I would give the edge to the QE class. One of the best brawlers of it's class able to go toe to toe with anything faster, slower, bigger or smaller. Some impenetrable areas, low freeboard. Great handling in most conditions.
OK, back to business. I have more pricing info from Ralph. Sorry for the delay, I went to Quebec for training and got back tonight. CIVIL WAR MONITORS 1860'S 1/72 SCALE Monitor and turret-$50 Passaic and turret-$70 Dictator and turret-$80 Tennessee Hull and cover-$100 Merrimack hull and cover-$100/120 can be made with lips WORLD WAR 2 COASTAL/RIVERINE 1/24SCALE Russian monitor 1125 -$70 ask for choice of turrets extra Russian monitor 1124-$80 ask for choice of turrets extra Russian Torpedo boat-$70 Simon lake sub and conn -$100 J
I know I now have the molds for The following from Ralph and fellow club members have some others USN Gearing USN Tennessee IJN Mogami IJN Akizuki Mark Kuntz has SMS Nassau DKM Graf Spee if your interested just check the SCRAP site as most are listed there, Rich Wands also has quite a few molds. We are always happy to make ships for others.
That might be a trick question. I am not sure how many units the Wind class gets. Perhaps only .5 units depending on which club you are in. But I will post some numbers so as to compare size, and weight. Wind class.. full load tons.. 6515, length overall 269', beam 63.5', draft 25.75', twin shafts, speed 16.8 knots. (4) 5" guns. Z-38 DD.. F/L tons.. 3597, O/A length 416'8", beam 39' 4", draft 13' 1", twin shafts, speed 38.5 knots. (5) 5.9" guns. Joe Maxwell from Erie built an armed Wind class, and she looks really cool. Probably a pretty tuff build, due to size and weight limits, but way cool for sure. Mikey
16.8 knots? I didn't realize it was that slow. If I got one, I'd most likely be using it as a convoy ship though, so speed isn't as important.
I think that someone was saying that this class of ships were used to re-supply some of the bases at one point, Very cool little ships. Mikey
I think that at some point they also had a bow propeller, as well as the twin screws aft. Can't recall where I saw that. Some of the Russian ice-breakers had them as well. Mikey
One of the Wind class was involved in the capture of German soldiers on Greenland that were at a weather station. The Coast Guard was still using these ships when I was in. The bow prop is called a bow thruster. Thanks,
Do you guys want me to ask Ralph for a picture of it? If he has a hull there it shouldn't be a problem. J
I heard Ralph sent his QE mold to someone in Maryland. Do you know who he sold it to? Or if the rumor is not true.
They did have a bow propeller, but it wasn't for propulsion and was not ordinarily used at all. The purpose was to help break up the ice once the icebreaker initially broke up the ice. The wind hulls are very nice, I have one which I eventually plan to complete as the USS Burton Island, the ship my father and uncle served on. Some of them also served in the Soviet Navy under the lend lease program and would be legal as Soviet Navy ships. The first four were originally equipped with 2 twin 5"/38 turrets, the same ones used as secondaries on our USN BBs and cruisers as secondaries. The second group of "winds" (Burton Island class) only carried a single 5"/38 forward when they were completed. The guns were removed from all ships eventually. Most of the ships served in the USN from the mid 1940s to about 1966 when they were transferred to the coast guard.
