Subject: SMML VOL 2906 Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:27:26 +1000 The Ship Modelling Mailing List (SMML) is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http//sandlehobbies.com For infomation on how to Post to SMML and Unsubscribe from SMML http//smmlonline.com/aboutsmml/rules.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1 Re Peacock 2 Trumpeter USS Mount Whitney 3 Will Navy's sleek new ship help fight terror? 4 Polymer clay and resin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From "Peter Chant" Subject Re Peacock Roy I have an unmade 1/700 Waveline resin Peacock. Early, rough, quality but perfectly useable, they came in pairs, hence the spare. Contact me off- list if you are interested. Peter Plymouth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From Jodie Peeler Subject Trumpeter USS Mount Whitney hello all -- I bought the Trumpeter kit of the USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) yesterday at one of our favorite hobby shops. I'd been excited about this kit since I saw it was coming out, and now that I have one, I can say the anticipation was worth it. I won't repeat the stuff Scott Van Aken wrote about it in Modeling Madness last week, but I will throw in a couple of thoughts from an in-the-box quick look. The way the kit's broken down reminds me a lot of some of the Skywave stuff from the early 1990s. There's a lot of engraved detail there and what dry-fitting I've done seems really sharp. The lower hull looks really good, and I'm half-tempted to build it as a full-hull model. The only squawks I've yet come across are some minor ejector-pin marks that'll need sanding off, but those won't take much work. The main deck piece on mine is bowed ever-oh-so-slightly amidships, but it'll straighten right out once it's glued to the hull. What I found most intriguing is that if you look around the parts trees, you'll find a bunch of parts that aren't used in the present kit's 2004 version. You'll find, among other parts, two BPDMS launchers, two twin 3" mounts, an SPS-48 array, a big lattice mast for a big antenna that's since been removed, and a bunch of other little domes and items and such. All this made me happy, since my objective is to build Mount Whitney as she appeared in 1991, and these parts will save me a lot of trouble. The decal sheet also has hull numbers and ship names for both units of the class, too. (It also has item numbers for not just the current issues of Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney, but for two other kits...apparently we'll be given "early" boxings of both ships.) All the extra parts in this kit remind me of the 1989-or-so vintage Skywave Fletcher-class kit, with all its extra parts and weapons trees, from which you could build virtually any ship you wanted from several different time periods. In short, it's a kit that made me very happy, and a bargain at $22 US. The only things that would make it better, of course, would be a PE sheet for this kit (embracing both earlier and later fits, of course)...and if Trumpeter took it a step further and gave us a kit of the ships the LCC-19 class were descended from, the LPH-2 class assault ships! ) Jodie Peeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From JRKutina@webtv.net (John Kutina) Subject Will Navy's sleek new ship help fight terror? http//msnbc.msn.com/id/8852168/ Regards, John Kutina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From Mike Potter Subject Polymer clay and resin I'm considering forming the curved mantlet where the gun barrel emerges from the turret from polymer clay. Has anyone experience with placing polymer clay in contact with resin? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the SMML site for the List Rules, Reviews, Articles, Backissues, Member's models & Reference Pictures at http//smmlonline.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume