AMP - Accurate Model Parts
SEA => CV / CVN => Topic started by: Pat on 13 Jan , 2010, 15:54
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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 (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 (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 (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.
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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.
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Wow, thanks Pat, that is waaay cool! I can imagine Sopwith Tripes flying off that puppy...
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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.
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That's a big Wow for me. Thanks for the info share.
Later Tim