How to solve HMS Otranto

[piersyf]

Options:
Buy from Navwar/Heroics and Ros in 1:3000 scale and ignore the difference in size. They have one.

Buy a ship of similar dimensions and call it Otranto. Kitbash as needed.

Buy a ship in 1:3000 scale of the correct dimensions and close in form and call it Otranto.

CinC has recast the launches and whale boats to fix the out of scale life boats if you go the 1:3000 scale route.

Option 4, cry.

[dragon6]

I have three of the four ships needed to game Coronel.

HMS Otranto is the dilemma.

Suggestions?

What is her size?
Either real size or 1/2400 scale

[piersyf]

68mm, near enough, from what I found. I think the Maru would be a lot of work. Deck house is too high, should be longer (over the third hold, lose the second mast), need to have a second funnel, all masts and funnels raked into the 'go faster' pose... you'd be better off buying a Panzerschiffe model or similar and fixing it with spares from GHQ and CinC. The masts don't look complicated. Wire would do.

[dattrains]

I found the following: HMS Otranto was an Orient Steam Navigation Company liner and was built by Workman Clark, Belfast in 1909 for the London to Australia route but also did cruses to Norway and the Mediterranean on occasion. She had a displacement of 12,124 gross tons and 535.3 x 64.0 x 38.6ft . She had 12,000 ihp quadruple expansion engines giving her a top speed of 18 knots. The Orient Line also had three other sister ships to the Otranto, they were the Osterley, Orsova and Otway. SeaBattle has a model described as SB365 OTWAY (Orient Lines), British AMC 1909. I do not have the model so I am not sure it is the correct one. Don

[Donald M. Scheef]

Seabattle SB365, "Otway (Orient Lines), British AMC 1909" is the correct model. If you are in North America, most of the Seabattle line is available from ALNAVCO. The style is similar to that of GHQ (lots of detail, exaggerated size of some components - as opposed to the bare appearance of CinC) and the quality is pretty good (no one matches GHQ, however). The biggest problem I have had is that some of the molds are beginning to deteriorate and they haven't updated them. Also, cost is high - significantly more than GHQ for the same ships. The biggest advantage - they have a large number of merchant and auxiliary ships that no one else produces.

Don S.