Subject: SMML26/12/98VOL406 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 05:12:55 shipmodels@tac.com.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Colour Hazegray 2: Re: French ship kits 3: Span-Am Photos 4: Re: Response- The Naming of HMS Hood 5: Re:What did you get for christmas thread 6: Re: USS Hornet5 deck colours & Revell factory models 7: New subscriber!! 8: The Big Piece -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: ALTON007@aol.com Subject: Colour Hazegray What is the correct mixture to get hazegray. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "Jean-Paul Binot" Subject: Re: French ship kits >> Could you tell me what kits are available for the French naval warships from the world war one, and two era???? Mikey << Here is a list of all(?) the Heller 1/400 kits issued. The 'X' indicates current availability, to the best of my knowledge. I have excluded merchant and sailing ships. The list is based mainly on a Heller illustrated catalogue from 1985, and on various lists of kits available from Internet second-hand kit merchants. Jean-Paul Binot 1. Pre-WWII Aurora (Russian cruiser) Potemkin 2. WWII T-23 Z-31 x Bismark x Tirpitz Scharnhorst x Gneisenau x Prinz Eugen Admiral Hipper Graf Spee Admiral Scheer Lützow U-boot VIIc x King George V Hood x Illustrious Dunkerque Strasbourg x Richelieu Jean Bart Surcouf (submarine) 3. Modern Commandant Rivière L'Alsacien, Le Normand, Le Corse, Le Brestois Victor Schoelcher x Maillé-Brezé x Marceau Kersaint Dupetit Thouars Forbin x Surcouf (DD) Arromanches x Clémenceau x Foch x Jeanne d'Arc Colbert Suffren x Duquesne x Duguay-Trouin Le Redoutable (SSBN) Daphné (SS) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: DKrakow105@aol.com Subject: Span-Am Photos Hi Recently someone mentioned the Glencoe Oregon kit. Thought I would mention that the USN Historical Center, in honor of the centennial of the Spanish American War, has posted a number of very fine photos of US ships of that era including the Oregon. See them at: http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html My apologies if this repeats an earlier posting. Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: Norman Samish Subject: Re: Response- The Naming of HMS Hood That's interesting information about the Hoods. This kind of information from all you experts makes this list especially fascinating. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: valiant@home.com Subject: Re:What did you get for christmas thread Hello gang! I would have responded sooner, but I had to wait until christmas morning. I just got the Tamiya 1/350th BB-62 U.S.S. NEW JERSEY kit. On monday morning I order myself tom's modelworks 1/350 arizona kit.... a merry christams indeed....... Aaron Propper modeler on the loose -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: CBNJBB62@aol.com Subject: Re: USS Hornet5 deck colours & Revell factory models In reply to Chris request on the USS Hornet flight deck colors have come up with this possibility. The navy ordered all decks 20-b deck except carriers but they were to paint them to create low visibility from aerial observation. At the time the USS Ranger was testing a deck color stain for the carriers. In June, 1942 it was distributed. So I think you have a choice for your friend try Deck Blue 20-B or Deck tan. There were 3 other deck markings. The first two were white lines running from the third landing wire behind the 2nd elevator to the bow reaching the right corner edge. The 2nd white line is a line that stops short of the decks edge by 7 planks. Now unknown is a strip that runs down the length of the flight deck and is in the center. My sources for this is the following titles: USS Hornet-Warship Profile #3, Profile Publications, 1971. Destination: Tokyo A. Pictorial History of Doolittle''s TOKYO RAID APRIL 18.1942 Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.1983, The Floating Drydock-USN Camouflage of the W.W.II era, 1976. Footnote: The center stripe in the Doolittle Book appears black as an aircraft tire also in the book with a B-25 parked on top of it in comparison. There was photos of the flight deck from the island showing it. BTW on Revell Factory models I meet two men who as teenagers built Revell models to try them out and give them recommendations about improving the kits. Today they own a hobby shop in Mt. Holly, NJ called Air Hobbies and they put their efforts on display at the front window of their shop. It's like looking at memory lane. Sincerely Craig Bennett -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From: bill tim Subject: New subscriber!! Hi, I`d like to get on the mailing list. My interests are very varied. At the moment my particular intersts are HMS Asturias, an AMC of WW2. Also I am looking for drawings of a small river Gunboat. Candidates are HMS Sandpiper, HMS Tern,HMS Sandfly or USS Panay. All the best Bill Bateson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From: McKellar Subject: The Big Piece >> was only a wood post and rope line fence around it and nobody was preventing anyone from touching the hull piece.... << My wife and I went too - well worth the price. We too ran our fingers over the hull frgment and then wiped the rust on the program - so we brought home our own little piece of the Titanic. It was quite impressive - really brings it home to you. Merry Christmas Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume