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Old 08-28-2021, 05:39 PM
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P.C. Coker's book Building Warship Models

Building Warship Models, CaptJ.

AbeBooks has used copies at VERY reasonable prices: Model Warships by Coker - AbeBooks
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Old 08-28-2021, 10:05 PM
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Popular Science & Popular Mechanics plans

How about the plans published in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's by Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Issues of those magazines can be found in Google Books, and even though it will take some time to find them all, you'll find some interesting models in various small scale (mostly 1/600 and 1/1200)

Attached a sample, click here for the original link to the article about a 1/1200 USS Yorktown, published in april 1939

In 1941, plans for a 1/792 C-3 freighter and an escort carrier were published

If there's any interest, I will start a seperate thread on how to get these plans, as I don't want to hijack this thread
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Old 08-29-2021, 06:49 AM
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Please do start that thread, Foute Man. The U.S. magazine Ships and the Sea used to publish similar plans in the 1950s.

Don
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Old 08-29-2021, 09:09 AM
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FM's separate thread for ship plans.

Please do start the separate thread, FM. I want to see them too! ... on their own thread.

(I wish I had known about these when I was 12 ... in 1959! )


Did PM do any foreign ships?
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Old 09-16-2021, 10:20 AM
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In the meantime, a "postcard" Guadalcanal game I've just designed. :-)

It's free to print off and play at Postcard Guadalcanal

As long as you don't alter it, you are also free to print off as many copies as you like to give/mail to friends and family.

Here is the postcard front with the chart and pieces. The rules and address block are on the back. Think minimalist game designing.

I do the "2-D paper overhead view paper model ships" pixel-by-pixel. How do you like my Yamato?

(Well, the other Japanese battleships and the cruisers are just reductions of my extensive collection of original ONI recognition manuals.

Wow. PM reduced it to fuzziness! Check it out on my webpage.

I've got to get back to Tone. Unfortunately some of its tiny pieces fell off the kitchen table onto the floor, and I'll have to inventory them.

When I was trying to put the tab in the slot, it popped off the non-stick counter top piece I use when constructing the ships, but the longitudinal and transverse bulkheads appear to be keeping the hull flat and straight, so ....
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Old 10-05-2021, 04:02 AM
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Slowwww progress on IJNS Tone - but progress. :-)

This *is* (extremely time-consuming) WORK.
The hull all together and fitting astonishingly well, considering I had dead-eyed it.

The angled and joining stacks are another matter, and it looks like there is going to be LOTS of trial&error re-printing - enough that I'll have to make an excerpt print just of the stacks' portion, just to save exorbitantly expensive Brother ink.
A 1:1250 Wiking plastic/kunststoff USS Augusta heavy cruiser is behind her - dwarfed by parallax and that Tone&Chikuma ... and Mikuma&Mogami&Kumano&Suzuya were indeed considerably longer.
I need to find a gray Sharpie to gray the white edges of the pieces and folds.
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Old 10-05-2021, 07:33 AM
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Great work Lou, looking forward to it.

In my own dockyard, Hiei is continuing to slowly move forward: two more turrets to go, the mast, and then the floatplanes.

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Old 10-05-2021, 09:25 AM
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Good progress on Tone. I look forward to seeing your Hiei, Doug.

Many thanks for the Guadalcanal postcard, Doug. Oldest son, Ed, and I played the Avalon Hill version of Guadalcanal several decades ago. Youngest son, Don3, and I like to send each other postcards and, if possible, match the stamp to the subject of the card.

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Old 10-05-2021, 10:06 AM
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Your Postcard Guadalcanal ... postcard. :-)

Super COOL, Don. GLAD you could make postcard use of it!

And are those Guadalcanal stamps new?

Also, be sure to check CoatneyHistory for the latest version of the rules ... and I think I'm there.

For example, battleships can no longer have the chance to make immediately sinking hits, if they are already Damaged.

(A combined ops game is complex. )

Dual citizen 11 year old Johanna Grace Coatney chose to be the Americans for our game on Saturday ... and the Americans won! (She also beat me 8 out of 9 dominoes games, etc., etc.)

It was back and forth right down to the last turn, and against all odds, U.S. airpower and the Minneapolis, New Orleans, Northampton(+) cruisers (somehow) sank Hiei&Kirishima and the Atago cruisers, forcing my Japanese transports to turn back.

And when I finish my paper model USN and IJN task force sets, these battles could instead be decided on the floor.
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Old 10-05-2021, 10:59 AM
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Neat image of the victorious Johanna Grace and the site of her victory.

The stamp is from the 1992 WWII 50th anniversary set, "1942: Into Battle."

On 30 October, I am going to send him an envelope franked with the Reuben James 1941 commemorative stamp plus one other stamp from the "1941: A World at War" commemorative series to make up the postage and containing an article from Naval History about the stamp and a 40th anniversary cover.

But now I have strayed rather far from the subject of your ship model, Lou, for which, apologies.

Don
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