Tankers,Where do you get them? in 1/350 and such?

Yes David,

I can use all the help I can get, some of the online downloads are not very clear and leaves a lot of guesswork.

Shane

I got mine from the National Archives.

Floating Drydock may have them too.

Or buy the San Juan Capistrano And copy the hull.

BTW I'm a docent at the Mission in Carmel.

Ziggy, do you have frame drawings for that ship as i have them for this tanker USNS Mission Santa Ynez (AO-134)?

TB

I will be building all full hull to be displayed on stands, however, I have played with the idea of a diorama which, being from Idaho, the T2 tanker Idaho Falls refueling the USS Idaho to port and the USS Boise to starboard.

Oh, " G " ;

 It has to be with the first type and arrangement of the Angle deck. Somewhere around 61-62.

Sigep Ziggy:

    Are you going to do Waterline or Full Hulls on yours? I have decided on Waterline with a refuel op going on in Moderate seas. Tin Can on one side and Carrier on the other. This will probably be my last Diorama too.  T.B.

I have a similar plan. I will build a task force of one carrier, one battleship, one heavy cruiser, one light cruser, two destroyers, one T2 tanker and one submarine. All in 1/350 scale

The T2 will be made from scatch in styrene and maybe wood, using plans I found on-line.

BlueJacket Ship Crafters has a T2 world War II era tanker at 1/16th scale, that can be either converted for navy service, or  commercial civilan use after the war.

Happy modeling    Crackers  

So you want something in a bigger scale than the Lindberg kit.

You didn't mention the Revell Mission Capistrano/ J.L Hanna, so I'm guessing that is already a part of your solution.  It seems to me that a couple of them could be worked together to get a jumbo-ized T-3 like Passumpsic as modified in the 1960's.  (Just suggesting that makes me want to break out of my normal 1/700 world and give it a try)

Also, Heller made a 1/400 kit of the French tanker sisters La Seine and La Saone.  Those ships were smaller than the USN fleet tankers, and might be sectioned a bit more to represent a Patapsco class AOG.

Best of luck
Rick

i have about 4 of those Lindberg oilers with 1 built as is, 2 being kitbashed into 2 different classes of oilers & the 4th waiting to be kitbashed into a ww2 Cimarron Class Fleet Oiler.

http://www.modelerjoe.net/shipmodellist.html#LindOiler

I assume your Midway is post SCB-110. What kit will that be?

Otherwise, straight deck Revell, at 1/540.

In which case the Lindberg Kennebec class fleet oiler will serve well. The claim is that the scale is 1/520. One of our forum mates recently built the Round2 reissue.