Ships In Trouble .

onyxman

I think I have mastered calm or rippled water, but any replication of a sea running that looks realistic has my utmost respect

I thought that as well Fred. I have a small tutorial here and I thought a seascape was very easy to do, all be it time and resource consuming, but easy.

USS Indianapolis

Steve

Thanks Steve, that looks great. I have an Airfix Suffolk I intend to experiment with, sometime, steaming through Denmark Strait.

Fred

Fred,

That is a modified method I followed on the Modelwarships.com forum tips and tricks area. There are several methods that may work for you. Those guys are always experimenting to try to improve their water technique and of the techniques are quite easy with astounding results.

Water Tips and Tricks

I kind of would like to do this one. I still remember when this ship blew up and we could feel it at our home over 20 miles away... strongly!

Was that Texas City?

Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. 1976. ba Boom... BTW, that is the midship superstructure on the land.

Geesh!

Like I said... Ba Boom!

Pure industrial accident. No bad guys in war or peace involved.

Hi !

   You do know that the Bridge on land , seen behind the bow belongs to the same ship ?

Yes I do.

Just reading about post war atomic testing. The first British atom bomb was exploded aboard the HMS Plym.

The ship was vaporized except for several fragments that landed on the nearby island and started grass fires.

I have always wanted to do one of the HMS Sheffield and the HMS Ardent during the Falklands. I remember seeing picture of them when I was a kid and then when I was in boot camp for the Navy they kept showing videos about those two and the others that were sunk during the Falklands.

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Liberty ship there. Tankers used to blow up real regular. Now they use inert gas systems to blanket the oil.

I would love to make a dio of this. Just not sure were or if I would be able to find a kit of her.

Whats with the netting draping over the side?

That's the wreck of the Andrea Doria. The nets are from trawlers that have gotten their nets snagged on the wreck over the years.

Fishing trawlers lose their nets on wrecks in coastal waters. It makes for hazardous diving conditions. Sixteen divers have died on the Doria dive, for a number of reasons.

The Lusitania is similar.

I've heard stories of a few trawlers almost swamping themselves when they have snagged a wreck. Not sure if they are true or sea stories but I have seen a few tugs almost swamp themselves over their sterns.

Stickpusher said:

"Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. 1976. ba Boom... BTW, that is the midship superstructure on the land."

In 1975 and '76 I was living in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach, CA. I don't really remember this incident but then I was heavily involved with work and a girl friend and might not have noticed .

Mike

1943Mike

Stickpusher said:

"Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor. 1976. ba Boom... BTW, that is the midship superstructure on the land."

In 1975 and '76 I was living in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach, CA. I don't really remember this incident but then I was heavily involved with work and a girl friend and might not have noticed .

Mike

Well I sure remember it.We lived in Cerritos and we could hear the reports from the explosions clearly and loudly like they were just down the road! Atmosphere effects I guess.

Nope- but I do remember the Roseville bomb train. Heard that one 75 miles away.

The orca from the jaws movie would be pretty cool

Well , Hello !

   I do have to tell you .There are some real horror stories out there .The truth is simple . If you had a net that in today's dollars  , cost almost as much as a quarter the value of your boat , you would try everything to retrieve it , before cutting it loose .

    Some have gone to far . It's rare , but it does happen . On that same note some years back ( in the nineties ) there was a fish processing and net boat that pulled itself under because of Greed ! Yeah ! Pure , simple Greed ! Lost with all hands .

    There was a tug in early 2001 , where the tow line caught ( it went slack ) on an underwater object .They almost got pulled under , but caught it in time . Momma ocean and her sisters and cousins , Bays and Estuaries , can be very dangerous places  

   .That's why the Coast Guard tries to keep the latest wreck charts available to all Mariners . You should see the one for San Francisco Bay and the rivers that feed there  !

The USS Cole might be interesting.

I recall having seen in my travels a diorama of the last minutes of the Yorktown after the Battle of Midway.  I can't recall if the modeler used 1/700 kits or smaller.

There's one on Modelwarships.com. 1/700. Over 1,000 sailors. Incredible.

There's a link on page 2 of this thread.