but this is one of the meaningful and most dramatic dioramas I have ever seen. Congratulations to this magnificent work and excellent photograph!
Cheers, Christian
25 June 2015, 19:32
Steve LuckinbillThanks guys, I wasn't sure just how it would all turn out. This is my first destroy and remake project. To save cost, I made the decks and bulkheads out of cardboard. I went so far as to install some leftover PE watertight doors, although in this light, there's no way you can see them. I'm hoping some museum may want to display it. I just don't know how to go about doing that. Maybe the Yamato museum in Japan, now wouldn't that be amazing? I couldn't hope for anything like that.
26 June 2015, 15:04
Spanjaardthis is scratch building and weathering to the extreme if i have even seen one... absolutelly amazing. great model. certainly museum piece.
14 June 2016, 10:15
