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Old 07-15-2019, 08:54 AM
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Congratulations on an impressive and interesting subject. Thank you for the excellent photographs which highlight the incredible attention to detail you brought to this project. Definitely a museum quality end result!
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Old 07-15-2019, 09:04 AM
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This is a wonderful array of final photos.
You paid a lot of attention to detail, with all those canopy supports from bow to stern.
We shipbuilders are accostumed to high numbers of repetitive parts, but there appear to be considerably more of that with this project, so you deserve a lot of credit for your dedication.
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Old 07-15-2019, 11:57 AM
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Hanseat, had the Wilhelm Gustloff survived the war it would never sail under the US flag. The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (known as the "Jones Act") regulates coastal shipping between American ports and requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports (including passengers) be carried on U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. For instance, foreign registered cruise ships leaving American ports MUST stop at a foreign port prior to their return.

The SS Leviathan (ex-German liner Vaterland) was probably exempted by special Congressional action, though she was so thoroughly rebuilt after her WWI troopship service she might have qualified as "American made". A notorious ship like the Wilhelm Gustloff could expect no such official consideration, especially when we had a number of former troop carriers originally intended to be converted for passenger service after the war. In any event, the immediate postwar years were a bit too early for the American cruise industry. As you surmised, the ex-Gustloff would probably have been used by the Soviets either in the Baltic or Black Sea as a state-sponsored workers vacation program.

Excellent work on this model! Truly a masterpiece.

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Old 07-15-2019, 02:21 PM
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David, I never assumed the Gustloff to run for USL. And you are right about the Jones Act, which was somewhat bent in some cases (cf. Independence and Constitution in their career as cruise vessels). But American shipowners used to circumnavigate the obstacles using flags of convenience for US- foreign port Services (as you probably know). Anyhow, the ship is sunk and further speculation academic.
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Old 07-15-2019, 04:06 PM
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An incredible build. Congratulations.

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Old 07-16-2019, 12:11 PM
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If this were the age of sail, your build could have been thought to be the shipwright's (blue print) model . Congratulations.
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Old 07-22-2019, 08:24 AM
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This is unbelievably fine work!
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Old 07-25-2019, 09:44 AM
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I've been following your work and love seeing the finished product! The clean lines and attention to detail are phenomenal! I wish I had the skill set to do such detailing on smaller models. Thank you for sharing all of your photos!

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Old 07-26-2019, 06:22 PM
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Beautiful work !
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Old 07-27-2019, 10:05 AM
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Beautiful ship model. JSC/Scaldis are (re)publishing beautiful models lately, rescaled from scale 1:400 into 1:250 and did a good redraw of them, pity though they don't give you the possibility to build the underwater ship. I think an underwater ship gives a model a different dimension.
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