Subject: SMML VOL 1709 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 12:27:37 +1000 SMML is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http://sandlehobbies.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Warship Books, good-bye 2: old ship parts 3: Re: Pieces and Parts 4: Re: Parts of Old Ships -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: Shane & Lorna Subject: Warship Books, good-bye Hi all, It is with much regret that we recieved the following message from Keith Butterley: >> Due to a family medical situation, I am shutting down Warship Books as of May 22. Thank you for all of your support. Love your children they are the most precious gift you have. << He asks that you don't email him at this time, as he knows he has your support in this trying time. Shane & Lorna -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "john fiebke" Subject: old ship parts My source for old ship parts is a bit different. My aunt and uncle owned a beach-front house in a lesser populated area of the outer banks....the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." They rented it out all summer, and my family would go down and help close it for the winter or make repairs after hurricanes. Well, after pretty much any winter storm the beach would be littered with pieces, mostly wood, of old shipwrecks. Big wooden ribs would wash up, along with coral encrusted pieces of iron. I felt the pieces belonged on that beach, so they're all kind of set up around the stilts that the house sits on. A sort of memorial to whatever ships and whatever tragedy brought the pieces there. john fiebke -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: louellet@uism.bu.edu Subject: Re: Pieces and Parts I have wood from the USS Constitution, USS North Carolina, and the USS Salem. The pieces from the Constitution and North Carolina were purchased from the Museum Store and web sites respectively. The plank from the Salem was liberated from a load of trash going to the dumpster. It has a lot of rot on one end, but I think I may be able to make a display stand out of it. If not, I'll cut it into keel blocks to support the model on a new stand. I bought one of those cheapo ship-in-the-bottle kits of the Constitution, but it does use a real bottle and the ship is inserted the traditional way. What I thought I would do is replace the hull form, and potentially the masts and spars, with parts carved from the small (3 inch by 4 inch) block of wood from the Constitution. These small pieces are less than $10 (maybe around $5) from the museum store across from the ship. You can buy much larger pieces at much larger prices. The day I bought my small pieces, someone dropped $50 for a foot long piece. We don't sell wood from the Salem in the ship's store. We should. The better pieces that have been replaced have been saved to make special awards every once in a while. Maybe we could sell smaller pieces in reasonable shape for a few dollars. Larry Ouellette Volunteer, USS Salem (CA 139) United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum Quincy, Massachusetts, USA http://www.uss-salem.org/ p.s. We have around 50 cruisers coming to the USS Salem on May 26th ... PT Cruisers that is! Check out the web site for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: louellet@uism.bu.edu Subject: Re: Parts of Old Ships Hank wrote:"Hank Lapa" >> I have some of the same, plus USS Constellation (the old one), USS Olympia, USS Maine, WW1 merchant U-boat Deutschesland, Cutty Sark, Mauretania, Titanic, and Queen Mary. All were legit purchases, and not from any wreck desecrators. << Hank, how did you get anything from RMS Titanic and USS Maine? When the Titanic exposition was here in Boston they brought up the 'Big Piece' and had it on display on a makeshift rack with water sprays to keep it from rotting. It had just been brought in around a week before. Since cameras were not allowed, I wondered how to 'capture the moment'. The piece was surrounded by a wood and rope fence, but you could easily reach out and touch large portions of steel. I could see where the surface was smooth from all the previous visitors, so I took my exhibit ticket, stood on tip-toes and reached up as far as I could toward a 'rusty' area, and rubbed my ticket around. I now have rust molecules from the Titanic on my ticket, so I can say that I have part of the Titanic! Other than the coal, RMS Titanic, Inc. isn't supposed to be selling anything recovered from the wreck or the wreck site. Larry Ouellette Volunteer, USS Salem (CA 139) United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum Quincy, Massachusetts, USA http://www.uss-salem.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the SMML site for the List Rules, Backissues, Member's models & reference pictures at: http://smmlonline.com Check out the APMA site for an index of ship articles in the Reference section at: http://apma.org.au/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume