Comments on: Battlewagon Wednesday – 10 Jun 2009

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:37:29 +0000

Lego Yamato,

That is wicked kewl… :)

By: Jusuchin (Military Otaku)

Jusuchin (Military Otaku) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:11:30 +0000

Holy Mother of…

…

This takes me back when I was trying to build the SDF-1 Macross out of mismatched pieces of Lego.

When I move out…I’m buying a big bucket of em and just be a kid again. ~__~

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:16:37 +0000

Okay, if that’s what they did it makes a lot more sense. I’m familiar with adding blisters. It was the “additional hull has been built” that threw me for a loop. I was going to look into it more tonight.

By: Daniel E. Watters

Daniel E. Watters — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:11:53 +0000

The correct terminology for the addition is called a “blister”. It doesn’t cover the entire length of the hull, just a portion. Generally, blisters are added to hulls in order to add buoyancy and maintain stability when extra topweight has been added to the ship, such as extra weapons or sensors. Of course, you can go overboard. For instance, when the carrier USS Midway was reblistered toward the end of her career, they actually managed to hamper her seakeeping ability.

Most of the older USN battleships were blistered during their post-Pearl Harbor reconstruction so that their secondary armament suite could be updated and expanded.