Great Lakes Ships

mikepowers wrote:

Didnt Shep Paine build the Sable? Or maybe some of the aircraft for it, cant remember. I think it was 72nd scale and beautiful. I'll have to dig up the old FSM mag and read about it again.

No, its Bill Waldorf

Didnt Shep Paine build the Sable?

Or maybe some of the aircraft for it, cant remember. I think it was 72nd scale and beautiful.

I'll have to dig up the old FSM mag and read about it again.

CG Bob wrote:

The Great Lakers Modeling Association has a list of kits that are available.  Iron Shipwright has two resin models of the FITZ; 1:350 scale is $250; and 1:700 scale is $75. Depending on what your definition of Great Lakes ships is, you're not limited to merchant or Coast Guard vessels.  There were 28 GATO/BALAO class subs built at Manitowoc, WI during the war.  Pullman Standard (Railroad) Car Company in Chicago built PCE/s.  DaFoe Shipbuilding in Michigan built escort ships.  Peterson Brothers in Sturgeon Bay, WI has built minesweepers.

...and all those Coastie ice-breakers and bouy tenders.

http://www.mackinawcity.com/index.php?catid=100

http://www.uscglightshipsailors.org/model_ship_builder2.htm

http://www.boatsyachtsmarinas.com/history/html/xmas_tree_ship.html

check the walther's <gasp choke> dare i say model rr catalog. i think someone makes an ho scale ore carrier to go with the ore loading towers.

 Walthers, Walthers, Walthers......hmmm I'm not choking. Oh!, I am a model railroader, so I must be immune. Sylvan Scale Models has an HO ( 1:87 ) scale Great Lakes Tug, and they have recently announced the release of a Great Lakes Freighter. As I remember it would be somewhere around 140 scale feet...about 17" long. It is a resin kit. Go to, http://www.isp.on.ca/Sylvan/

mikepowers wrote:

Dont forget the 2 Great Lakes Aircraft Carriers Wolverine and Sable. An important part of the Great Lakes history. Mike

I almost bought a postcard from the Seeandbee the other day at the mall. $5. I felt like ajerk when I didn't have it. 

mikepowers wrote:

Dont forget the 2 Great Lakes Aircraft Carriers Wolverine and Sable. An important part of the Great Lakes history. Mike

the guy that built one in an earlier fine scale modeler article is going to speak at the NRG convention.

Dont forget the 2 Great Lakes Aircraft Carriers Wolverine and Sable.

An important part of the Great Lakes history.

Mike

Matt90 wrote:

Does anyone make them?

check the walther's <gasp choke> dare i say model rr catalog. i think someone makes an ho scale ore carrier to go with the ore loading towers. also check the manitowoc maritime museum. nautical research guild is having their annual convention their in september which i will attend.

mfsob wrote:

Someone else makes a 1/700 model of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but ... I haven't had enough coffee yet to find the link. I think it was posted on modelwarships.com a couple of years ago and was a resin kit if I recall right.

Iron Shipwright makes the Edmund Fitzgerald in both 1:700 and 1:350

ISW also makes a 1:700 scale whale-back ore carrier from the late 1800s as the john Ericsson

The Great Lakers Modeling Association has a list of kits that are available.  Iron Shipwright has two resin models of the FITZ; 1:350 scale is $250; and 1:700 scale is $75.

Depending on what your definition of Great Lakes ships is, you're not limited to merchant or Coast Guard vessels.  There were 28 GATO/BALAO class subs built at Manitowoc, WI during the war.  Pullman Standard (Railroad) Car Company in Chicago built PCE/s.  DaFoe Shipbuilding in Michigan built escort ships.  Peterson Brothers in Sturgeon Bay, WI has built minesweepers.   

Yep, but they're not cheap. Have a look here:

http://www.bearcomarine.com/

Cheers,

John Snyder, White Ensign Models, http://WhiteEnsignModels.com