Japanese Oil Tanker *update 7-12*

tankerbuilder wrote:

I hope you decide which way the tanker is going to expire soon ,the suspense is killing me .

Funny you should ask, I have a new idea...I have some 1/700 scale TBF Avenger's from Trumpeter that look to do battle...Imagine them skimming just above the water at a stationary tanker...a couple of fish already in the water leaving wakes...

Mansteins revenge wrote:

subfixer wrote:  tankerbuilder wrote:  VELL , YOU HAFF the TANKSCHIFF IN ZE PERISCOPE ,VY DON,T YOU ZINK HER ALREADY??? HEY MANNY the ship looks good . I got a little MARU somewhere and I thought it was neat that at least one company saw fit to put out some liners ,even if they,re JAPANESE and most folks never heard of them . The scale is kinda small too . Oh , I got some neat little ships from REVELL of GERMANY ,boy , was I surprised to see they were 1/1200!!! But , you know what they were pretty decently detailed for that size even . (it,s a shame they ,REVELL didn,t see fit to do them in 1/350 or somewhere therabouts . I just acquired a sub ,a REVELL U-BOOTE it,s about maybe 16 inches long ,(maybe smaller ) Boy ,am I gonna have fun with that !This sub will be done waterline above and all else below rondevouing with a schnellboote . The whole thing is going in? a piece of lexan so the bottom does not have to be cut off . I hope you decide which way the tanker is going to expire soon ,the suspense is killing me .     tankerbuilder Umm, just what language and grammar rules are you using? Fer cryin' out loud! I detect a Bavarian dialect...

ddp59 wrote:

i thought it was hamburger.

Mmmmmmm..... Burger!

subfixer wrote:

tankerbuilder wrote:  VELL , YOU HAFF the TANKSCHIFF IN ZE PERISCOPE ,VY DON,T YOU ZINK HER ALREADY??? HEY MANNY the ship looks good . I got a little MARU somewhere and I thought it was neat that at least one company saw fit to put out some liners ,even if they,re JAPANESE and most folks never heard of them . The scale is kinda small too . Oh , I got some neat little ships from REVELL of GERMANY ,boy , was I surprised to see they were 1/1200!!! But , you know what they were pretty decently detailed for that size even . (it,s a shame they ,REVELL didn,t see fit to do them in 1/350 or somewhere therabouts . I just acquired a sub ,a REVELL U-BOOTE it,s about maybe 16 inches long ,(maybe smaller ) Boy ,am I gonna have fun with that !This sub will be done waterline above and all else below rondevouing with a schnellboote . The whole thing is going in? a piece of lexan so the bottom does not have to be cut off . I hope you decide which way the tanker is going to expire soon ,the suspense is killing me .     tankerbuilder Umm, just what language and grammar rules are you using? Fer cryin' out loud!

tankerbuilder wrote:

VELL , YOU HAFF the TANKSCHIFF IN ZE PERISCOPE ,VY DON,T YOU ZINK HER ALREADY??? HEY MANNY the ship looks good . I got a little MARU somewhere and I thought it was neat that at least one company saw fit to put out some liners ,even if they,re JAPANESE and most folks never heard of them . The scale is kinda small too . Oh , I got some neat little ships from REVELL of GERMANY ,boy , was I surprised to see they were 1/1200!!! But , you know what they were pretty decently detailed for that size even . (it,s a shame they ,REVELL didn,t see fit to do them in 1/350 or somewhere therabouts . I just acquired a sub ,a REVELL U-BOOTE it,s about maybe 16 inches long ,(maybe smaller ) Boy ,am I gonna have fun with that !This sub will be done waterline above and all else below rondevouing with a schnellboote . The whole thing is going in? a piece of lexan so the bottom does not have to be cut off . I hope you decide which way the tanker is going to expire soon ,the suspense is killing me .     tankerbuilder

Umm, just what language and grammar rules are you using? Fer cryin' out loud!

bondoman wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote:  bondoman wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote:  bondoman wrote: It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to. It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it. Is the T-2 WIP pic you posted that same kit? ??? Yes, that's the one. It has has two features that show it's age. It's a flat bottom, but not at a very realistic draft, so cutting down the hull makes it look better, IMO, although better modelers than me have built it as-is and it looks good. Second, it has cast on rails that are solid, with raised bar detail, and really have to go. That's not too hard though, I made a "special tool" and it goes quickly. EDIT: I just figured something out. You are hard to write replies to without getting a red "mismatched quote" message. It seems the little culprit is the apostrophe in the Field Marshalls name. Eliminating it solved the problem.  Well she still looks good---although I am w/o luck in finding one to purchase... ...yep, that is how you quote me; it took awhile before we figured out this system does not like apostrophes... Ah jeez Manuel there's like 10 on ebay right now for 15 sheckles each, plus the usual graft. "Oil Tanker Glasgow" and you'll get nifty ESSO decals too, plus it has all the really lousy 3", 5" 40mm guns, but I'll give you something for the 20's: they are a nice little piece of art. Fred and I tried, but failed to corner the market a while ago. Stock up while you can, and also shop for the Montrose (Victory Ship VC2) and Hawaiian Pilot (C3) kits. Only Trump makes a Liberty. But as I've said before if your goal is to sink 'em, we have Catalinas and Beaufighters in the area and your U-Boats only got 15,000 tons for every one lost. Kind of like the Notre Dame line dies beating USC.

Mansteins revenge wrote:

bondoman wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote:  bondoman wrote: It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to. It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it. Is the T-2 WIP pic you posted that same kit? ??? Yes, that's the one. It has has two features that show it's age. It's a flat bottom, but not at a very realistic draft, so cutting down the hull makes it look better, IMO, although better modelers than me have built it as-is and it looks good. Second, it has cast on rails that are solid, with raised bar detail, and really have to go. That's not too hard though, I made a "special tool" and it goes quickly. EDIT: I just figured something out. You are hard to write replies to without getting a red "mismatched quote" message. It seems the little culprit is the apostrophe in the Field Marshalls name. Eliminating it solved the problem.  Well she still looks good---although I am w/o luck in finding one to purchase... ...yep, that is how you quote me; it took awhile before we figured out this system does not like apostrophes...

Fred and I tried, but failed to corner the market a while ago. Stock up while you can, and also shop for the Montrose (Victory Ship VC2) and Hawaiian Pilot (C3) kits. Only Trump makes a Liberty.EDIT: that was a dumb statement, obviously not true!

But as I've said before if your goal is to sink 'em, we have Catalinas and Beaufighters in the area and your U-Boats only got 15,000 tons for every one lost. Kind of like the Notre Dame line dies beating USC.

bondoman wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote:  Mansteins revenge wrote:  bondoman wrote: It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to. It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it. Is the T-2 WIP pic you posted that same kit? ??? Yes, that's the one. It has has two features that show it's age. It's a flat bottom, but not at a very realistic draft, so cutting down the hull makes it look better, IMO, although better modelers than me have built it as-is and it looks good. Second, it has cast on rails that are solid, with raised bar detail, and really have to go. That's not too hard though, I made a "special tool" and it goes quickly. EDIT: I just figured something out. You are hard to write replies to without getting a red "mismatched quote" message. It seems the little culprit is the apostrophe in the Field Marshalls name. Eliminating it solved the problem.

Well she still looks good---although I am w/o luck in finding one to purchase...

...yep, that is how you quote me; it took awhile before we figured out this system does not like apostrophes...

Mansteins revenge wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote:  bondoman wrote: It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to. It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it. Is the T-2 WIP pic you posted that same kit? ???

Second, it has cast on rails that are solid, with raised bar detail, and really have to go. That's not too hard though, I made a "special tool" and it goes quickly.

EDIT: I just figured something out. You are hard to write replies to without getting a red "mismatched quote" message. It seems the little culprit is the apostrophe in the Field Marshalls name. Eliminating it solved the problem. 

Mansteins revenge wrote:

bondoman wrote: It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to. It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it. Is the T-2 WIP pic you posted that same kit?

???

bondoman wrote:

It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to. It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it.

Much, much better. Thanks, I don't think I could stomach the other one for long.

subfixer wrote:

Manny, for Gawd's sake, change your flippin' avatar. Please!!

It's a very good kit. I started a thread a little while ago "Regarding T2..." that I've dropped for a while but need to get back to.

It's 1/400 ish, and there's all kinds of PE available for it. It has some strange notions about deck piping, but it has a great "busy" look to it.

bondoman wrote:

The kit is available as the SS. Glasgow, from RoG, but alas that box is a collectors item! It's a real beaut- I wish I had one!

bondoman wrote:

I think it's Measure 32: light gray/ocean gray/black. I don't know the pattern though. 3 maybe?

bondoman wrote:

subfixer wrote:

Mansteins revenge wrote:  subfixer wrote: Are you going to torpedo these new boats, too?   Me sink a passeneger liner? Just pretend it's a hospital ship.

Mansteins revenge wrote:

subfixer wrote: Are you going to torpedo these new boats, too?   Me sink a passeneger liner?

Just pretend it's a hospital ship.

subfixer wrote:

Are you going to torpedo these new boats, too?

Me sink a passeneger liner?