I'm currently working on a large 1/700 diorama of Brunei, Borneo, on October 21st, 1944, for a client. I have the major warships all lined up and under construction, but I need some merchant vessels as filler.
If anyone is willing to swap or sell reasonably any of the following, let me know. I have 1/48 aircraft (WW2 era), 1/35th armor WW2 era, and some 1/350 plastic and resin kits mostly USN, but some RN and IJN as well, available for trade.
Obviously, I don't need everything here, but I would like a few merchants to toss in amongst the warships. I'm particularly interested in the tankers, and if there's something out there that I missed (like any of the War Standards Designs, etc.)please let me know. And no...I haven't tried to determine if any of these actual vessels were at Brunei on October 21st, 1944, so if you do happen to know of any that were, by all means, chime in. I'm having a hard enough time trying to determine the warships that were there...the merchants will be generic in nature...
Aoshima Yawata Maru
Aoshima Nitta Maru
Aoshima Kasuga Maru
Hasegawa Hikawa Maru (either version)
Hasegawa Depot Ship Heian Maru
HP IJN Soya (Maru?)
HP IJN Itsukushima Maru
HP IJN Fleet Tanker Nippon Maru
HP IJN Fleet Tanker Tatekawa Maru
Thanks for looking,
Jeff Herne