It has been a few months since I have last worked on my USS SPRUANCE. It has been sitting on the building table waiting for me to return. Well, time away has seen me building on my TopFlite R/C model air plane kits (yep, two of them) and spending hours in front of the computer trying to learn to fly by using "RealFlight". Well... I don't see myself heading out to the flying field until the warmth of Spring returns... So I am going to spend some long over due building time on my ships. Oh yes... and I still have a "Mister Darby" unbuilt kit to think about also! I will post more information and more pictures in the upcoming weeks.
Well, here is some pictures of the work I was doing on the superstructure. The picture above shows the filler added after the styrene was applied. After the primer is applied and sanded I will have a great surface for paint. If you look close to the end of the stack house you can see some "fuze" still on the basswood. After this is sanded these will be covered with styrene also. Another view. Walkways and other details will be added later. Cutout made for the starboard forward RAS cutout. The fitting is from SIRMAR. The plastic parts in this picture look "warped" but they are NOT. This is a bad picture and I need to post a new one later. I have not been spending much time at all working on my model ships. What time I do have is going to a R/C Cessna 182 Skylane I am working on!
Things are moving along with the superstructure. I spent most of yesterday gluing on the 0.010” plain styrene sheet to the basswood. Although it is really a “pain in the ass” the results are worth the effort. I am using Walthers Goo® to glue the styrene to the basswood. I apply a thin coat to each surface, let each one dry for about two minutes then apply. I then sand the edges flush and add filler where needed. I should be done with applying the styrene skins a lot sooner than I thought it would take me. I am holding off on applying the four sides that have the RAS cutouts, these I will do last. I should be able to apply some 0.005” reinforcement to the cut outs as on the full sized ships. We will see. I will also post some pictures soon also. The applied styrene sheets have worked giving me a great surface to apply paint. I have had no delamination or ripples in the applied styrene surface. I will have to wait an see IF this becomes a problem with time.
Here is some stuff I did over this weekend. The forward section starting to take shape. Although there is a lot more I need to build. Another angle. (The forward section is NOT glued to the rear section yet.) Now here I am working on the stack house. Here I marked the radius that I needed to make. The stack house sanded and ready for the top deatils to be added. I made two of these. More posts soon...
It's been awhile since my last post. Over the past week I have been working on the superstructure for the USS Spruance. I have moved on to building the forward section. Here I am starting to frame up the starboard side. (Note where the RAS cut out goes) Glued and clamped. More progress... (I think) Here I am starting to layout the forward section. There are a few tricky angles on the forward section. The plans were a help although my hull didn't match plans. Because of this, I had to make changes to allow the forward section to match my hull. Also note where I made allowance for the thickness of the wood in my measurements. More posts soon
Work is moving along on the USS Spruance. More detailed information about this project can be found in the USS Spruance Project Area of this website. I have an December 1997 issue of Fine Scale Modeler. In this issue, Al Kalbfleisch built a 1/96 scale model of CG-63 USS Cowpens. He used a fiberglass hull, plans and fittings from The Scale Shipyard. What caught me was how he built the superstructure. He built the superstructure out of basswood with sheet styrene skin that was bonded with Goop. Since I built the hull from wood, I thought that building the superstructure out of wood would be a good idea. I plane to use Midwest brand basswood, evergreen .010 plain sheet styrene and Walthers Goo® to adhere the styrene skin to the basswood. Here are some quick pictures showing some of the building so far: More soon. |
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