The old Revell Hope/Haven kits can be made into any of the C-4 variants. The most common ships to use that hull were the ‘General’ class troopships such as the General Brewster.
Navsource has a good pic of the original ship and the containership Philadelphia which she became.
I obtained a built-up kit of the Haven on eBay. After breaking it up and spraying it with oven cleaner, I cleaned up the decks. It will be waterlined. From here it’s all scratch building. It looks like the hull is about a cm too wide for the length.
Not sure what vessel this will be. I have some barely legible copies of the profile plan of the General Brewster. More likely it will be the containership Anchorage.
That looks awesome. I have one of these Hospital ship kits semi-built up as well, but so many pieces are gone that it would be impossible to build a hospital ship. Maybe I could do what you are doing. Keep those pics coming!
It will probably be a few months before I get much further on this. Here’s another possibility:
The Alex Stephens was converted (crudely ) from one of the C4-S-A1 troopships. You can see where they removed the forward superstructure and pasted it back aft.
Hi again Fred, glad to see that you keeping the Plastic merchant navy getting bigger, i hope that some of my plastic ships that i´m rebuilding are getting ready for posting in the forum this autumn.
I’m going to be watching this thread with great interest. The twentieth-century merchant ship is one of the most grossly neglected of model subjects, and the results you gentlemen manage to squeeze out of the handful of available kits are really amazing. Best of luck.
While waiting for some more references for my Majestic build, I’ve done some work on this one.
This is all dry fitted. It’s the early 1964 containership Anchorage. She was kind of a hybrid, half containership, half break bulk cargo. I have to cut a little more off the waterline I think.
As I work on this I can’t help but be tempted to get another hull and do a conversion to the C-4 troop ship variant. You guys who like haze gray ships should look into that! Fred
hey onyxman did you know that some of these conversions to containerships had sponsons built at deck level to accommodate the container cargo and leave room for a deck to walk on ? the best conversion i,ve done is to take the u.s.s. randall and convert it to a n.o.o.a. research and weather studies vessel . the container conversions i am talking about go to alaska from california , oregon and washington ports , the shipping line had an odd name akin to roads or highways . tankerbuilder
