Subject SMML29/11/98VOL379 Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:06:32 +1100 (EST) shipmodels@tac.com.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Admiralty Light Disruptive Colors 2: Re: (Campbelltown) Plans 3: RFA Reliant 4: Re: HMS CAMPBELTOWN 5: Re: Iowa follow-up 6: Warship Timber Decks World War I 7: BB Fuso: Anatomy of a ship book 8: Re: Campbeltown 9: TITANIC reference -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD INDEX 1: new books 2: WEM 1/700 HMS Sussex -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: RCM612@prodigy.net Subject: Admiralty Light Disruptive Colors I'm just about at the painting stage on my Accurate Images Hunt class destroyer (Pretty nice model, BTW. It captures the look of a Hunt very well), and I'm all set to go but for the deck color. Does anyone know what the deck color would be for the Admiralty Light Disruptive Color scheme? I'm afraid I'm well versed on US camouflage measures, but not Royal Navy schemes. Thanks in advance, and I hope everyone enjoyed a great Thanksgiving. Sincerely, Robert Morgan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: Ernst-Bernhard Kayser Subject: Re: (Campbelltown) Plans >> ...Back when I did modeling in the 70's there was a gentleman in the Maryland area I believe who did a tremendous range of ship turret/gun plans and other things like WW1 Naval guns on railway cars. Does anybody know who or if these are still available?... << Dear new subscriber, maybe you think of Duane Borchert. He offers a range of unusual plans. Check out his website: http://www.marylandsilver.com/Default.htm Or contact him directly: e-mail: mdagco@annap.infi.net phone: 410-451-2135 I hope he's the one for you. As to your main question (How did the "Campbelltown" come to get the name of your hometown?) I am absolutely clueless. However, I guess, the Brits named the destroyer after one of their towns or heroes. The name Campbelltown for your town and the ship might be mere coincidence. Or, even more interesting, perhaps both names can be tracked back to a common origin (town/person?) in the United Kingdom. Good luck with the detective work. Hope this was helpful. Bernhard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: CBNJBB62@aol.com Subject: RFA Reliant Dear Mr. Garland: Your fathers ship RFA Reliant was built in 1922 as the cargo ship London Importer by the Furness SB Co.,Haverton Hill UK and was owned by the Furness Withy Co. of London UK until 1933. She was then purchased by the RN and operated until 1948. That year it was sold to the Malta Cross SS Co..And converted to a cargo ship and renamed Anthony G. On the island of Malta. In 1949 the ship was sold to the Pakistan East +West SS Co. and renamed the Firdausa and operated there until the ship's scrapping in 1963. I hope this is of help. My source the book A Dictionary of Ships of the Royal Navy of the Second World War by John Young, Patrick Stephens Limited 1975 Sincerely Craig Bennett -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: "HARRY GARLAND" Subject: Re: HMS CAMPBELTOWN I think you will find that the destroyer Campbeltown was named after a town in Scotland. It is located in Argyle and Bute. You will notice the spelling only one "L". There is a Air Base called Machrihanish (I think this base has the longest runway in Europe) near it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: SeaPhoto@aol.com Subject: Re: Iowa follow-up >> There are three ways to do that. The first is to make a cutout of the deckhouse and lay it in as part of the main deck. Not too difficult to do, but when the different RTV molds shrink at different rates, there may be a mismatch. Second is mounting pins, but this entails a two piece mold, and having to deal with two pieces of RTV which could get up into the 12"x12" range flopping in multiple directions. Finally, there's the "tell the modeler to measure from a fixed point" method. This will work well, as long as you give the measurements in something the modeler can use << A fourth way to locate any part in relation to another is to supply a fixture or jig to use during the assembly process. To locate a superstructure, for example, this could take the form of an L-shaped part that hung over the midships area on both sides of the structure, locating it. Not working in 1/350th scale I would not know if this would really be worthwhile, but it is an alternative. I've used the technique on 1/96 scale parts that were complicated to assemble. >> (I have rulers marked off in hundreths of an inch, which seems to be a rarety). << You can get them from any machinist's supply house, such as Kitt's Industrial Tools. I particularly like the black rules with white lettering, which are very visable. I love working with decimal inch measurements -no fractions to convert, and more natural to me than metric units. Kurt SeaPhoto -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: Malcolm Waite Subject: Warship Timber Decks World War I Hi Does anybody have any information about the treatment of timber decks on major warships during world War I? Where they stained/painted or left their natural colour. I am mainly interested in British or German vessels but would welcome any information Malcolm N. Waite Liverpool UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From: "Duane W. Christensen" Subject: BB Fuso: Anatomy of a ship book I just received a card from the US Naval Institute about the Fuso book. They state that it has been delayed by production problems in Europe and the expected release date has slipped to 30 Jan. 99. I guess we will just have to wait a while longer for our favorite "Sea-going Skyscraper" Duane -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From: CaptainOD@aol.com Subject: Re: Campbeltown I want to thank everyone who responded to my request per the Campbeltown ( my misspelling). I will continue to check it out with the town archives when I return up North. If the Combat Models kit is really rough, I may still be able to use it as a pattern for a 1/72 ship resin casting. I had thought that perhaps there was a connection between the name of the ship in US service, being that of the only president (15th) from Pa, not that of one from the Confederate Navy. I doubt if anyone in the town even looks at the memorial let alone wonder about their "Amish Naval" connection. Again many thanks to all of you Robert O'Donovan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) From: "David & Alicja Lombard" Subject: TITANIC reference I just found what appears to be a good TITANIC reference. McCluskie, Tom, "Anatomy of the TITANIC", PRC Publishing Ltd., 1998 The edition I have was published by Thunder Bay Press, ISBN 1 57145 160 9, $18.00 US This book is NOT, in any way, shape, or form, an "Anatomy of the Ship" book, but it does have many pictures I haven't seen before. David Lombard Rossmoor, Orange County, CA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: HDente@aol.com Subject: new books RIS, 205 Maryland Ave Paterson, NJ 07503 Profile Morskie Warship profiles: INJ Fuso-$11.00, HMS Scylla-Dido cl-$11.00 Canarias cl Spanish cruisers-$11.00 Borodino CL Russian battleships-$25.00 Soviet destroyers Gniewny cl $10.00 Sverdlov CL Soviet cruisers $12.00 Richelieu/Jean Bart $14.00 SALE! British and Empire Warships of the Second World War--$100.00 Lexington cl Carriers--$30.00 German Warships Vol 1 & 2,$ 36.00 ea -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "Caroline Carter" Subject: WEM 1/700 HMS Sussex Hi Guys, busy or what! Got these new 1/48 Scale TC Models kits in today.. 55ft Coastal Motor Boat (Royal Navy WWI) and 40ft Coastal Motor Boat... also WWI RN. If anyone is interested I can E-Mail them some pics of the built up model. I've got a page up on the 1/700 HMS Sussex kit after much pestering by several SMMLly folk.. this includes Ian Ruscoe's "out the box" build that we displayed at the U.K. Nats. Click on to the following URL http://whiteensignmodels.simplenet.com/sussex/sussex.htm New brass should be with us shortly, so we'll hopefully get the recently-acquired back orders out to people this week. More new stuff, mostly 1/700 and 1/350 aircraft and ship's boats arriving this week. Cheers! Caroline and Dave Carter http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/white.ensign.models/jbhood/jbhood.htm for the COOLEST models! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume