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  1. Hello to everyone who followed me from the SS Michelangelo build log. I hope that you will enjoy this one as well. This is the first of what will be 7 models built over the next 4 years for the museum at the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings’ Point, NY. It is a gem of a small museum, open to the public, well worth visiting for the history of the US merchant marine during war and peace, as well as dozens of beautiful and informative ship models. This first model is of the most famous ship that I knew nothing about until I started this commission. The USS/SS Leviathan was, in her day, the largest ship in the world and a major contributor to the allied victory in World War I. Built in 1913 by Blohm & Voss Shipyards in Germany, she began service in 1914 as the SS Vaterland for the Hamburg-American Line. Displacing 54, 282 tons she was 100 feet in breadth and 950 feet long, some 67 feet longer than RMS Titanic, yet her engines could push her along at a very respectable 26 knots. After only one and a half trips from Hamburg to New York she found herself here in August when the war broke out. She was interned by the USA, a neutral country at the time, and spent the next three years in Hoboken, NJ. When America joined the war she was seized (stolen, the Germans say) and taken into the US Navy as a troop ship, renamed the USS Leviathan. As a troop ship she made a major contribution to the allied victory. In her 14 round trips she carried over 100,000 soldiers to the front, and the same number back, some wounded, some with the Spanish flu, but most just glad to be going home. On one return trip she carried over 12,000 troops plus another 2,500 officers, sailors and nurses, a total of over 14,500 souls aboard. During her first transit she stopped off in Liverpool where she took on a coat of ‘dazzle’ camouflage paint. Dazzle was developed by British marine artist Norman Wilkinson and used complex geometric patterns and contrasting colors to disguise the outline of the ship from German submarines and torpedo boats. The scheme for the Leviathan was particularly bizarre, but seems to have worked, since she was never attacked. After the war she was taken into the United States Lines as their flagship. She was completely renovated by Gibbs & Cox, with little help from Blohm & Voss, who were still smarting at the seizure of their masterpiece. Restored to her former splendor by 1923 she cruised from New York for the next decade before the newer, sleeker ships, the SS America and the SS United States, took her place. As I mentioned in the Michelangelo log, my contract is to provide a model that reflects, on the port side, her dazzling appearance during the war, while the starboard side will show her civilian colors. Down the centerline things will get dicey, and there will be many puzzles and challenges along the way. It should be an interesting trip. Next, research and plans. Be well Dan
  2. I was recently commissioned to restore to "Original Condition" A 1:100 model of the steamship Albertic. The model was knocked over and sustained considerable damage to the port side lifeboat deck Funnels and railings along with vents and all sorts of lines and wire stays. I have made extensive photographs of the condition as I received it, and have begun recording the removal of the damaged parts that were still attached, A few surprises that were not evident when I viewed it at the clients premises have come to light. I cobbled together a quick trolley so that I can move the model around, I will make a lightweight dust cover to keep the dust off the model. I will no doubt be calling on the expertise of the membership for advice as I move forward. As tragic as the damage is I am hoping that this will be a good experience and that I rise to the occasion with a smile as things become repaired. here are a few pictures to show the extent of my task. Builders Name plate Port side sustained the most damage Starboard side suffered mostly inertial damage The funnels took a beating because they are heavy and brass A lot of loose parts were piled on the deck in front of the bridge The stern end of the port lifeboat deck is badly bent and twisted The stairs didn't fair too well either Below the port lifeboat deck is the most damage on the hull I am really hoping that this area can be reworked without having to repaint the entire side, we will see? A box of the loose pieces now lifted off the ship Ouch This will keep me busy over the next couple of three months. As I was removing all the big loose parts I was noticing how much of the fine lines and wire cables have also been damaged. many of the parts were attached with micro brass pins, all the lifeboat davits for instance. Michael
  3. I acquired this unfinished model ship a few years ago and am finally making some progress to finish it. It is quite large measuring 40 feet long, 6 feet tall and 5 feet wide. This model was started in 1962 and ended up in a warehouse having been largely taken apart and a few superstructure elements ending up at other places. Over the last few years I was able to relocate most of the parts and reassemble the model to it's unfinished state. After studying the available online images, a trip to the San Francisco Maritime museum to copy their images, building the PYRO/Lindberg plastic kit of the ship and acquiring a few slides from past passengers, I am on my way building the missing elements. I have managed to assemble several more sets of davits, made drawings of missing parts and started building the missing aft mast and aft superstructure. Still to build are lifeboats, deck and lifeboat winches, the second swimming pool, railings on all decks, the extended 1st class dining room, aft hull and lots of detail parts. I hope you all enjoy seeing this model
  4. I just completed restoring a model and would like to know what a fair price for the work would be. I will post the photos in the progression of repairs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mike
  5. SS ANDREA DORIA (1952) Good day to all, especially those who followed my build log of the Queen Anne's Revenge (1710). I hope you will enjoy this one as well, and I look forward to your comments and critiques. This project is another large jump across time and techniques. It is the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria, the pride of the postwar Italian Line. Her likeness will be built to the scale of 1/16” = 1’ and will reflect her appearance at the height of her service life, the fateful night of July 25, 1956. This is my fourth liner model and it uses many of the techniques that I have developed for this type of ship. Some, I hope, can have broader applications, so even if you are only into sailing ships you are most welcome to pull up a chair and grab some popcorn. The essential elements of the model will be scratch built. This includes the large components such as the hull, decks, superstructures, and funnel, as well as the complex and unique elements such as the cargo cranes and swimming pools. But for some simple fittings aftermarket castings are acceptable as long as they are accurate or can be made so. Likewise, photoetched brass pieces such as railings will be used. The ship herself and her tragic story are known to many. SS Andrea Doria was the pride of the Italian merchant marine in a country struggling to renew its economy and reputation after WW II. Launched in 1951 she began service in 1953 for the Italian Line (Societa di Navigazione Italia). For more than three years she led her country’s liners as the largest and fastest ship in the fleet and one of the most elegant, with an outdoor swimming pool for each of the three classes of passenger. On the night of July 25, 1956 all that changed. Sailing towards New York City, eight days out of Genoa, she was running in heavy fog in the Labrador Current just south of Nantucket, Mass. Coming towards her was the liner SS Stockholm, outbound from New York for home. She was not in fog but in the dark night could not see either the fog or the Andrea Doria. Although both were spotted on the other’s radar, this was still a somewhat new technology and the positions and speeds of the ships were incorrectly plotted on each bridge. As a result, the ships turned towards each other rather than away. At 11:10 pm the icebreaker bow of the Stockholm sliced into the starboard side of the Doria and into dozens of passenger cabins with families asleep in their bunks. More importantly, it sliced into the engineering spaces below the waterline. SOS calls were immediately put out by both ships and soon a number of others were racing to the site of the collision. The Stockholm was still seaworthy, although her bow was completely crushed. 49 people, many of them children in third class, died immediately aboard the Andrea Doria, and five crewmen aboard the Stockholm. Yet, miraculously, 14 year old Linda Morgan was lifted from her bed and deposited into the wreckage of the Stockholm’s bow where she was found with only a broken arm and some scrapes. Andrea Doria soon began to list. This might not have been fatal because she had been designed with eleven watertight compartments with bulkheads that extended well above the waterline, only one of which had been breached in the initial collision. But five of the starboard fuel tanks were located there and they quickly filled with water. On the port side the tanks, which were empty at the end of the crossing, acted like balloons to raise that side. Even this might have been survivable, but a design flaw in an access tunnel allowed water to blast into one of the lower control rooms, and then into the generator room, cutting off power. Without power water ballast could not be shifted to port to compensate and the list steadily increased. Thirty minutes after the collision Captain Calamai ordered that the ship be abandoned. The list made it impossible to launch the port side lifeboats, but by reusing the starboard ones all of the passengers and crew were eventually evacuated to the safety of the rescuing ships. All, that is, but three who were fatally injured or died during the evacuation, bringing the final death toll to 57, the greatest loss of life in American waters in over 40 years. All through the night the list increased, and in the early morning hours she turned over and sank. The aerial photography of the sinking won a Pulitzer Prize for Harry Trask. Now she sits in about 190 feet of water, on her starboard side. This is too deep for the recreational diver but easily reachable on a mixed gas technical dive. It used to be a fairly well-visited site, but the deterioration of the wreck is so severe now that only the most experienced should think about trying it. The model begins, as all models do, with the plans and research. I was fortunate that a set of plans was available from Taubman’s Plans Service, a division of Loyalhannah Dockyard. Expensive, but if they were as advertised, they would be worth it. While waiting for them to arrive I went on an internet search. I quickly found a poster in quite high resolution on a public site which had been printed as an advertisement for the ship and which showed the cabins on the passenger decks and the layout of the upper decks and deck structures. Although I did not need to know the cabin locations or layouts, the poster was clearly copied from the engineering plans and was quite exact. However, the deck plans did not go below “C” deck just above the waterline and had no lengthwise or midships cross-sectional plans, so the shape of the lower hull was still a mystery. Also, due to the many times it was reproduced, I guess, the deck plans bent to starboard, a defect that had to be corrected. When the Taubman’s plans showed up they were a good news, bad news thing. They were clearly the engineering drawings, imprinted with the logo of the Bologne Society of Marine Architechts, the name of the builders and the date in 1952 when they were drawn. They included a longitudinal cross section that showed many of the deck house details including window and doorway locations, mast details and the interior of the large single funnel. An exterior illustration showed the locations of most of the portholes, doors and windows. This was supported by another illustration, this one in color, that was located on the net. But there was a plan for only one deck below the “C” deck, the “D” deck, although it had some indication of the hull shape of the rudder post below the counter. There was still no midship section, so the lower hull shape was still questionable. I did find some section plans on the internet, but they were redrawn for a model kit from Amati, and I had some questions about their accuracy, although they did show the bulb at the bow below the waterline, which did not appear on any of the other plans. However, when in doubt I always refer to photographs, if available. Here is one of the ship being launched, which I used to compare and contrast with the plans in hand. This was one of several thousand images that I viewed on the net. These were culled to about two hundred after eliminating duplicates and those that were of such low resolution to be useless. Of those, about three dozen were saved as the most relevant, useful, and detailed. Here are a few, and more will be posted as the areas of detail are built. More posted soon Dan
  6. Hello all - Welcome to those of you who followed my build log of my previous ocean liner, the SS Andrea Doria. If you have not seen it, you can reach it by clicking the link below my profile, below. The Michelangelo was a slightly newer ship and sleeker in appearance. To give myself a bit more of a challenge, the model is being built to the scale of 1/350 rather than 1/200 as were my previous liner models. This means that the model's overall length is just over 31", which is a reasonable size for home display. I hope to still incorporate the same level of detail as at the larger scale, with some windows laser cut and others done with custom decals. Railings, ladders, etc. will be done in photoetched brass, and let me tell you, those pieces are tiny! The primary challenge of the build will be to replicate the cages around the funnels at this scale. The cages are one of the most visually appealing aspects of the ship, and were magnets for publicity photographs and even made it to the cover of the New York Times Magazine section. Nice shape, don't you think? As usual, my research began with trolling the internet, various books and other publications for images of the ship that would confirm and supplement the engineering drawings that would be ordered from the Italian naval archives. Out of about a thousand images some 200 were selected that were of such sufficient clarity and resolution to be useful. The covered almost every aspect of the ship, from her construction in the Anseldo Shipyards in Genoa to her ultimate end in the Pakistani breakers yard in 1991 Next time I will go into the process that I used to go from the plans to a laid-up basswood hull. Until then, be well Dan
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