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    Grandpa Phil.....It's not a kit and it's not the Alabama! That book you refer to about the CSS Hope sounds very interesting. I will have to look it up now that you have piqued my interest. I recently acquired Andrew Bowcock's book CSS Alabama, The Anatomy of a Confederate Raider. A very comprehensive treatise on the ship with lots of plans inside and loads of information about the build of the ship. Gregory........A 1/192nd scale Alabama half the length of the 1/96th scale Revell kit would still be quite a reasonable sized model to detail up, and probably about the length of a PC keyboard I would guess.
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    Probably a misprint. On another tack, regarding this particular ship. I wish that someone would make a good accurate plastic kit of the CSS Alabama but half the size of the huge Revell kit. Big enough to super detail it, but not too big to take over the living room!
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  13. NoelSmith
    The National Maritime Museum in London sells copies of George Campbell's plans of the Cutty Sark. Have a look on their Cutty Sark Collection. Probably the very best set of plans available of the ship and also the most reasonably priced too when compared to commercial model makers plans from other sources. Also, the long out of print book by Noel C L Hackney published by Patrick Stephens in the UK was an Airfix Special book. Although aimed at building the smaller Airfix kit, the book contains a wealth of information about rigging the ship and lots of details with regard to painting the model. Mr. Hackney wrote two other Airfix specials for The Mayflower and HMS Victory by the same publisher.
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    The Great Western has reappeared for this year from Airfix. They reissued it a few years back for an anniversary of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The irony is that this ship and the Great Eastern no longer exist but have had kits made by Airfix and Revell, but the Great Britain, preserved in Bristol never had a plastic kit made of it. As far as I am aware no wooden kits of any of Brunel's ships has ever been made either. Occre have recently been making kits of sail steam ships like the Endurance, so it would be interesting to see if any of Brunel's ships ever get model kits from them. I suggested the CSS Alabama the well known Confederate Commerce Raider to Occre recently, and also to Airfix when I was the IPMS Scalemodelworld Show at Telford last year. I know that Bluejacket have released the Alabama, and is reputed to be the most accurate kit of the vessel, but a huge model at 1/96th scale like the big Revell one. I just wish that someone would do a kit at half that size. Big enough to super detail without dominating the house!
  15. NoelSmith
    Revell has used the same hull mouldings for different ships. An example being the Bounty hull for Beagle, the Kearsarge and Alabama kits and the Cutty Sark's hull for both the Thermopylae and Pedro Nunes. So do check these out if you want an accurate model. Possibly Heller might have done the some with some of their sailing ship kits. Airfix (bless them) have not been tempted to use such practices on their Classic Ships range and generally are quite good representations of the ships they have made kits for. Many have not been re released for many years, but the Victory, Cutty Sark, Vasa and Golden Hind appear to stay in their catalogue year on year.
  16. NoelSmith
    Thanks for the very interesting feed back Johnny about the Cutty Sark kits. The late Professor John Tilley spoke highly of the Imai kit and reckoned it to be the best. I have Noel Hackney's Cutty Sark book and his Victory and Mayflower ones. Really good references for builders of any of those particular models and other ships from those periods too. A company in the UK named Scale Warship does photo etched sets of detailing parts for the Academy Cutty Dark kit.
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    Broadside's superb detailing on those three (now quite elderly) Airfix kits is absolutely outstanding. Abbot's Jolly Roger pirate ship is a bit of a caricature. It's actually based on Hook's Pirate ship from the Disney theme park attraction. Seeing his model reminded me that I have some photos of Hook's Pirate Ship attraction taken at Disneyworld Paris that would make a nice little diorama, as the attraction was looking a bit weather beaten and some of the lower hull timbers had rotted out. Reading about household cleaning events sending some models to Davey Jones's Locker makes me wonder why the investment in a dedicated display case was not made to keep the dust off the models that would have afforded them some form of protection.
  18. NoelSmith
    Scale Warship makes sets of photo etched for the Academy Cutty Sark kit. Also Revell's Vasa, Airfix Victory and even for the little Airfix Mary Rose kit.
  19. NoelSmith
    The St Louis, Royal Louis thing. OK, I appreciate that you have moved on from looking Shipman. But for the benefit of others who might be looking for a St. Louis kit to make, Airfix issued it once as far as I can remember. Heller also issued a kit of the St. Louis. Same ship but not the Airfix kit. The Heller one was in a slightly smaller scale I think and may be easier to source than the Airfix kit second hand. Just to add to the confusion, Heller also issued a kit of a ship named the Royal Louis that was from a later era altogether.
  20. NoelSmith
    Shipman, If you are looking for a plastic kit of the St. Louis to build, Heller also did one that might be easier to source. I don't think that it is the same kit though. Some might think so because Airfix and Heller at one time were owned by the same holding company. Not to be confused with Heller's Royal Louis that I think is of a Napoleonic era ship.
  21. NoelSmith
    Lovely Ship in Bottle model. I really like your innovative method of displaying it as the barrel of a ship's cannon. Not seen a SIB displayed like that before. A real conversation piece.
  22. NoelSmith
    Looks like you are making good progress on the Occre Beagle. I see you have built the Occre Polaris and the Bounty's boat. What is your impression of Occre's kits you have built?
  23. NoelSmith
    Nice start. Those clips look good for keeping the main hull form parts square.
  24. NoelSmith
    Can anyone who has bought the Revell 1/120th scale Cutty Sark kit confirm if it is the Imai kit that was marketed under the Monogram label before being acquired by Revell? Original Imai ones sell for stupid money on Ebay. I'm a builder not a kit collector, so the exact same kit sold inexpensively under another brand name will do me fine. Just want to make sure it is the right one before buying the sets of photo etched parts from Scale Warship that they designed for the Imai kit.
  25. NoelSmith
    I would like to see AL produce a kit of the Confederate Sloop of War. CSS Alabama, the CSS Florida or CSS Shenandoah.

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