Lack of Supply and Refueling vessels in various scales .

I wonder how well Trumpeter's two 1/700 AOE's sold. If they sold enough to turn a profit I imagine we'll see more....

I would also like  to see the various tenders. My father served on the USS Frontier (AD-25), and I served on the USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16).  Without the tenders, especially those forward deployed, it would be much more difficult to operate the rest of the fleet.

Bill

Some stuff is out there in resin.

Link one

I've had to resort to making them myself:

Okay Now !

   Those look pretty fair .You have the idea .Why the brighter than normal colors though  ? I would expect that on cruise ships  . Either way you have a nice start to a fleet of working ships

I think it is the same reason there are far fewer kits of civil aircraft or military ones.  Things that shoot and bomb just seem to be more interesting than ships other than warships.  No one seems to want to build a trainer, or private plane, either.  While I do build warships also, I really love building civilian ships, and treasure the civilian kits that mfgs do offer

I just had another thought, looking at today's threads in this forum.  Count the threads about warships and figure the proportion of those to total ship posts.

Hi Don;

  Sadly I know you are right . Back in the fifties though Revell had a good number of ships , the Oriana/Canberra twins and the Moore Mc Cormack Brasil/Argentina , the ubiquitus Hawaiian Pilot and a tanker as well as an APA and AKA that could be converted to civilian use .They also had a neat harbor tug that could bear a lot of conversions .

   In this same period Pyro had the Tuna Clipper , Shrimp boat and North Sea trawler ( not to be confused with Revell's " Spy Trawler " ) and the Shrimp Boat , and the S.S. President liner , Later to become Lindberg products.

   Revell again had the S.S. United States, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, and there were others .Otaki had the "Shell Welder " offshore transport tanker , which can now be found out of Russia .

    Otaki had some small forty foot Coast Guard types too . Even back then those were hard to find along with Aurora's " Wheeler Cruiser " .

Well the AKA was probably the Renwal one. I bought the Shangri La recently when it was reissued and am reminded that Renwal made really nice models.

I had to move this year and got rid of a lot of stuff, including a cruddy old version of the Texaco North Dakota. I had planned to clean it up, replace the missing parts etc. but never got to it.

Revell (G) released the Columbo container ship awhile ago.  That was a terrific ship, as nice as any warship kit.  Only failing in my book is that there was only one container logo- I had to make inkjet logos of other container companies.  There is a PE set for it that is very nice too.

Ah DON ;

   My dear friend The ship is nice , BUT , it's 1/700 . I have to build bigger than that !

I'd like to see a T2 as they were configured in WW2, like the one I was on, the USS Sabine A0-25. It was called the Esso Albany before the Navy pressed it into service back in 1939. I've seen those, but not configured like she that was. I did see one, probably 20 yrs. ago and it was a big model, but not since then. I guess if they're not a fighting ship, then they don't make them. Just sayin'.

Well yes but cant the Revell San Juan Capistrano/ J.L. Hanna/ Esso Glasgow be made to work?

Mine: AO-87 Sebec

Now : See ! That's nice .

     A little light it seems .I remember the Oiler we went alongside of and it seemed like her decks were almost awash.

    She was odd in that the bridge and deck-house structure were rounded on the forward ends . I do wish I could remember her name . She operated out of Pearl !

GM;

Are there more pics of that Sebec somewhere?

Sure there was a thread about T2's a couple of years ago.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm150/6134rdm/DSC_0372.jpg

Can you gimme me a recipe for your water diorama? I'm about to try for 1st time!

Hokey, the most important thing is to get a photo of your ship underway and copy it down to the smallest detail. It's a surprise how much different her wake may be from what you'd guess.

I painted the board black and laid on a couple of coats of clear Acrylic Liquitex.

Then I took a jar of the same, but Acrylic Matte Gel mixed with their Titanium white and globbed it on.

Thanks!

Thanks for posting the pics GM. Beautifully done!

I do like that :

Kin I have her ?  huh ! HUH! LOL. LOL. LOL. Very nice job . Very believable too ! T.B.

Several things I did to the Revell kit.

The stern was round but the ships had a vertical edge. I glued a pice of styrene rod up/down and filled in on both sides with putty.

I used the GMM 1/400 USN PE set for a lot of stuff, Did the Pine Island while I was at it.

Visser

The drawings are from the National Archive.

Civilian ships in the Maritime Association during WW2 actully have a really good record for the fact that they were built and operated in the private sector.

www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker

cs.finescale.com/.../109585.aspx

It took me a while to get this one back, but it was a good one.

Several folks involved who are still around, and a real testament to that old J.L. Hanna kit.

I've done three builds of the Revell T-2 now, and probably won't get to another one. But it sure would be cool to do a wartime tanker with a meccano deck full of fighter planes. Doing research on the transport of aircraft for my Liberty build has been very interesting. Tankers carried a huge percentage of the single engine aircraft to the fronts. A T-2 could carry 14 partially disassembled planes. The drawback was the storm damage and corrosion inherit in deck transport, and the fact that tanker's primary duty was to carry fuel, so dock schedules were complicated.

tankerbuilder

Ah DON ;

   My dear friend The ship is nice , BUT , it's 1/700 . I have to build bigger than that !

But that container ship is huge! It is as big as some of my 1:350 stuff!

seasick

(Yes merchants get their own Jane's book too.)

Capt. Jame's legacy extends to cover any mode of transportation extant. IIRC, there is a Jane's for satellites and space transportation.