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[ModelMonkey]

Model Monkey is pleased to announce a catalog containing all available products is now online.

Gray resin models, 3D-printed in-house by Model Monkey:
Link: https://www.model-monkey.com/

Model Monkey designs that are not suitable for gray resin printing, are too big for the gray resin printer, and metal and plastic nameplates are sold by Shapeways.

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[MartinJQuinn]

[Aop Aur]

Very nice! Now I could see what you have designed so far!

Aop

[TOMLABEL]

Wow!!! Very nice indeed, Steve!!! Easy to plan future projects with this!

Although, my wallet thinks otherwise!

Pizza anyone???

[Quincy]

Splendid!





Bob Pink.

[whaynes]

Fantastic!!
Walt

[Jeff Sharp]

Very nice Steve! Am I the only one that would love to see backdated USS Texas and USS New York parts on this catalog?
Sorry Steve! I'm still lobbying for them!

[ModelMonkey]

Thanks, everybody!

Very nice Steve! Am I the only one that would love to see backdated USS Texas and USS New York parts on this catalog?
Sorry Steve! I'm still lobbying for them!

Still love to do it, but yes, you are the only one. Insufficient research materials remain the holdup. Very close, though, thanks to you and others, just not quite there yet.

To paraphrase advice about voting, enjoy the catalog and "buy early, buy often".

[Jeff Sharp]

Jeff, what time period?

1941 before her August-October refit. I love the birdbath look on her forward fighting top.

[BB62vet]

Steve,

Excellent idea - perhaps other Shapeways artisans will follow suit!!

Hank

[ModelMonkey]

Thanks so much! I hope the catalog makes it much easier to find the products you want.

Brooklyn and Cleveland class light cruiser fans, 6"/47 cal. triple turrets of three different designs in two popular scales have been added to the catalog. Other scales are possible. These designs were requested some time ago and I am happy to have them completed.

Below are some renderings of the Brooklyn class turret design to give you some idea of the details included. The Cleveland design is a bit different in detail (armored hoods, vents, etc. are different) as is the design specifically for USS Cleveland CL-55 and USS Columbia CL-56. Their turrets had the features of the earlier Brooklyn class minus one turret.

Special thanks to Phil Hayes, Ph.D., USNR, who sent scans of the original builders blueprints for these turrets he made at NARA. These designs are precisely scaled from those documents. Their overall dimensions and shape perfectly match the original builder's blueprints.

Each turret has unique features (turrets on the main deck have an access hatch and shell ejector ports on the aft wall, superfiring turrets do not, and the aft-most turret does not have a rangefinder). To help the modeler identify which turret is which, the model turrets have subtle raised numbers on the bottom of the turret overhang, in order, from bow to stern. These numbers can be easily sanded off if the modeler so chooses.

Chris and Lars, Baltimore designs are next.

[maxim]

Chris and Lars, Baltimore designs are next.

Do you have everything what you need?

[jabarry]

Hey, how about doing the rest of the 1/700 cruiser to go with those nice looking Pensacola and Salt Lake City turrets?

[maxim]

Apparently there were not many interested in those nice Pensacola and Salt Lake City turrets...

See here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=163454

[ModelMonkey]

Hey, how about doing the rest of the 1/700 cruiser to go with those nice looking Pensacola and Salt Lake City turrets?

Apparently there were not many interested in those nice Pensacola and Salt Lake City turrets...

See here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=163454

Lars (maxim) is correct. I'll have to pass. Thanks for the interest, however!

[ModelMonkey]

RMS Titanic fans! Accurately sized, shaped and detailed 1/350 scale cylindrical 50 and 30 cwt Stothert and Pitt Ltd. cranes and crane pedestals for Olympic class liners RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic have been added to the catalog. Titanic

Link: https://www.model-monkey.com/titanic-350

These parts are intended as direct replacements for the inaccurately sized and detailed Minicraft/Entex/Revell 1/350 scale kit's parts.

[SeanF]

Hmm... seeing the latest item...

How about a set of the big lifeboat davits needed to convert a Titanic kit into a Brittanic?

- Sean F.

[ModelMonkey]

Hmm... seeing the latest item...

How about a set of the big lifeboat davits needed to convert a Titanic kit into a Brittanic?

- Sean F.

Already available in brass for $45 USD from Peter Davies-Garner who is very accurate with his products and models. See: http://titanic-model.com/brass.htm

[ModelMonkey]

The Titanic cranes are ready, too.

Don't leave port without them.

[ModelMonkey]

This week, Shapeways' customers get 20% off orders over $100! Use code STOCKTOBER16 at checkout.

Expires October 23rd, 2016 at 11:59pm PDT.

Code is valid 3 uses per customer with a maximum discount of $500 USD per order before taxes and VAT.