The Ship Model Forum

"Hello, ship" opens the book, and I can't help but muttering the same whenever I get the opportunity to visit a warship. I caught the movie on TCM a few Sunday's ago and am keeping an eye out for "The Last Detail" and "Cinderella Liberty"...I love a good "white hat" story.

And I'm loving your San Pablo build, very nice work indeed.

Cheers,

Keith

A bit more work done. Some putty work too. The styrene sheet is so thin that glueing it softened and deformed it.


Cowl vents and skiffs/davits are added. The vents I stole from a 1/700 Trumpeter Liberty ship, as they were the right size and shape. And the skiffs were suitable lifeboats I cut down and reshaped.

On the aft upper deck I put an 20mm Oerlikon. Not at all accurate and I'll have to replace it. In the movie the gun was never used and always covered, so I don't really know what it was, although it's the right size and shape of an Oerlikon. I'll probably just fake it by making it covered.

I've also added the fancy scroll-work/decoration on the prow. I sculpted it from acrylic paste. It has a very slow drying time which enabled a lot of working and reworking to get the right shape.

Although I'm not familiar with the ship, it's cool to see another scratch build in small scale. Looks great so far!

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The merchant shipyard

Hello biggles2

Absolute. A very nice build. I'm looking forward to seeing some color!

Sincerely

Chrischan

It's sort of 'The Ship that Never Was'! Totally fictional, but the ship/boat was a full-scale functioning conversion made specifically for the movie, and loosely based on historical US gunboats of the period. So it 'was' and yet it 'wasn't'. After the filming, the boat was sold and re-sold to various private companies in SE Asia, and it's history is eventually lost in the mid-seventies. Who knows...maybe it's still puttering along in some Vietnamese or Cambodian jungle river! Oh, no! Shades of 'Apocalypse Now'!!

Great work on the San Pueblo . Working in a small scale is hard to do . I have a lot of interest in the Yangtze River Gunboats and have seen the movie many times .
I have PG-45 Panay in the works in 1/32 scale for a RC model that will have a Steam engine .

Sand Pebbles has been temporarily dry-docked while BB,s DD's, some armor, and figures are built and painted.

Superb scratch-building!!!





NOW.......LET ME PAINT IT !!!

Cheers!
Aop.

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On the way:
--1/350 Tamiya DKM Tirpitz Nov 1944

--1/350 scratch-build HMS Lion never built battleship (1938)

And our artworks!

Top notch work! I love it!!!




Bob Pink.

Wow, amazing work at this scale. Beautiful.

Jorge

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Beautiful Girls in your city

Thanks for the kind replies. Sand Pebbles is still in drydock. I got hung up on the awnings and awning supports. Wasn't too sure how the supports were constructed. Then I got into a whole bunch of 1/700 scale, some figures, some armor, some 1/72 stuff,...

Great build.

For those who have never read about the 'real' movie ship, this might be interesting
http://www.thesandpebbles.com/san_pablo ... pablo.html

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Current build logs -
1/72 110' Subchasers as Rum Runners
1/96 Japanese 'Steel Truck'
1/96 12cm pre-Dreadnaught deck gun
1/124 CS Privateer 'Beauregard'
1/124 CS Blockade Runners Pevensey & Ella Warley
1/192 scale whaler PEQUOD

Another interesting tid-bit is that all the "engine-room" scenes were done on a sound stage, months later in Hollywood, and those scenes were cleverly and seamlessly edited into the rest of the film. The Sand Pebbles prop ship had diesels.