Kitbash of USS Chester

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Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by nick » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:14 pm

Amazing work on the superstructure Ron!!
:thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:06 pm

Thanks guys! I will at some point get around to taking photos of my builds over the last year for the gallery here but first I have a few research jobs to finish (as in I just started a 2 week job with Steve in town and about 20 minutes ago got home from NHC) then I get to clean up the photo area in the basement.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Tony Bunch » Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:37 pm

Hi Guys,
Ron,
Good work!
Good scratch building and research effort; a perfect complement.
Tony

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by MartinJQuinn » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:06 am

Ron,

Any new pictures? Would love to see how she came out...

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:59 pm

MartinJQuinn wrote:Sweet build. Boy, that 5D is DARK. Holy Cow!
Ahyup! Photos of it fresh on Reuben James show it as just barely lighter than the boot stripe. The sample from CV-6 can't be discerned from black until you put it on the 0 swatch of the Munsell neutral scale under photo floods. Since I usually build dockyard style I went with the freshly applied mix.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by MartinJQuinn » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:40 pm

Sweet build. Boy, that 5D is DARK. Holy Cow!

Oh, and those turret markings are quite gaudy!!

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:00 pm

Thanks Bob. Paint scheme is often half the reason I decide to build a particular ship. Sometimes I'll even decide I want to do a certain measure, find what ships wore it then find what model I have that will build that ship. This time I simply had one photo that had a cool scheme and enough parts to kitbash it.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Quincy » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:22 am

I like the paint job very much!!!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:





Bob Pink.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:29 am

And you thought the willow green and insignia red was loud?
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from aft
from aft
abeam
abeam

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:27 am

Starting to look like a warship.....5-D mixed to a touch lighter than the sample from CV-6. 5-O and 5-L straight from the bottle MM Acryl. Teak for decks mixed to a color I like with 5-D steel horizontal and sloping surfaces. The decks were oure hell to mask as assembled as the ship was in the previous photos but it's that or try to get those tripods built after painting. Lots of little touchups for bleeds and adhesion problems.
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Water level view.
Water level view.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by J. Soca » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:36 pm

Great job Ron :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Quincy » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:04 pm

Coming along nicely Ron!!!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:




Bob Pink.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:42 pm

Elvis965 wrote:Great stuff, Ron. Nice scratch on the fighting top!

The aluminum gun tubs....did you turn those yourself?

Bob
Those aren't aluminum, they are the kit supplied white metal tubs after a little cleanup then brushed with a very fine wire brush.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by johndon » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:27 am

Great work Ron :thumbs_up_1:

John

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Elvis965 » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:04 am

Great stuff, Ron. Nice scratch on the fighting top!

The aluminum gun tubs....did you turn those yourself?

Bob

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:43 am

MartinJQuinn wrote:Very, very cool. Will she (and you) be in Virgina Beach?
Doubtful, my wife is handicapped so anything that isn't an hour or so away is almost impossible.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by MartinJQuinn » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:31 pm

Very, very cool. Will she (and you) be in Virgina Beach?

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:15 pm

Partially painted.
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Full starboard side view.
Full starboard side view.
Closeup starboard bow, wave infill is Mitsubishi navy green with Vallejo outline in white. The hull up to the 5-O is painted and masked, the pencil line indicates the top of the 5-O zone for masking.
Closeup starboard bow, wave infill is Mitsubishi navy green with Vallejo outline in white. The hull up to the 5-O is painted and masked, the pencil line indicates the top of the 5-O zone for masking.
Port bow.
Port bow.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by Ron Smith » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:02 am

Thanks guys!

She's primed now Martin, drilled the flag bags, relocated the aft two once I realized the halyards would drag on the searchlight platform....oops. Added the prop guards and fired up the airbrush. Everything but the 5"-25's and 1.1's are primed as well. I'll build and prime those while paint cures on the rest of the beast.

Yes Devin, those old BWN and YWM cruisers are great kits. I'd hate to see Trumpeter release them with all their typical screwups and kill the market for the good resin kits. The Northampton class needs to be upgraded by YWM to bring it up to today's standards but they're still very good kits.

A teaser of the scheme.....
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MS-2 with Ms-5 false bow wave.
MS-2 with Ms-5 false bow wave.

Re: Kitbash of USS Chester

by William J » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:39 pm

:thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

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