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Old 02-06-2011, 09:10 PM
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SS United States

Dear all, I am looking to find out if there is a nice, high quality and large scale FULL HULL SS United States kit out there somewhere. I don't really delve into printed kits that often, so forgive me if the answer is obvious. If there isn't a large scale SSUS (say 1/250 or so) would there be an interest in a kit? The SS United States Conservancy just bought her from NCL and I thought a model would be a nice way to raise interest. I am also very close to Philly and *might* be able to get access to the ship. I think I heard of a waterline model somewhere, but (moving away from my usual format) I want to do a nice display model of her.
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Old 02-06-2011, 09:15 PM
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I have one for sale in the for sale by owner category. It's listed in
Wilhelmshaven kits for sale....Ron
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Old 02-06-2011, 10:24 PM
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Interesting. What is the quality of the Wilhelmshaven kit? Is it waterline or full hull? Thanks!
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Old 02-07-2011, 12:00 AM
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The two kits I know of are the 1:250 Wilhelmshavener and the 1:400 JSC - both are waterline though.
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Old 02-07-2011, 12:09 AM
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Marco is right it is a waterline model and the scale is 1:250. The
kit is good quality as all Wilhelmshavener kits....Ron
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Old 02-08-2011, 10:27 PM
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here is the kit when its finished this is the same kit that Ron has for sell. this is a old wilhelshaven kit i bought this off the Queen Mary in 1972, this is an excelent kit, the best Big U on the market, this will inspire you to buy it of Ron.
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You could build one of the models mentioned and do a custom hull. I have a pdf file from an old popular Mechanics Magazine with the plans for this ship. You could use it to build the hull. The file is too large for this forum but I will send it to you if you pm me.

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Old 02-09-2011, 01:51 AM
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You could build one of the models mentioned and do a custom hull. I have a pdf file from an old popular Mechanics Magazine with the plans for this ship. You could use it to build the hull. The file is too large for this forum but I will send it to you if you pm me.

I have converted to jpeg in a smaller file for view.
Has anyone ever produced an accurate drawing of the United States' hull ? I understand this was classified, and all drawings of that time were fancy ...see the old ITC plastic kit for instance. And when you could finally see it, I'm not sure anyone was interested in the exercise anymore...

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Old 02-09-2011, 07:09 AM
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I don't know about high quality but the wallis rigby kit is a fun build:





It comes in a book with a bunch of other ships from:

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Old 02-09-2011, 01:25 PM
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Is this site legit? It makes no claim to have the rights to any of those models and looks like a one man band selling off copies that he has collected...
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