Subject: SMML05/02/99VOL447 Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:09:27 +1100 shipmodels@tac.com.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Virginia Class Advanced Attack Submarines 2: Re: Top Secret 3: Nautical bookstore 4: Re: Graf Zeppelin 5: Professor Stein's naval ice weapon 6: Re: RN Paint Chips 7: Airfix HMS Repulse 8: Lost "Ensigns"! 9: Re: Website(s) for Russian/Soviet warships in Czarist/WW1/WW2 era? 10: Re: Enterprise and Spruance - thanks 11: Re: White Ensign 1/600 Resin Parts 12: Arizona colors 13: Re: Enterprise & Spruance Class 14: 1/48 Midway 15: RN Books -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD INDEX 1: ANATOMY FUSO BOOKS ARE HERE.... YEE-HAH!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: BILL HENSLER Subject: Virginia Class Advanced Attack Submarines The latest issue of Time Magazine had an article on the new USS Virginia, a special advance attack submarine that will cost over 1 Billion dollars and will put the Seawolf class submarines to shame. Where can I find out some good writings on the Navy in general? I understand the there will be a new Destroyer that will be both stealthy and is armed with a new 80 caliber weapon. Where can one go to find out more information on these subjects? Last, the weather gets below 0 F. here in Ohio once in a while. I don't mind it. It does a great job of killing off snakes and large bugs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: NEFFD@dteenergy.com Subject: Re: Top Secret Falk Pletscher wrote: > Maybe my English isn't good enough... Gutten Tag Falk, Your English is excellent. You are better at English than some of my employees - and English is the only language they know. Q. What do you call a person who speaks 3 languages? A. Trilingual Q. What do you call a person who speaks 2 languages? A. Bilingual Q. What do you call a person who speaks 1 language? A. American Tourist Don Neff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: BSteinIPMS@aol.com Subject: Nautical bookstore This may be old information to some of you, but if you are looking for a good nautical bookstore which provides excellent service, you might look into "The Nautical Mind" which is located in Toronto, Canada. You'll find them moored at: http://www.nauticalmind.com/nautmind.html And in a message dated 2/4/99 07:12:18, Chris Evenden wrote: >> Clear blue skys, 27C. Bob, what's a snow plow? << It's a hideous motorized device with an angled blade on its bow designed primarily to forever seal one's driveway with a 3 foot compacted embankment of snow, thus testing the character of the homeowner. Bob Steinbrunn Minneapolis (Where it's 32 degrees Fahrenheit and everyone is wearing t-shirts......) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: "Caroline Carter" Subject: Re: Graf Zeppelin Hi Peter Tom Harrison is doing a P/E set for the Zepp, and yes, we do the Ju-87's and also the Bf 109G which Tom has seen and liked... .. re your suggestion of a 109T .. we have no plans to do this particular mark.. for the purpose of building this carrier, as it has many serious shortcomings, the 109G would still be the most accurate thing about the model! Best Regards, Caroline Carter http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/white.ensign.models -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: BSteinIPMS@aol.com Subject: Professor Stein's naval ice weapon >> Nevertheless, the experiment showed an interesting side effect. The gas caused water to freeze at once. So professor Stein was ordered to research if this effect could be used for developping a new "ice-weapon". Further records of this project got lost during the last days of war. Prof. Stein seemingly managed to evade the Allies after the war and escaped to Argentinia. Rumors have that he further persued the idea of an "ice-weapon" and worked it out theoretically. << Not so, Falk: Professor Stein (a distant relative whom the family disavows any knowledge of his actions) is alive and well and practicing his craft full-time here in Minnesnowta...... :-) Bob Steinbrunn Minneapolis (Where the good Professor is considered some sort of felon) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: John Snyder Subject: Re: RN Paint Chips Our chips will be WW2 only; we haven't researched WW1 at all (though that might be an interesting proposition in the future....). John Snyder (A former '59 Austin Healy owner who knows Lucas all too well) Snyder & Short Enterprises The Paint Guys PS: Just finished painting the IJN grays last night.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From: Erwin Van Deynze Subject: Airfix HMS Repulse I just purchased the HMS Repulse from Airfix. I've read many good things about it on several reviews of other Airfix kits on several websites. But I didn't found anything on the Repulse itself on the net. So I still have some questions about her. Is there any source of information, foto's and plans maybe about her. I would like to use some PE-sets on her, seems there are no specific sets on her, but WEM does have some usuable generic sets. But, to use them, I do need more info about her. Does anybody know, what time in her life the kit depicts, she has some strange camo-painting, and is equipped with a Walrus, so I think it is probably WWII. Many thanks, Erwin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From: "LAMKEEL" Subject: Lost "Ensigns"! Hi smellies Reading all the information about the Ensign and Man o War Series. I'm pleased that I collected the full set when they were published. Unfortunately mine are well thumbed and not fit for resale at todays prices. There is an ENSIGN 9 - Early Minesweepers. Price £2.70 Overseas: US $6.50. SBN 0 900913 14 2, published in 1979. It says. The bad news is, I have the only copy and its fading fast. Printed in red, so that it cannot be copied. The company (Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd). discontinued the Ensign series just six weeks short of publication. So it was not to be. There was to be another volume covering R.N. Trawlers and Drifters, with a third on Naval Weapons to follow. Fortunatly they have introduced spelI checks since then. I am retyping and updating the text as time permits, as I have retained the original proofs and drawings. Just maybe, this item with illustrations will be published in the next 12 months or so. In the meantime, I'm still drawing FLOWER CLASS "Whatsits". on their weapons, the Hedgehog. (But I'm getting there). (Weather, same as yesterday at this time - Dark). Yours "aye" John Lambert. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) From: Max Loosli Subject: Re: Website(s) for Russian/Soviet warships in Czarist/WW1/WW2 era? >> Could anyone please tell me if you know some websites for Russian/Soviet warships, especially battleship, in Czarist/WW1/WW2 era? << Roy, You might try the following:- http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Marina/8163/russ.htm http://www.invet.obninsk.ru/nether/navy/links.html (I think this is one of the ones you refer to, now I can't get in .....!) http://www.neva.ru/EXPO96/contents.html Hope these are of interest. Regards, Max Loosli -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) From: "Jens H. Brandal" Subject: Re: Enterprise and Spruance - thanks Ladies and gentlemen, Your minds are little diamonds, and this list is the mine. Thank you very much for the info on the Big-E and Spruance. I do already have a Spruance, and since it didn't come with the ASROC launcher, would anyone like to swap an ASROC for a VLS even though it would be relatively straightforward to scratchbuild... Jens -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11) From: Sanartjam@aol.com Subject: Re: White Ensign 1/600 Resin Parts Hi SMML, I have been trying to talk White Ensign into bringing out some 1/600 parts in resin, and was wondering if anyone else in SMMLand was also interested in such things. How about 8-barreled 2-pdr pom-poms (for the Ark Royal, King George V, Suffolk and Warspite), 4-barreled pom-poms (for Belfast and Manxman), and twin 4-in guns (for the Belfast, Warspite, Suffolk and Manxman)? Please post to SMML or to WE directly. Thanks, Art Nicholson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12) From: Steve Singlar Subject: Arizona colors Greetings, At the time of Pearl Harbor, what were the Arizona's colors. From the pictures I've seen it appears she wore: Dark gray or sea blue verticals Deck blue on the horizontals Unpainted teak deck Haze or light gray tops. Thanks, Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13) From: ECammeron@aol.com Subject: Re: Enterprise & Spruance Class You might want to check over the book Electronic Greyhounds by M. C. Potter. It has quite a bit of information of Spruance class deployments in the Pacific and also on the various configurations. Two Spruance class DDs with different configurations or a Spruance and a Ticonderoga along with the Big E would make a very impressive diorama. Eugene Cammeron -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14) From: "Joe Norris" Subject: 1/48 Midway Greetings, Has anybody seen the 1/48 (yeah, that's right) U.S.S. Midway model in the new terminal at the San Diego Airport? It's got aircraft from many era on the deck perimeter. Everything from an S-3A Viking, an F4F Wildcat, a couple of F4U Corsair variants, a Brewster Buffalo, an R-5A, an A-7E, etc. Pretty neat. I think the real Midway is coming to town as a floating Naval Aviation museum and it will feature all of these aircraft on the deck. Joe & Adrienne Norris -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15) From: Shane Subject: RN Books Hi gang, We heard various people on the list praise the Raven & ? book "British Battleships WW2" (or something like that ;-) ). What is the general consenus about how that fares against R.A Burts British Battleships 1939-45. Seeing as I have the latter, but not the former, I'd appreciatte any comments to see if I'm missing out on anything. Shane 20C & mild. BTW, don't worry you can all have your revenge in 3 months :->> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: "Caroline Carter" Subject: ANATOMY FUSO BOOKS ARE HERE.... YEE-HAH!!!! (Trying hard not to wet my drawers with excitement!!) At last... after 2 and a half years wait, we have the Conway's Anatomy of The Ship Fuso in stock.. this Skulski tome consists of 256 printed pages. Brief Design History, notes on colour scheme, 40 pages of photographs, including some close-ups of the author's phenomenal 1/133 scale (!) model. The usual vast collection of excellent drawings means another landslide marker in publishing history has once been made by Mr Skulski.. and, bugger me, what's this ON THE INSIDE OF THE DUST JACKET??! A lovely Plan and Profile glossy drawing of Fuso in approx 1/300 scale.... The actual cover is not the usual flat plain linen-type finish, but printed with a high quality painting on the front and a colour plan and profile on the back.. This is, IMHO, the best Anatomy so far, and is a snip at 35.00 pounds (plus postage at cost!). I say buy 10 and hoard them as a good pension investment!! Cheers Caroline Carter, WEM Business Manager http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/white.ensign.models -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume