Lindberg's Harriet Lane

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I’m probably way behind on mentioning this. I have the funny feeling I’ve seen (perhaps even contributed [:$] to a thread in which this subject was discussed) this before, however, since my memory banks are fading rather rapidly, I thought I mention it (again?).

I was looking for a larger than 1/350 plastic model of a Buckley class DE and was on my usual internet hobby shop’s site (Hobbylinc) when I noticed this:

http://www.hobbylinc.com/lindberg-civil-war-blockade-runner-military-boat-plastic-model-military-ship-kit-1:124-scale-

I suppose everyone already knows about it but I thought I’d throw it in here anyway.

Mike

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You never know when a bit of information will hit at “just the right moment” for someone.

So your information my well be something , a modeler is just at the, “I wonder if they ever had a kit of…” stage.[Y]

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I hope you found the Revell USS Buckley as well.

Bill

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Bill,

I couldn’t find it in stock anywhere, not even in my alternate favorite Hobbylinc Japan.

Not even on eBay.

Mike

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Mike,

I will keep my eyes open for you. I will let you know if I find one.

Bill

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Bill,

I just found one on eBay. It’s for a friend of mine who wants to build one so I’ve sent him an email with the link to the auction.

Mike

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Theres a company called Round 2 that is reissuing all kinds of interesting models from the past.

I’ve bought a couple of the Q ships for a fun project I am working on.

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Terrific! And, I always liked the Harriet Lane kit. I’m glad its released again!

Bill

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Bill,

Thanks for that information regarding Round 2. I do believe it’s the site I read about on Finescale in the not too distant past (gees, fading memory is sure a disconcerting thing [:(]).

Here’s the link for anyone interested in the recent Lindberg reissue kits:

http://www.round2models.com/models/lindberg

Mike

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Round 2 offers quite a few old Lindberg kits - some of them originating from Pyro. The Clermont is another worthwhile one (though - heretical though it may sound - I wish it came with the electric motor that made the paddles, flywheels, and gears turn and the piston move up and down).

I’m also attracted by the 1920s British biplanes and the pre-WWI aircraft. All those kits originated with the small British company Inpact, and they’re beautiful (for their day). I especially like the Fairy Flycather.

Has anybody out there in the Forum actually bought any Round 2 kits? Apparently they get sold through a model car dealership.

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Well I bought two of the re released Q ship kits. I think that was through Round 2, I bought them from Freetime online.

They are nice and clean castings, with crisply printed instructions.

The box is a little weird, it’s a hinged top with side and end flaps, like a bakery box.

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Round 2 actually bought Linberg and as such the Hawk line and have been rereleasing some of the old Linberg/Pyro kits. I even saw the old Pyro Half Moon in the online catalog I bought the Harriet Lane/Blockade Runner about 6 months ago and like Bill was happy to see the moldings firmly crisp and clean.

The box is the same as Bill describes but I like it a whole lot better than the side opening flimsy box that Revell uses.

John, I have not purchased a Round 2 kit so I cannot answer what their own kits are like. Although it looks they havethe Polar Lights , Star Trek and Amt line as well.

Steve

http://www.round2models.com

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Round 2 bought Lindberg? After the I-boat fiasco?

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Look what is on the wall at the LHS?

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Guerrede de Secession! The nerve! It was the War Between the States! :smiley:

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Is that it? I thought it was the War of Yankee Belligerence! :-b

I thought the “Fregat a Vapeur” was pretty sweet.

Hey Lee!

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Hey GM! I have a small window of satellite WiFi and thought I’d check in and let everyone know that I’m still alive.

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PM inbound!

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I have always called it “The War of Southern Independence”.

Bill

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I blundered into that morass when I moved from Ohio to North Carolina. (Ohio, of course, was the birthplace of such luminaries as U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Philip Sheridan.)

Actually there is some justification for the distinction. If we define “civil war” as a war to determine what faction is to be in control of the country’s government, the unpleasantness between 1861 and 1865 was, indeed, not a civil war. The Confederacy had no intention of taking over the United States government; it was trying to break loose of (or secede from) it.

The English Civil War, the Russian Civil War, and the Spanish Civil War were honest-to-goodness civil wars.

On the other hand, no less a distinguished Southerner than Shelby Foote titled his three-volume masterpiece The Civil War: A Narrative. That’s a pretty strong Southern endorsement for the term. (I still think they should have gotten him to play Lee in the movie “Gettysburg.”)

The depth of emotions about the conflict in question in this part of the country is sometimes downright mind-boggling. I strongly recommend a book called Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From an Unfinished Civil War, by Tony Horwitz. One of the funniest and, simultaneously, scariest books I’ve ever read.

Another little bit of historical trivia: legally it wasn’t a war. The Congress didn’t declare war on anybody - because there was no enemy nation to declare war on. (Neither the U.S. nor any other country ever officially recognized the Confederate States of America as a nation.) What happened between 1861 and 1865 was, in official legal terms, an unsuccessful rebellion.

The students in my American military history courses are sometimes surprised to hear that the United States, in its entire history, has actually declared war five times: against Britain in the War of 1812, against Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, against Spain in the Spanish-American War of 1898, against Germany and its allies in World War I, and against Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies in World War II.