This project started when I finally found out what ship my grandpa, Harold "Shorty" Beutler served on through the Pacific Campaign in WWII. It was always a mystery which ship it was. I had heard that it was the "Franklin" but that was a carrier. I thought that would be a cool proposition. But I had also hear that it was a troop transport. So that didn't add up.
So this last Christmas, I got my grandpa Shorty's recorded autobiography (thank you aunt Jana & uncle John for that!), among other things we finally got the name and number of his ship.
I wanted to make a model of it and so the odyssey to find a kit began. Well, the ship class (Harris attack transport) is obscure enough to not have a kit. So now I faced the daunting prospect of making a model from scratch. With my brother Benn's help we quickly sounded the depths of the web and found enough pictures to get started.
The most helpful thing Benn found was a plan for her early war camouflage. It was apparently made as a basic tracing over her plans. So we went on from there and the following are the results thus far.
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