Samuel B. Roberts plans

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  1. Beaver

    Beaver 2020 Rookie of the Year Admiral (Supporter)

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    Does anybody have downloadable plans or some place to get them for this ship? I am about finished reading The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, and it has me hooked on building one of these ships.:)
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    NO, Beaver! You'll wind up like me with a crap-ton of unfinished projects :)
     
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    I don't see any problem with that. I don't plan on starting it right away anyway, just seeing if anybody had them. :)

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    LOL Beaver! That's my Battlestations boat! Warped minds think a like it seems. Eh von Tugboat?

    :D
     
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  5. Beaver

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    Aye, I guess my mind is a little warped.:blink: :eek: Though that's not all that bad. Seems like you and me like the same types of ships. :)
    So, nobody has plans so far?

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    I have not gotten that far yet. Busy working on a book and have had no time for boats other than forum browsing. I was going to go with one fo the fiberglass hulls that are available. It may only be armed with two bb guns but it will look good.
     
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    I have not gotten that far yet. Busy working on a book and have had no time for boats other than forum browsing. I was going to go with one fo the fiberglass hulls that are available. It may only be armed with two bb guns but it will look good.
     
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    I have not gotten that far yet. Busy working on a book and have had no time for boats other than forum browsing. I was going to go with one fo the fiberglass hulls that are available. It may only be armed with two bb guns but it will look good.
     
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    I have plans for the long-hull DE's, not sure if the Samuel B is one of those.
     
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    It is.
     
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    Oh, then I'm good :)

    I may even share them lol :)
     
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    Roberts was a WGT class with the low bridge that makes it look fast even if it wasn't. :)
     
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  13. Beaver

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    Tugboat, what scale are the plans?

    Oh, did you get all those plans I sent you a while back?

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    I did, been busy though. Some of the plans are copied from copyrighted sources and I don't want to post them on the forums. I already had some of them on my hard drive, they were just in the not-to-share section.

    I scaled the plans to 1/144, but scaling them to 1/96 is easy enough. And they're not copyrighted (US Navy plans, and so, open-source), so no issues sharing.
     
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    That's too bad. Are they all copyright? I recently found some non copyrighted Fletcher class destroyer plans I'll have to send to you.

    So, how do you plan on getting the plans from you to me?

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  16. Anachronus

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    No they are U.S. Government documents which as long as any security clearances have been removed are in the public domain. I can't think of any security issues involved in a 70+ year old destroyer escort.
     
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  17. Beaver

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    I actually was talking about the plans I had sent to Tugboat, but that did clear up a few questions.

    Tugboat, would you be able to scale those plans to 1/96 for me? I'd do it myself, but I have no accurate way of doing it.

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    Here is your accurate way of doing it: http://www.gimp.org :)
     
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    There's an Anatomy of the Ship series book on the Roberts. I highly recommend it.
     
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  20. Tugboat

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    Beaver, which plans, the Samuel B Roberts?
     
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