Flight Deck Equipment

EdGrune

Check this out!   

NO,  not a large scale dime.    Thats a 1:700 scale aircraft carrier Tilley crane by JAG.   Theyr'e also doing a bunch of flight deck equipment,  tractors,  fire equipment,  loaders.    They say that 1:350 scale versions are on the way too!

I hope I may be forgiven if I'm a little over-sensitive about this one.  I believe the correct spelling is "Tilly."

I spent some time a while back trying to figure out just what the origin of the name was.  I think it came from a comic strip called "Tilly the Toiler," which was about a career girl (named Tilly) in New York City.  (I think there also may have been a boxer nicknamed "Tilly the Toiler," but as I recall the comic strip came first.)  The label certainly was being applied to cranes on the decks of aircraft carriers as early as the Korean War (think:  "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"), and I'm pretty sure it was in use in that context during WWII as well.

But so far as I can tell, there's no connection to me or any of my ancestors.  In fact I've never been able to establish that any of those people did anything whatsoever to get into the history books.

One of Murphy's Rules of Modeling ... the cool stuff you had to scratchbuild always comes out AFTER you build is done, and once again it's JAG to the rescue. If only ... but then, hey, I could lie and say I had a lot of fun scratchbuilding all the comm sat domes and RAM launchers for my Big E when I updated her to her 2007 appearance, and who was going to know that was really WEM's Invincible deck equipment set?

If I ever do another carrier, at least I know JAG has me covered for lots of the little bits.

Tom at JAG wrote elsewhere that unless he could find definative specs, references and/or photos he would NOT venture a WWII set

That would be the mother of all anachronisms then, putting one of these on the Yorktown. Maybe a WW II era set will be issued.

Julian

the Baron

Grem56:

Looks amazing for 1/700th Ed. What time period was this type used on US carriers? I have my eye on the Trumpeter Yorktown and  flightdeck equipment would really bring it to life.

Cheers,

Julian

 

 

I suspect that the version depicted is a post-war model salvage vehicle, but I'm sure others will know more specifically.

It is a vast improvement over the injection-molded cranes included with the Essexes and Forrestals that I built as a kid.

It is modern,  post Vietnam-era.

Grem56

Looks amazing for 1/700th Ed. What time period was this type used on US carriers? I have my eye on the Trumpeter Yorktown and  flightdeck equipment would really bring it to life.

Cheers,

Julian

I suspect that the version depicted is a post-war model salvage vehicle, but I'm sure others will know more specifically.

It is a vast improvement over the injection-molded cranes included with the Essexes and Forrestals that I built as a kid.

Looks amazing for 1/700th Ed. What time period was this type used on US carriers? I have my eye on the Trumpeter Yorktown and  flightdeck equipment would really bring it to life.

Cheers,

Julian