LOL at the spess mehreens discussion...
Anyways, I've grown tired of waiting for the final stuff I need to finish the CSS Baton Rouge to arrive from Pick A Brick, so I decided to dump out all the parts of my Oxford set and start MOCing with that sweet, sweet hull... Here's what I came up with in the past couple of hours:
FNS Gettysburg WIP1 by
Hikaro Takayama, on Flickr
...might not look like much, but I've basically got the bow finished: I just need to order more parts to build some more of those 10" gun turrets like what I already have for the
Baton Rouge and make enough GPM-2 (general purpose missile, type 2) medium-range merculite missiles to fill the other two VLS cells, and the forward part of the ship is done... I'm still trying to work out what to do with the rest of the main deck area... I was thinking about putting the helipad on the fantail, like the original set did, but I'll most likely move that up to the 01-Level (1 deck up) so I can build a nice little hangar for it, and just put the aft 10" gun turret back there. I'm also working out how and where to put doors leading up to the weatherdecks, but that's generally not too complicated.... I'll probably be spending a fair amount of time on LDD trying to work out what I want to do with this ship. BTW, I've already begun including LEGO parts in this project: I've used up most of my remaining old dark gray stuff, but thankfully, I'm pretty much done with that anyways....