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Evening all! It's time to share my latest little project and my first ever scratch build I'm working on an Arctic dio for a group build over on the whiff boards and an Owasco-Class WPG will be one of the ships. On to the photos:

First, some shots of the real ships circa 1945.




Family shot of the participants in the dio. Top is the Niko 1/700 USS Huntington (CL-107) which will be turned into the USS Newark (CL-108). The WPG hull is on the bottom. In the middle is my AAW modified Butler-Class DE and a TBF Avenger for size comparison.


The hull. Carved Basswood with 0.5mm styrene layered to give the deck its sheer. There's also a piece of 0.3mm styrene on the tip of the bow.




I haven't carved the sides of the hull yet. I'm letting the styrene finish drying overnight. The CA glue set very fast and I was able to sand each piece after a minute or so after gluing. Made short work of it all I sanded the styrene to even out the curve and get rid of the stair step appearance. I'll be adding a layer of Milliput over the deck and hull sides after I finish shaping the hull to unify the shape.

She'll be in her as built, 1945, fit but painted in MS. 16 the Thayer Blue Scheme. In the dio the WPG (not sure which of the class she'll be yet) will be clearing a channel through some light pack ice so that Newark can make it into a friendly port in Greenland for some emergency repairs. It seems her bow had a nasty run in with a torpedo and is in need of some fixing. Pesky U-boats!

Enjoy!

Any comments, thoughts, ideas, etc... are appreciated as always.

-Mike

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1/700 Whiff USN Modernized CAs 1984
1/700 Whiff ASW Showdown - FFs vs SSGN 1984

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1/700 Whiff USN ASW Hunter Killer Group Dio 1984

Welcome to the world of scratchbuilding . I like the subject ,that 5in dp looks cool .

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Very good work.

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