Merchant Marine Ships

New Braunfels, I floated down the river from there all the way to San Antonio back in the olden days. Fun time.

Onions, a sprig of fennel all chopped up, white pepper, a cup o' flour but best w'out weevils innit. An a handful o' butter. OTC oyster crackers work.

Spicy Hungarian Paprika!

Best in a spatterware mug.

New Braunfels builds a good affordable smoker.

I likes me food, I does! Dont get me started on Gumbo, but ok here goes. Every veg that goes in goes in twice. Make the roux with saute'd onions, fennel, garlic, celery, whatall, but keep out an equal amount to add at the last bubbly stage with the sea junk.

I never can understand how sailors eat seafood?

 HI- CapnMac82----- Say, how far is BRYAN from NEW BRAUNFELS?? Oh, fiddly I forgot to put the taters in the chowda! No wonders I needed so many clams. Well, everyone I guess I meant ("cockles" ??) The superior proof that modelshipbuilding is heretofore(that,s a long woid!) here to stay is on the pages of this mag and the forums. GEE, I am glad I build things that float.(As JACK AUBREY said to DR. MATURIN, she swims well, does she not??)I was sent the new H.M.S. SURPRISE(whatta box of wood!!) That will be for retirement from doing commissions. Now, where did I put that 1/400 U.S.S. WARD?? That is all!   tankerbuilder

What, there are 'sposed to be clams in the chowda?  Thought that meant you had to buy a round for the house if you found the one . . . <g>

Still too warm down here in central Texas for simmering a chowda or gumbo on the stove.  Sure, it'd smell divine and all, but getting the kitchen to sweatier not high on my to do list.

Dang it, now I have an urge to see if that shrimp trawler is in the stash . . . <sigh>

I'va good chowder recipe, er chowda, but I can't say what's good about it except I will for beer.

Secret ingredient is a quart of fat milk. And a pound of bacon. Clams might help, just mebbee.

But Vineyard Haven is "dry" so the rum'll be offshore.

Arrr, just checked Random house, and their etemology is that it stems from Conchylia, mussel, which makes it a pun of sorts in referring to the muscular struction of the heart.

Ahh, found some oyster crackers [crunch, munch] <G> thar' be sublimation, me'jim, arr, tis tru'

Or a Cochlea, which is a snail, and therefore a complicated path to the center, to wit a long and thoughtful journey, like sound into the ear, and might not be readily understood.

Oh, hell, pass the butter and a pinty fork!

tankerbuilder wrote:

have warmed the hackles (what are they anyway?)of this old merchant captains heart.

Well, hackles are the neck plumage on birds and neck structures on lizards that are able to be raised for display/threat/mating purposes.

I suspect though, you meant the phrase "warm the cockles of one's heart" which sounds odd to a seaman, since cockels are bivalve mollusks that can be right tasty.  Turns out the old phrase refers to fabric folds which mimic a scallop shell, and is meant to convey the plush, comforting "folds" of a person's heart.

Egad's I have a hankering for garlic butter, now <sigh>

 Mfsob--- I do appreciate the input. I am aware of the ships I could have IF Icould see better AND if the resin didn,t put me into coughing fits,even if I,m not sanding on it. I do as I say appreciate the info though.     tankerbuilder

 HEY!---I gotta sayto this WOW. That is one fine job isn,t it . Onyxman, with this little find you have warmed the hackles (what are they anyway?)of this old merchant captains heart. This is one fine piece of modeling, isn,t it??   tankerbuilder

Check out this Revell C-3 conversion by Maartin Schonfeld.

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/service/cargo/albla-350-ms/ms-index.html

 

And if you can handle 1/700 scale, these guys have a number of civilian cargo ships - http://home.earthlink.net/~loosecannonproductions/. The Loose Cannon Productions kits are all resin and photoetch kits and every one I've built has been nicely done. They have many of the ones that tankbuilder knew and loves, albeit in this much smaller size!

 Hello--Umi-Ryuzuki: I am the guy you know from here as tankerbuilder and I am a retired merchant officer too. I like the older ships like the c-3, c-3-2 ,t-2 and t2-4 tankers and all the early ships like REVELL did. I think if I had to choose I would say the NORMANDIE and the ANDREA DORIA in 1/350 would do nicely. The NORMANDIE because of her sad end and the DORIA becauseof the modern times it happened in.(The fifties.)  tankerbuilder

Taubman's plan service has the SS United States, under "Cruise Liners" page three.

And the SS America on page four

http://taubmansonline.com/cgi-bin/store/shop.cgi

I would like to build either the SS United States or the SS America from US Lines . Does anyone have plans that I could purchase?

What ships are you looking for?
If a resin kit could be produced, what what scale would you
want to have, and what ships would you like to see.

The Washington State Ferries are my favorite commercial ship.
I built one in 1/87(HO) scale so that I could just buy cars.
You can see it still needs lots of railings.

I have pics here.
http://groups.msn.com/ModelsandMiniatures/wsferryboat.msnw

However, I ask seriously, about the possiblities of resin kits for commercial ships.
How many others of you out there would like to see a product?

Bluejacket produces kits of a Navy WWII T2 Tanker and a Liberty Ship. They are wooden, solid hull models and I'm sure they can be easily converted to civilian livery.

Ed.