by Mark Deakin
1/350 USS Iowa BB-61 (Tamiya)
The Iowa class needs little introduction from me, however until recently very few open bridge Iowa's had appeared in the gallery, and the desire to do something a little different was upon me. The conversion is actually not that bad detailing the basic Tamiya kit took a lot longer. The portholes have been drilled and are slightly overscale due to the heating effects when using the Dremel (lesson learnt use a smaller drill bit).
The build has taken just over 12 months.
Special thanks to Jacques Druell at L'Arsenal who supplied me a prototype Foredeck and Tony (Mr Iowa) Bunch for his support and assistance.
The list of the parts used is as follows.
1/350 modified Tamiya USS Missouri plus the following extras,
Floating Drydock Iowa plans
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