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1/350th scale late 19th - early 20th century lifeboats?

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  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Wilmette, IL
1/350th scale late 19th - early 20th century lifeboats?
Posted by mostlyclassics on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:52 PM

I have the Iron Shipwright 1/350th scale U.S.S. Maine resin kit, and I'm extremely happy with the quality of the resin castings plus the nice photoetched parts.

Nearly everything seems to be quite accurate, too, according to my research.

However, the lifeboats are a glaring inaccuracy: they have pointed sterns and sharply sloped bows instead of square sterns and nearly vertical bows.

Does anyone make 1/350th scale late 19th century - early 20th century lifeboats? This doesn't seem to be a problem with just Iron Shipwright's offerings, since it looks like a bunch of other kit manufacturers fudge it with regard to lifeboats for turn-of-the-20th-century vessels.

Or should I "roll my own": make an accurate styrene model, then cast a bunch of duplicates in resin?

  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:05 PM

I think Ted Paris of ISW may be in Vegas --  ahem -- "investing" the company's profits.  

Contact Jon Warneke at   ironship-at-vic.com  (change the -at- to @).    Jon casts the small parts and pretty much all the small kits for ISW.   Tell him exactly what you are looking for,  square stern,  length, etc.   I'm fairly sue that Jon has what you ae looking for somewhere in his parts catalog.   I know I have bunches of their small boats in the stash.   Even if he doesn't have something which 100% meets your requirements, he will likely have something which gets you most of the way there.  You can add your own details to meet your own requirements (seats, rudder, etc.) and cast them if that is your desire.

Tell Jon that Ed says Hi.

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Wilmette, IL
Posted by mostlyclassics on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:56 PM
Thanks, Ed, I'll try Jon.
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