Hello,
I´m trying to build the Imex kit cargoliner M.S. TRINIDAD, and looking for any pictures of the real ship for details. She was build-68 at Tamano yard hull no. 776, renamed-78 to TAMANO,-79 to NEW SUN and-80 to MAULE.
Thank´s Hasse.
Hasse,
I was going to suggest you try shipspotting.com, but when I searched there I see that you already have been there. [:)]
Fred
Hello fred. Yes that´s true. I have been all over the www. a long time now. But the only results i have so far in my searching for detail photos of HAWAIAN PILOT is one of her stern. And of TRINIDAD one photo of her as MAULE. Of J.L.HANNA i got one black and white photo. All tre kit´s will be unstarted till the day when i have enought good reference photos to make a good replica of the real ships. I got lots of info. of the M.V. BENLEDI but no kit…[:(!] Well well well, that´s life.
Thank´s Fred for your try to help me, Hasse.
Hasse,
For the Hawaiian Pilot I can offer no help, but have you seen this site for the States Marine Lines?
http://www.statesmarinelines.com/ships.htm
They have many nice old color photos of C-2, Victory, C-4 and the type represented by the Hawaiian Pilot, the C-3. The S.S. Copper State and the S.S. Lone Star State are C-3s, there are probably more. A little paint modification and some decal lettering and the Revell kit could be done as one of these ships. I think their paint is more attractive than the Matson colors too.
Fred
Yes fred,
i seen there site. I have one post there in the forum , a ouestion about C-3 frieghters photos. No luck so far. Mayby that´s the best, to build the Hawaiian into another ship. The problem for my living in Sweden is that i can´t se any of the ships i try to build or ships companys in the real life. The biggest problem for me is to find the right color references, and then try to scale it down to the ship kit´s scale. In the past when i was building lots of U.S N. ships, that was the biggest problem for me. With no real ship to look at and no WWW. The only references where Finescale modeler, Sea classics and Scale ship modeler. And all photos of the haze gray was in a different shade. When WWW. and photo etc. came in to my life my models went out of date. I wan´t do the same mistake again. With some help from my friends in the forums.
Thank´s again Fred for your time of trying to help me.
Hasse.
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I know what you mean Hasse. I have agonized over what shade of color to paint a model. Rather than make myself crazy I just figure if it looks right to me, it’s good enough. As you must know from your time at sea, as soon as you paint something the color starts to change with the light, sun, salt spray, soot and rust. Also old color photos may not be the same color as it was when it was first developed either.
The colors of the Hawaiian Pilot are no longer the same as Matson uses now. I can still see Matson ships in the harbor here in Seattle. The stacks are still that yellow-buff color with the black ‘M’, but the hulls are now gray, about the color of the background of this web site.
One difficult question is, what color are the decks of these old ships? Most of the old color photos show the ship from the side and you can’t see the decks. One can only guess between dark red, green or gray. I am starting a model of an Amoco T-2 tanker. I can only guess at some of the colors and when I asked an old tankerman what color the decks were on Amoco ships he just said, “rusty”.
onyxman, read this if you haven’t already. http://www.t2tanker.org/
Good luck with the Amoco tanker. Quess she´s going to be beautiful, just as the S.S. HOUSTON and IDIAL X.
Hasse
Thanks Hasse. ddp59, thanks also. I’ve seen the T-2 page before. It used to have some pretty rare color pics of the Ideal X, which have since disappeared from the site. They still do have a B&W pic of the Amoco New York. That’s the one I’m slowly working on now. I sure would like to get a look at some color pictures though.
Fred
did you checkout the old section on t2 tanker site? http://www.t2tanker.org/ships/t2tanker.html
Fred, there is one B&W pic on
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=48217
That´s everything i found so far.
IMO nr. is 2244801 if it´s to any help.
Hasse.