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He knows IJN subjects extremely well. He has high standards , and from the pictures I've seen on the net, he produces excellent work. Graeme is a newcomer to the list as of late , but he's no newcomer to the world of ship modeling. He's a professional. Bill is our resident expert on US Coast Guard subjects, and also very well versed on the subject of sailing ships.
Peter is another helpful fellow. Jodie Vintage Wooden Model ShipVintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 s 955 Peeler never fails to impress. Her knowledge of liners and aircraft carriers especially Essex class is truly amazing, but don't think she's limited to just those.
If that weren't enough, she's also a fan of turbine cars and airliners. Allan was one of my first ship modelling friends on the internet. We virutally met back in the early s on the newsgroup rec. He was one of the first contributors to this list, and still gets a few words in now and then. Joe Poutre is a good friend, a fellow New Jerseyan, and my co-conspirator on numerous projects. I have watched his modelling skills steadily improve, and he's probably better than me by now. He shares Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 my sense of the bizzare, and it's always fun making up "hypothetical" ships with him.
Tim Reynaga has been an enourmous help. His knowledge goes back many decades, and he knows things about obscure old manufacturers that I never would have found. He also seems to have a taste for really small scale ships. Brooks has been enormously helpful to us in researching old kits from long-gone manufacturers. His tastes are often similar to my own. Leif is another early contributor to the list. He gave us his list of Airfix kits, and this became the basis for our Airfix section.
Matt Stein started writing reviews for the List in He started a resin casting business, Matt Stein Models in July All Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Ships 955 Wooden Model Vintage Wooden 955 Model Ships of his reviews were written prior to that date. Floridian Bill Swan is a newcomer as of , but he provided an incredible number of resin ship kit reviews for Version 6. He has impressed me with his knowledge of Steel era and WW1 era battleships.
I might have a few differences of opinion with him on the waterline vs. I really want to see his "team of trained spiders"! Doug is another newcomer as of My advice is to buy Skywave armament sets to replace the often 's era kit parts, and use aftermarket PE sets for the particular type of ship to get an overall increase in quality without waiting for someone to retool the kit. Saves much trouble. I consider necessary Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Model 955 Ships Vintage Model Vintage 955 Ships Wooden to produce a good kit. The first two digits identify the company, and the issue batch among other things.
Recently, new series numbers have been give, advertised on the box top as "NO. Where there is a new series, it is noted. Gernot has a point, I do tend to build out of the box, and I usually only fix gross, obvious errors. I prefer to modify the plastic parts from the kit than to scratchbuild or add PEB. I admit that there is a point, though, beyond which kit parts aren't worth fixing, and parts substitution becomes more practical.
My main area of interest is the Kreigsmarine and I am knowledgeable of modern warships having served 21 years in the United States Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Model 955 Wooden Vintage Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer. I had heard rumors that Academy had obtained the Tamiya molds for the Bismarck. After picking up the kit, I feel comfortable assuring anyone that this is not the case. I do wish though, that I could have had access to a Tamiya kit to make the comparison up close.
The first thing you will notice about the box are the words "Static Model" in the lower left corner of the box lid -- more on this later, and the fact that the box art is rather poorly done. On to the inside!
The kit's deck is molded in three sections. The middle section is designed to be removed for access to the Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Ships Vintage 955 Model Ships Model Vintage Wooden 955 battery box and electric motor mounts. That, apparently, is why the words static model show up on the lid. The multi piece deck leaves two very distinct seems running from beam to beam on the model. Filling and sanding them will destroy some of the deck planking, represented by raised detail. The larger cable reels are molded separately from the deck, while the smaller ones are part of the deck, as is the anchor chain.
The anchor chain looks to be too small for what it is supposed to represent. The Arado seaplane's struts are molded in one piece, similar to the float-equipped British Spitfire, and the Iron Cross insignia are molded into the wings, ala Aurora. The catapult is simply a Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 blank plastic strip, with no detail on it at all. The flag sheet is frankly, pathetic. The swastika on the battle flag looks like a pinwheel; an aftermarket flag is a must here.
The remainder of the kit appears to be well done. Comparing some of the brass parts to the plastic ones in the kit left me with the impression that Academy did a pretty good job on the majority of this model. Of particular note are the photoetched radar antenna and the struts and props for the Arado.
They make a real difference. This will be my first experience with photoetch detail of this magnitude, and it looks like it will really compliment the model.
First of all, the kits for Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model 955 Wooden Vintage Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Bismarck and Tirpitz are the same and both resemble rather Tirpitz than Bismarck. Box pictures show Bismarck in baltic camouflage in both cases. The drawing on Tirpitz box is signed "N. Sataku" or "N. The kit is motorized with one electric motor which is fed by one AA battery. Machinery supplied with the kit looks fine.
There is the only shaft and the only rudder. Shaft holder grease is supplied with the kit as well as the cement.
Hull consists of two parts - underwater red plastic and everything else grey. So, you may build waterline model if you like. Belt transition into forecastle and stern is somehow coarse. One could try and fix both issues it with careful cutting and sanding. Deck Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 plancking and details are ok except wavebreakers which are too bold.
Carefull cutting may be of use here. Anchor racks are missing anchors are molded right on the deck level which requires gentle fixing. Material thickness in the bow part of a hull is hopefully enough to apply cutting and deeping in the right place.
Bow anchor rake and bow anchor itself are missing, yet bow anchor chain is molded on the deck. Same regarding aft. There are no torpedo tubes supplied or molded. No floatplanes are supplied as well. Catapult details are poor. Turrets are of slightly strange shape but still resemble the real ones. Model has one major feature which may be considered as a big disadvantage or as real fun. Indeed, Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 second port 5. Instead, room is made for motor switch which comes as a gear leaning out of the hull right in place of turrets mentioned.
No wonder that the assembly instructions show the model viewed from starboard, not from the port! Carefull tweaking and applying extra turrets of proper scale may fix the problem. One might configure motor switch leaning through the funnel.
I plan to abandon the switch at all, and to circuit the battery to the motor directly. I should take care for proper balancing the model in this case and to compensate the switch absence. That is just an idea anyway. AS , Review dated 25 May Editor's Notes: See Nimitz-class. Said to have been issued around Editor's Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Note: I have not built this kit, or even seen it out of the box, but from the dimensions and the photo on the box, it looks suspiciously like the Monogram kit with a different stand.
This kit has been issued at various times as:. Editor's Notes: May be related to the Minicraft Spruance kit. Editor's Note: May be related to the Minicraft Ticonderoga kit. Editor's Note: Presumably, this is a close relative of the Academy Bismarck kit. Issued in Happily, this is not the case. An entirely original effort, this Titanic is a much better model, cleanly molded and easy to assemble. While I'm no Titanic expert, the kit's proportions are convincing and the completed model looks Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Vintage 955 Wooden Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 like the great ship.
Academy's Titanic seems to have been designed with younger or more casual modelers in mind. The complex structures of the original are broken down into relatively few assemblies so that the model can be built up quickly.
Nevertheless, the large amount of attractive molded on detail keeps it from looking too toylike. The crisp, precise moldings were a pleasure to handle with no flash, sink marks, or visible ejector pin marks anywhere. The parts are molded in black, white and tan plastic with components broken down so that one could build a nice looking Titanic model without painting it. Decks are in tan, for example, and the white strip along the forecastle above the ship's name is Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Ships Model Wooden 955 Model 955 Vintage Ships Wooden a separate part molded in white to be attached to the black hull.
The result is basic but effective. This clever pre-coloring of parts is actually a return to the very roots of plastic ship modeling, like Revell's Taney and Eastwind kits from the early s. Another nod to less experienced modelers although useful for all of us!
As a more experienced modeler I was less than thrilled with the simplified assemblies which in places look a bit chunky, and the prominent hull plating, though dramatic, is overdone for the scale. Much could be improved with the application of photoetch, but the simplified molded in details and that plating mean that creating an accurate scale model from this kit would require a Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Ships Wooden 955 Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 significant amount of work.
Perhaps the best way to experience this model is to take it as Academy's designers aparently intended it: as an attractive, easy to build alternative to their magnificent but challenging! The box art isn't bad at all but it quickly goes down hill from there.
I cannot and would not recommend this kit to anyone! This is another example of a company that has not properly researched the ship, submarine, that they have put on the market. This kit is nothing more than a "toy" that needs assemblyrather than a scale model. On the side of thebox it has this statement:.
As a "static display model", it fails miserably because of the lack of attention to simple detail Ships Model Vintage 955 Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Ships Model Vintage Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 in all areas - hull, deck, and conning tower.
The only way that this kit should be built as a static display model is in a waterline configuration. Even as a waterline model it will require extensive work to get it even close to what a Type IXB should look like. I am not even sure that it would be worth the man-hours. Include the motor, add batteries and give it to a 5 year old. Paint optional. Kit rates a "blech". Originally issued by Adams circa It was also issued by Airfix beginning in and most recently in Airfix's revised full hull version by Heller in the s.
Note: one of the weirder ships of the 20th century. Armed like a Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Vintage Ships Wooden Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 battlecruiser with 15 inch guns and armored like a light cruiser she was officially classified as a large light cruiser.
This bizarre vessel saw light service in WW1 and was eventually converted into an aircraft carrier and was sunk by the Germans in the opening days of WW2. Interestingly, her main battery turrets removed for the conversion to an aircraft carrier wound up being installed on the last battleship of the Royal Navy, HMS Vanguard which was finished after the end of WW2. This model depicts the ship in her battlecruiser large light cruise guise.
Admiralty also has released the sister ship to Courageous, HMS Glorious in a later fit that includes aircraft flying off platforms but not yet as a full fledged Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Ships Vintage 955 Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 aircraft carrier which she too was converted into.
Kit Parts: this is a very large resin kit that includes photo etch, brass rod, plastic rod, metal chain and decals for flags. The massive one piece hull and lower superstructure is simply gorgeous and packed with detail. I'm basically speechless in trying to describe the quality of the casting in this kit. It isn't just flawless and highly detailed, it is incredible. You cannot buy a better kit in ANY medium than this kit. It is complete and needs nothing else to create a stunning ship model.
What else can I say? Directions:: Multipage, highly detailed, expertly drawn, line drawings, exploded views and color plates are some of the best directions that Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 you can ever have.
In addition to assembly and painting directions text in English, colors called out in White Ensign Models Colourcoats , there are also clear and concise rigging directions.
Among the best directions in the industry. Packaging: huge, heavy cardboard box with a unique twist. My kit was packed with an inner box that was actually a clear plastic display case!
All parts bubble wrapped in plastic bags with foam peanuts in all the voids. Admiralty is a newcomer to the resin ship maker's club but they are far and away one of the best in the business.
The kit depicts the vessel in with flying off platforms on both turrets. The ship was at best a white elephant for the Ships Wooden 955 Vintage Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Model Ships Wooden 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 RN in this configuration but an interesting subject for the modeler.
Glorious began the conversion to an aircraft carrier in and served as such in WW2. She was sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. This kit is without a doubt one of the finest resin kits ever produced. The only negative, a minor one at that, is dealing with the scores of incredibly tiny detail parts in both resin and photo etch. This will require a steady hand and a good bit of skill.
Directions: Brilliant, multi-page drawings and text that are among the very best in the business. Packaging: Heavy cardboard box decorated with a color illustration of the ship. The hull is bubble wrapped and carefully taped. All other parts are bagged Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 and taped in place to reduce movement. Everything is then surrounded in foam peanuts. The Advent kit has Revell copyright on sprues and also on the instruction sheet. Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Buckley.
Editor's Note: Apparently, the same as Revell's Eastwind kit, though some have suggested that the kit is incorrect for the Burton Island. Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Ward. Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Eagle. Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Enterprise. Thanks to Rob Theriaque for finding the information on this kit.
Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Intrepid. Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Montrose. Issued circa Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Olympia. Editor's Note: Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Model 955 Wooden Vintage Reissue of the Revell Ranger. The kit consists of parts including 72 in grey styrene plastic, 1 in red plastic, 31 etched brass, 7 in clear for the sub's seaplane, plus decals for both the boat and airplane. Parts are perfectly molded with sharp detail and no flash. The model goes together conventionally, with the two piece hull split at the waterline with a separate underwater hull molded in red.
Fit throughout is excellent, and the entire sub can be assembled in just a few minutes. Even if one were to open up all those hundreds of drain vents along the hull sides, the interior detail could scarcely be seen. Similarly with the delicate ribbing detail on the inside of the aircraft 955 Ships Vintage Model Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 hangar; nice, but ultimately invisible. Other unusual design features include a moveable deck gun, rudders, and aft dive planes as well as an aircraft crane and antenna tower that can be retracted into the deck.
Of only limited appeal to most modelers, these little gimmicks are at least accomplished with no detriment to scale appearance. Other innovations are more useful. The forward dive planes, for example, are provided as separate parts to depict them as either deployed or retracted. Although it would have been a simple matter to cut the extended hydroplanes and push them inside the hull to show them retracted, the use of a dedicated part for this is a simple, effective construction time saver.
A finely done photoetched bass fret Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 provides railing, small cranes, aircraft components and other parts that could not be done nearly as well by injection molding although many of these parts are also alternatively included in plastic. These provide an added finesse to the model, leaving little, if any, need for aftermarket photoetch. Good as these extras are, it is the extraordinary quality of the basic kit itself that makes it stand out.
Starting with solid dimensional accuracy, precise molding and ease of construction, this kit just gets better and better. The level of detail on the parts is amazing, among the best I have ever seen. The hatches on the main deck, for example, are perfectly molded and even have microscopic handwheels relief-molded on to them. The periscopes, Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Wooden Model Ships Vintage Vintage Ships Model Wooden 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 combined with the shears as a single part, are unbelievably fine with all the distinctive details on the periscope heads cast in scale.
The guns, binocular mounts, rangefinder and other small fittings are uniformly excellent. The Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" floatplane is a tiny sixteen-part kit in itself with its own decals and photoetch. It even includes two miniscule incendiary bombs with correct shape and fin detail. If I were to offer any criticisms of the kit at all they would be minor ones: the open sides on the conning tower at about 1mm close to 14 scale inches are too thick, and the solid molded bridge windows might have been provided as a photoetched part.
The decal hinomaru "meatballs" for the aircraft are Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 slightly off register, and markings are provided only for the I, although there were 29 of the type B-1 Otsu-gata submarines, some of them well known. These really are nitpicks, though. The big Japanese companies had better watch out, because the Chinese are on the move!
Nice detail, no sink holes. While I have never seen a Skywave Knox-can, this kit sure looks like a Skywave mold. Bilge keels will have to be scratchbuilt for this conversion. I don't think this is a Skywave derivative; there are multiple differences in parts. Plus, they include a correct SH-2 helo, which Skywave doesn't even produce, even in those ships that are supposed to carry it.
This is the same kit as the DML. Good Wooden Vintage Model 955 Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 kit that builds very well right from the box. Some minor fit issues but no worse than the average plastic kit. Props are a little crude but can be made nice with a little sanding. Sinkmarks on the two turrets need minor filling.
Good instructions and decent decals. Just build it clean and apply a light wash and you'll have a fine little model. AER Colectie Srl. Evidently produced by the same Soviet model kit design team sometime during the Cold War, each of the subs is a separate injection molded plastic kit.
The kits build into full hull models ranging from five to seven and a half inches in length. Though not of the highest quality, these old Soviet-era model kits Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Vintage Ships 955 Model 955 Wooden Vintage Ships Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 are very inexpensive and generally accurate.
Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Boston. Editor's Note: Reissue of the Revell Hope. The model was one of Revell's very first nautical releases, dating originally from The model depicts a Higgins 78 foot PT, definitely not a Vosper as some have thought. It is a very old kit, but parts fit and details are fairly good. The full hull is a single piece molding. Designed during Revell's infamous "flat bottom boats" era, this kit actually has a nicely rendered hull with an accurate chine, perhaps to aid operation one version issued in the s came with a motor.
The deck and deckhouse come molded as a single unit, with other details either Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Wooden Model 955 Vintage Wooden Vintage 955 Ships Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 separate small parts or molded directly to the deck. Some of the surface detail looks good, but the dinghy is molded to the forecastle as is a coiled mooring line-not very convincing in this relatively large scale. Weapons are ok. Torpedoes and 20mm Oerlikons are separate pieces, but the latter have gunner figures cast directly to them, which is a real problem if you don't want to include figures!
Actually, the most notable aspect of the kit is those three very nicely sculpted crew figures. A very innovative feature for the time, they were created by master sculptor Anthony D. Bulone, best known as the sculptor of the original Mattel Barbie doll. Not one of Revell's best, it is still an Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Ships 955 Model Vintage Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 attractive, simple kit good for a quick, fun build. Airfix was founded in as a toy company. Their first model ship was apparently the Golden Hind, first produced in the early s. Airfix was purchased by Humbrol parent company of Heller in They did, however re-issue some of their older ships kits.
By August , the company fell into grave financial problems again. In November , Airfix was sold to model train manufacturer Hornby, who announced their intention to move production to China. Prices are usually reasonable.
A few of their early battleship models, Iron Duke and Warspite have an odd problem with their main guns. They have flared tips, like the flash suppressors on some AA guns. These flares should not be there, and Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Model Wooden Ships Vintage Wooden Vintage Model Ships 955 Ships Vintage Model 955 Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 they should be sanded down so that the barrels taper normally. All warships are made in light gray plastic.
All passenger ships are made in white plastic except QE 2 which is made in a very light grey plastic. These kits are from the 's. These are some of the oldest and most primitive Airfix kits. The first five Golden Hind, Santa Maria, Shannon, Victory, Cutty Sark of them seems to have existed in two variants, an early waterline model with a "modelled sea" base and a later full-hull model with cradle, the last three were all full models with cradle.
Several of these have been re-released lately as "Special Editions". No of parts: 71; Guns elevate: yes; Decals for Amazon, Active and Arrow Wooden Vintage Model 955 Ships included; 1 helicopter included. Detail is medium, Appearance: good. Needs some slight mods at the stern, but otherwise, the hull is nice.
Series 4, ; No of parts: ; Guns elevate: no; Detail is medium; Appearance: good. My second kit bought a few years ago was in slightly worse shape than my first, but still recommended. This ship makes a presentable model built OOB.
Options include placement of antenna cranes and aircraft elevators. Details are decent. Carley floats are separate parts, 4. Aircraft are Swordfish and Fulmers, wings of which appear a bit thick. Could use some better painting instructions, but research is part of the fun. Series 2, first issued in This series set the standard for injection molded "wargame scale" models back in Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships 955 Wooden Model Vintage the s, and the Ark Royal is among the best of them.
The model consists of 42 medium gray plastic parts, all cleanly molded with almost no flash. The above water hullform is accurate with the distinctive knuckle forward and large flight deck overhang aft credibly depicted. There aren't any decals, but six very nice Fairy Fulmars are provided. One of the things I had liked about that larger version was the open boat decks molded as separate parts fixed to the inside of the hull.
I also liked the open sides on the anchor and quarter decks fore and aft which created a realistic see-through effect.
Not only that, they managed effectively to engineer the whole thing as a clip-together! Very Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model 955 Ships cool. The control island comes as a nine part assembly. Throughout the model surface detailing is discreet yet effective.
On the flight deck the lifts, arrestor gear, and a barrier are represented as subtly raised detail, and the forward catapults are recessed. The dozens of portholes on the hull sides are represented by tiny raised discs with dimpled centers.
I would have preferred holes, but at least the disks are consistent and sharp. They actually look pretty good once painted. Liferafts and anchors are molded directly to the hull sides, but they are well done and are convincing in this small scale. The eight separately molded 4. The smaller weapons are molded directly to the galleries; fortunately the six 2 pounder pom-pom mounts Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Vintage Ships 955 Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 and eight.
They look quite good. The four rangefinders, molded with their mounts as separate pieces, are first-rate. Similarly with the other small details; the boat cranes and antennas, although molded solid, have delicate raised detail suggesting their lattice structures. If only Airfix had chosen to include some Swordfish as well Airfix released only a few of them before abandoning the scale in the early s, but they remain among the finest ships that company ever produced.
The Ark Royal is a first-rate little model-if you can find one, build it! A real winner. It is very detailed, and it builds up very nicely except for one piece of the forward superstructure. This kit also makes an excellent source of parts for other Model Vintage Wooden 955 Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Wooden Ships 955 Vintage British cruisers. It can be kitbashed with an Airfix Tiger to make various Colony class cruisers, or you can cut it down a bit to make earlier City class cruisers. Buy it if you can find it. An excellent model. Sadly they left the water line out so you will have do some extra work when masking for painting.
Otherwise it competes with Repulse as Airfix's best ship model. This kit is the best I have seen from Airfix. The details are more crisply molded than in any of the many Airfix ship kits I have built. The kit represents the ship as she appeared in WWII, not in the modernized appearance she now has as a museum ship. I painted my model Vintage 955 Ships Wooden Model 955 Ships Wooden Vintage Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 to show the ship as she would have appeared at the time of her best known action, the Battle of North Cape.
This kit has nice detail on turrets, cranes and air intakes. It includes two Walrus aircraft, one on the catapult and one with wings folded, protruding from the hanger. Use of PE will emphasize the overall quality of molded detail on this model. This is a real challenge for the one who wants to correct details. The armour belt is too low, the water line is too low, all decks are wrongly shaped, the deck details are missing. Still a quite impressive kit when you are a kid and don't care about such details.
Series 2, The boxtop says the Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 model is intended to " The 50 gray plastic parts assemble into a basic but good looking little battleship. The waterlined hull is a single part with a solid bottom and separate single-piece main deck, so there are none of those annoying mid-deck seams so common on larger scale kits.
This is good since the raised deck planking is amazingly delicate; in fact it is some of the best I've seen in any scale. Assorted deck hardware is also well done with bitts, hatches, vents, and other details sharply depicted.
Unfortunately, the model doesn't quite capture the graceful yet solid lines of the original. Also, the armor belt is too low and the prominent portholes are missing. Worse, the funnel, superstructures and Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Vintage Wooden Ships Model turrets aft are placed too far back.
This problem isn't too noticeable until you get to the fantail, which is about 20 scale feet too short. As one might expect in a clip-together kit designed for wargaming, the superstructure is simplified and lacking in detail. The distinctive spherical hoods of the 4m type SL-8 antiaircraft directors are molded integrally with the superstructure, represented as rounded tops on the mounts rather than as spherical shapes.
Not very good. Also, the aft mounts shouldn't have the hoods at all unless you intend to build the model as the Tirpitz. The two-part funnel is hollow with an open grating nicely represented on the top.
Main turrets are ok, except that the barrels are about Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 6 scale feet too long and the rangefinder hoods extend too far down the sides-but they are fixable.
The mm secondary turrets have simplified shapes and the barrels are also too long, but they're useable too. Smaller parts vary in quality from fair to excellent. The The best parts are the ship's boats, 37mm, and mm antiaircraft guns. Too bad Airfix hasn't reissued it since the s! Appearence destroyed by clumsy davits.
The tiny details are too heavy. Series 5, pre; No of parts: 86; Decals included. Participated in the Falkland war. A typical Airfix liner, comparable to the quality of the Queen Elizabeth and possibly a bit better. Fit is fine to me, although stacking all those decks can Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model 955 Ships Vintage Wooden be an adventure! Nice kit. This kit represents the liner in her as-built appearance, with First-Class game deck open. Ship soon had this deck opening covered over and short extentions added to the twin funnels.
Major item that needed changing on kit was mast structure, which was a little undersized and oversimplified. Will still make a nice-looking model built OOB. Great decal sheet with deck markings and nice bow herald. The first Airfix ship. First kits had a Vintage Wooden Model Ships 300ml special base cradle, later kits had standard base cradles.
I seem to recall that the hull is several scale feet too shallow keel to deck. Brooks , comment dated 20 February Actually, my measurements say quite the opposite. It's several feet too deep. I compared Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 the kit to some Admiralty drawings on one of my reference books. The kit measures about.
The drawings suggest that it should be about. I think there were some fitting problems with this model. A bit "plastic". Guide to detailing in Airfix magazine April Someone on Internet informed that the superstructure was incorrectly positioned, I have not checked that myself. With a little work, it can be accurate. According to legend, the forward superstructure should be pushed slightly more forward.
The Sea Slug isn't that good, but it would be hard to do better. A photoetch Sea Slug launcher is called for, but I don't really expect to ever see one. Up until recently,I didn't realize how bad the Sea Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage 955 Wooden Ships Model Vintage Ships Wooden Model 955 Cat launchers were. I didn't even recognize them as Sea Cat launchers! The superstructure, deck and armaments are acceptable for an early war boat. There are some problems, but they can be fixed. For example, the vastly oversized depth charge racks should be discarded.
The hull, however, is incorrect in profile and cross section. Most obviously, it is missing the pronounced bow knuckle that was a feature of all but the early experimental boats. There are other problems of proportion and shape that will become immediately evident upon comparison to technical drawings.
If you use the hull directly from the kit, your model will not show off the sleek lines that made the Schnellboot an elegant and powerful small combatant. I wonder Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 why they didn't include the Fearless? Series 3, ; 2 helicopters, 2 landing craft included; No of parts: ; Guns elevate: no; Decals included.
A slightly uneven model, in some places the details are really great, in some just ok but you won't be disappointed if you buy this kit. Pretty nice. It even has decent detail in the landing craft as well. The Sea Cat launchers aren't that great, but otherwise OK. I wonder why they never issued this kit with the decals for Intrepid Send in the Royal Marines! This ship, made famous in Operation Corporate, was one of the more fun to build models in my collection.
The ship has a well deck in the stern that can accomodate Vintage 955 Ships Model Wooden Model Ships Vintage Wooden 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 landing barges. Normally dry, this well can be flooded and a stern gate lowered to launch these craft. In addition to this, there is a large flightdeck just aft of the superstructure with five helispots. This can be used by either helicopters or Harrier fighters, giving the ship the capability of a small aircraft carrier.
The ship is further armed with two single 40mm guns on the bridge wings, and short-range AA missles. A friend of mine served on the USS Nashville, and seeing my model under construction, opined that it was very close to his old ship in layout.
Quality of detail on this model is inconsistent. The landing barges are pretty good, the two helicopters are so-so, and the 40mm guns Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 are pretty poorly modeled. Overall, it makes a nice model, especially when some PE railings are added.
Guide to detailing in Airfix magazine Sep Can be built as a waterline model. This is a good kit. The hull above water is made of starboard and port parts with a flat bottom.
Two pins extruding from the bottom can either be cut off or put into holes in the separate underwater part. The flightdeck is in one giant part. Everything fits together wonderfully well. Minor error: the aircraft decals are for but, the funnel is of the rectangular post type. Building mine was a dream. The kit includes transparent parts for swimming pool roof and sports roof. To me, a large disappointment.
Due to Ships 955 Wooden Model Vintage Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 some error in design the front gun turret had not even room to turn. The kit is quite detailed but somehow it just don't look like the other Airfix kits and for example the masts are the thickest found in an Airfix kit. This model was a disappointment to me. I felt that the Aurora kit was basically better overall because most of its flaws could be corrected easilier.
This is not the case with the Airfix model. First off while the main turrets are very well shaped and detailed they are a little too small and there still is not enough room for them to turn. Unlike the Aurora kit, you can't simply replace them with two from a Revell Scharnhorst Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 or Gneisenau because as mentioned there isn't even enough room.
I also was extremely disappointed with the single 5. I expected the same level of detail as the mounts on the Narvik DD , which are beautiful. Same goes for the 4. They are a little better, but again, not as good at similar mounts in the Airfix Prinz Eugen. I do not know if the 4. The superstructure was very detailed but the armored tower seemed too short. None of the range finders seemed right compared to pictures I have studied.
I do not believe they could be replaced with parts salvaged from other models due to size difference. Overall, I believe the engraved detail in very good but the layout out Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Model Vintage Wooden Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 and scale problems however lower the overall quality.
The smaller Testors Graf Spee is a far better kit, if not the best. RDF , review dated 10 April It's a sound kit but it needs a lot of work to be perfect, the hawse pipes and breakwater needs to be completely rebuilt and lots of derrick and deck details need to be added but I can assure you that the end result is worth all the work.
Kit Background : This is the oldest injection-moulded plastic model of Hood. Since its release in , it has been periodically reissued a number of times. The kit contains pieces and is a full-hull representation of Hood as she appeared in the mid s. It suffers from a Ships Wooden Vintage Model 955 955 Model Ships Wooden Vintage Vintage Ships Wooden 955 Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Model Wooden 955 Vintage lack of detail and from large, bulky features. As for the quality of he moulding, it is generally crisp, with a small amount of flash. No sink holes were noted, but a few ejector marks were present.
Hull: Correct in overall shape, taper and shear, with the exception of the torpedo bulges. These are present, but do not correctly conform to the true shape of the ship's bulges. The hull also lacks an armour belt. Another odd feature are the open torpedo mantlets. Fortunately, most of these problems can be fixed with a combination of plastic strip stock, putty and a good deal of sanding. The deck planking is far too wide for the scale. The deck machinery and features ventilators, capstans, Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Vintage Wooden Model 955 winches, hatches are all moulded into the deck and are somewhat bulky for the scale.
On the other hand, some items which were prominent on the real ship are not-so-prominent here. One such example is the forward break water. Another deck planking problem is the forward Shelter Deck- on this model, there are planks. On the real ship, however, this area was painted metal. Superstructure: Mostly accurate in general shape and layout.
There are a few notable errors: Both funnels are completely missing their base structures. They have venting around them, but are missing the small rectangular structures that the funnels were situated upon. Another problem area are the batteries situated on each side of the ship. These areas are completely lacking in Ships Model Wooden Vintage 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 detail and accuracy. This can be corrected, but it will take a lot of work.
Masts: Very thick and bulky. The starfish platforms are poorly done. These can be replaced with ultra-detailed photo-etch starfish by White Ensign Models.
Other: Boats are largely accurate. They could be a bit more detailed though. The same applies to the various rangefinders and sighting devices. These are mostly correct, but all are somewhat lacking in detail. One major problem to note here are the kit's painting instructions.
Complete rubbish. Hood never had green bridge decks. Please be sure to throw them away and use our detailed Hood painting instructions instead. Summary: A good kit for its day , but it looks its age. Fortunately, it can be built-up Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Wooden Vintage Model Ships into a good respresentation of Hood with some aftermarket parts and a good deal of scratchbuilding. This kit can be found in man stores, or ordered from any of several online model retailers.
It is also available directly from the Airfix website. I have a fair amount of sympathy for this kit, since it was the first kit that won me a prize in a model contest, many ages ago. It represents the Hood somewhere between and The hull is quite nice, but the bilge keels are missing. The level of detail is pretty decent for its day. The planking on the deck was pretty impressive for its time. The main turrets aren't too bad, but they need a bit of reshaping Ships Model Vintage Wooden 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model 955 Ships Wooden Vintage 955 Model Wooden Ships Vintage Model Wooden Ships 955 Vintage Ships 955 Wooden Model Vintage at the front. I don't like the way the lower parts of the superstructure are implemented.
The bulkheads are attached to the deck. This can make both the deck and the bulkheads difficult to paint. Overall, I'd say it is pretty good for its age, and it can be fixed up pretty easily. If built OOB, this kit will represent Hood as pre refit. Ship still has its 4. A little extra effort goes a long way on this model. Addition of side platforms on X turret, extra detailing on primary and secondary turrets are easy to add.
Addition of PE a big help as always, but model will still look good with detailing and rigging. Series 2, issued in The Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 boxtop says the models are intended to " Happily, this was not the case! The kit consists two sprues containing 64 well molded grey plastic parts depicting the ship as she appeared at the time of her loss in May The model, though measuring a mere eight and one half inches in length, is accurately proportioned and packed with detail. The hull, waterlined with a solid bottom, is correct in overall shape, taper and shear.
The single-piece main deck is provided as a separate piece. Detail on the deck is excellent, including a multitude of hatches, bitts, vents, breakwaters, petite ground tackle, and some amazingly delicate deck planking.
The raised planking is especially notable, some of the finest I've seen in any scale. However, Ships Wooden Vintage MVintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 odel 955 there is an odd discrepancy with the inclusion of torpedo lookout and searchlight platforms on the foremast. Although the fit of the model is correct for the Battle of the Denmark Strait, both these platforms had been removed before Thus the model is incorrect as is, although you could still use them if you make a few modifications to depict the ship earlier in her career.
Another inaccuracy is the shelter deck , depicted as a straight line rather than with the angular notches the structure actually had. This can be easily fixed, though. Armament is mixed. Main turrets are good, except that the barrels look too thin; I replaced them with hypodermic needles.
The four inch twins are simplified shapes and the Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 barrels are also too long, but they're useable. The 8-barrelled 2pdr pom-poms and UP projectors are very good, but the 0. Other parts vary in quality from good to excellent; masts and cranes are proportional and accurate, and the fire control directors are first-rate.
Given the perennial popularity of the Hood in all scales, it is surprising that Airfix never reissued it Detail: medium - Appearance: good. Was clearly the best Airfix ship when it appeared. Lots of very small parts. Side scuttles a bit ugly. Some of the portholes are a bit large, drill them out with a constant sized bit it has the "flash suppressors" on the main guns, should be sanded down and the bilge keels are too long, easily Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Vintage Wooden 955 Ships Model Wooden Vintage Ships 955 trimmed down but otherwise, a nice kit.
Series 6, ? A very nice kit with more deck details than any other Airfix ship. The camouflage scheme is from the first months of KGV's career. Very detailed. It portrays the ship more or less "as built", with UP launchers on B and Y turrets, and the aircraft catapult amidships. The de-gaussing cable on the hull specific to the KGV herself is well done, but it must be removed if you want to convert the kit to portray another ship in the class.
My real only criticism is that the 5. The deck details might be a little overdone, and they are difficult to paint. The kit dates back to the mid s. All of Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships 955 Model Vintage Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 these were previously sold as individual kits except for the E-boats which I think were sold as a pair. There is an instruction booklet containing all the assembly instructions and colour schemes detailed below.
The painting instructions are fuller and more detailed than previously, and offer several variants, and are referenced to Humbrol paints. Each type of ship has a descriptive text longer than that in the original kits, and there is an overview of the KM at the front.
Decals are provided on quite a lavish scale but all feature the swastika-less version of the ensign. Overall: an interesting idea and a bit of a cheap gamble for Airfix, given that they are all old kits , but they have made an effort Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Vintage Ships Model 955 to provide better instructions and more variety. It will be interesting to see if anyone has the space to make the obvious diorama of a Channel port. The second TRF amplifer was set-up for unity gain, so, ideally, the RAO-2 would have similar sensitivity to the single-preselection versions.
This receiver is from the first contract of RAO-7 receivers. It was never put into service. It's immaculate and all-original condition has allowed its use as a "reference" as to "what is correct" when restoring other RAO-7 receivers, J for example, which is shown in the third photo down in this section. This Crystal Filter used a stepped-switch for Selectivity and a variable condenser for Phasing.
There was a myth that the Navy considered Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Ships Vintage 955 Model the Wells Gardner versions to not be suitable for duty onboard ships and had them only installed at shore stations. The RAO-5 was a later contract that included a loudspeaker as accessory equipment. The bar knobs look exactly like National's but a side by side comparison reveals that the WG versions are very slightly smaller with square edges and a much narrower pointer.
The paper-wax capacitors were built by John E. Another list cross-references the code to the actual manufacturer. Conspicuous in its absence is National Co. But, all of the RAO-6 versions I've seen were set-up for panadaptor, didn't have the S-meter and provided a rear connection using a SO UHF receptacle for the panoramic adaptor hook-up.
The audio Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 output Z remained at ohms. The cabinet itself was redesigned for better shielding and easier mechanical construction by making it a one piece unit. The early RAOs had used a separate shock mount cradle system but the new cabinets mounted the shocks directly to the bottom of the cabinet further easing construction and maintenance.
The earlier RAO versions are The RAO receivers have impressive sensitivity even though the second RF amplifier is running at unity-gain. The stability is also impressive with very little drift after a short warm-up. The tuning rate is quite fast same as the stock NCA which allowed for quick band scanning for signals.
The fact that the later RAOs have provisions for panoramic adaptor operation seems to confirm that Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Model Wooden 955 Vintage Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model 955 Wooden Vintage Ships Model 955 Ships Vintage Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 they were used more for surveillance rather than communications. This receiver was destined for the South Pacific and, as a consequence, it was given a heavy moisture and fungus preventative coating MFP.
The MFP was applied to the chassis, front panel tags and knobs giving the receiver's tags a gold appearance. The data plates are from a "junk" RAO-7 receiver and don't correlate to the J chassis serial number. The chassis serial number is National's identification while the data plate is the Navy's identification.
The contract date is Sept. National-chassis stamped serial number is H This receiver was stored for many years at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California though it was never installed or put into service. It Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 was never MFP'd.
It is in excellent condition and is an all original example that functions beautifully. SN was used as a reference as to "what's correct" when restoring SN:J Use Home Index at the bottom of this page for navigation. WWII panoramic adaptors aided surveillance by allowing the radio operator to see instantly if any unknown signals appeared within the slice of the spectrum he was monitoring. This eliminated the constant tuning that was necessary for receiver-only surveillance or for "guarding frequencies" using multiple receiver set-ups.
The panoramic adaptor was primarily used for intercept of unknown signals. It wasn't necessarily used for signal analysis other than it was obvious to the radio op if the signal was CW Vintage Model Ships 955 Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 or if it was somehow modulated. Surveillance and intercept was the panoramic adaptor's main role in WWII. Radio Havana presents a strong AM signal as shown by the peak at the center of the display. Up frequency to the right on the display are two more shortwave BC stations very close to each other's operating frequency common in the shortwave BC bands.
This setting allows the graduations at the bottom of the scale to be used to estimate where in the spectrum other visual signals are located. The RCX Gain is usually adjusted to just show a slight indication of noise at the bottom of the display with the receiver not tuned to a transmitting station.
This setting will allow any Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 signal above the noise level to show on the display. Extremely strong signals may require a slight reduction in the RCX Gain to allow visual observation of the peak of the signal.
Also, receiver RF gain can be reduced if necessary. If the sweep is expanded, e. Modulation can be easily seen although its rapidly changing display characteristics doesn't photograph well. Comparative amplitudes can be easily seen.
The adjustments behind the "toilet seats" are for setting the display to be positioned correctly within the graduated scale. Intensity and Focus adjust the quality of the trace. Center Frequency allows other receivers with somewhat different IFs to be used. Any of those receiver's IF are well within the adjustment range of the Center Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Frequency control. Sweep allows setting the approximate spectrum range of display from 0kc up to kc. There were other graduated range scales available depending on user's requirements.
The initial build of RBH receivers were 10 tube superhets that covered kc to kc and kc to 16mc in five bands utilizing National's famous moving coil-catacomb bandswitching system.
Though the data plates show a "rounded-off" frequency coverage, the receiver's dial is scaled for kc to kc and kc to The receiver was a "modified for the USN" version of the civilian NCXA that allowed continuous coverage of the kc to kc range by having the IF operate at kc which is why there is a gap in the tuning from kc to Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 kc.
The dial used the articulated pointer that indicates band in use by its alignment with the proper tuning scale on the illuminated dial. The Crystal Filter has to operate at kc and an internally mounted kc crystal is utilized with the filter itself operating like that used in the NCXA, that is, with two variable capacitors controlling Phasing and Selectivity.
It's interesting that the RAO receivers were supplied with Crystal Filters that operated like the then current National model, the NC, that is, with a stepped Selectivity switch and variable Phasing.
With the later "numbered" receivers, the Navy contracted with National Company directly for these versions. All of the RBH series with number suffixes, e.
The Crystal Filter design remained unchanged on Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 the RBH-1 probably not upgraded due to the kc operating frequency. The dial system changed on the RBH-1 and later receivers, eliminating the articulated pointer and painting the dial background white rather than silver.
The last of the RBH receivers incorporated the same improved cabinet as the later RAO-7 and 9 receivers, that is, a one-piece 19" wide cabinet with permanently attached shock mount feet.
The designation shown on the National Co. The RBH frequency coverage was necessary for the Navy and general maritime use. The kc to kc part of the spectrum was where most of the ship-to-shore communications took place. Air navigation also used MW frequencies. This not only allows the kc to kc spectrum to be covered but it also Model Vintage Wooden 955 Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 reduces image effects to a certain extent. This is because the image frequency would be kc away and usually out of the RF amplifier passband selectivity.
However, there are other problems the might affect the operation of the RBH today, Bands D and C are the most likely to affected. Since the RBH uses a Crystal Filter, it isn't possible to align the IF to a slightly different frequency so other methods have to be tried. A resonant or tuned ham band or SW antenna will help since the resonant antenna doesn't respond well to AM-BC frequencies. With a local kc AM station, a kc wave trap on the antenna lead-in along with the resonant or tuned antenna will be the Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 best solution.
The ham band bothered most is M since it isn't too far removed from kc. A wave trap is necessary on M. For 80M, 40M and 20M using a tuned or resonant antenna will usually be sufficient. Using the RBH for daytime listening with a non-resonant antenna will usually not be bothered with kc leakage unless there's a local kc AM-BC station but that limits listening to 40M, 30M and 20M along with daytime SW.
A kc wave trap is the best all around solution. As to why there's no internal wave trap in the RBH? Probably the antenna installation onboard the ship either incorporated a wave trap into its design or the ship's antenna itself was Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships 955 Wooden Vintage Model resonant for the frequencies used which were far-removed from kc.
Audio output for the RBH is Z ohms for the loudspeaker matching transformer mounted on speaker frame. A loudspeaker wasn't specified as necessary or supplied equipment for the RBH-1 thru 8 with normal operation using Z ohm phones for reception although there's sufficient power to drive a Z ohm loudspeaker if desired. Unlike the RAO that it resembles, the RBL receiver's bandswitch does not operate a moveable coil catacomb, instead an intricate set of gears simultaneously actuates two large ceramic bandswitches.
The receiver also included a selectable "broad" or "sharp" audio filter and an adjustable output limiter for operation during intense static conditions. The limiter control was very well designed Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Vintage 955 Ships Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Vintage and works wonders at reducing static bursts. Audio output is via the earphone jack on the front panel and is for Z ohm 'phones. Heavy duty construction through-out and the entire receiver is fully shielded with a cabinet that is copper plated under the black wrinkle finish.
The RBL-5 shown in the photo is from and its excellent original condition is matched by its first-rate performance. Also, like the later RAO receivers, the RBL-6 used a 19" front panel and was mounted in a larger, one-piece cabinet for ease of maintenance. See "Vintage Longwave Receivers - Part 2" webpage for an in depth article about this receiver. The W-G RBL-3 is almost identical to those versions built by National with the exception that W-G Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Ships Model Vintage Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 used their own transformers and chokes along with their own sources for smaller components.
Most of the major parts are built by National so the similarity between the W-G versions and the National versions is very apparent. Performance is likewise similar to the National RBL receivers. National had been building receivers for airport communications since with their contract for RHM superheterodynes. The HRO was destined for airport use but its many accessories, such as multiple coil sets, power supply and speaker seemed to limit its popularity as an "airport receiver.
Only a speaker was required and the receiver was easy to use and very durable. That was followed by the RCE that had further refinements to airport use. The USN needed more than Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 just the kc to kc band that had been standard for Airway receivers.
National added kc to kc to allow the USN full use of that part of the spectrum since the Navy was particularly in need of complete coverage of the entire kc to kc band.
The remaining HF bands cover 2. The C. Since the receiver covers kc to kc continuous, the IF had to be moved from the standard kc for Airways receivers only up to kc. Audio output uses a single 6V6 into a Z ohm load. The entire Airway communication receiver line continued with the RCL that featured a two-position bandwidth switch. Rather than reassign different letters, National's Airway receiver used a suffix "-N" to differentiate it Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 from the other RCK receiver. The Navy found little use for S-meters or Crystal Filters so the HRO Junior receiver, which lacked these features along with amateur bandspread coil sets, was a good receiver to start with to create what the Navy needed for various communications and monitoring functions.
First, the Navy wanted an HRO that would tune continuously from 50kc up to 30mc. The Navy was especially interested in uninterrupted tuning in the kc range.
Seven coil sets were supplied with the RAS that allowed coverage from kc up to 30mc with complete coverage of the kc part of the spectrum. The RAS was installed into a 36" tall table rack that also included a coil storage unit and power supply. Sometimes Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 a loud speaker panel is also installed in the rack. Most Navy HRO racks didn't have loud speakers because nearly all reception was done using head sets. If you run across any "orphan" coil sets that have the coil assembly insulator marked with the number range of 5,6,7 or 8, these are kc IF coils and they are for the RAS.
Frequency coverage is actually 50kc to kc and kc to 30mc. The 80kc gap in the frequency coverage is around the IF of kc. The RBJ is also installed in a table rack. Shown in the photo to the left is the RBJ-2 receiver from an artwork illustration in the manual. RBK-1 t he Hallicrafters Co. The IF is Vintage Model Ships Wooden 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 5. Many RBK receivers will be the S version of the receiver but the tuning dial bezel will still have "S" embossed on it.
It's generally believed that Hallicrafters used up all of their S bezel stock before switching to the S bezels. The later versions of the RBK will have a different S-meter that has a white scale and is non-illuminated. Also, some very late RBK receivers will have an extra RF amplifier for increased isolation between the receiver and the antenna. Most RBK receivers were used with panadaptors for surveillance and enemy signal monitoring, both on shore and at sea.
General Electric - TAJ The transmitter used only four tubes. The TAJ was powered by a motor generator set up that Vintage 955 Wooden Model Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 provided vdc, vdc PA plates, vdc and vdc for control circuits. AC voltage was applied to the tube filaments by way of slip rings that ran on the DC driver motor. The rack, chassis and panels are all aluminum. Though the Navy catalog states that they were for cruisers or destroyers, they were used on most large Navy ships for Medium Wave and Low Frequency transmission requirements.
I had a telephone call some months before from a ham in Washington state who was "cleaning house. I never thought too much about it since it sounded like it was audio gear that was mainly for parts.
I really stopped thinking about it after I didn't hear anything for a month or so. Months Ships Wooden Vintage Model 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden 955 Model Ships later, I was coming home from running some errands and there in my driveway was a seven foot tall rack full of audio equipment like rack tape players and speaker panels.
Also, a pile of audio cables and miscellaneous other types of audio equipment. To the side of the audio gear was the TAJ The fellow had mentioned an old Navy transmitter that might be good for parts but not what type it was.
It was odd that the guy didn't "hang around" town since it was Virginia City and there were all types of distractions maybe I mean attractions to pass some time. Not to mention, I had only been gone for a little over an hour. Perhaps he was in Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Ships Model 955 Wooden Vintage 955 Wooden Ships Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 a hurry and just "dumped" the gear and left. Anyway, I never heard from him again. Now, this TAJ is not complete. It has been severely scavenged for parts over the years.
I'd estimate that around half of the transmitter is missing. But, the cabinet and the panels are excellent and complete with knobs, meters, switches and even all of the data plates.
Only the very bottom front panel is missing. The sides, back and top are all present. The various chassis are present. Even a couple of the s are still installed. So, while this particular TAJ will never again be operational, if another TAJ ever showed up around here, who knows? Maybe between two of them, one functional transmitter could 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model Wooden Ships Vintage Ships Wooden Model Vintage 955 result. It's not as low of power as one would think. Due to the inefficiency of most ham antennae at low frequencies, the effective radiated power can be rather low even though the input power is relatively high.
Think of a dummy load. You can input a lot of power and it radiates very little. Most antennae on M are something like the dummy load. The typical ham antenna on M would have about watts input before the EIRP would be about 5 watts.
So, there may be hope for an operational TAJ, A fairly large homebrew AC power supply is the most likely solution. When combined with other equipment the set-up designation is for the entire installation. Hence, the combination ARC-8 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 describes the ART combined with a BC receiver along with the other necessary auxiliary equipment for a complete aircraft radio installation.
The antenna used was a whip. The Autotune system would tune the transmitter frequency and output network to mechanical presets that then would match a properly selected antenna. The Autotune cycle took about 25 seconds to complete. There are also two small modules. FCI allows the operator to calibrate the frequency of the transmitter by providing a 50kc calibration signal derived from a kc crystal oscillator. The transmitter frequency range is from 2.
Early LFOs have a frequency range of kc to kc in six ranges while the later LFOs cover kc to kc in three ranges. The LFO module uses a Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Vintage Model Wooden Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 single tube. LF operation does require an external tuner called a "loading coil. Also most installations on aircraft included a small Remote Control Panel that allowed the pilot to operate the transmitter from the cockpit. There are a couple of different remotes that could be used with the ART Many transmitter installations also used three selectable condensers to allow easier loading into various antenna impedances at some frequencies.
The Collins chassis are usually painted gray and have a "winged emblem" embossed near the VFO tube. Note the blank panel installed to replace the LFO. Also note that the two meters do not match. This is very common to find on many ART transmitters and was probably a result of depot repairwork. Introduced around , actively used during and after WWII and well into the fifties sometimes found still being used well into the sixties and early seventies.
Sometimes non-matching modules will be encountered with some parts having MFP applied and others that are bare. A book containing brief instructions and the calibration settings for specific frequencies is usually stored in the metal pocket underneath the transmitter.
This book is also usually missing on most transmitters although the same information is in the standard manuals. This assumes that the user is building an AC operated power supply rather than using the "hard to find" original dynamotor or the impossible to find TCZ power supply.
The Audio Module has a "fixed-level" gain setting that was designed to work with specific Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Vintage Wooden Ships Model Model Vintage Wooden 955 Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Vintage 955 Model Ships WWII vintage military microphones. There are two microphone problems that are normally encountered - first, the military expected the radio operator to "scream" into the microphone. After all, he was trying to talk over the aircraft noise and was probably being shot at!
In fact, the ARTB schematic shows the resistor value as 4. Modified audio modules have no problem providing plenty of carbon mike response. An oscilloscope should be used to monitor the transmitter output when trying out different mikes as it will be very apparent on the 'scope whether proper modulation is being achieved. These external capacitors should be high voltage rated ceramic types.
A large air-variable can also be used. Usually pf to pf will work fine on 80M. Note Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model 955 Wooden Vintage Ships 955 Wooden Ships Vintage Model the "gold" appearance from the MFP coating. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc. During WWII, Scott Radio Laboratories was contracted to design and build a type of military marine entertainment receiver that had very low Local Oscillator radiation or leakage to the antenna system.
Scott advertising of the time indicated that the Navy was concerned with the possibility that enemy submarines could tune in a superheterodyne receiver LO signal and determine a ship's position with direction finding equipment. The Scott ads further stated that enemy DF equipment was sensitive enough to detect LO signals up to miles away. While this all may have been theoretically true, the primary reason for the installation of low radiating receivers onboard ships is that any receiver has to Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 operate in the presence of the several other receivers, transmitters and sometimes radar equipment that would also be in use on the ship.
None of the receivers can cause interference with ship equipment and they must be able to perform their function without interference from other ship equipment. The USN specification was "less than pico watts" was to appear on the antenna from local oscillator leakage. They were designed as a stand-alone receiver capable of high quality reception and wide range audio reproduction via its powerful push-pull 6V6 output stage.
The multi-tap output transformer allowed matching to virtually any impedance that might be encountered with ohms being the most commonly encountered. The receiver's output could be distributed throughout the ship via the Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage 955 Model Ships Wooden 955 Wooden Ships Vintage Model ohm line or it might be matched to the distribution amplifier for the ship's audio system. Each ship had different requirements and the Scott was designed to work with just about any of the ship speaker-audio systems.
Single preselection, two IF amplifers and a Noise Limiter were included. A BFO was also included in case the receiver had to double as a communications receiver. When in the C. A cathode-ray "tuning eye" tube was also included in the SLR version. This version doesn't have a BFO. This SLR is complete but awaiting restoration. Parallel rectifiers are used in the RBO and sometimes the receiver is seen with a drop-down dial cover - a hinged metal piece that can be raised up to 955 Ships Model Wooden Vintage Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage 955 Wooden Model Ships entirely cover the illuminated dial.
The RBO generally was used for local entertainment within a limited space one room since the single 6V6 audio output didn't provide enough power to drive the the ship's ohm line directly it could run the distribution amp though. Both the SLR and the RBO receivers were installed in a very large metal cabinet that was shock-mounted to a substantial base mount.
Scott built many different versions of these high quality "entertainment" receivers. The receivers were installed not only on U. Navy ships but also merchant ships, tankers, transports and other types of American vessels.
This version has single-ended audio and no BFO. The panel and cabinet were repainted light grayish-cream color and the nomenclature masked Model Vintage Ships Wooden 955 955 Wooden Model Ships Vintage Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Model 955 Ships Wooden Vintage Model 955 Vintage Wooden Ships 955 Wooden Model Vintage Ships Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 955 Model Vintage Ships Wooden to preserve readability. The metal data plate located under the "eye-tube" is the Mare Island "rebuild" tag. The construction is unusual in that aluminum is used for chassis, the shielding and the cabinet. This reduces the receiver's weight significantly - weight is around 50 lbs.
Single pre-selection is used with two IF stages. Selectable bandwidths are available. Frequency coverage from. Push-pull 25L6 tubes for the audio output. In CW, the will remain "on" but the "shadow" will not respond to signals since the AVC is disabled. The panel speaker is 5" in diameter but there is a multi-impedance-taps output transformer for external loads.
The panel speaker can be turned off if an external speaker is used. Onboard the ship, the audio output Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Wooden Vintage 955 Ships Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 would have been connected to distribute the receiver output as necessary. Performance is quite good for AM signals. The SLRM was primarily an entertainment receiver, not a communication receiver. On the downside, The seriousness of these issues is dependent on the user's expectations.
Images will become very apparent around 15mc. SSB and even CW performance is extremely poor, in fact, these modes are impossible to demodulate. An additional improvement would be to couple the BFO through a 10pf capacitor to the second detector. The RF Gain would still have to be reduced to the point where the signal to BFO injection ratio provides good demodulation.
To do so will connect the line return power wiring directly to chassis which prevents the dial Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships 955 Wooden Vintage Model Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 lamp from lighting and takes some of the bias voltages to chassis. Modern house AC wiring has neutral connected to ground at the breaker box and this will conflict with the receiver power input wiring that assumed the two AC lines would be "floating.
The input side ground pin should be wired directly to the transformer's output socket ground pin only. The AC output of the isolation transformer winding will be "floating" which allows the use of the original three-wire power cable and twist-lock plug that grounds the chassis but not either of the "floating" AC lines. The original power cable on the SLRM used a three-wire "twist-lock" actually, two wires and a shield-ground which can still be used if powered with Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 an isolation transformer set-up as described.
This can also be operating the isolation transformer from a switchable three-wire power strip. If the isolation transformer is left connected to AC and to the SLRM, then the two line bypass capacitors will be passing a small amount of reactance AC current to chassis ground - even if the SLRM is turned off check the schematic.
TecRad as it was sometimes called became a prime contractor for the U. Navy building high quality shipboard entertainment receivers and a couple types of small transmitters. Only a few companies built Navy acceptable shipboard entertainment radios since there was a strict requirement that no more than pico-watts of LO leakage was allowed on the antenna. TecRad claimed that only pW Model Wooden Vintage Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 was present on the antenna with their receivers. The LRR-5 is typical of the WWII shipboard entertainment receivers in that robust, high fidelity audio is delivered to selectable multiple output impedances six impedances from 16 ohms to ohms since many ships had various kinds of audio loads depending on the size and layout of the audio distribution within the ship.
A front panel speaker switch is provided to allow disconnecting specific speaker lines depending on how the ship's speaker system was wired. Most systems probably had the speaker switch wired to allow the local radio room speaker to be disconnected while the ship's audio system remained on.
Also, a 6E5 cathode ray tuning indicator tube is provided. The frequency coverage is Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Ships Vintage 955 Model Wooden Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 typical of shipboard entertainment receivers with the AM-BC tuned with Band 1, Band 2 tuned from 2. Also, a very accurate logging scale is provided. Single preselection is used along with two IF amplifiers with three selectivity bandwidths available.
A phonograph input is also provided. Performance of the LRR-5 is impressive. The audio is high quality and with push-pull 6V6 tubes in the output there seems to be quite a bit of power available. Bass response is very good and Shortwave Broadcast stations that are playing music sound incredible.
Although only a single RF stage is provided, images are not apparent in normal reception above 15mc as would be expected. Alignment of the front end provides L and C adjustments for all three Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 bands and the IF transformers are permeability tuned. Strategic shielding is used to keep the LO leakage down so there are a few shielded boxes in the receiver's front end.
One has to also note the perhaps intentional resemblance that the LRR-5 has to receivers built by Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company around the same period. The LRR dial material is exactly the same opaque white plastic side illuminated that will glow purple with intense rear lighting and the gray panel with white nomenclature is quite similar to that period Mackay receivers. Perhaps it was intentional so that the LRR-5 would fit in with Mackay Radio equipment that was in use on many ships.
In , Clayton Bane stated that due to some personal reasons and due to the fact that his building lease was not going to be renewed he was closing down TecRad. According to Bane the company was profitable but there was also some difficultly in that the Navy wanted TecRad to remain exclusively a Navy Contractor and not be able to produce for the civilian market. Bane went on to form a successful advertising business. Bane died in The cabinet is metal and features a fold-down front cover along with a carrying handle.
There were two circuits used with the earlier version having push-pull 50L6 tubes and a series-parallel filament string. This version could also be modified to use two 25L6 tubes by changing the filaments to series making the entire string Vintage Wooden Model Ships 955 a series load. XV have several errors including the 50L6 filament connection. The later circuit uses two 50A5 tubes and a 35Z5 rectifier. The P-P audio seems a bit much for the small built-in PM speaker. The rear panel of the cabinet has a door to allow access to the power cord and the antenna terminals.
The Tropic Master didn't have enough shielding to be used onboard ships as the LO leakage would have exceeded the minimum acceptable level of pW on whatever antenna was used with the receiver. Minerva advertised that they had supplied the Tropic Master to the military both Navy and Army as a "Morale Radio" - that is, a radio primarily for entertainment in barracks or other shore locations.
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