The Ship Model Forum

Hello all,
I'm new to the board and ship modeling. My father served on the USS Sarita AKA-39 in WWII and I would like to build a model of his ship. As with any modeling project research is needed so I have started a blog with information I have. You can visit it at:

http://usssarita.blogspot.com/

I will be posting another blog with my modeling progress soon. I have plans of the ship and will be scratch building in 1/350 scale.
Just lurking on this site has given me enough inspiration to get started, this is a talented group of modelers. I'm sure I will be looking here for answers as I progress.
Thanks,
Johnybotto1.

Johnny,

If you are willing to reduce the scale of your effort (1/700) there is a nice kit from Loose Cannon of the S4 type AKA. Check it out at the following link:

http://home.earthlink.net/~loosecannonp ... Kit46.html

Bill

Welcome aboard and good luck!

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Tracy White -Researcher@Large

"Let the evidence guide the research. Do not have a preconceived agenda which will only distort the result."
-Barbara Tuchman

Thanks for the welcome Tracy!

Thanks Bill!
I have seen that kit but 1/700 is a bit too small for me. I would really like to do it 1/192 but that's just a bit too big, so 1/350 looks like the right size. There are plenty of parts for the guns and boats available in 1/350 as well.

JB

More than a decade since the last post on this topic.

I served in AKA19 in the mid 1960s.

Built a model of balsa while aboard. (Can't have a better way to get it right, right?) How apart are the doors? Go measure the real ones.

Used the 1/8th "ships of plans" for the basics.

Presented the model to the skipper - An Airdale - so sad.

Good luck. We were an S2B-C2.

I recently finished Project Artemis Class AKA.....

I've uploaded plans for the Artemis Class AKA I found at the website of the US National Archives to the Ship Design Drawings collection on the Webarchive:

32 ships in the class:
- GA Plan for AKA-21 USS Artemis representing the complete class
- Body, lines and sheer plan for AKA-21 USS Artemis representing the complete class
- Capacity Plan for every member of the class
- Booklet of General Plans for a conversion to Cable Layer/Cable Repair ship

Click here to go to the Artemis Class plans: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Artemis+Class%22&sort=title&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22ship-design-drawings%22

I've also uploaded GA Plans and a Booklet of General Plans for several members of the Tolland Class AKA's

Click here to go to the Tolland Class plans: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Tolland+Class%22&sort=title&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22ship-design-drawings%22