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The LCS-08 (aka The Washington-class) is a newer American capital ship brought into service following the tactical and technological advances of the Forth Age. LCS stands for Littoral Combat Ship - a term originally applied to small vessels able to operate closer to shore than most naval assets - denotes the ship's ability to manoeuvre effectively in vacuum as well as atmosphere.
The Washington is neither as agile as the Ankur or as sturdy as the Bremen; it occupies the ground between these two extremes. It fulfils a variety of roles within the USEF; anything from independent patrols to participating in larger fleet actions alongside Strike Carriers and the like. It is also used to transport VIPs and other assets through the lawless Rim territories - the firepower at its disposal is usually enough to discourage most pirates and raiders and it is quick enough to flee more powerful threats.
The ships firepower consists of two 'Starsnipe' flak turrets, a medium-range photonic cannon and a rear mounted warhead launcher. The latter is unusual for the ship's size - it gives the vessel the ability to engage targets at longer ranges and hidden from line of sight. The downside of the launcher is the limited ammunition; when it is out of missiles it becomes quite useless. This renders it unsuitable for prolonged engagements.
It is these missiles which tend to give the Washington the edge against their most common foe - the Wun'Tux Clanship. The thick armour of the latter can be difficult to penetrate with photonic cannons; LCS-08s deployed on anti-Wun'Tux operations are equipped with 'Havok' armour piercing missiles to balance the scales.
LCS-02s (prototype precursors to the 08) took part in the USEF Fleet Action at Dronta VIII, spearheading the attack on Wun'Tux ships guarding the slave market. They were subsequently able to achieve suborbital altitudes and launch accurate against Wun'Tux armour and fortifications.
In more recent times, the Washington-class has been deployed alongside Taft-class Strike Carriers in extended operations in Wun'Tux territory. Typically the ships are outfitted with longer-ranged, 'stand off' missiles and able to discourage or soften up Wun'Tux targets before engaging. In worse case scenarios (e.g. a larger enemy presence than predicted) this stand-off capability can give USEF forces breathing room in which to retreat.
Engineers at Highpoint have successfully modified the base design into distinct combat variants. The LCS-ASW (aka the 'Rhode island' class) is perhaps the most popular. This version swaps the warhead launcher for a launchpad capable of carrying, arming and repairing a shuttle-scale ship. This is most commonly a Vaquero-class gunship; a well armed craft bristling with sensors. This ASW (anti-stealth warfare) variant is designed to detect and defend against stealthy foes; the main ones being the Hirudin. The gunship is able to act as spotter for the LCS but is also more than capable of engaging common interlopers (like Blackfins) independently.
Preparing for shore-bombardment. After the rockets had been fired the ship would turn broadside to the beach/target to use all of its guns
They had 4-5 40mm Bofors guns, or a 3 inch gun instead of one of the Bofors. Along with 10 X Mk7 rockets, 4 X 20mm cannon and .50 cals.
En route to its commissioning in Galveston, Texas, the future USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) stopped in Norfolk on Aug. 24, 2012, to conduct training with the Afloat Training Group.
You'll also see that our cyclist seems to have run over a bunch of nails- which certainly explains his expression!
Being a full-public-can-touch-and-climb-on model we had to make sure the model was safe. This meant we had to add steel supports into the model- which wasn't easy to do with a thin LEGO bike, even if it was blown up 16 times!
LCS (L) Landing Craft Support (Large) Mk3 almost complete....About 85% done but life has been busy and this took longer than I thought.
More to come when it's finally finished...
Still to do:
10 X Mk7 bow mounted rocket launchers
A lot of detail towards the stern and anchor gear.
More work on the lifeboats and ship's boat.
Antenna mast details
About 10 feet of string for rails and radio wires
Final tweaks to 40mm Bofors guns.
Ayr Depot's LCS953, a Leyland PD3 with Northern Counties body leaves Ayr Bus Station on what was the main service via the A77 to Glasgow.
A slot car system made from Lego bricks
Also on YouTube: youtu.be/hlpzzoyhi4o
The idea of the LCS project started by Altezza and myself is to create a town surrounding with moving vehicles. This requires quite a few modifications, especially of the substructure of a town. But once installed it allows to build a city with the usual modular buildings since it is founded on a 32x32 baseplate pattern, too.
Many thanks to Altezza (whose idea of a slot road made this possible), to Nils O for many useful advices, and last but not least to Na Dine for providing quite a few parts.
100% Lego.
For the Townsville store mosaic, we, of course, had to depict the city skyline with Castle Hill behind it, all lit up as the sun sets. This mosaic is actually based on a photo by Brock Cook, who gave us permission to turn his amazing photo into a LEGO mosaic. You can find more of his work on Instagram under @keep3rphoto
Designed by Lecy Ling, the mosaic took us additional 160 hours and 49,512 LEGO® bricks to build.
2023's SHIPtember build is (I think) complete!
A chunkier and generally bigger build than last year's cruiser Aegirocassis, this is my first ever minifig-scale SHIP and a departure from previous build strategies on a number of fronts:
- For the first time I tumbled to the idea of building the vessel in sections and snapping the sections together afterwards, so the crew section, spinal midsection and engine block were all built separately. I've heard of other people doing this before, but it's always gone against all my childhood instincts to build it in one piece and build it strong.
I tell you, though: it was a lot more manageable only having to manipulate a piece of the whole to put it together. From now on, unless there are other considerations, this is how I build SHIPs.
- As stated earlier, it's minifig scale, and by far the largest minifig-scale space construction I have yet built. There's a lot of fun to be had building a really large minifig-scale ship, but I'd always felt unable to produce a sufficiently interesting interior and if you're building at 'fig scale you really have to. This didn't need or get a really spectacular interior compartment, but baby steps.
- It's a civilian vessel. The "LCS" in the name I eventually settled on stands for "Light Container Ship"; I envisage this as being a spacegoing equivalent to a long-haul big rig as opposed to a giant commercial freighter; something that can haul 1-2 standard shipping containers (not included) held in magnetic clamps beneath the central spine. Previous SHIPs have all been decidedly military or at least explorer-type vessels, as well as being microscale they've been loaded with at least a few notable gun emplacements; this one is completely unarmed. It still follows my typical naming conventions, though, because I've named it after an animal, a stellar object or a mythological creature. Two of those at once, in fact.
- It didn't even use all of my blue, light bley and trans yellow, though it did come close. I'm contemplating building a little spacegoing Trans Am to go along with the spacegoing truck, for a real Smokey and the Bandit flavour....
Clocking in at 103 studs and thus beating out last year's submission by a single stud, the build is done.
Various angles to show off some of the features as well as the classic side view poster shot. Enjoy.
In March 2009, the Navy awarded the Lockheed Martin-led industry team a contract to construct Fort Worth (LCS 3), which will be delivered in 2012.
Operated by: LCS Coaches Inc. Cloquet, MN
Built in: ?
Manufacturer: Motor Coach Industries
Model: E4500
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Forward details including 3-inch gun and twin 40mm Bofors mount with rocket launchers in between.
The camoflage on the ship, while not as detailed as it could have been, worked out ok in the end. Camoflage obviously wasn't used to try and hide the ship, more to hide it's: speed, heading, size and classification. There are many documents which prove it could be highly effective.
The British in WWI even assigned an officer to a ship when painting specifically to ensure it was donecorrectly.