Wanting to scratch build an RC Cold War era destroyer

[Geno]

I’m looking for a Lines and sections set of drawings for a 1:96 scale Forest Sherman Class destroyer. Need something different to work on while I’m working on my other 18 th century war ships

 

[AllanKP69]

Forest Sherman Class destroyer

I assume (never a good idea ) you contacted the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). I looked and they may have one or more sets of plans of one of the class, some post ASW conversion. Model Monkey has the following plans in 12 sheets of the Jonas Ingram DD938 which was part of the Forest Sherman DD931 class and which are supposedly from NARA. The scale may not be 1:96 but that is easily done once you have the plans.
Allan

• title sheet
• general dimensions and data
• inboard and outboard profiles
• all hull decks, bridge decks and platforms
• hull cross sections

 

[Geno]

I assume (never a good idea ) you contacted the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). I looked and they may have one or more sets of plans of one of the class, some post ASW conversion. Model Monkey has the following plans in 12 sheets of the Jonas Ingram DD938 which was part of the Forest Sherman DD931 class and which are supposedly from NARA. The scale may not be 1:96 but that is easily done once you have the plans.
Allan

• title sheet
• general dimensions and data
• inboard and outboard profiles
• all hull decks, bridge decks and platforms
• hull cross sections

Thanks Allan I have just checked

I assume (never a good idea ) you contacted the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). I looked and they may have one or more sets of plans of one of the class, some post ASW conversion. Model Monkey has the following plans in 12 sheets of the Jonas Ingram DD938 which was part of the Forest Sherman DD931 class and which are supposedly from NARA. The scale may not be 1:96 but that is easily done once you have the plans.
Allan

• title sheet
• general dimensions and data
• inboard and outboard profiles
• all hull decks, bridge decks and platforms
• hull cross sections

Thanks Allen, I checked in with Model Monkey earlier today and he found me something about the actual Forest Sherman. I really wanted to build the FS as this was the first actual Navy ship that I was aboard in Duluth, Mn. back in 1959 on her cruise through the Great Lakes.

 

[AllanKP69]

Glad you succeeded. Will you be building with wood, fiberglass, or something else?
Allan

 

[Davidp]

Geno, DD-938 USS Jonas Ingram Booklet of General Plans 1970 is the ASW version as there was 3 variant of that class during their life span, all gun, AA & ASW.
DD-938 USS Jonas Ingram Booklet of General Plans (1970) https://archive.org/details/dd938bogp1970
DD-951 USS Turner Joy General Arrangement (2011) https://archive.org/details/dd951haer2011
i'm doing the 3 variants using Revell's 1/320 scale USS Forrest Sherman as a basis.

 

[Geno]

Glad you succeeded. Will you be building with wood, fiberglass, or something else?
Allan

I plan on building most of it in wood, maybe fiberglassing the hull before painting. I might just use a wash coat of epoxy on it. At this stage I’m just trying to plan the whole thing out so as to not get the cart in front of the horse.

 

[Geno]

I assume (never a good idea ) you contacted the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). I looked and they may have one or more sets of plans of one of the class, some post ASW conversion. Model Monkey has the following plans in 12 sheets of the Jonas Ingram DD938 which was part of the Forest Sherman DD931 class and which are supposedly from NARA. The scale may not be 1:96 but that is easily done once you have the plans.
Allan

• title sheet
• general dimensions and data
• inboard and outboard profiles
• all hull decks, bridge decks and platforms
• hull cross sections

 

[Geno]

I plan on building most of it in wood, maybe fiberglassing the hull before painting. I might just use a wash coat of epoxy on it. At this stage I’m just trying to plan the whole thing out so as to not get the cart in front of the horse.

Also, I’m just now trying my luck with the NARA

 

[Geno]

Geno, DD-938 USS Jonas Ingram Booklet of General Plans 1970 is the ASW version as there was 3 variant of that class during their life span, all gun, AA & ASW.
DD-938 USS Jonas Ingram Booklet of General Plans (1970) https://archive.org/details/dd938bogp1970
DD-951 USS Turner Joy General Arrangement (2011) https://archive.org/details/dd951haer2011
i'm doing the 3 variants using Revell's 1/320 scale USS Forrest Sherman as a basis.

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I’m trying to locally find an old model of the Forest Sherman That I can make up a set of lines and sections that I can use to build the hull. I’ve got to enlarge the whole thing to get to 1:96 scale I want

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Good luck with your hunt, always fun to build what you remember first hand knowledge of from old memories.

 

[Davidp]

Geno, are you talking about the Revell/Atlantis model of the Forrest Sherman class destroyer?
would this plan help?

 

[Geno]

It would indeed help, where did you find this plan

 

[Davidp]

got it off the net in 2019. the 2 sets of plans i linked above which includes 1 you got from Model Monkey has cross sections which can be located on the outboard & inboard profile plans.

 

[Geno]

got it off the net in 2019. the 2 sets of plans i linked above which includes 1 you got from Model Monkey has cross sections which can be located on the outboard & inboard profile plans.

Thanks Dave, I just ordered this from the model monkey on Saturday. I’m now waiting to see what I’m being sent

 

[Davidp]

you should have got that within 15 minutes after ordering it, check your spam/trash folder, just in case. can just go to the links i posted & download them direct to your computer as that is what i have been doing for the past 5 years at no cost. have close to 300 sets of US navy plans saved on my computer.

 

[Kilo66]

If I may be so bold as to offer my two cent's worth, unless you're dead set on (or already heavily invested in) a Forrest Sherman tin can, you couldn't do better for a representative Cold War-era US Navy man-o-war than the fictional destroyer USS Bedford DDG-113, mechanismo star of both the novel The Bedford Incident and the eponymous B/W movie. If memory serves, the Bedford was based upon the 1950s Farragut class of guided missile warships.
Here's the Bedford as she appeared on the silver screen, and her real life inspiration.

 

[xanthar]

Still WIP but, I'm modelling the USS Barry for a relative who served aboard her. I may be able to help with hull lines for your Forest Sherman model. I bought the kit from Atlantis and while I love that they are preserving and using those old molds, it's pretty hard to take accurate measurements from something so small and the deck is terribly warped : (
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[Davidp]

as built or when modified for ASW?