Search results

Barry , try trimming the ladders from window screen material

Did some checking , first helenas secondaries were essentially Porter class destroyers primaries

Helena as JSC depicts it is a modified brooklyn class. After its loss. A baltimore class was named after it. The JSC Helena would be a good bassis for Brooklyn class which had open single 5" as secondary, followed by a couple like the helena Which shared its twin closed scondaries with some...

Are there , or were there any kits of these?

Dont recolor it. As modeled the ship wore MS21 camo. Which is overall navy blue with darker blue on decks.As a matter of fact. The wood would have been painted over dark blue as well.

Do you suppose this build could be condensed into an article?

But we want it now

If you rescale , make it 1/350th and take advantage of the plethoria of bismark etch parts in that scale. Although 400th exist too because of the Heller plastic kit.

LOL classic! Thanks Maurice

He used card kits as patterns and built them from plastic sheet. I need the link for a friend

Where was the german site where the guy was building comercial card kits , but in plastic?

I plan to glue down all my formers to the keel plate . But "not" glue the slots where the go together. I read somewhere that helps prevent warpage. But what about where the keel plates sections meet? Should they be solidly mounted together? We're talking waterline model with typycal multi piece...

I'm planning to display it with the cruiser Degrasse from the '61 maly CD. Which is designed like a JSC kit. Anyone know if either ship participated i the indo china conflict and if the discussed airwing would still be valid?

Kit didn't have any. Any ideas? I think when the french first took it it had Hellcats and Avengers. In which case I could buy a gambier bay and downscale the planes to 300th

Stunned as always

Yeah , steves literally doing this stuff by hand at home and has job , family etc. Me , Im going for it. I come frome a world where a 1/350th resin fuso for $400 would have everyone running around talking about what a great deal they got. So I figure my $35 cd with all the accuracy leaves me a...

All three of the US manufacturers and WEM offer a number of 200th items allready. 250th is the odd man out. Kind of the way 400th plays second to 350th in plastic.

According to Steve Nuttall he can reprogram his CNC brass turned barrels which he has all the way to the 25mm's http://halfliferefugee.homestead.com/HLRsite.html

I'm emailing Toms Model works about enlarging their IJN BB set which includes Fuso to 1/250th

Mine recently walked across the deck of my recently built Revell Bon Homme Rivhard carrier scatering A4's and F8's everywhere some yet to be recovered.