Okay, I give Up!
Guys and Ladies I have a problem. I want to build a support fleet for a "Bird Farm"
So there are two types of Oilers I need . a Tanker for the ship's appetite and another for Avgas! You see there's a problem with all my tankers. They are 1/160 or 1/87 in scale. yeah, Big !
I have all types Except any that served in the Navy in the wars or after. The only Collier I have ( Yeah the Navy burned coal too ) is in paper and it's 1/325 ! So converting it won't help.
It's like freight carriers. You Can find the U.S.S. John Brown and other " Liberties" but where's the Victories? The Revell Haskell and others can be modified sure enough, still doesn't solve the problem.
Oh, the " Bird Farm " will be the U.S.S. Midway. I have the Gearings both in WW2 fit and the Fram Versions. I also have a " Turner Joy ."( The Newest Ship in our group.) I believe she was what they called then a "destroyer leader ". Sure didn't look anything like us. We bristled with guns ( Before Fram) and she had these weird round topped singles and not very many either!
Her, ( the Turner Joy ) had almost what was called a Yacht Sheer. The Curve fore and aft of the deck. Shoot, with a bone in her teeth she looked downright mean, in a sparse sort of way.
But back to tankers, Will I have to do my battle group in the varied scales that Revell put out? I really don't want to do it in 1/700. I can't see those well enough to bother.
Now remember this. In a previous post I mentioned I have a severe allergy to resin dust . If I build anything in that, it's full breathing gear and a tyvek Moonsuit !
So Styrene is best. thanks Much T.B.