Taking a break from train related stuff. Saw the re-issued kit at a Model Cave in Yspi and decided to built it as a remembrance of my grandfather that served on one of these at Normandy as an electronics technician with radio/radar responsibilities.
Not quite done, kit was originally released by Varney (yes, the same Varney of HO fame) in late 45 with a carved wooden hull. They tooling traded hands with a vacuform hull and then an injection molded one. Now Round 2 makes them with retro box art under "The Lindberg Line".
Both the ship and the kit are pretty basic but the age of the tooling shows up in lots of flash, mold sinks, and ejector pin marks. That's where most of the time is going in terms of dealing with this. The only "detailing" I'm adding is the "roof" for the "flying" bridge and the replacement of the horribe frayed thread included in the kit for the railings. I'm using very fine music wire. Kit was a box scale model so the details have to be scratch built, its 1:245 scale
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One other train related aspect. Prototypes were powered by two V-12 EMD 567 marine engines. Same basic power plant on several early EMD loco's.
