uss united states

i have one partially built in my bunker. and just picked up a s,aller one in a stash i bought.

Al- see my PM

LOL.

Leave it to a guy looking for targets to figure that one out ! That's a good one . Score one for you Subfixer !

Which AMERICA??  BJ, under new management as of Friday, has a nice three-sheet set for the 1851 schooner.

Al Ross

Strot-berb-dek

Well, I had no intention of creating another acronym - but such miracles do have a way of simply happening, don't they?

The problem with STROTBRBDK is that I have no idea of how to pronounce it - and an unpronounceable acronym isn't worth much.  Sorry.  I'll give the study of a pronounceable one all the attention it deserves.

STROTBRDK?  Sorry have no clue what that is.................... what does it mean?

alross2

John,

Are you coining another acronym - STROTBRBDK ?  :-}

Al Ross

If our favorite professor has produced another needful acronym for our discussions (I believe he has); then, it is as unpronounceable as the previous one.

Which should not be read as defamation or depreciation--compared to the sorts of acronyms DepNav tuns out, will make a person long for German portmanteau, and .abbreviated acronyms thereof.

John,

Are you coining another acronym - STROTBRBDK ?  :-}

Al Ross

unfortunately you are right,

To my knowledge the only frigate United States kits that have ever been produced have been based on the Constitution.  (Monogram, Imai, and Revell have done it - the latter on two scales.)  The two ships were built to the same lines, so that's not actually completely illegitimate.  The problem is that the United States, being conceived as the flagship of the embryonic U.S. Navy, was fitted with a raised poop deck.  We know it was there; we don't know what it looked like.  I'm pretty certain that the only kit that tried to represent the poop deck was the big, 1/96 Revell version - and its version of the poop deck is pretty unconvincing.  (The other alleged United States kits just ignored it; they're Constitutions with a different name on the stern.)

This ship surely belongs on the list of Ships That Really Ought To Be Represented By Decent Kits. Unfortunately that list has at least a thousand ships on it.

amphib,

I mean the frigate USS United States. I think it was created around the same time as the USS Constitution.

Not to be a nitpicker but are you looking for the USS United States - the aircraft carrier that was started but never completed or the SS United States - the passenger liner that is laid up at Philadelphia?

Josh,

The Revell 1/96 USS United States has long been out of production.  Your best bet is to keep your eyes open on eBay and hopefully you'll pick one up for a decent price.

Steve

There is a  wood kit at Old Plastic Model Kits; www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php, no scale is listed and it is only 22 inches long.  It looks interesting, but pricey.

I only know of a 1/400 kit made by Glencoe Models.  HobbyLinc advertise it, but they are out of stock.