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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:17 am 
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The Revell San Juan Capistrano, reissued as the Esso Glasgow. A member of the venerable old collection of flat bottomed ship models. In the end I scratchbuilt just about everything from the deck up, except the stack and the basic blocks of the deck houses. Guns are little resin goodies, the rest all built from metal and plastic sheet, rod and wire. Plus PE rails.

I was inspired by the old John Steel artwork of the AHM boxing, which as a kid really impressed me, like the rest of the Picture Fleet in that golden age.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm15 ... xart-1.jpg

The Sebec, AO87 fleet oiler around 1944. She's running at full tilt to keep up with those fast cruisers and destroyers sailing west towards great sea battles.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm15 ... 0361-1.jpg

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm15 ... C_0347.jpg

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http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm15 ... C_0368.jpg

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Captain Bondo, Ret. and looking for the rum bottle.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:12 pm 
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Good to see it here Bondo! I hope it goes into the gallery too.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:46 pm 
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Very sharp! Nice build of the old kit.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:55 pm 
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Nice . . . Very Nice!

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:04 am 
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Very realistic, I clicked one of these pictures and wondered if it was a real aereal shot! Hope it goes in the gallery too. We lack more merchant ships and auxiliaries there :thumbs_up_1:

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:37 pm 
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Very nice. A real 'silk purse'.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:32 pm 
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Bondoman wrote:

I was inspired by the old John Steel artwork of the AHM boxing, which as a kid really impressed me, like the rest of the Picture Fleet in that golden age.



Like the build, as you said I was also drawn to the Steele dazzle scheme. When I went to look for it in the USN dazzle listing was not able to find it in any of the oiler schemes. I finally concluded it was an artistic fiction.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:20 am 
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After poring through about 100 pictures on the "german" maritime commission site I settled on what I painted, which is M32 and I believe pattern 3AO.


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:32 pm 
Hello!

Since the Mission Capistrano/Glasgow are both 1/400 (and indeed from the same mold) and the Lindberg's Neches/Fleet Oiler are also 1/400, could it be they're also from the same mold? Though the Mission/Glasgow are T-2 tankers and the Neches a T-2A.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 9:38 pm 
HI

Im here to find the bilge keel details.. any master here be kind to help me along . million tks in advance.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:13 am 
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Hi Alan,

For some time I despaired about finding the thruth regarding the bilge keels on the T2 tankers. I even started doubting they even had those, as I read some stories about 'heavy rolling' in a seaway, despite being broad and heavy ships.

Well, the only proof I found is the famous picture of the Shenectady, broken in half at the quay. It shows a bilge keel, starting just behind the bridge, which means it would not extend very far aft either.

So in fact very short bilge keels, having very little effect in practice. It might then very well be the case that later ships were even built without them at all, saving time and effort, which was very important at the time they were built, of course.

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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 5:35 am 
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Some T2 tankers were lengthened at Bethlehem Steel post war, Conastoga 1943 was one, and I would like to build/convert a model to one. Can anyone please advise me where the break was (frame #?) for the cut on the ship? Any plans out there of the changes?

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Hello !

Im just asking wether anybody already found this http://www.marad.dot.gov/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Saugatuck_HAER_Report.pdf or not ?

I found it while I was searching for informations about AO-36 USS Kennebec .

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Plans, drawings, blueprints, T2 Tankers:

AO-75

USS Saugatuck

https://freeshipplans.com/free-model-sh ... saugatuck/

https://freeshipplans.com/wp-content/up ... gatuck.zip

AO-134

USS Mission Santa Ynez

https://www.themodelshipwright.com/high ... -san-ynez/

AO-106

USS Navasota

https://maritime.org/doc/plans/ao106.pdf

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