My god my god, not to far from now a VIIC u-boat will hit the surface in my room here, between armor, armor and again, armor. Few months after that, a battleship will sail into my room and after that an aircraftcarrier will hunt down mosquito's in my room so that I can sleep nice and peacefully.

All very nice and cool, but where the hell to store those big ships once build? I've already picked a spot at my wall, where I'll place about 3 or maybe 4 shelfs with a lenght of 1 meter. That should be big enough!

Any idea how broad I should make the shelves?? (I want to place all shelves in 1 time, so I need to think ahead how big my battleship and aircraftcarrier will be....guess they will be 1:350, not larger that 1 meter)

Hmmm......now let that VIIC come (waiting for delivery)

Oh also if anyone has any ideas for WW2 battleships or aircraft carriers worth building, let me know! :-) I don't have a clue what kits are good and which aren't.

Cheers,
Martin (armor guy who is beginning to build ships)

Quoted Text

---

My god my god, not to far from now a VIIC u-boat will hit the surface in my room here, between armor, armor and again, armor. Few months after that, a battleship will sail into my room and after that an aircraftcarrier will hunt down mosquito's in my room so that I can sleep nice and peacefully.

All very nice and cool, but where the hell to store those big ships once build? I've already picked a spot at my wall, where I'll place about 3 or maybe 4 shelfs with a lenght of 1 meter. That should be big enough!

Any idea how broad I should make the shelves?? (I want to place all shelves in 1 time, so I need to think ahead how big my battleship and aircraftcarrier will be....guess they will be 1:350, not larger that 1 meter)

Hmmm......now let that VIIC come (waiting for delivery)

Oh also if anyone has any ideas for WW2 battleships or aircraft carriers worth building, let me know! :-) I don't have a clue what kits are good and which aren't.

Cheers,
Martin (armor guy who is beginning to build ships)

---

Good day Martin!
Well as far as your shelves go, I think that 1 meter by 20 centimeters should be about right for a 1/350 ship model.

Now as for which 1/350 Battleships and carriers are best. For Battleships any of the Tamiya 1/350 kits are right on spot! Unless you want to hold out for the new Trumpeter USS North Carolina, which should be out in June.

Aircraft Carriers? It depends on if you want to build WW-2 or modern era subjects. For WW-2, Trumpeter wins hands down! There USS Hornet, Essex, or Lexington are awesome! In modern carriers Tamiya's Enterprise or Trumpeters Nimitz are each great, and your only choices in 1/350.
Oh, one more choice is the Heller 1/400 HMS Illustrious, WEM just announced a PE set for it to!

HTH mate!

Garry

If this is any answer to you I just picked up, it was my birthday present but I paid for it, a lawyers bookcase. About three feet wide, just under one meter. and four shelves. A "lawyers bookcase" is the type that has sliding glass doors on it. The top shelf is already holding my 1/350 USS Arizona. It seems to have enough room there that a larger ship, like a Lexington or New Jersey, could probably fit instead. That way it will be under glass. I'll still have three shelves for my armor. Before getting the case I used shelves I had made myself. I got brackets from the DIY store that were 8 inches wide, about 19 cm, and cut them to width according to the ships length. That width allowed for a base, which I aways plan to use on my ship models.

you sometimes see these plexiglass covers which fit just over the shipsmodel. I always wondered where these guys get their covers?
do they build them themselves or can you buy them somewhere providing you just give the dimensions?

And what would the cost for that be??
Maybe one of the more professional mates around here can provide some answer on this?

I do this myself.....a plate of plexiglass of 1m x 1.5m costs about €10...pretty expensive, but it does protect what you build and makes cleaning your room much easier :-)

Thanks for the info Martin, I will have a look around in the hobbystore.
10 € is better than having paid 65 € and hours of work for a modelsub which the cat than tries to give a drylaunch...

btw, how high are these models?

around 30 cm? or maybe 40? (need to know that too for the shelves)

cheers,
martin

Quoted Text

---

btw, how high are these models?

around 30 cm? or maybe 40? (need to know that too for the shelves)

cheers,
martin

---

I think my Enterprise sits in a shelf that has about 30 cm space. But one thing I'd recommend if you can get it. Use adjustable shelves. Almost everything you find over here has a pair of vertical strips (front and back) on both sides, with holes spaced at intervals, probably every 50 mm or so. You get some sort of peg or bracket which fits in the holes which allows you to space the shelves where ever you want.

Look for something like that.

Tom