LS Plastic Model Ships Collection

Models were personally built but commentaries are not my own - gleaned through information found in the web.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

USS New Jersey Battleship

USS New Jersey (BB-62), known as "Big J," is an Iowa-class battleship, and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Among the four completed Iowa-class battleships New Jersey is notable for having earned the most battle stars for her combat actions, and for being the only battleship of the class to have served a tour of duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Plastic Model Review:
http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/misc/robertonj.htm

Other Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Jersey_(BB-62)
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/battleships/newjersey/bb62-nj.html





Revell British Vosper MTB 1/48 Scale

Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the United States Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Navy.
During World War II the US Navy boats were usually called by their hull classification symbol of "PT" (from Patrol, Torpedo) and are covered under PT boat though the class type was still 'motor torpedo boat'. The capitalised term is generally used for the Royal Navy (RN) boats and abbreviated to MTB. German motor torpedo boats of World war II were called E-boats by the allies and S-Boote (Schnellboote ~ fast boats) by the Kriegsmarine.

Plastic Model Review:
http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/misc/ships/mtbpreview.htm

More Vosper Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_torpedo_boat