Glencoe ss united states

Squadron put out an old Glenco  kit of Dewey's ship at Manila Bay the Olympia. It came with PE & wood decks. It made a very nice build. I don't know how accurate it is, but it sure looks nice. Here are a few pics of it.

   Of course the PE & wood decks make an old model look good. I believe it was around $60 & well worth it. I really enjoyed building it. 

R.M.S.Titanic

Problem is, i cant seem to find any good pictures of the model, so im not entirely sure

 

Problem is, i cant seem to find any good pictures of the model, so im not entirely sure

That, of course, is up to the individual modeler. I personally wouldn't buy it. But the choice is entirely yours.

But is it still a worthy model to put on display? Or is it not worth getting

Well, it has a pretty rotten reputation. The hull proportions are way off, and the details don't amount to much.

It's a re-packaging of a kit produced by ITC back in the fifties. At that time the ship was new. She'd been built under a big government subsidy, with the understanding that the Navy could use her as a high-speed transport in wartime. I believe the plans were classified when the kit was released. (The underwater hull lines were still classified until relatively recently. So ITC had a good excuse for getting the hull form wrong.

Unfortunately the only other United States kit is the even older, and more simplified, Revell version. Ocean liner enthusiasts, unfortunately, just aren't well served by the kit manufacturers.

It's the only game in town, larger scale plastic for the ship. Otherwise there's the smaller Revell waterline model, which is maybe a little sharper. But they are both old.

Like the Lindberg President, it would take a lot of work to make right. There is however a lot of PE around at 1/400.