Ahoy Shipmates!!!

Join me a book review of Osprey Publishing's Yangtze River Gunboats 1900-49. This is number 181 in their New Vanguard Series.

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Just happen to be reading my copy now, nice review.

I have no idea of what smaller scale ships are available, but Iron Shipwrights does a rather nice 1/192 kit of the USS Parnay PR-6, in resin, including photo etched parts and a laser cut styrene sheet for the upper decks.

The Sand Pebbles is still and excellent movie on the subject of China Station sailors, and helped convinced me that I wanted to join the Navy, and be a snipe.

I like "Sand Pebbles" a great deal. I like how the main character was a regular enlisted sailor. Of course being a snipe was a big plus for me as well.

I think there is also a 1/700 Panay available. Aoshima is also coming out with a couple Japanese river boats too.

This is an exciting title for me. I, too, really enjoy The Sand Pebbles.

The most personal aspect of the book is that it contains a photo of USS Isabel, the ship upon which my dad escaped Java after his ship, USS Houston, was sunk.

Niko Models brought out the USS Panay in 1/700 some time ago.
The 1/700 Aoshima kit contains 2 ships - Seta and Hira. They are simple and with a small amount of PE, quite presentable.

Checkout my pics of Seta on the FineWaterline website:-

http://www.finewaterline.com/pages/gallery/dioramas/jsyangtze/jsyangtze.htm

Jim S