New MSW Crew-mate Carl Musselman (CarlOmaha) shares this fantastic conversion build, his first MSW contribution, of a vessel that his father served upon, U.S. Navy Seaplane Tender, USS Duxbury Bay AVP-38!

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Thanks!
~Gunny

Hi Carl

First of all I would like to Welcome you aboard MSW!

And second, what a way of announcing yourself! An excellent conversion, flawless, with a ton of care and honor, seconded by unique and extremely interesting photos, that I guess, were taken by your Father.
The award is highly deserved!!

Please, keep us posted on your next projects - I will certainly follow them with interest

Bravo-Zulu

Rui

With a ship like this I would have given you first place also. For a first time scratch building and photo etch I have to say " Well done" Bob

Fantastic build.. and what a great story behind it, thanks for sharing! Cheers

Excellent work there Carl and how nice to see a very different ship, well done

Mike

Thank you, all, for your compliments! I just found this discussion group part of the feature on my AVP model. The layout of my model on Model Shipwrights is superb.

This class of seaplane tenders seems to be little known, even though there were about 30 of them made. I'd love to see others build the ISW kit, too.

A couple of guys that I know of are making scratch built models of AVPs. One in 1/144 and another in 1/155 scale. I have a personal reason to become so fond of these little ships and I get excited when I see others take interest, as well.

I felt honored when Mark Smith (Gunny) emailed me and invited me to post the model in this forum.

Top notch job.
It is always nice when you build something that has special meaning in your life.

Thanks for sharing and Welcome!

Impecably done, a real labour of love, and then your feature is a very entertaining one too and the pictures are tops, congratulations for an outsanding model!
JB

Hi Carl,

Welcome along, Outstanding model. Thanks fo sharing. The detail and time you spent on it show through in the quality of the final result.

Excellent stuff.

Al

I am humbled and warmed by all of your kind words, Gentlemen.

I am more accustomed to admiring others' works than others admiring mine.