Subject: SMML09/12/97VOL024 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX 1: Cruiser SIG 2: Re: New Books 3: 1/200 Yamato 4: Re: 1/200 Yamato 5: U.S.Navy CVX Carrier? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Dave Carter Subject: Cruiser Sig Following the posting by Graham Walker re the Cruiser SIG yesterday, I'd just like to say that we cover the cost of printing and posting the newsletter 4 times a year (it always arrives at the same time as the Plastic Ship Modeler Subscriptions, so it's mayhem at the moment) Yes, it is free for UK members, but postage alone to e.g. the US or Aus. is about £1.95 (3 USD), so we ask for a payment of either $10.00 US cash per year, (NO CHEQUES as we pay £12.00 to cash a foreign currency cheque) or a credit card payment of £6.00 per year to partly cover the cost of shipping to the US, Japan, Aus etc. Europe is less, at £4.00 per year. Regards, Caroline P.S. I have posted some pics I took at the U.K. IPMS Nationals in November on my website...this includes some of the winning ship models. Check out the following address: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdt22/ipms97.htm White Ensign Models,Gardeners Cottage,Cowarne Court,Lower Eggleton, Ledbury,Herefordshire,HR8 2UF,U.K. Tel: 01432 820403 Fax: 01432 820830 http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdt22/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: Dave Carter Subject: New books Hi Ken, >> Chatham, eh? I wonder how Conway managed to miss out on this one? Would've thought it was right up their alley. << Well, Chatham was formed as a break-away company by one of the founders of Conway Maritime Publishing when Brasseys took over .. some people, by all accounts, were not satisfied with the new set-up.. they are starting to get a pretty good name for themselves.. They have also published the new "Battlecruiser" book by John Roberts at £30.00. John gets a far better deal from Chatham than he ever did with Conways. Check out the new Chatham listings: http://whiteensignmodels.simplenet.com/books2.htm Cheers, >> Fleetscale, in the U.K. has produced a hull for it in 1:128. My catalog is an older one and there are no fittings listed for it, but they usually have sets of fittings produced for their hulls. << You sound like a RICH floaty boaty merchant Ken..this stuff is seriously expensive kit, although some of the R/C models that the Boltons have built from their own hulls is quite magnificent...Bill, I believe you supplied some pics to NAVIS or did I see them on your site?? >> For you Iowa-Class fans, this is what a proper battleship looks like. :-) (Have to go -- looking for cover.) << Well, we'd personally go for the R Class.... White Ensign Models,Gardeners Cottage,Cowarne Court,Lower Eggleton, Ledbury,Herefordshire,HR8 2UF,U.K. Tel: 01432 820403 Fax: 01432 820830 http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdt22/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: Dave Carter Subject: 1/200 Yamato First off, Dale, BIG sympathy re. your back.. I've had 20 years of hell with 2 major back ops in 3 years. Anyhow, re that Yamato Greg, we see a kit about once a year here and it just arrived. Overall, the kit is big (over 4 feet long) and heavy, therefore expensive to ship. Is it worth it?? It certainly builds up to an impressive model, especially with the addition of the Gold Medal fittings. Although the moulds are almost 30 years old, for their age, they are of good quality, with reasonable surface detail and minimal flash. I cannot comment on the accuracy of the kit as I have never sat down with plans etc to assess it. I have heard it said that there are inaccuracies in the bridge structure but more than that cannot say. I would say that everyone that has bought one off us in the past has been pleased with it. The advantage with the Yamato of course is the ready availability of excellent references such as the Anatomy of The Ship, still in print, and the Modelart Japanese equivalent. On the whole, if I wanted a model of the Yamato of this size, I personally would buy the kit accepting that some surgery would be neccessary for 100% accuracy. Perhaps posting here or on RMS would bring forth some useful info from one who has built it... by the way, air shipping to Aus (t'other side of the world from here of course) would be about the £36.00 touch, with surface 1/3 cheaper. A kit from Hobbylink would be cheaper but check shipping costs.. from Japan to here is about twice the price we pay from here to Japan. Cheers, Dave and Caroline White Ensign Models,Gardeners Cottage,Cowarne Court,Lower Eggleton, Ledbury,Herefordshire,HR8 2UF,U.K. Tel: 01432 820403 Fax: 01432 820830 http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdt22/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: Greg Subject: Re: 1/200 Yamato Dave, O.K., - what is the all up total cost? (1/200 Kit & GMM P/E Kit to suit + Air Postage and Handling) I am not one for spending hrs tracking down the best price (Hobbylink/Japan etc..), I prefer to be able to get everything I need in the one place, have the order filled correctly and dispatched promptly! I built ARII's 1/250 Yamato, and Tamiya's 1/350 and 1/700 Waterline, and have already done the research, I Have Skulski's Anatomy, so I am very familiar with how she looks. The ARII Kit is quiet good, although the Instructions are 100% Japanese, The prop housings are Terrible, but generally, and overall, the kit is quiet a surprise - although the Lack of P/E available was a bummer, but I hear if you get the three bar 1/200 railing, and cut the top run off, it gives you 2 Bar rails in roughly 1/250 scale? Straight out of the box - Pretty Good! But The Yamato was a BIG Battleship, so It needs to be a BIG Model! Greg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: Greg Subject: U.S.Navy CVX Carriers? Anybody know anything about the new flight deck design? Is the Island really going to be at mid ship, with V placed Magnetic catapults? Greg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume