I am in need of some help. Many years ago I was slightly dumber than I am now (open to debate). I was given a balsa model of a Clemson class destroyer which I destroyed. Now in my dotage I am searching for said model. I do not know her scale - about 18" long, her maker, or anything.
If anyone has an inkling please let me know. I’d like to build her.
I doubt this is what you want, but many years ago Bluejacket Shipcrafters sold a 1/192 flush deck destroyer kit. That fits the size and description you provided. It was wood, although probably not balsa.
I can’t find one for you, and if it was found, it would cost a lot of money.
OTOH, the old Revell Ward kit serves admirably, with a little work. It’s a slightly smaller box scale, and was recently re-released by Revell of Germany.
The Bluejacket kit looks to be available on their website. Text says it is updated Look for 310-foot destroyer
Yes it is expensive at almost 400 USD It will be a project: machine carved solid wood hull, laser cut wood bulkhead facings, dowels, brass rod, tube, and photoetch.
So when I saw that before I only saw the “built” price- $3850.
The kit is like Ed said; less than $ 400. And… it’s 1/192 scale, or about 25 inches long.
That seems like a good thing (if too expensive for me).
Thanks. Almost sounds right. Hull appeared to be preformed, no details, no props. Also no photoetch and smaller scale.
Thank you. Probably not. This 4 piper had far less detail.
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That sounds like an old,old Comet or Allied wood Products Kit. They are gonna be as hard to find as “Hens Teeth”!!
Thanks - good clue.
Tanker-builder is a plank owner on the Ark, so he knows stuff that is hard to track down. I’ve never heard of Allied Wood Products, but good luck.
Oh come on GM…not only a plank owner, I’m betting that he hewed some of the timbers and laid the keel.[:D][:D][:D[
He is wise and knowing in blue water goodies.
This is the BlueJacket kit version of the WWI era of a four piper destroyer. Go the BlueJacker website for more details.
Happy Modeling Crackers [:)]
i found a 1941 wooden model catalog online. Neither Comet nor Strombecker list a Clemson or 4-pipe kit.
I have an old Comet Gridley destroyer kit still in the box. Sawn balsa hull which needs final shaping. Other wood sheet and dowels. Basic.
Thanks Hull was preformed. Composite maybe ?
Awright Youse Guys!
I will have you know that I was NOT a plank owner on the Ark. I did however help design her! LOL.LOL.LOL. Allied Wood Products was a hobby supplier in the forties. Their kits ( If you can call them that) were beyond basic, shall we say suggestive as to finished product! Also the softest Balsa I ever knew of.
They were, I believe out of Ohio. Probably about the Worst purveyor of the two I remember. The Clemson Class and a Cruiser. They had you use Toothpicks for the barrels on the Secondary Armaments!
Ah well, eventually the mfgrs. got wise and made the Kits so you got what you hoped. Not everyone knew what a ship of the type should look like anyway. There were those folks that thought, when I was a toddler, that all warships looked like a Dreadnaught!
A Victory ship was considered very streamlimed for a freighter! The Missouri and the rest of the Iowas! Science Fiction to some! I think My uncle Joseph thought they should look like an Ironclad!
That Revell Buchanan looks better by the minute…
I would Say:
Amen to that! Mr. Morrison!
If memory serves; somewhere there are 3D prints available for this kits main guns.
If you are willing to lighten the load on your wallet, E-bay is offering the Revell 1960 issue of the four piper destroyer BUCHANAN, #H 375:149, for the sum of $100 plus $3.75 shipping and handling.
Happy modeling Crackers
$ 45 plus $ 11 on eBay.
Hi,
While not wooden models, doesn’t Mirage also have a couple 1/400 scale Clemson (and Wickes) class model kits?
Pat