Revell 1/375 Attack Transport....U.S.S. Montrose or Randall.

[spanner570]

I've long fancied having a crack at this ship. About 14" long.
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Deck and superstructure fixed, and first coat, brush painted with Vallejo Model Air acrylics.
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Cheers,
Ron

[spanner570]

Sorry, I forgot the sprue shot...
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Ron

[papa 695]

Looks a nice kit Ron.
Are we going to see another master class in water diorama's ? or is it a stand alone on the stand ?

[spanner570]

Thanks Ian. It's nice having a one piece hull, and kit has gone together fine so far..

Don't know about a master class. But as you can see, she's a waterline model, so will probably look better in some kind of 'water.'

Ron

[spanner570]

bit of progress....

Gun platforms, life rafts, deck vents and of course, the chimberley.

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Just the guns to add to the platforms, and then it's all diddy LCP's, masts, cranes and derricks....and a forest of rigging!

Thanks for looking,
Ron

[monica]

very nice start to this one,Ron,will see you work your magic on the water some time soon,

[papa 695]

Looking very good Ron

[spanner570]

Thanks folks.

....an update.

Masts, cranes, derricks, guns etc., fitted.
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Next, I'll get the brush out and finish painting the ship. The beauty of brush painting is the fact that (apart from obvious inaccessible places) virtually the whole ship can be built before any painting is required. Once done, I can then turn my attention to the rigging, landing craft and all the gubbins that goes with them.

Cheers,
Ron

[monica]

looks good Ron,cannot wait to see some color on it,

[Gern]

I've been tempted by this one a couple of times. Have you come across any build problems? Obviously if you had, you've solved them, but for those of us with more average skills ......

[spanner570]

Have you come across any build problems?

The fit was generally spot on. The only negatives thus far are:-

A) loads of seams to clean up from where the plastic has 'Run'.....Old moulding, I suppose.
B) Lots of little raised circles of plastic ( I don't know what they're called) on the decks. Some of which were impossible to get at to file away without damaging the deck surface.
C) For some reason there are numerous locating holes in the decks with nothing left in the kit to shove into them!
D) The railing detail is solid plastic and looks naff.

For someone more fussy than me, the kit would be a ball ache and would probably end up in the bin, but as I just open the box and try my best, I'm not too bothered.
....but if anyone is very fussy about the end result - leave well alone.

Despite the above tale of woe, and because it's something different, I'm really enjoying the build - Honest.

Ron

[papa 695]

And it shows Ron some cracking work so far.

[Gern]

The fit was generally spot on. The only negatives thus far are:-

A) loads of seams to clean up from where the plastic has 'Run'.....Old moulding, I suppose.
B) Lots of little raised circles of plastic ( I don't know what they're called) on the decks. Some of which were impossible to get at to file away without damaging the deck surface.
C) For some reason there are numerous locating holes in the decks with nothing left in the kit to shove into them!
D) The railing detail is solid plastic and looks naff.

For someone more fussy than me, the kit would be a ball ache and would probably end up in the bin, but as I just open the box and try my best, I'm not too bothered.
....but if anyone is very fussy about the end result - leave well alone.

Despite the above tale of woe, and because it's something different, I'm really enjoying the build - Honest.

Ron

Thanks Ron. Methinks I'll give this one a miss. It's not as if I haven't got any other kits to do!

[spanner570]

Methinks I'll give this one a miss.

Don't get me wrong, Dave, it does make up into a nice enough model. It's just all the excessive cleaning up etc., and some rather basic detail that gives it low marks.

But, if like me, you're not too fussy about end results, and just have fun making models, then it makes for an 'interesting' project.....

[Gern]

Don't get me wrong, Dave, it does make up into a nice enough model. It's just all the excessive cleaning up etc., and some rather basic detail that gives it low marks.

But, if like me, you're not too fussy about end results, and just have fun making models, then it makes for an 'interesting' project.....

Well - p'raps if I find one very cheap ........

I'd like to have a go at some sort of ship that's not a warship or cruise liner. The other one I've seen is the Trumpeter SS John W Brown - and that's the opposite of this one with far too much fiddly detail!