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Were these ever released? I want to get one of those YD-25 kits.
TIA

Any news on these models?

Hello,
I ask, is already available IJN Hammerhead crane 150 tons? Or will do? You do not know how the Alliance models are?

Thanks for answering email tonda.uselik@gmail.com

Greeting
Ensefera

apparently more than one type of crane was used on the ship
This was the "later" type I think. There's one in our USN cruiser crane set (NW35035) that's similar to this both in design and dimension. Linked below.
[img]http://i60.tinypic.com/24crsqd.jpg[/img]

http://www.am-works.com/store/nw35035-cranes-wwii-cruisers-p-178.html

I saw on a post a while ago that you had covered many of the cranes the USN used during WWII. I was wondering if you have the crane in photoetch that was used on the rear of the USS Cumberland Sound and her sisters ? Could you point me to which one of your kits if you do ? I think this crane may have been used on other ships as well, but I do not know enough about the cranes to figure it out.

By the way, I like your kits a lot.

Thank you,
Rob

yeah looking forward to that too....

Release should be end of this month or beginning of August. Waiting on some large scale (48, 35) items to wrap up.

pontoon for the 1:350 YD-25 :smallsmile:
[img]http://i58.tinypic.com/e0l7kg.jpg[/img]

When will these be up for sale? They don't appear on your site. Also will the USN YD-25 floating crane also make it to 1/350?

[img]http://i62.tinypic.com/8vwuiu.jpg[/img]

Oh those are going to be excellent......

building these in 1:350 was such a breeze, almost took the fun out of it...
[img]http://i61.tinypic.com/28b8abn.jpg[/img]

the one you are building :)
Want to compare notes?

Which ship we see below the masts with the ratlines?

TBH, we don't have plans for 1:200 scale at the moment.
These accessories are oriented towards waterline models, and probably wouldn't be popular in 1:200, due to nature of the scale.

they will be available in 1:350 of course.

Alliance Modelworks - Really fantastic detail!! Very impressive!!

Any plans for 1:200 accommodation ladders, boat booms, aircraft crane - for IOWA class models? The Trumpeter aircraft kit crane is NOT what NEW JERSEY or the other sisters carried in the '50s forward - those were modified with gusset material between the tubular frames - something not modeled by current PE providers.

Anyhow, might be something to consider.

resin housing like this. Then modeler would glue surface details like windows and vents onto it
[img]http://i60.tinypic.com/nmguhx.jpg[/img]

[quote="AllianceModelWorks"]pontoons for the floating cranes are resin of course, and little chunky things like bollards and vents.
PE just for things that are rectangular. Some the machine housings can have too many curvatures, those we give resin and PE surface details to stick onto them. We do that for 1:700 too, like our trains and houses. Couple of the service cranes will also have resin housing.[/quote]

Coolio. God I am sooo looking forward these cranes (and others) from Alliance.

pontoons for the floating cranes are resin of course, and little chunky things like bollards and vents.
PE just for things that are rectangular. Some the machine housings can have too many curvatures, those we give resin and PE surface details to stick onto them. We do that for 1:700 too, like our trains and houses. Couple of the service cranes will also have resin housing.

[quote="AllianceModelWorks"]that's what we kept hearing, and we're working on 1:350 versions of these cranes. We'll bring all the floating cranes and barges to 1:350 scale too.
advantage of a larger scale goes beyond ease of construction, they can be more accurate, and more intricate. I had to ignore many support pieces in 1:700 since they would had been too small to position, and line widths are often exaggerated to obtain necessary material strength.

As said, area (of the etch) and price can be of concern, but they do carry some value when one considered size of the model. Stuff like YD-25 would also had looked rather impressive standing alone, I'd think :)
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Cool. Will they be all PE like the 1/700 versions, or will resin be introduced for some components? In 1/700 making the crane's parts all in PE makes sense, but in 1/350 some parts might be better off in resin especially if its large solid shape.

"that's what we kept hearing, and we're working on 1:350 versions of these cranes."

I'll buy every crane you make in 1/350....and I look foreward to doing so.