Glencoe ss united states

You Know ;

   I have models of both from the Wood model people , great looking ships , Lotsa brass went into them plus the molded White-metal parts . But they are big !

 Now think a moment , Would you have wanted to live on one of those ? Not me ! No Air-Conditioning or in some cases hard racks . Hammocks my friend ! No Thanks .

 Still there was nothing more riveting than the " Great White Fleet " outside the Farralons coming into San Francisco ! What a sight ! I saw a photo in the Maritime Museum there , gees , what an impressive sight that was !

 See if you can picture it , All the major ships strung out in a line , bow to stern coming to the turn into the channel .WOW! ! !        T.B.

As an aside, the Oregon was to be a "museum ship" on Portland, but was taken during the steel shortages in WWII.  Her mast is installed in Waterfront Park along the Willamette in Portland.  There is a real nice model of her over in Astoria at the museum there.  Had the old Glenco kit of her, but it went away when the motorhome it was stored in disappeared, before I could get to build it.

SS United States fans will be interested to learn that a reboxing of the old flat-bottomed, 1/600 Revell kit is on the company's list of "new products" for January.

It doesn't measure up to modern standards, of course, but to my eye it looks a lot more like the ITC/Glencoe version.

Something is missing there. I am interested to know what you think- Revell better than Glencoe?

I think Revell's designers worked from at least some measured drawings of the actual ship. The Revell model, at least to my eye, has proportions that look more like the real ship. 

It's a 1950's kit, so it would be unreasonable to expect much from it. But it looks to me like a better basis for a serious scale model.

Hi " G " ;

    I would have to think the Revell version , although flat bottomed is by far better at actually looking like the U.S. . The Glencoe kit looks more like a Matson ship or American President Liner . with the wrong stacks . I believe it's because she doesn't appear to be the right length .

     She could be very well an in between size as far as length . One definite giveaway is this . Count the lifeboats .The S.S.U.S. had 24 , the Matson ships or Presidents only had 18 .  T.B.