"Shell Splashes" Topic
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| Dave Crowell | 06 Jun 2009 8:13 a.m. PST |
How large were Great War shell splashes? I read a first hand account of Bismarck in WW2 that metioned 70 meter high splashes! Just curious as to what size they would be in the earlier period. I am a little wary of placing down shell splash markers that are 1/3 the length of the biggest ships. |
| TheDreadnought | 06 Jun 2009 9:02 a.m. PST |
Never studied the issue in detail, but I seem to remember reading descriptions of them being a couple hundred feet high. They regularly reached higher than the ships themselves. |
Shagnasty  | 06 Jun 2009 10:03 a.m. PST |
Have read several first person accounts that refer to "masthead high" in both WW I and II. I made mine as high as the tripods on my WW I 1/2400 BBs and those for 6" half that. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 06 Jun 2009 12:38 p.m. PST |
we use golf tees regardless of scale =P |
| Jeff of SaxeBearstein | 06 Jun 2009 2:40 p.m. PST |
Shagnasty, I like the idea of two heights for the splashes. Thanks.
-- Jeff
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| sjpatejak | 10 Jun 2009 11:36 a.m. PST |
This is what they look like in WW2. I can't see why they would be different in an earlier period. "5.5" and 8" salvos from CA around Gambier Bay, off Samar, 25 October 1944" picture |
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