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Hello to all you exellent builders. I am new to this site. I have been working on a 1/144 static model of a carrier for years. My next project is still in the planing stage.It will be an LST @ 1/72 scale. "static model" Unlike my first project I will do more research on this one. I would like to find plans for one. The carrier I had to scale up from a 1/544 scale model! The LST is not the most glamours ship to model but my late father served on one in ww2. Any help will be great Thanks.

The floating drydock has plans for LST 542 at http://www.floatingdrydock.com/TFW2.htm near the bottom of the list.

Or, you could go to http://www.hnsa.org/doc/plans/lst983.pdf
But Floating Drydock plans are scaled, usually with two options.
He'll also advise, if there are several class/date plans available, which would be appropriate for your fathers ship.

carrierbuilder wrote:Hello to all you exellent builders. I am new to this site. I have been working on a 1/144 static model of a carrier for years. My next project is still in the planing stage.It will be an LST @ 1/72 scale. "static model" Unlike my first project I will do more research on this one. I would like to find plans for one. The carrier I had to scale up from a 1/544 scale model! The LST is not the most glamours ship to model but my late father served on one in ww2. Any help will be great Thanks.

Hi carrierbuilder Welcome . Which 1:144 carrier are you working on?
Dave Wooley

Dave Im building the Saratoga CV-60 1989-1990. I was unable to get plans for it so I scaled up the model.Used auto-cad to draw the parts.Its my first large ship, Allot to cut your teeth on! Im about 90% comp. with it so Im looking into info on the LST.

carrier builder wrote:Dave Im building the Saratoga CV-60 1989-1990. I was unable to get plans for it so I scaled up the model.Used auto-cad to draw the parts.Its my first large ship, Allot to cut your teeth on! Im about 90% comp. with it so Im looking into info on the LST.

Hi Carrier builder any pictures of your Saratoga .
Dave Wooley

You should be aware that, if you know the LST number of your Father's LST, you could go to http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/16idx.htm to see if there are any photos of it.

Hello carrier builder,

You should also visit the french archives site, the Service Historique de la D�fense:
Here is the address for the list of ships for which the site provides drawings:

http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defens ... tebato.php

If you go down to LST, you will find links to the drawings for a generic LST, LST 802, LST 1156 and LST 1171.

Best regards,

domi13