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Paddle-wheel aircraft carriers

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Pat:
For somebody who wants to built a model that will instantly become a conversation started, you might want to consider a paddle-wheeled aircraft carrier.

There were two, USS Wolverine and USS Sable.  Both served on the Great Lakes during WWII.  (That in itself is a bit of an oddity)

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/094606403.jpg

If you look on the left edge of the picture, you can make out the supports and the protective covering around the stb paddle-wheel.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/094606406.jpg

Another shot showing the port paddlewheel a little more clearly

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46064.htm

Of course, you'll have to be good at scratchbuilding as I doubt there's a kit for these unusual ships.

wildspear:
That is too cool. If I could get some plans I would take a stab at it. I'll have to look in to that.

Rokket:
Wow, thanks Pat, that is waaay cool! I can imagine Sopwith Tripes flying off that puppy...

Pat:
Except that it was WWII.  If you look into them, you find out they were flying Dauntless dive bombers, TBM Avengers and F4 Corsairs off the decks of these paddle-wheelers.

I don't know if there's any plans available (perhaps the Museum of tech in Chicago where they have U-505?) but there was a spread on them in 'Scale Modeler' a couple of years ago where somebody had built a model of USS Wolverine.  There were some really good pix of the build and the finished model, you could clearly see the paddle wheels and the entire structure supporting them.

42rocker:
That's a big Wow for me. Thanks for the info share. 
 
Later Tim

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