R/C Naval Combat

Ok one of the things that scares many new comers into the Hobby is building a Superstructure. I got an idea from talking with Curt over in his Pictures of the Yamato and Musashi picture thread. The idea is a thread that will allow each of us to add pictures and describe in detail how we do different things to our ships to make Superstructures and add some detail to them. While myself I struggle with the basics of build them for my ships I will atleast start a how I did the light weight super for my Des Moines and then also a how I plan to redo it and improve upon what I had.  so guys and Gals help me out and lets make a great thread about how to build good supers that have some eye appeal or atleast good quality how to do parts. Curt I would love it if you could do a bit on soem of your details you do on yours ships.

This is a great idea.  Seeing how other builders build their superstructure will be very helpful to myself and other beginners who need a bit of guidence on createing a superstructure for their ship.

Well if my attempts to post images works out I have some examples of the two superstructures I am either building or have built.

I will start off with some Images of the Superstructure that is very basic I have my my Des Moines.

This is a Frame work super structure. What I did for this was build a woeden box frame for each piece I needed and then added layers to each level I built. She is about 3 frames gluded and Epoxied toughter from from to rear and recently the back section did break off while Handeling it. You see a repaire being made where the blue electrial tape is on it.  Ok a few Close ups of this Super are to follow.

Here you can see where the thrid frame area is and the fact I had to glue it back to being one piece. For me this is temperory in the design. Also you can see one of the things I did to make the sides of the super a bit more BB proof. I added .98 thick ABS to the aises and epoxied them down and even coated epoxie over them to make it more BB proof.

This is just an Overhead shot at the front end of the super. There used to be some smaller guns on this, but I have since got some nicer turrets for those and will be useing them once I have made the new Superstructure. I keept the inside of the whole thing hollow for weight savings and yes so the back of my gun Magazines can tuck up inside her.

Now For a different way of building a Superstructure is what I am doing for now with my Konig Class ship. This ship came with some molded Resin pieces of the basic structure. After assymbling these I thought it way to plain and decided to try and start adding bits and pieces to it. Good pictures and a Model where used for reference of a lot of the pieces I decided to add.

As you can tell I still have a lot of work to do to this super as the back piece is just the basic things that came from Battlers Connection and the Front is not yet complete. I used Bondo Glazing outty to fill in flaws in the pieces from battlers and that is the red stuff you see. The white lump looking item is two part putty expoy and It was my best attempt at added a piece that was done shapped to the structure. The grey and white items are ABS plastic for the different bridge levels and white Styrene for the rials on each level.

Well hope this is a help to folks starting out. I will added to it as I learn more.

well heres my SS that um working on rite now sorrey for the bad pic.http://rcnavalcombat.com/Portals/0/Users/E-J/EVIL%20JOKER/securedownload.jpg

its Polyurethane Molding and i plained it to 3/4 and 1/2 it looks something like this http://www.burtonmoldings.com/s4s-polyurethane-molding.aspx look at the s4s stock