The Ship Model Forum

Timmy C wrote:

DutchBird wrote:I can only applaud your dedication to this model, and look forward to see you finish it as a job well done.

That said, the ship design itself is so hideous that it should be banned from sailing, and the designers banned from ever touching a drawing board (old school or digital again). I can honestly say I have never seen a ship coming somewhere remotely close in ugliness to this ship design.

For clarity's sake, that is NOT a knock on your modelling skills, which are top notch.

Cheers,

Harm

Hmm, I think this one is a pretty good contender - at least Zumwalt is radical enough that you can't really make a decent apples-to-apples comparison:

DutchBird wrote:I can only applaud your dedication to this model, and look forward to see you finish it as a job well done.

That said, the ship design itself is so hideous that it should be banned from sailing, and the designers banned from ever touching a drawing board (old school or digital again). I can honestly say I have never seen a ship coming somewhere remotely close in ugliness to this ship design.

For clarity's sake, that is NOT a knock on your modelling skills, which are top notch.

Cheers,

Harm

biggles2 wrote:Hmmm... the "USS Putty"!

D-Boy wrote:

biggles2 wrote:Looks like you could do the entire build including PE in an afternoon! Not an extensive high parts count kit from Dragon. Do you have to sand down any kit surface detail to properly attach the PE panels?

Alas, the seams on this kit require significant attention, particularly at the bow and the superstructure. The initial BigBoyBlue PE set assembles in multiple pieces, too, but appears from this build not to have seam issues at the joints. BigBoyBlue announced this month that they will be releasing a one-piece water-lined hull in resin that should further address the seam issues.

biggles2 wrote:Looks like you could do the entire build including PE in an afternoon! Not an extensive high parts count kit from Dragon. Do you have to sand down any kit surface detail to properly attach the PE panels?

biggles2 wrote:On the BBB package it says there are 3 PE pieces, but from looking at the instruction sheet there appears to be much more!