Copyright © 2009 art by wayne
Full details on each of these projects and more are to be found my USN BATTESHIP CONVERSIONS PROJECTS book available at:
arctic qualifications
Ballistic Missile Monitor USS Missouri BB(MG)3 launching a Jupiter S Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile in arctic waters This design also featured 4 twin Talos and 24 Tartar SAM missile launchers
12"x16" $350-
evening star
nimitz board design
tall lady
underway on patrol
Guided Missile Battleship USS New Jersey BBG2 fitted with MACK's, Talos missiles fore and aft and ASROC amdiships
12"x16" $275-
Ballistic Missile Monitor USS Wisconsin BB(MG)4 leaving San Diego for a deterence patrol. The ship is fitted with 12 Jupiter S IRBM stored vertical in the housing amidships. Overhead is a Convair TY1 Pogo VTOL fighter
12"x16" $275-
Guided Missile Battleship USS Kentucky BBG1 equipped with two twin Terreir SAM launchers aft. The aircraft is a cancelled P6M Seamaster jet flying boat
Redesign of the USS Illinios BB65 per the Nimitz Class Improvement Program for the Iowa class BB's after assessing their performance in WWII
Guided Missile Battleship USS Kentucky BBG1 in an SCB140 single end Talos SAM missile conversion retaining the two forward 16" turrets. Flying by is a cancalled Crusader II fighter
18"x24" $899-
18"x24" SOLD
16"x20" SOLD-
crusader II flyby
Conversion Projects Gallery 1
Iowa Class