Whats everyone building???

QUOTE: Originally posted by MBT70 Almost finished! The Maximum Battleship in 1:350.

This looks great,...
Are you saying this is not done?[:0]

Almost finished! The Maximum Battleship in 1:350.

Well The 90's missouri is moving along very well at this point, alot of scratch building !!!

I just completed my 1/192 scale scratchbuilt model of Vesta, a Gloucester-built fishing sloop of 1899. Began again yesterday with the Model Shipways kit of the brig Niagara, Commodore Perry's flagship at the Battle of Lake Erie. The kit is completed, hull, masts, spars, deck furniture and armament. All that remains is to rig the guns, step the masts and do the rigging.

Al Blevins

glad to see you returning to the craft!!!

My Missouri 90's confirguration is movin along slowly.....

After more than 20 years of model building retirement and a few weeks of thinking about what I will start back with, I pulled out a box of unbuilt items in the attic. I rediscovered a model that I had gotten for a birthday present and never even opened.

I believe that to get my skills back, I will work on Revell's kit 05010 the SSBN-619 USS Andrew Jackson. This is the model that is hinged to show the interior if you wish.

I'd say the Pibber would classify as a ship or boat, since it's a U.S. Navy craft. But you are right about building it like an armor kit, since they were used like tanks along the rivers, providing firepower and mobility to dismounts along shore and overwatch fires for bridges and convoys. Even the colors and uniforms are more like armor, not to mention the 1/35 scale. Show us some photos when you can.

I'm returning to my lowly PBR that I started last fall before the holidays. It's 1/35 scale and I'm not sure if I should categorize it as ship or armor. It is a watercraft but I have to use my armor building techniques to build it. Any comments? I would appreciate your help in classifying this boat.

I am rebuilding a Cape class USCG boat that my father built back in the 60's. I think that he built it from plans in a Mechanix Illustrated magazine back in the mid 50"s. I would sure like to display a copy of these plans with the boat, but can not find which issue the plans came from. Any help??
Hull and structure are done and starting to add the RC controls and details. Need to purchase the armament, and other related hardware. Also have a Charles W. Morgan whaling ship half done. Sometimes it hard to find the time!!

It would be considerably larger than the Montana ... but my other kit IS the Montana in 1/350. The difference, however, is that I've made a theoretical leap into the current times and modified it into nuclear propulsion and modern weapons (from the New Jersey kit) as well as the quad 3x16" turrets. I picked up the Gold Medal brass at the same time I bought the Missouri sets. And thanks for your kind words ... I've put some effort into this one and appreciate the thoughts on craftsmanship. BTW ... I'm new on this forum, although I'm a long-time reader of FSM. I have every one of the last 64 issues, plus the annuals. This looks like my kind of chat room!

Very interesting topic. I like your craftmanship. I saw somewhere that someone is kitting the Montana, but I can't find were I saw it. Your ship must be much larger than the Montana class?

It's a major kitbash of the 1/350 Missouri with lots of parts from the New Jersey kit, also being rebuilt into a "Never-was" warship.

http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/upload/MaxBat

Okay, here it is ... number 771 on Page 22. This picture is when it was about 80% complete. Since then I've added the rest of the Gold Medal details and some weathering and such. The ship is based on a Naval study done between the wars called The Maximum Battleship and is the largest, mostley heavily armed and armored ship that could still get through the Panama Canal.


http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/upload/MaxBat

Thanks, Lonh,
I'll get my stuff together and try it out.

Hello MBT70,

Here is the link to the sticky that explains posting pics.

http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10017

Hope this helps,
Lon

I prefer the White Ensign 1/350 Vought Kingfisher aircraft over the Curtis Seahawks that come with the kit. I'm just completing a yearlong kitbash of the Missouri during which I customized it into an 80,000 ton, 1,000 foot long super dreadnought with fifteen 18-inch guns. This is my first post on this forum, so can anyone tell me how to post a photo? Since I'm a published author, I'd also like to do a story on the ship for FSM. How do I go about that?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Sabertooth I'm working on getting everything together for Tamaya (BB-63) Missouri 1/350. I'm building it for my father-in-law since he served on her in 1945-1948. Does anyone have any ideas of what I should add to her to make her shine? I'm going to get Gold medal photo ech rails. What else should I order for her?

I just finished the Contitution and your right, the rigging can be a little hairy, just take your time. I'm working on the HMS Victory now and talk about rigging, the plans for it are wicked, you even have to use a magnifing glass just to tead them. I'm sure they are going to try my patient to the limits.
Have fun, that's what it's all about. Keep me posted.
Jim

Well, the modeling is on hold for at least a month, maybe two or three.

I had a mishap with the corvette hull plates last week which really got me POed so I put it away for a spell after cleaning up.

Now the dart team is still trolling through the A side of the playoffs with one more match to go for the league championship, so practice is a priority.

And I am off on a teaching assignment for most of the rest of March.

When I get back I have a dresser to finish in the wood shop followed by a table (commission woek so again a priority ...)

Regards,
Bruce

I've got two 1/350 kits semi-finished in the box and other five complete.
I've got to scratch build somethig to put them first, i need to put them closed in glass.
Until then i can't finish the other two.
Has i work whith Autocad i'll be drawing a piece of furniture before continuing building ships.
It´s not easy to be ship modeler, especily 1/350, theres allways not enought space to put them.
So, now i'm scrath building furniture. What will be next !?...

I've got a 1/700 Hood and 1/700 Bismarck waiting on me.

I just finished an Italeri USS John Stennis aircraft carrier. Will do a Bismarck from Academy next.

I am currently doing Revell's 1/83 "Mayflower". I originally thought of getting Trumpeter's 1/60 kit but Revell's one costs just 1/3 of the price of the Trumpeter kit. This is my first ship doing mainly armor and a/c prior to this. The build is going smoothly. Lots of clean-up though.

I am presently building the Mamoli version of the Star. I may build it again after I finish this one because I want to use different woods than what was included in the kit

Umi:
Congratulations on the fire boat. Nice hull lines and I can appreciate your time and trouble in working off photos and other secondary sources.

For myself, I'm still trying to get my models moved back into the den after the evil sisters-in-law checked out of chez Bruce. May have to postpone modelling a bit longer because my dart team just locked up first place; playoffs start next week and one must practice to take home the hardware!
Bruce

samreichart,

well if you are not able to host the images anywhere, when you are ready to post them,
R/C groups will let you attach photos to your posts. And we really don't care if they are in the submarine section or not. the Scale Section gets the most activity.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php?s=&topic=sea

QUOTE: I just noticed this also QUOTE: Originally posted by samreichart Does big R/C count? Starting a 1/48 scale Type XXI U-Boat, for multichannel R/C. Yes, but we still want to see pictures. Aimee Eng

an update:

The hull arrived this past week...all I've been able to do so far is mark the drain slots that need to be opened. I also just received the set of PE deck hatches for the model. This boat will probably end up as a 5 channel system model, using a self contained gas ballast dive module. The hull is aprrox 63 inches long, constructed of fiberglass and epoxy. I will post some pictures when it looks less like a large cream colored blob!

regards,
Sam

In reguards to the fire boat...
I think it's military. Why else call it a FIREboat. I bet they're not just fireing water hoses with that thing. GLOMAR was good, but look at it. It's closer to a STEALTH fire boat, for when you want to put out a fire on board one of your ships that's not supposed to be there! FWIW , BCNU, Doc

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jeff_Herne Umi, I can't understand why the hull lines for a fireboat would be such a closely guard secret...unless...it's a GLOMAR fireboat and they intend to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear sub from the bottom of the Mariana Trench... where's 007 when you need him??? It's late... Jeff

Why give stuff away , when you can sell it. I tried getting information from Robert Allan Ltd. Naval Architects about 4 years ago on this same 32m hull, in its tug boat config. I got a better reply than on the fire boat. "Unfortunately the boat you have requested plans for are too new for us to release information. Perhaps in a few years, it will become available"
When I asked about the fire boat, no reply. The builders, no reply, called the builders and was told, "We're busy." The "authorised" model builder sent two images above the deck, and offered to build parts in 1/32 scale. My boat is 1/36,...hmmm
Even the one other person that I know of, building a scale model of this boat was contacted to make sure he was not selling parts to anyone.

Apparantly people are still giving them money for plans, and permission to build boats from this design set. So Certainly if they gave the plans to a mere hobby builder it would devalue its worth. However, if it is not a guarded secret, then Robert Allan is very willing to sell model builders plan sets. It says so on their web site.

I just happened to pick one of the secret hull designs.

Aimee

I'm still working on airplanes...sssshhhh, don't tell anyone, it'll ruin my rep...oh wait, that's already shot to pieces, so...never mind.

Umi, I can't understand why the hull lines for a fireboat would be such a closely guard secret...unless...it's a GLOMAR fireboat and they intend to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear sub from the bottom of the Mariana Trench... where's 007 when you need him???

It's late...

Jeff