Post by Daniel C on Apr 5, 2011 13:06:48 GMT -5
Here is another modern ship build by Corpsman..
USS Arleigh Burke DDG-51, March of 1992 part of DesRon 2 homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.
The kit is from Skywave/Pit Road kit # M13.
The kit was started June 1995, Sep 2004, Oct 2008 and May 2010.
She was completed on 22 June 2010.
Detail added:
C3 with dome P&S, forward and aft. Check pictures for date!!!!!
Generator unit, Part C7 SMALL
5inch/45 Part G9 basis
AS-3156 Part 38, replace with 3 arms
SLQ-32(V)3 Part C24 – railing is behind the radar and note how TALL it is!!!
4 squares on TACAN mast with oval like radar on top
File open the bridge windows
Spuce for bracing on the RIB (Flagship PE a joke!!!)
Plastic for all antenna platforms on the funnels
Detail the Kingpost
NO platform front of forward funnel
Add bull nose to point of bow
Port emergency whip antenna. Can be up or down. Doesn’t lay flat!!
2 Nixie holes, square
Stern Photo – flight netting, how low they sit on the hull
Stern Photo – position of 3 chocks
3-lines rigged from the yardarms and secured to the FRONT of the bridge. (White glued center plastic line. White glued other lines just a little high on center line)
RED “things” – paint a lots/all of the PE hose sets and place throughout the ship – check references!!!!
Railing – 3 bars on main deck
2 bar for upper decks and mast platforms
PE: Flagship PE set used. Don’t like it but started it and will finish with it
GMM Modern USN/JMSDF Set used. (WOW!! Had to piece-meal railing on the mast!!!
Bugger!!!)
BASIC COLOR – MM Light Gull Gray 36440 (Used Neutral Gray but just too dark for me!!!)
DECK – MM Gunship Gray
Funnels – Jet Exhaust on outside, Flat Black inside.
Next up??
USS Arleigh Burke DDG-51, March of 1992 part of DesRon 2 homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.
The kit is from Skywave/Pit Road kit # M13.
The kit was started June 1995, Sep 2004, Oct 2008 and May 2010.
She was completed on 22 June 2010.
Detail added:
C3 with dome P&S, forward and aft. Check pictures for date!!!!!
Generator unit, Part C7 SMALL
5inch/45 Part G9 basis
AS-3156 Part 38, replace with 3 arms
SLQ-32(V)3 Part C24 – railing is behind the radar and note how TALL it is!!!
4 squares on TACAN mast with oval like radar on top
File open the bridge windows
Spuce for bracing on the RIB (Flagship PE a joke!!!)
Plastic for all antenna platforms on the funnels
Detail the Kingpost
NO platform front of forward funnel
Add bull nose to point of bow
Port emergency whip antenna. Can be up or down. Doesn’t lay flat!!
2 Nixie holes, square
Stern Photo – flight netting, how low they sit on the hull
Stern Photo – position of 3 chocks
3-lines rigged from the yardarms and secured to the FRONT of the bridge. (White glued center plastic line. White glued other lines just a little high on center line)
RED “things” – paint a lots/all of the PE hose sets and place throughout the ship – check references!!!!
Railing – 3 bars on main deck
2 bar for upper decks and mast platforms
PE: Flagship PE set used. Don’t like it but started it and will finish with it
GMM Modern USN/JMSDF Set used. (WOW!! Had to piece-meal railing on the mast!!!
Bugger!!!)
BASIC COLOR – MM Light Gull Gray 36440 (Used Neutral Gray but just too dark for me!!!)
DECK – MM Gunship Gray
Funnels – Jet Exhaust on outside, Flat Black inside.
Next up??