Minesweeper models?

Mr. King,

 My Dad served on YMS-6 during WW-II.  I would like very much to see how your model turned out and am interested in building one myself.  I have the entire official ships plans for this boat, but have been unable to find a YMS model with two stacks like YMS-6.  All the models I have seen only have one stack.  I would also lbe interested in any information you can share about this boat and it's crew.  The Minesweeper association has been unable to locate any of the former crewmembers.

Thanks,

dave 

Gordon D. King wrote:

I just started working on the model YMS. Construction details are very vague and there is no diagrams to let you know the identities of the brass or resin parts. Has anyone built this model who could help me. I did follow the link from Ed and printed the review and the one about the model which was built. Neither was much help in identifying the parts. For example I don't find any part which looks like the main mast.

In the box was there a piece of brass tube or maybe it is taped to the lid? My resin model of the Vestal has a piece of brass tube taped to the inside of the box lid. You could scratch your own from a wood dowel, brass or aluminum tube though if you can't find it. Another way is to build the rest of the kit and the part left over is the mast <G> 

Iron Shipwright makes a 1:350 scale resin & brass model of the YMS-1 class motor minesweeper

review here:  http://www.steelnavy.com/ISW%20YMS%20FB%20Build.htm

http://www.commanderseries.com/ships_350.html