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  • Member since
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  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
Boxahulls;
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:48 AM

Hmmm; 

     Now, before you bail on me, hear me out Please ?I was at my Favorite market of Flea the other day ( Before my TIA )  Bought a Boxahulls .Just what I said . A Box of Hulls .There are at least three Carriers, two Battlewagons, Four Cruisers and about ten Revell and Arii 1/400 civilian hulls .

      Now what to do with them .In the trade we call them " Bottoms " These " Bottoms " will find themselves doing way different duty than that for which they were designed .

      I am trying to build a "what if" fleet of converted War-Ship Hulls to civilian duty . There's a lot of possabilities.Can you Picture the PrinzEugen or the Iowa as a fast Liner ? How about the Coral Sea or the Old Revell Saratoga as a container Ship ?

 Can you picture the Hope , Comfort or the others as Inter -Island freight-passenger vessels in the vein of the old Matson Ships ? Here's a twist .The Old straight stem Graf Spee converted to a laker ? I am going to study as I recover to this shot to my body and outlook and let you know what I have come up  .  T.B.

  • Member since
    May 2008
  • From: Wyoming Michigan
Posted by ejhammer on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:29 AM
Ohhhh, I can feel the gears crankin in the head already. 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.

fox
  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Thursday, March 28, 2019 8:12 PM

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I smell wood burning.Wink

Jim  Captain

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

  • Member since
    June 2014
  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Friday, March 29, 2019 10:25 AM

E.J.

Help! bring some gear oil !

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    June 2014
  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Friday, March 29, 2019 10:26 AM

UhOh !

 I thought I left the damper closed on the fireplace I don't have ,Nuther bucket of water , pleasse?

  • Member since
    June 2014
  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Friday, March 29, 2019 10:28 AM

Hi Guys;

 I got some scrap sheet out and piddled .Would you believe the old Revell full Hull Sara as a 1930s Collier ? The Flat Bottomed Carrier is headed on it's way to being a pre-Mega Tanker. More later . Maybe some pics ( hopefully ?)

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