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World War II American High Speed Transports (APD) Colhoun Class (Wickes Hulls): A Study in Blueprints by Duane D. Borchers Annapolis, MD: Maryland Silver Co., 2001 11” x 17”, softcover (Acco-Press type covers), viii + 133 pages tables, plans, index. $60.00 I came across this book while researching a model of the WW II high-speed transport USS McKean (APD 5), a converted WW I era flush deck Wickes class destroyer. The book is one of a series of similar reference books in Maryland Silver Company’s A Study in Blueprints series covering primarily 20th century US Navy ships. This volume contains the following information: table of contents tables of ship characteristics for selected ships of the class (dimensions, displacement, capacities, manning, armament, etc.) ship’s history for each ship in the class, drawn primarily from the Dictionary of American Fighting Ships (DANFS) ships plans, taken primarily from booklets of general plans for selected ships of the class, augmented with a large scale body plan index The book is printed on 11” x 17” copier paper. Tables and text are reproduced well, but drawing quality varies, no doubt based on the quality of the originals. See samples below: I found the book to be a very useful reference source and can recommend books of the series to others in need of similar information.
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Printing first hull section of the Swedish destroyer J18 HMS Halland Scale 1:72 Length: 165cm or 5"5" Eight sections needed; each has a printing time of 48 hours.
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Hello, I am back from illness and do look for a big but small project. I voted for the IJN destroyer AKIZUKI (Snowwind) published in Poland by Answer in the 1:200 scale also due to the nice shape of the lines of this type of destroyer: The difficulty in a medium range of two of three does give some hope to me that I could manage this kit. As I did find this booklet about her and could afford the price for some drawings of very nice and helpful detailling. That made it clear to me I will have to use superglue to hardning the paper, sanding the coloured surfaces, repainting it afterwards and die to this all the printed Details will have to be added in the right thickness and shape. Due to my last strokes I have to search for a bigger scale on a smaler project and so I found this quadro turret destroyer a nice idea. I struggeled hard with the 1:350 plastic kit but as these were/are nearly twice the price I murdered this temptation shortly after it's beginning dawn. THE PROTOTYPE The AKIZUKI class was equipped with twin 100mms barrels in four fully enclosed turrets and very firstly fitted with surface radar model "Go". These destroyers were planed and built to escort CVs so their guns were able to elevate up to 90° as a dual perpuse weapon and the number of torpedotubes was reduced to four. Their length of 134ms to fit the fourth turret on the hull made them very long drstroyers - close to a light cruiser's typical length. Very often these group leading destroyers were misjudged by USN-submarines as CLs due to their size and shape of the funnel. The missing catapult would have been the most obvious detail of destinguishing them safely. THE KITS There are two kits in the German market: an Answer and a nearly three times more expensive Avangard kit - both in 1:200 scale. The some 1100 parts Answer kit seem to be astonishing detailed - but with this Avangard kit it must be brutally more. So I ordered both kits (and additives) and do hope the best the Avangard kit will not force me to buy an electron microsope to get modelship built... THE PLAN I do think about a diorama in resin - an imaginable scene at anchor. So I could cut the under water part of the hull and the LC-parts down to less than an inch below the CWL. This will be enough hullred to be seen in the greenish resine, but I will avoid all the complexity of hull building, shafts, rudder, Propellers, and so on. The AKIZUKI by Avangard will be the second build and she may be used to show one of the six sisterships - slightly different in detail and rigging. So I do await these parcels from Poland to get started.
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OK, so, a little diversion from wood building. I haven't done much plastic in 40 years, so basically back to the beginning. I was given this little duo kit as a Christmas present last year. It'll be an OOB build with no extra PE, but if i can do an enhancement here and there I'll give it a go. It'll be as accurate as Revell make it. Box art. And full colour instructions - at least front and back 🙂 Comes with 4 sprues of grey parts, and a sheet of decals. Although the box art shows swordfish and various railings these aren't included! Bob
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every time i get on here and see some of the work being done by you guys I feel embarrassed to even bring up anything I do,,,but to kill time I stated a 6 foot blue devil project thats being scaled up from a lindberg kit, done the way cavemen must have done it by candle light and with stone tools,, no plans, no CAD drawings, no 3D printers nothing more fancy in the way of tools than a 20 yr old scroll saw and a 60 yr old drill press,,, we'll see how it goes!!!!- 83 replies
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