Subject: SMML VOL 2220 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:14:25 +1000 SMML is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http://sandlehobbies.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1: Re: WTB: 1/350 CW Iowa Conversion 2: Book on LST 3: Pom Poms 4: Re: Translation please 5: Translations and result for Detlef 6: Re: "other" carriers 7: such a deal on the internet! 8: Ralph Nardone, Jon Warneke 9: Athens (Greece) hobby shops 10: Re: Early 20th Century Ships' Registry 11: Eagle boats 12: Help me moor the Scharnhorst ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From: "Alan Cameron" Subject: Re: WTB: 1/350 CW Iowa Conversion Hi George - try Tom's Modelworks who has the IOWA Class as designed "open bridge type" kit for the Tamiya USS Missouri? Go to http://www.tomsmodelworks.com/ and look for 1/350th Scale Ship Conversion Kits - TC3501 is for USS Iowa in late 1943 + the PE kit to suit as well. Best regards Alan Cameron ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From: "Don Macdonald" Subject: Book on LST To Those that are doing LSTs there is a book that single squardon put out just after I did my LST. The book is called: WW 2 LANDING CRAFT IN ACTION WARSHIPS NUMBER 7 SQUADRON/SIGNAL PUBLIATIONS BY AL ADCOCK. COLOR BY DON GREER This is a good book for any body that is doing an LST. They should try to find a copy of it, For It has a little of ever thing with good drawings and information. YOU know just my luck all of this LST Information comes out after I get MY LST Done and ship off, I wish I had just a little of what is out now things could have been much better in building it. ON our SMML board There are my LST pictures on there web sight thanks to Shane a wile back thanks agin. PS. I might add that LST I did was RC at first but it was sent up as a none RC. I was ask to remove the RC but it did still have all of the mounts still in place and the props would still turn buy flipping a switch that was still set up. Some day I may do another one with the bay doors to open. YOUR OLD Rustbucket Don Macdonald The Portland Rustbucket ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From: "Daniel Taylor" Subject: Pom Poms Dear Aleck, You will already have come across the best reference - John Lambert - on the previous posting. Rob Lockie kindly mentioned the 1/76 scale quad mount I built a few years ago. What he did not mention is that it, having built the weapon, I now have to build the ship to go round it! In prepararation for this I have finished a 1/150 version of a Hunt Class destroyer which is to be the test shot and a picture of this can be found at www.d-taylor.dircon.co.uk follow the Gallery - Destroyers link. If I can be of any help you can contact me through the site. I'll post a couple of pictures of the quad mount on the site in the next couple of weeks. Dan Taylor Kent, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: URUDOFSKY Subject: Re: Translation please "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" is abbreviated in Email jargon as "MfG" or "mfg". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) From: "RUSSELL SMITH" Subject: Translations and result for Detlef Thank you for the explanation about the postal rates and the logic of sending it to Pacific Front Hobbies. I suspected it was something like that but it is nice to have it confirmed. Thanks again to all who helped and to HP Models for coming up with a solution for me. Russ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) From: Fkbrown90 Subject: Re: "other" carriers To: Michael London Thank you for the alphabetical list of aircraft carriers of other nations. It was indeed a revelation. I had no idea there were so many. But I still have trouble with Thailand having (or needing) a navy extensive enough to include an aircraft carrier. What do they have for operational aircraft? This suggests yet another thread. Can any SMML subscriber tell us more about Thailand's Fleet Air Arm? To this poor old unknower, the Australian and the Canadian (and at one time, the Indian) navies are considered part of the Royal Navy. We in the United States often, and in my case at least, unintentionally, blur the distinction between England and Britain. I, for one, would appreciate your clarification. For instance, is England considered a nation? If so, what is Britain? Etc. Please elucidate, for to be ignorant is no disgrace, but to intentionally remain so is unacceptable. Franklyn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7) From: Douglas Simpkin Subject: such a deal on the internet! To heck with little bitty models! Go for the real thing! Click on http://www.frenchcreekboatsales.com/details.asp?File_Number=BOP12 if you've got $4.5M burning a hole in your pocket (and a big back yard to park it in!) Doug ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8) From: hwimmer Subject: Ralph Nardone, Jon Warneke Greetings all: I just got back from family duty in Texas, so please forgive the tardiness of my reply. I would like to thank Ralph Nardone for his compliments about my USS Kidd a week or so ago. It is worthy praise from a modeler of his caliber. Jon. I've lost your e-address yet again. Please e-mail me at your convenience. My e-address is hwimmer@bellsouth.net. Thanks, John Collins Franklin, TN, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9) From: "Joao Andrade Guerra" Subject: Athens (Greece) hobby shops Hello all: This is above all a question for the Greek menbers of our list. I am traveling to Athens (in Greece) next week and I will stay there for a few days. Can anyone sugest what hobby shops to visit while in there? Thanks in advance. Joao Andrade Guerra ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) From: "Michael London" Subject: Re: Early 20th Century Ships' Registry >> I'm looking for some kind of list (& ultimately, a source of plans) for a variety of merchant ships that would have sailed under the flags of the warring powers in WWI, WWII, & inter-war. Things like Liberty Ships, Victory Ships, etc. are easy to find - I'd like to find some more unique specimens. << As an ardent miniaturist I have, over the years, collected merchant ship plans from different sources. I have over five hundred 1:1200 plans and others that I have reduced to this scale. Plans vary in quality and detail. The best are by John Bowen with Reg Carpenter a close second. Others have been culled from technical journals and the like and reduced accordingly. I have them listed alphabetically by ship and company. What specifically are you looking for? Michael London ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11) From: Fkbrown90 Subject: Eagle boats To: Ed Grune. Someone locally just gave me a newspaper article about the Eagle boat PE 56, the one that was torpedoed off the Maine coast in 1945. If you would like to have it, send me your postal address at fkbrown90@aol.com and I will gladly send it to you. Franklyn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12) From: "Cameron Lynch" Subject: Help me moor the Scharnhorst I posted this last week without any reply's so I thought that I'd try it again on the chance that everyone just missed it the first time. I'm not a sailor. I've never been on a ship. I live 1500 miles from the nearest body of open saltwater. I am building my first ship model of the Scharnhorst and plan to portray her at anchor in a Norwegian fjiord in June 1940. There is a beautiful photo of her, the Gniesenau and I believe the Hipper along with a bunch of He-115 and He-59 seaplanes. If anyone knows the exact date and the fjiord I would appreciate it. In any case...I need help in accurately portraying her moored. Which anchors would have been payed out 1 bow, 1 stern? Just the bow? Both bows? all three? How should they look? etc. Thanks for all of the help. Cameron ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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