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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 20, 2018 17:19:36 GMT -6
USS Missouri. Best I can tell, this is a 1987 Revell kit H301. Only built a hand full of Water Craft Vehicles in my day, but this one is most memorable, thanks to my thoughtful Brother-in-law.      
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Post by BUCKY on Jan 20, 2018 17:37:03 GMT -6
This is a nice project! Gonna watch it, for sure!!
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Post by JCON on Jan 20, 2018 17:41:44 GMT -6
Cool I can follow yours before I tackle my big one this summer if the Pacific Build takes place that Robbo said he was gonna run...
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 20, 2018 17:47:34 GMT -6
I can't hold my breath that long. This kit has some minor warp issues, thus far, but it couldn't take that much to build a boat, right?
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Post by JEFF on Jan 21, 2018 3:28:17 GMT -6
Count me in please.
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 21, 2018 8:54:15 GMT -6
You're all welcome to follow along. Thanks.
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 21, 2018 9:17:55 GMT -6
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Post by JCON on Jan 21, 2018 10:28:59 GMT -6
Good video history!!!
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Post by Beekster on Jan 21, 2018 12:25:52 GMT -6
I built the USS Wisconin variant of this kit when I was a kid. A little clay ballast in the belly and it was a good bathtub toy. That is, until I sent it on a voyage down the creek behind out house one stormy winter's day as a teenager. It disappeared in the roiling waters. I found it again in the summer of that year, bow-down in the muck a couple of hundred yards downstream with only about four inches of the stern visible. Aside from the masts, which were missing, it was remarkably intact. I pulled it out and cleaned it up, and later decided that it's adventures weren't over. One day I took it to a nearby pond, taped an Estes D12-3 rocket motor on the stern, and lit it off. The mighty battleship surged forward, and came up on plane like it was pulling half the crew as skiers at fifty knots. That was in the first couple of seconds. Then the bow caught air, and the ship corkscrewed into the air and nosed down. It was still under thrust when it hit the water fifty yards out. The pond still exists, and my battleship is undoubtedly there still, buried under several feet of sediment.
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Post by BUCKY on Jan 21, 2018 12:52:16 GMT -6
Beekster, those are the joys of childhood!! Great story!  |
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Post by JCON on Jan 21, 2018 12:57:19 GMT -6
That's hilarious!!!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 21, 2018 17:15:30 GMT -6
This one may end up on Lake Cushman, but I'll never tell.
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Post by JCON on Jan 21, 2018 18:27:57 GMT -6
I might have to come over for the launching of her maiden voyage, lol!!!
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Post by BUCKY on Jan 21, 2018 19:38:29 GMT -6
If ya do that, Bruce, be sure to take a video of it for OSM!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 22, 2018 10:05:28 GMT -6
What if I launch it in my shower? About halfway built, but a lot of clean up to go. Also, need the fix some hull to deck issues.  
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Post by ARMORGUY on Jan 22, 2018 10:06:50 GMT -6
A floater, count me in Bruce !
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 22, 2018 10:09:11 GMT -6
Will do Guy.
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Post by BUCKY on Jan 22, 2018 12:07:13 GMT -6
Nice going, Bruce!
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Post by JCON on Jan 22, 2018 12:08:41 GMT -6
Hope you have a deeper shower then mine or it will never float!!!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Jan 22, 2018 12:51:01 GMT -6
Well. It won't fit in my Kitchen Sink. Already tried. Some of the cast parts are off by 1/32 of an inch. Going to have to sand and scape them down. How many inches would that be @ 1/750 scale Joe? Added some clay to the hull for ballast and to help spread a few places to fit the Deck.   
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