HTF kits

Is the new Encore Olympia the kind of thing you are looking for, or too large or small?  Squadron carries quite a few ship models of that period. 

In addition to Revell/Encore, Zvezda does several.

Bocks Suv

Looking for a decent size kit of Spanish Amer War ships...Maine, Olympia, etc. Is there a good site for ordering. 

Iron Shipwright makes a number of Spanish-American war ships in 1:350 scale resin & brass.    If a battleship is too rich for your blood - try one of their smaller SpanAm destroyers; the Bainbridge or the Hull.

Bocks Suv

 Also curious about a US battleship conversion (the New Jersey)  that looks like a carrier in the back. I see that Nichimo(?) makes one, but  hoping there are others. Not even sure it's a real ship. Thx 

See "The Hybrid Warship - the amalgamation of big guns and aircraft"  by RD Layman & S McLaughlin, published by Conway.   The history of aircraft cruisers, aircraft battleships, aircraft submarines, etc.   - from WW1 onward.   Royal Navy, German Navy, US, Japan.   One & 2 dimension line drawings + photos.   

Bocks Suv,

I'm not sure what you mean by "decent size," but there are resin kits of that era in 1/700 and 1/350 by Combrig and other resin manufacturers.  Zvesda also produces 1/350 turn-of-the-century Russian battleships in plastic and there are several Chinese ships of that era as well.  A Japanese company (Seacrest or something like that) makes a nice 1/700 plastic line of these ships.

As for US battleship with a carrier conversion aft; there was a 1950's plan for such a conversion for the Iowa Class that was never carried out. A similar plan was proposed as Phase II of the 1980's reactivations of the Iowa Class but it, too, was never carried out.  The only battleship conversions for a flight deck aft were carried out on the Japanese Ise and Hyuga.

Bill