Subject: SMML27/07/98VOL253 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:25:02 +1000 (EST) shipmodels@wr.com.au --------------------------------- Thanks for having SMML at your home, why not stop by our home at: http://warship.simplenet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Re: Texas brass set 2: Re: 1:350 Aircraft: 3: Re: RN ships in WW TWO. 4: Re: Views of RN ships as in WW Two 5: RE: Los Angeles class submarine 6: Might be boring. Modeling realistic water 7: Torpedo Boat 8: RE: Sackville and more 9: HMCS Sackville ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD INDEX 1: model show announcement 2: Basket case for sale or trade ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Bradford Chaucer Subject: Re: Texas brass set >> Flagship Models just came out with a Brass PE set for the kit. Is it needed? or is it just replacing existing brass?? The detail set for the Texas is identical to the set provided in the Texas kit. I added it to my product line after designing it for Viking. As far as it being worth $36.00. Well, that's for others to decide, but it's a BIG set and will outfit any '42- '45 dreadnought. << No offense meant; I didn't realize that the fret was the same as the one included in the kit. I thought that you were releasing an enhancement. That said, why didn't you do the blankety blank cagemast in brass? :-) Regards, Bradford Chaucer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: ECammeron@aol.com Subject: Re: 1:350 Aircraft: Now that we will have carriers to choose from in 1/350, it would be nice to have the choice of aircraft for them. So far, the carriers (Enterprise, Yorktown, etc) have only F6F, SBD and TBF/TBM. For the Bogue and Guadalcanal CVEs a set of F4Fs and TBF/TBMs would be appreciated. For the new Essex kits, F4Us and SB2Cs would allow the modeler to do some of the camo patterns with correct air groups. Same point regarding the WEM Victorious that is coming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: Vimieraa@aol.com Subject: Re: Views of RN ships as in WW Two I am trying to locate views of the following RN vessels as they appeared at certain periods in the war. Can anybody help? Request list follows: ELECTRA 1941 ENCOUNTER 1941 FEARLESS 1941 FIREDRAKE 1941/42 FORESIGHT 1941 GALLANT 1941 GREYHOUND 1941 GRIFFIN 1941 HEREWARD 1941 IMPERIAL 1941 MAORI 1941 MOHAWK 1941 NUBIAN As in 1942 upon completion of refit in 1942 in Bombay. Port and starboard views required. SOMALI 1942 KASHMIR 1941 LIGHTNING 1942 LIVELY 1942 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: "Michael Quan" Subject: RE: Los Angeles class submarine In response to Tom Doughery's comments regarding Paul Fisher's submarine kits, I thought Fisher had dropped the sub kits. His web address is: http://www.fishermodels.com, and shows only 24th scale resin sports racing car models. For what it's worth. Mike Quan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: Alberto Rada Subject: Might be boring. Modeling realistic water Help needed please If any kind soul was able to get further to the 4th line of the 3rd paragraph please explain: Froude Just joking, I knew I was going to learn things on this list, but Wow ! ! ! Thanks a lot Evert-Jan, it was really very enlightening, although I'll have to read it some more times SALUDOS Alberto p.d. I am going to learn this by heart ( only way ) and next time I bring a ship to a contest and someone asks! Are those waves correct, TAPOON I'll spill it on him. sorry guys couldn't avoid it, now I'll go back to the corner, looking at the wall ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: Alberto Rada Subject: Torpedo Boat Hi TC Models, a new resin modeling " Cottage Industry " located in South Africa has produced up to now a Short 184 seaplane, and now a Vickers Vimy and a Felixstowe F.2a all WW1 Aeroplanes, but they are announcing a 40 ft CMB WWI Torpedo Boat, can someone help on what this is ? SALUDOS Alberto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From: "Douglas Martin" Subject: RE: Sackville and more Folks: Whilst in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with my Father, his 3 Sisters and my 2 Nieces (THE holiday from Hell), we came across the Sackville and visited same plus another couple of Frigates whose names escape me at present (July 1990). An amazingly 'small' vessel, to say the least, and manned by truly remarkable crew, all things considered. Airfix kit, Nope - Matchbox. Came across a bookshop on the 'main street' not far from the 'fort', about HMCS Athabaskan, so next day I bought my first major purchase, about $20 Canadian and lugged it around for the next 2 weeks+. Ended up in St Johns, Newfoundland, on way from Hotel, along the 'main street', there was a museum dedicated to the Canadian Armed Forces, with histories of all the Services, and a large scale model of the Hood (and others) (this was NOT a WEM kit!) - looked like it was in the 1930s layout from memory. Also took a couple of trips up Signal Hill, where you overlook the entrance to St Johns, being on the convoy route to the UK/USA, I 'think' there is a memorial to the Titanic etc. Douglas (Scotland) (Wish I could help you out with the RN deck colours etc, but Navy days at Rosyth are in the dim and distant past....., I do have pics somewhere..but) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From: ironship@usit.net (Jon Warneke) Subject: HMCS Sackville >> Believe the old Airfix 1/72 Flower Class Corvette is suitable for this subject. Can anyone confirm? << It depends on how accurate you wish to be. As you know, Sackville was a Canadian produced Flower, and as such had some changes from the original British/RN design. The two best references that document these differences are the following: Anatomy of the Ship Agassi (sp?) from Naval Institute Press for the RN corvettes (which the Airfix/Matchbox kit reflects) Canada's Flowers and Corvettes of the RCN for the Canadian designed Flowers The Airfix kit also says that it can be used to make the reverse Lend Lease units to the USN, but these were not RN ships but rather RCN ships, and thus were of the Canadian design. Jon Warneke Iron Shipwrights ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Dave Carter Subject: model show announcement Hi There Model-Makers! Make a date for Sunday 9th August 10-5pm. AVON IPMS have their model show at The Pavillion, Bath. This is a very well established, well organised, and justifiably popular show, only a quick ta-tas down the M4 for you townies of course.. Bath is one of the finest of the English "tourist" towns, with its Roman origins.. inc. baths(!) and fine architecture. Sunday, by the way, is a sensible first for this club .. Saturday used to be hell re: parking etc. Look forward to seeing some of you there and, mores to the point (!) seeing some models entered, as I'm one of the judges and it's SO boring when everyone leaves their models at home!! Cheers Caroline Carter http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/xdt22/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "Jeff Herne" Subject: Basket case for sale or trade Hi guys, Thinning out the collection again... I've got a 1/350 Tamiya Enterprise I'm looking to move...Here's the poop: I bought it awhile back at a show. It has been started, the island is 3/4 completed, sans brass, and the level of the build is good, no heavy glue marks or anything like that. The hull has been painted, including the red, which is an awful fire engine/Ferrari red. The hull will need to be stripped, at least sanded, and repainted. Maybe even "sewed", er, "sawed" (sorry Alberto, I had to do it :-) into a waterline model All of the parts are still in the bags, except for those used on the island. I went out and bought 4 or 5 boxes of aircraft, so you've got enough a/c to do either F-4 era or F-14 era. The sudden realization, as I'm painting the nursery (read: former model room) is that I have neither the time nor the space for her. I'm asking $75.00 US, or best offer, which is what I paid for it way back when. I'll even consider a trade, but this time guys, don't try peddling off your screaming kids, family pets, or disgruntled wives. I have enough of that to handle myself... :-) Jeff ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume