New documentary on USS Wolverine and USS Sable WW2

Speaking of PT Boats, Here is a Packard Royal with a V-12 single engine. http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2016/05/27/because-too-much-still-isnt-enough-the-one-of-one-packard-royal-roadster/

Think you may have posted on the wrong thread there Big Jake.

Hope things are well in Louisiana! 

Go LSU!

I got to ride in a fast crew boat ( Miss Mary Anne ) from the US in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa.

Capt was the son of a Huey pilot killed in Vietnam so we took him on flights in our Bell 212s ( UH-1N ) 

Always thought if I had won a lot of millions it would be fun to have a PT built from original plans of aluminum with reproduction armament to drive around in http://www.visit1000islands.com  selling rides .... a money loosing proposition but who cares if you have the big bucks. LOL

Great story- first time I ever saw movies of it in operation.  Still long to build a model of either the Wolverine or Sable.  I ordinarily consider scratchbuilding a ship I can't find a kit for, but all that girder work calls out for a lot of PE, and that is just too much work to do myself.  Come on, kit mfgs, the world is calling out for a kit of a paddlewheel aircraft carrier!

Didn't someone scratchbuild one a few years ago for a museum...as I recall it was a great build ...might have been 1/72.

 

I want to remember that being an FSM Showcase, featuring the ship, and several a/c , all in 1/72. Be willing to bet it was 1/72, as, at 50' LOL, that'd be right at 7' long in scale. Memory nags at m that the model is in Chicago Museum of Science & Industry--but I could be wrong.

Here's a thread from the Ship Model Forum, on that build of the Wolverine.  The stated scale varies from once source to the next.  In the forum, the scale of the ship is given as 1/96, but in the article in FSM, I recall, too, that it was given as 1/72, for the ship as well as for the aircraft and figures.

http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=13617

You may all be aware by now that Blue Ridge Models is bringing out a model of the Wolverine in 1/700, in resin:

http://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-blue-ridge-models-uss-wolverine-ix-64-model-kit/

(Hat tip to Freetime Hobbies for the link)

I believe I've also read that they will issue the Sable, but I can't find the reference at this time.