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American Scout C-2 Cargo Ship by Sterling Models

that is because the superstructure appears to be rotated 90 degrees & is overhanging the hull letting the lights' wires & connectors hang down.
 
True. The point is, there are sooo many wires coming out of the superstructure. I’ve drilled a hole in the bottom of the ship. The wires will go through the bottom and the 3/4“ plywood to Just Plug light hubs beneath the plywood. So far, all the lights work. Lights can also be replaced when needed by lifting up the superstructure.
 
Vic, do all the lights come on all at once or select them individually?
 
I can select them individually with dimmer switches on the Just Plug light hub. It takes four lights. Each wire has its own resistor. I’ll probably have five light hubs, depending on whether I can install all the navigation lights. I would have to dig a groove down the stern and putty over the wires. I don’t want to do that because the light will eventually burn out, even if they are LEDs.
 
Vic, this may have been addressed in an earlier post, but would the hatch covers have had lifting rings, and if so, do you plan to add those? Would be awfully small at that scale, I guess.
 
Namabiiru said:
Vic, this may have been addressed in an earlier post, but would the hatch covers have had lifting rings, and if so, do you plan to add those? Would be awfully small at that scale, I guess.
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They would be ensconced at the little indentations I placed in the boards. I tried putting them in one, but you could hardly see them, and what you could see wasn’t very good.
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
Carefully paint them on to make the impression that they are there. The contrast of the rings should be subtle.
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They appear to be strips of steel screwed or nailed over the indentations. A hook will probably be inserted into the indentations and hook onto the strips. They aren’t technically rings based on the pictures I’ve seen.
 
You have equipped this model with Liberty ship style hatch covers. By the time that Liberty ships were built wooden hatch covers were becoming obsolete but were used because of the notion that in the event of a sinking that they would float and be used as lifesaving devices.

These are the hatch covers that were once sold for making coffee tables. They have two hemispheric depressions cut into them at diagonally opposite corners with a metal bar across the top of each for handling.

The ship that you’re modeling would have been fitted with steel “pontoon” type covers.

Roger
 
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Roger Pellett said:
You have equipped this model with Liberty ship style hatch covers. By the time that Liberty ships were built wooden hatch covers were becoming obsolete but were used because of the notion that in the event of a sinking that they would float and be used as lifesaving devices.

These are the hatch covers that were once sold for making coffee tables. They have two hemispheric depressions cut into them at diagonally opposite corners with a metal bar across the top of each for handling.

The ship that you’re modeling would have been fitted with steel “pontoon” type covers.

Roger
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I was wondering about that. I don’t think I’ll go back and change it now. Thanks for the info.
 
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