Its been quite a while since the Micronauts Thread has been updated so I figure I 'd showcase my completed Nimitz Aircraft Carrier with the rest of my ships.
Took me quite awhile but I finally completed my Carrier Battle Group for my fictitious Modern Day US Navy. Hope you enjoy.
Carrier sailing in the sunset.
The Carrier and its escorts. The Pennant number 7 was intended as it is for my own fictitious navy. Not to be representative of any of the actual Nimitz Carriers.
Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday to all!
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They were too big. The Treaty limited heavy cruisers to 10,000 tons. When all was said and done with their refits, the Takaos were over 13,000. This game them a LOT more room for engines and extensive compartmentalization that made them fast and survivable in battle.
I was under the impression they were ~10,000 tons as built as per the terms of the Washington Treaty, and not re-built until about 1940. The Washington Treaty was only in force until the 31st of December 1936 (Article XXIII). Japan (among other nations) was not a signatory of the 1936 London Treaty. They were only around 30' longer than contemporary British heavy cruisers, and ~10' narrower. The advantage they had is they didn't require the range of a British cruiser, so they carried a lot less oil (not included in the standard displacement in any case, but the required structure to hold it was), and the habitability requirements were less than those of British or US cruisers, so had weight and volume freed up for other uses.
1st CS, Royal Navy, 1914:
Close up of Minotaur (left) and Duke Of Edinburgh (right), GHQ's two latest WWI RN offerings:
Now I need a slightly less gusty day outside to paint them white.
BlackLegion wrote:My first post and my first Micronauts ships for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Wow. Great stuff! Welcome BL, and thanks for the photos. Very inspiring.
I love the detailing ... the way the guns and turrets are painted, the scout planes ... just great.
Also I very much like the basing. Particularly how much wave action is represented. Those ships are on the high seas, not just cruising across some placid lake somewhere!
Truly inspiring. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Foxbat and Blacklegion nice work both of you, amazing painting and basing.
Foxbat i could not find the bases you said you used, if you would please post a link or mre information where to go too. It would be greatly appreciated, also what did you use for you name tags, Ie. paper, font and size?
If my memory serves me correctly, the Yagumo which GHQ makes is probably the closest in look to the Kagero. I remember it being essentially, an improved Kagero and being roughly the same size but about 6 feet longer. An interesting bit of trivia here - GHQ used to market the Yagumo as the Kagero. This was about 20 years ago. I know this because I bought some at that time.
