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Post by NoelSmith on Oct 9, 2010 14:15:08 GMT
Anyone know of any good scale plans or can recommend a good book about this ship, similar in format to the 'Anatomy of the Ship' series that Conway maritime press published? As far as I know there is only one plastic kit available, the big Revell one, but I have been led to believe that it shares the same hull mouldings as their Kearsarge kit. Anyone know which of the two is correct, as the hull lines must have differed on the real ships?
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Post by fastcat on Oct 9, 2010 21:24:02 GMT
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Post by irons01 on Oct 16, 2010 20:13:59 GMT
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Post by NoelSmith on Nov 20, 2010 16:04:23 GMT
Thanks for the replies guys
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Post by NoelSmith on Dec 11, 2011 16:22:41 GMT
Ian, I have come back to your post after a long time. Are you absolutely sure that the hulls in both kits are different? What is making me ask this is that it is reputed that Revell used the big 1/96th scale Cutty Sark kit hull (that is accurate for that particular ship), and used it to make the Thermopylae and the Pedro Nunes Portugese training ship that was Thermopylae renamed. The actual hull lines for the real ship Thermopylae (Pedro Nunes) are different to the Cutty Sark. Both ships were however very similar in hull length, so perhaps Revell took a bit of a flyer and used the Cutty Sark Hull to save on tooling costs. I very much suspect that they may have done the same thing with the Alabama and Kearsarge kits. One is probably accurate and the other not. It's a question of what vessel they got right, the Kearsage or the Alabama?
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