- Member since
May 2008
- From: Wyoming Michigan
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Posted by ejhammer
on Friday, January 8, 2016 10:59 AM
My old "yellow box" solid hull NEWSBOY kit has a carved mohogany hull instead of basswood or whitewood. Much of the strip wood is missing, but the metal fittings, dowels and stuff is there. Was able to download a build instruction manual by Ben Lankford. Never saw a mahogany hull before this.
EJ
Completed - 1/525 Round Two Lindberg repop of T2A tanker done as USS MATTAPONI, USS ESSEX 1/700 Hasegawa Dec 1942, USS Yorktown 1/700 Trumpeter 1943. In The Yards - USS ESSEX 1/700 Hasegawa 1945, USS ESSEX 1/700 Dragon 1944, USS ESSEX 1/700 Trumpeter 1945, USS ESSEX 1/540 Revell (vintage) 1962, USS ESSEX 1/350 Trumpeter 1942, USS ESSEX LHD-2 as commissioned, converted from USS Wasp kit Gallery Models. Plus 35 other plastic and wood ship kits.
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