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Old 02-23-2022, 06:59 AM
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Non-paper models and collections from long ago

In his build thread for his 1/600 model of the USS Fletcher <http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/ships-watercraft/49036-fletcher-1-600-a.html>, Carl (Golden Bear) wrote: "Is there any chance you could take a picture [of your old model of USS Dewey] with your phone to share with us?"

I took a few snaps of my old (64-year-old) unfinished model and of some of the various models that accumulated over the decades. Here are those images.

1 -4. My ~1/344 scale scratch built USS Dewey (DD-349) that I stopped work on around 1958. It looked better in my memory. I see that one set of life rafts has disappeared over the years.

5. While I was in the basement, I took a few more snaps. This is my Ideal 1/400 model of USS Augusta, also last worked on around 1958 when I headed off to Cornell. The fore funnel and No. 3 turret disappeared into the ewigkeit somewhere along the line.

6. A small part of the stash of models.

7. The 1/1200 and 1/1250 cast model ship collection (there are a few scratch-built ship models in there as well).

8. Railway models. Various scales. Mostly rolling stock of the B&O, British Great Western, Anthracite Railroads, and the mythical Carlisle & Cape May Railroad and Steam Navigation Company.

9. Military and aircraft models.

10. The main workbench, which is still much as it was when I downed tools and focused on paper models in 2007. Our younger son, Don III, once found a photograph of my Baltimore basement workshop taken around 1959 and was amused to note that he could identify most of the models in the image and that many of them now reside in our Carlisle basement.

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PS: Carl asked me to take some photographs with my phone, but these photos were taken with my Canon SX50015 since I cannot take photos with my flip phone (I also drive a 22-year old car with a stick shift and I write with a fountain pen).
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Old 02-23-2022, 08:33 AM
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Nice collection, Don!

One thing I noticed several years ago about paper modeling is that if you go about collecting digital paper models, it is harder for people to notice how deep the stash pile of unbuilt models gets!

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Old 02-23-2022, 09:04 AM
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Wow Don, You are prolific! Is the Augusta a wooden kit? I never built any solid wood kits but recall a friend's father having an unbuilt one when I was a kid. Curious to how difficult they are to build. I've only scratchbuild ships-in-bottles.
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Thanks, Doug and Bob.

I don't think I can take much credit, since most of the ship and train models were purchased (some are built from kits or scratch, but the overwhelming number were purchased). If you live long enough, stuff tends to accumulate.

Bob - The model of Augusta is an Ideal model with a molded hull, balsa superstructure, and split bamboo supplied for everything else. I came into possession of several 1944-series Ideal ship models in the early 50s. I still have a couple left. The hulls were molded from something like Plastic wood and all the hulls were identical, whether you were building a clipper ship, an ocean liner, a subchaser, or a cruiser. The Augusta hull had no resemblance to that of the actual ship, but I did a LOT of sanding and grinding and filling to make it approximate a Northampton-class clipper-bowed hull. It would have been easier to have carved it out of wood.

I also built several of the Strombecker ships (USS Nautilus (SS-168, not the nuclear one), frigate Tacoma, destroyer escort Buckley) and some of the Monogram ships (destroyer USS Hobby at least), but none of those have survived. Interestingly, in 1975, I saw and photographed the ex-USS Tacoma, then the ROK Navy Taedong (PF-63) tied up at a pier in Jinhae, Korea.

In an email, Mike Mash asked me via email if there was a model of USS Langley in the collection. If you are reading this, Mike, yes. I have a 1/1250 Neptun cast metal model of Langley (red circle). The paper model (yellow) circle is an uncompleted (of course) JSC 1/400 USS Card.

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Old 02-23-2022, 11:15 AM
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Thanks Don. I had not noticed the “Langley” further back (circled in red).
This is quite a collection. It is remarkable that you still have all those models after all those years. I remember many of the models (plastic) I built as a kid. But mine fell victim to the same fate as so many others. Mom eventually threw them out.

Question: Did you ever build any paper models back in the 50s or 60s?

Mike

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Old 02-23-2022, 03:13 PM
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Hi, guys!

I am interesting of real history events, one of them - WW2 - pacific theater of operations.
In this connect - can somebody supply Me/Us with Models of american and japanese carriers from that era...? (eventually planes also).
They do not need to be represented in very high detail.
If somebody have info, models, ext., will be nice to share, if possible.
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Old 02-23-2022, 03:30 PM
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Nice collection you have there, Don. The last picture took me back to when I used to build stick-and-tissue aircraft. The smell of acetone haunts me still.
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bluesky - There are a LOT of paper models of aircraft carriers. I would prefer not to discuss the topic in this thread, but I sent you a private message with some suggestions as to where to start.

Mike - Short answer to your question is "yes," but I will give a more complete answer later (Lil and I are off for sushi just now).

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Thanks again!

(I was send private message, but I am not sure You have it or I wasnt send right way it).
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Don,

That's a museum collection!
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