Subject: USS TENNESSEE BB-43 MODEL
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:46:49 -0700
From: "Brad Cain" <bradcain@attbi.com>
To: <Ship-Gallery@modelwarships.com>

Hello!  My name is Clifton Simmons and I am a new modeler to the world of
warships of World War II.  I am the historian for the
U.S.S. TENNESSEE BB-43 Reunion Association and after searching all over the
U.S. for a 1/96 scale model of BB-43 in her 1944
version, I decided to build it myself.  I hope that you woulld put these
photos on your gallery page.  About the model, the
main structure is styrene, aluminum, brass, wire and fiberglass.  The OS2U
is from Loose Cannon Productions with the rest
scratchbuilt.  The decking is Evergreen styrene sheets sanded and stained to
look like wood.  The whaleboats are scratchbuilt
as well.  The base is 3/4-inch cabinet plywood stained with the water being
latex craft paint covered with 6 coats of
polyeurethane.  The plans for the ship came from the National Archives and
the Floating Drydock and I used over 800 photos of
the ship, 400 of which came from my personal collection.  I had the plexi
case custom made for it and it appeared on the NBC
nightly news!  The vets loved it!

It took 5 years total with three years of that going just for research at
the National Archives and the veteran's private photo
collections.  The model is on display at the Museum of the Pacific War in
Fredericksburg, Texas.  I am currently building a
1/96 scale U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CV-6 for the same museum.  Next after that is a
1/350 scale battleship row diorama on the morning
of Dec7, 1941 just before the attack.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

Clifton Simmons.
BB43MAN@hotmail.com

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