As promised -- pictures of scratchbuilt 1:192 scale 133 foot USCG buoy tender

Inspiring! I wish there were more USCG subjects available. Everytime I drive past the base in Seattle I think what a great model those icebreakers would make.

Ed, I have a question about the plans you started with. I have thought I someday might try what you have done here with a C4-S-A1 troopship hull. That would lead to all kinds of scratchbuilding oportunities, from the original troopship to the various civilian modifications those versatile ships provided. (Revell's old hospital ship seems to be the only injection molded kit based on that hull, and the scale is too small for me.)

Anyway, I have the catalogue from the Smithsonian, "Maritime Administration Ship Design Collection".  Under the C4-S-A1 they list "Forward Body Lines", "After Body Lines", and "Body Plan, Frames". I see your plan just says "Body Plan". So, my question is, do I need all three of those or just the one titled "Body Plan, Frames"? The other two are $30 each, so I hate to buy them if I don't need them.

Fred

Hi Ed

Wow, just looking at that 133 foot shuddering S&%#house brings back so many wonderful memories of leaving Rockland Maine at O dark thirty for a 10 hour run up to Frenchmans Bay or Eastport to tend some buoys(we had 400 plus). You can sign me up for a couple of those models when they go into production, I have off set lines and plans but seem to lack the will(I'm lazy in retirement) to scratchbuild ships these days. Looks like a top notch job, I hope you'll keep us up to date as to a production run. Why I can almost feel the White Lupine swaying and slamming its flat bottom in 8 foot seas and the bridge crew turning a lovely shade of green... 

"Theres nothing like the smell of seaweed and starfish cooking on a hot steel buoy deck in the morning, it's the smell of productivity" 

regards

Mike "Iron Stomach" Maynard

thunderjet wrote:

Hi Ed Wow, just looking at that 133 foot shuddering S&%#house brings back so many wonderful memories of leaving Rockland Maine at O dark thirty for a 10 hour run up to Frenchmans Bay or Eastport to tend some buoys(we had 400 plus). You can sign me up for a couple of those models when they go into production, I have off set lines and plans but seem to lack the will(I'm lazy in retirement) to scratchbuild ships these days. Looks like a top notch job, I hope you'll keep us up to date as to a production run. Why I can almost feel the White Lupine swaying and slamming its flat bottom in 8 foot seas and the bridge crew turning a lovely shade of green...  "Theres nothing like the smell of seaweed and starfish cooking on a hot steel buoy deck in the morning, it's the smell of productivity"  regards Mike "Iron Stomach" Maynard

Hi Mike

Thank you for the comments.   You may appreciate this link from the USCG Historian - it is a design history of the 133' tenders

http://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBCUTTERS/NPS_133_HAER_Report.pdf

And this is the HAER website. 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/

Put White Lupine in the search box.  There are a bunch of photos which I have also used.

onyxman wrote:

Ed, I have a question about the plans you started with. I have thought I someday might try what you have done here with a C4-S-A1 troopship hull. That would lead to all kinds of scratchbuilding oportunities, from the original troopship to the various civilian modifications those versatile ships provided. (Revell's old hospital ship seems to be the only injection molded kit based on that hull, and the scale is too small for me.) Anyway, I have the catalogue from the Smithsonian, "Maritime Administration Ship Design Collection".  Under the C4-S-A1 they list "Forward Body Lines", "After Body Lines", and "Body Plan, Frames". I see your plan just says "Body Plan". So, my question is, do I need all three of those or just the one titled "Body Plan, Frames"? The other two are $30 each, so I hate to buy them if I don't need them. Fred

Hi Fred

I don't know the contents of the Smithsonian for sure, or the exacgt terminaology used

I also used these plans along with the body plan cross section lines.  

You really need both to establish the shape of the hull.    The Smithsonians Forward Lines may be the cross scetion and elevation for the forward half and Aft Lines may be for the back half.  Or they may be just the half the elevation.

The Smithsonian's Body Plan Frames may be similar to this.  

It gives the shape of the hull, and some idea of the space within.  You can use it, if there are sufficient of them to set the shape of the hull and can accurately determine their positioning longitudinally on the plan.   You can see that it would be difficult to set the shape of the hull with just 4 lines.

I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer.   Perhaps if you post the question on a naval interest board like SteelNavy  (steelnavy.com), someone may have the plans and can give a better answer.

Thanks Ed,

I may just take a chance and order the body plan, which is only $10, along with an order I'm putting in for plans from the Z-EC2-S-C5 Liberty Ship Airplane Transport. If I ever get to doing a hull from scratch it will be a long time in the future anyway.

Fred