Missing era?

warshipguy

Don,

I strongly recommend that you check out the website www.papermodelers.com. You would be amazed at what could be accomplished using this medium.  There are many outstanding models there, including ships of the period you want.

Bill

 

Bill, can you recommend a particular mfgr or vendor that offers ships of that era?

Don,

My favorites are:

www.papermodelstore.com

www.papel3D.com

www.HMV.com

However, there are many others as well.  The people over on the www.papermodelers.com website are quite friendly, and they can steer you to them, including free sites.

Bill

Don,

Have you checked Combrig kits yet?  They specialize in the era that you are looking for.  If you go to their website, you can scroll through their gallery.  You should check them out.

Bill

In a painful transition of from sail to steam and from wood hull to iron is the bastardised version a warship, the HMS CAPTAIN. This ship tried to corporate in all of the above with disastrous results. Designed by Cowper Coles, this vessel was launched On March 27, 1869 by the Laird Brothers of Berkenhead, with the innovation of two turret loading cannons. The propulsion was by steam on an iron hull with a full rigged sail as an auxiliuary arrangement. Knowlegeable naval officers warned against this design, but those in the higher Admiralty proceded because of the innovated design. On the night of Septermber 6, 1870, the CAPTAIN encountered strong winds off Finisterre on the English Channel. Because of her low freeboard, the CAPTAIN took on water causing the ship to scapsize with the loss of 480 officers and crew. This ship will never become a kit, but it will serve as an interesting transition of ship design.

Source, Wikipedia  Happy modeling      Crackers  

crackers

In a painful transition of from sail to steam and from wood hull to iron is the bastardised version a warship, the HMS CAPTAIN. This ship tried to corporate in all of the above with disastrous results. Designed by Cowper Coles, this vessel was launched On March 27, 1869 by the Laird Brothers of Berkenhead, with the innovation of two turret loading cannons. The propulsion was by steam on an iron hull with a full rigged sail as an auxiliuary arrangement. Knowlegeable naval officers warned against this design, but those in the higher Admiralty proceded because of the innovated design. On the night of Septermber 6, 1870, the CAPTAIN encountered strong winds off Finisterre on the English Channel. Because of her low freeboard, the CAPTAIN took on water causing the ship to scapsize with the loss of 480 officers and crew. This ship will never become a kit, but it will serve as an interesting transition of ship design.

Source, Wikipedia  Happy modeling      Crackers  

 

Thanks, Crackers.  Yeah, that is the sort of ship I find so fascinating, for the reason you mentioned.

Combrig doesn't manufacture the HMS Captyain, but they do have a selection of the very early pre-dreadnoughts with equally unusual features.

Bill

Don,

I found several turret ship kits from that transition era by Combrig.  They are listed under the different South American navies.  They do seem to be what you are looking for.

Bill

Don, if ever there was a ship that fit the transition you are inquiring about, it is the French passenger ship LA BOURGOGNE that transported my emigrant maternal grandmother, Christina Nicoletti to America in 1896 at the age of 23. Built in 1885 at la Sayne on the Mediterranean by Society des Farges, this steamship still carried sails when she tranported emigrants and other passengers from La Havre, France to New York. On July 4, 1898 this vessel collided with the British sailing ship CROMARTYSHIRE off Sable Island, Nova Scotia on a foggy morning with the tragic loss of 560 lives. What was so scandalous at the time, the crew members of LA BOURGOGNE pushed aside the passengers and took to the life boats to saved themselves. Carring a cargo of the lumber, CROMARTYSHIRE stayed afloat to rescue the few surviving passengers even though the ship's bow was stoved in. As a tribute to my late grandmother, I have always wanted to construct a model of the LA BOURGOGNE, but never could find a complete set of plans.

Happy modeling       Crackers   

At  hope it don't snow I saw a nice Combrig ship (though not of era I am interested in).  It was a WW1 US battleship.  Anyway, had a long talk with the builder- he was high on the Combrig line.  When I got home I checked out their line, and found several British kits of the missing era that I am interested in, and intend to choose one and order it soon.  Glad I learned about their line.

I'm glad to have been of help!

Bill