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Looking for Propellers for Trumpeter 1/350 Dreadnought 1907.

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    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:19 AM

They do indeed. Nice video BTW. It's really a shame that all of those Victoria steam/ sail ships are not available as models. The Bronco Ching Yuen is about the best I've seen.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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    September 2013
  • From: San Antonio, Texas
Posted by Marcus McBean on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:06 PM

Watching a documentary "The History of the Royal Navy, Steam, Steel, and Dreadnoughts" there is picture of the stern of the Dreadnought while she was one the builder's way.  The picture shows the propellers and they look just like the ones from G-Force.  

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    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:28 PM

I'm just curious- I found a lot of drydock pictures of the ship, but couldn't find any of the stern. Props in the pre-dread era looked radically different that say those after 1915. More like aircraft props with big long thin curved knife-like blades. The G-force props look more like a three bladed prop from a WW1 Battlecruiser. Indeed that may be accurate, but if so they'd be a pretty early version of "modern" prop design.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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    September 2013
  • From: San Antonio, Texas
Posted by Marcus McBean on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:59 AM

Thank you everyone for your replies.  Don you are so right about bronze being used on large ships.  I seen more than a few models where the props were painted brass, they look to bright.

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    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:27 AM

Wherever you get the props, don't believe the color instructions that say to paint props gold or brass color. Props on large ships back then were bronze, and bronze does not look the same as brass.  Brass does look gold color, bronze does not.  Kit mfgs keep getting this wrong!

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:55 AM

Hi M.M.;

  If you can't find props ,as a last resort try a jewelry kiosk at the mall that sells charm bracelets .Sometimes you'll find very neat three and four blade props for next to nuttin , compared to after-market prices .

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    September 2013
  • From: San Antonio, Texas
Posted by Marcus McBean on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:48 PM

Thank you for the feedback.  I am also planning on replacing the plastic shafts with metal.

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    July 2010
  • From: Tempe AZ
Posted by docidle on Monday, February 24, 2014 11:48 PM

Marcus,

I bought mine on evilBay for 16.99 plus shipping. They are the G-Factor #35020.  They fit on my Trumpeter 1907 with a bit fiddling.  I plan on replacing the plastic propeller shafts with metal ones when I start building in July.

Hope this helps,

Steve

       

 

 

  • Member since
    September 2013
  • From: San Antonio, Texas
Looking for Propellers for Trumpeter 1/350 Dreadnought 1907.
Posted by Marcus McBean on Monday, February 24, 2014 9:57 PM

All I can find are propellers for the Zvezda kit.  Are there after market props for the Trumpeter kit?  Can I use the props for the Zvezda kit?

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