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Posted by Douglas C Miller MD,PhD
on 10/10/2009, 7:08 pm, in reply to "Ain't no Framburg model . . ."
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Well, Bill, if I buy an Argonaut from you and it has the right kind of logo etc on the bottom I presume it is a real Argonaut. When I buy a Neptun from a dealer or off an auction site from Oliver Maertens and it has the right logo and number etc then I presume it is a real Neptun. Ditto Trident, Konishi, Delphin, Hansa...not so sure about Ensign, Grifo, et alia.
--Previous Message--
: Unfortunately, beginning back in the 1970s,
: just as the Xerox machine and the computer
: turned everybody into a publisher, rubber
: mold-making material made everybody into
: producers of 1:1200 ship models. This
: includes Metal Miniatures, Red Ensign, and a
: few others whose names I have forgotten.
:
: Metal Miniatures in the 1970s began
: producing their line of ship models. Even
: though the masters for the models came from
: Comet, Framburg, South Salem Studios,
: Wiking, Mercator, Trident, Star, Neptun,
: Navis and other producers, the entire line
: was, for a time advertised as
: "Framburg" models. I should know,
: because I provided Metal Miniatures with
: more than 20 to 30 plus out-of-production
: models with no copyright protection, to use
: as masters or prototypes for MM ships. This
: included Comet and Framburg models and some
: South Salem studios models, not some of the
: others listed above, most of which were
: still in production.
:
: This, of course, was false. Not
: deliberately so, but intended more as a
: tribute to a great line of ship i.d. models
: from WWII. After all, the owners of MM were
: model railroad experts, not ship
: enthusiasts.
:
: So, many new collectors who come across
: models claimed as Framburg under the trade
: name Metal Miniatures, have been mislead
: into believing that many non-Framburg models
: are, indeed, castings of real Framburg
: models. Of course, the collectors would
: know this only if they possessed a copy of
: the original MM list and actually owned or
: at least seen all of the models offered
: under the banner "Framburg"
: models.
:
: The Albatross model came from a Comet (near
: as in can tell) model. Framburg never made
: a model of the Albatross--and damn few other
: ships, as the 1:1200 line was limited to a
: little more than fifty individual ship
: models.
:
: Good luck, collectors. Do you really know
: who made your models?
:
: --Previous Message--
:
: This week’s conversion returns to youthful
: fancies and has more than a few things wrong
: with it. The main issue is synchronicity,
: as the late 1945 paint scheme would have
: been applied when Albatross was already
: stripped as a repair ship. She had also
: left Australian service to become a simple
: “HMS.” But so be it. With the “mea culpas”
: out of the way, she is a pretty good
: illustration of the way I was enhancing
: Framburgs and Superiors in the 1970s.
:
: The work employed all the usual techniques I
: was using in this period. File off all
: molded-in detail to obtain a flat deck
: surface and take it from there. The guns,
: as most of you will recognize, are Superior
: US 5”/38 open mounts, the boats and rafts
: are Schlingelhoff plastic castings, the mast
: is surplus from a Navis pre-dreadnought, and
: all of the bulwarks and tubs are fashioned
: from sheet copper bent to shape.
:
: I sold this model to Robert Liu in Monterey
: last spring and hope he is enjoying it as
: much as I am enjoying his little book.
:
: Best to all.
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