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
Seems the link to that producer is dead. Only listed in 1:350 anyway; I was thinking 1:700 (and, of course, any of the other scales that Titanic kits are made in, what with 3D printing's multi-scale feasibility)
Shapeways sent me the following message and reports that the sale is only for designers ordering their own products:
"Hi Steve,
"Thanks for getting in touch.
"The discount only applies to your own designs, so not from the marketplace. If the customer is purchasing designs of yours from their own account then their order does not qualify for the promotion.
Kind regards
"Dave
"Community Support & Relationship Ambassador"
Here is part of the text of my response:
"...Please consider making a note that the special is only for designers' own products in the "details" section of the special.
"[like me, other] designers are erroneously advertising the sale to the general marketplace on modeling websites not knowing it is not for the marketplace. Our inadvertent false advertising becomes a credibility issue for us with our customers.
"Thanks again for clearing this up,
"Steve
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For those interested in economically converting their "long-hull" Trumpy Ticonderoga or Hancock into a Korean War-era USS Boxer CV-21, which sported enclosed bridges with the original (non-SCB-27/125) island, a set of two bridge decks with PriFly featuring open windows has been added to the catalog.
Correctly sized and fully riveted funnels for HMS Hood are being added to the catalog. The 1/350 scale designs are ready now, 1/200 scale designs will be ready tomorrow. Other scales are possible. These funnels are intended as replacements for Trumpeter's HMS Hood kits' mis-matched and undersized funnels.
The designs' dimensions match John Robert's drawings based on official Admiralty plans in the possession of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, England. The shape of the aft funnel's lower flange has been adjusted to reflect recent research presented by MWS.com member Frank W. Allen of the HMS Hood Association.
For 1/200 scale, the funnel proper (not including the flanges) is 39.0 mm from fore to aft.
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ModelMonkey wrote:Correctly sized and fully riveted funnels for HMS Hood are being added to the catalog. The 1/350 scale designs are ready now, 1/200 scale designs will be ready tomorrow. Other scales are possible. These funnels are intended as replacements for Trumpeter's HMS Hood kits' mis-matched and undersized funnels.
As usual Steve, a great solution at a affordable price,now the Hood Trumpeters can show first class funnels!!!
Good job
No Whine Policy
1.- Modify it
2.- Ignore it
3.- Don't build it
I assume the upper section of the two funnels are identical...so for two funnel we will have to get two upper sections, then one lower forward and one lower aft, right? This will hugely improve the Trumpeter 1/350 kit ones!!
Edit: Just found the description...for either fore and aft...
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1/350 scale Airfix HMS Illustrious fans, two domes representing the pair of smaller SATCOM aerials carried by HMS Hermes, HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal from the 1970s to c. 1990 have been added to the catalog. Their unusual shape is difficult to fabricate from scratch and it is even more difficult to make two that perfectly match each other. Problem solved.
Boxart: Scalemates.com
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Baltimore class heavy cruiser fans! Sets of accurate and highly detailed 8"/55 triple turrets (World War Two-era appearance) in most popular scales have been added to the catalog.
A set of these turrets with Vietnam War-era details is coming soon.
Boxart: Scalemates.com
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I'll have to pass on the UNREP gear. There just aren't enough authoritative references available in the public domain from which to design them accurately.
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