Scamp Complete

Today's trivia question

 125# Air Hoses run from shipyard air (The Red Lines)

 What was the purpose of this hose connection (Black hose with yellow and magenta tape, running from the side of the hull up to a 55 gallon drum)? If you know the answer tell me what I was trained to do.

At the end of today efforts

Ships banners added to service brows, most of the scaffolding built and attached.

Scamp scaffolding construction

 Scaffolding set in place temporarily to check fit.

ASW cooling water discharge, today this water must be collected and processed rather than being allowed to just fall into the dry dock basin. Seems crazy to me.

Masts and Antennas

 Scratch building details on the Gun Director, Main Mast and upper portions of the stacks.

I primered the main portion of the hull and superstructure to check that all scratches and modifications are blended.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0566917.jpg

Follow the link to a group of color photos of the USS Cotten on the Navsource history web site, this is the paint scheme and the seas that I will depict the model on when it is completed. I will copy the image to my blog once I have permission of the owners of the web site.

Fletcher Work Continues

 While I am waiting on material to finish the dry dock scene for my Scamp model I have been plugging away at the destroyer model. This over all view shows most of the structure is assembled. 

The side of the ship where the structures were supposed to be flush with the hull have been cut off and replaced with new plastic (white) or relocated flush with the perpendicular line of the hull. I have also added detail to the stack interior (white plastic) and corrected the forward 40 mm bofors cannon tubs to match the hull line. I am scratch building the gun director and will need to do a lot of work scratch building of the 20 mm and 40 mm AA guns as the ones in the kit a rudimentary. The other major task is to replace most of the cast on and grossly out of proportion items on the mast. I think that will keep me happy enough with the detail at that point and I will call the kit work complete.

Blue Devil Started

This model will be done as it looks like on the box art. The model is not a particularly good model to start with. It is 1/125th scale but the detail is heavy, inaccurate and clunky. It is made to be motorized so has many compromises to allow this. I will do some scratch building of items that are grossly wrong but I am not going to go crazy on making it accurate (famous last words). The main goal here is going to be building a realistic sea to display the ship on.