The Ship Model Forum

after 2 long years....

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Nice conversion, Jepot!

Had never seen these ships, nice work! :thumbs_up_1:

The mast:

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Mast up...

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railings, rigging, finishing touches and oh the rear derrick...hmmmm.... :smallsmile:

some little progress.....

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[quote="NukeMM"]This'll be cool, Jepot! :thumbs_up_1:[/quote]

thanks Carl! mebbe that is what i need, enough courage to build OUR little special project- until i would have all the drive to do and finish it too! i see that being done after this one...hopefully...

This'll be cool, Jepot! :thumbs_up_1:

I have always dreamt of having an APD kit as i have wanted to have all models of Philippine Navy ships. One of its earliest capital ships was RPS Rajah Soliman (D66), or the former USS Bowers (APD 40/ DE 637), a Buckley class DE. Having had a spare Buckley kit, i took my time to search the web for ways to convert a Buckley DE to an APD and finally mustered enough courage to kitbash/ modify my last Buckley hull...

Dry fitting...
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Some modifications
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The biggest corrections...
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So far done...
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Hope to finish this before the end of the year. It was not in the ship kit list but for some reason i had to make the kit, dunno why... :heh: