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Hi Everyone I thought I would share my build of HMAS Canberra a Adelaide Class Guided Missile Frigate, this build has been going for a few years and she is about 80% done. I'm a shocker for jumping from ship to ship but I have just gone back to her to start finishing her off! I have all her lower handrails to build, handrails above the hangers and lots of smaller details and transfers. This Hull is from APS Models in Australia by Allan Pew and her fittings are from Allan as well, in his semi kit for the FFG he supplies a Fibreglass Superstructure but for weight issues I made my own out of styrene and I think the ship handles a lot better in the water for that. I had the Hull sitting around for a while and I noticed that when I started her she had a twist in her hull! this was not going to be good at all! I ended up clamping her stand to the bench and then tek screwing the bow to the stand to make sure her bow was level and not going to move, once that was done I clamped the rear of the hull the opposite way of the twist and held that in position until I glued her cross beams in to the stringers, When this had all dried and I released the clamps and tek Screws the hull was straight again

Installing her stringers

Installed her rudder and Shaft

Motor was very quick install with some Silicone

Twist in the Hull

You can see in this Photo the PK screws in the hull into her stand

Stabilizers and Sponsons done


Fitted her Styrene Deck with with Fibreglass Helo and Fore Decks

Started her main Super Structure out of Styrene



all the stiffeners in her S.S.

Construction of her Rib deck


have two of these servos mounted under her upper deck, one for her SPS49 and one for her MK75 gun

Boat Deck fitted

More S.S. work

This is the only way I could construct her mast but it worked great






I have made Canberra so I can remove all her masts and Bridge with PK screws for Maintenance and painting




Bridge Construction

So after all that fun part of her construction the real fun starts with her detail.


Hand made her vents



Some of her most interesting parts made are her forward and aft RAS stations















More detail








this is her Flag bins being constructed




Support frames for her trash can Radars




Thats it for now will finish posting some more later, Cheers Scott

Wow great work, Beautiful SPS49.

Looking for a SPS49 for my CPF. Did you make it yourself?

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Thanks Lyall for your comments, the SPS49 is the creation of one of our club members here in Australia Task Force 72. Gunter has made these all out of styrene so they are nice and light and so far he has made them in 1/72 and 1/100 scales for some members, He does a fantastic job! It's one of those items I need to try my hand at one of these days. Scott

Wow, you Taskforce 72 guys are churning out ome fantastic works of art

Thanks Dave, I think the same about all you guys on this forum! glad your enjoying it. This is some more of Canberra.




The Funnel is resin cast but the vent is styrene

Canberra's on shore power box




Deck lockers

Ammo lockers with Kevlar panels



I made all my handrails out of Styrene






Sat Dome for above the hanger

Little more detail





Starting to look like an FFG


Hull in under coat and painted


Masking up for Storm Grey



Had to take her out for a sail


USS Fife and HMAS Canberra

Getting ready for paint with her mast's and bridge off
Painting her under side first





Paint her Pewter decks and masked off for Storm Grey



Air Brushed all her detail first before using the big air gun to paint her

And people say I'm quick at building! haha
Will you be finishing her before doing more on the carrier?

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Now Canberra with her Super Structure, Mast's and Bridge painted.







Her deck markings were painted on, this was the first time I had done this before so it's not perfect but I'm happy with the end result


Cardboard templets




when I removed the tape I had a few minor bleed throughs but these were easliy fixed


Fire Control Radar
















Bridge painting and handrails

She is looking the part more and more, Kevlar panels fitted to handrails









HMAS Canberra on display with some other club members but unfinished

making and fitting her Helo Nets


Painting the fly wire with white and then a light grey to dirty them up a bit






Next sail day was with her paint complete but still unfinished detail

USS Longbeach and Canberra

Lol Anton you are quick!!!!! this build of Canberra was about 12 months and then I started Sydney AWD and that was 12 months so I have two ships at around 80-90% done but not finished, I'm doing little detailed pieces for Sydney at the same time as Canberra but I'm Holding back on Sydney a little as she has not been built yet and so many things will change on her when the RAN finally get her, and Canberra is collecting dust and unfinished so to anwser your Question yes I'd like to finish both Canberra and Sydney before Garibaldi. When I look at Canberra and I see she has no railling on her lower decks and around the top of her hangers she just does not look right and no rigging, it's just got to be finished. Scott

Haha I agree Canberra is such a beautiful build she needs to be finished
I guess I'm the same with Brisbane as your Sydney. I'm just going to finish to obvious items that need to be done like finish the railings and the landing lights and I think that's about it really, but will change what needs to be done once Hobart is atleast finished and launched. I'm not allowed to start anything else until Brisbane is presentable - SWMOB standing orders

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1/72 Arleigh Burke flight iia
1/72 Hobart class AWD HMAS Brisbane
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1/72 Friesland
1/75 Wasa
1/53 STS Leeuwin II
1/72 HMAS Perth 1942
1/72 Russian Corvette Steregushchy

Cheers Anton, I Heard that your coming over to the Naracoorte Ragatta this year? you'll be able to check out Canberra and Sydney for yourself and it will be the first time ever that HMAS Hobart, Brisbane and Sydney AWD's will sail together! going to be a great photo.Lol
As I said before that Canberra had not been finished and in the Photo's you can see shes missing bits and pieces.
Making the Whip Aerials for above the Hanger

I used a rectangle tube and cut two C sections out of it for the ends of the frames to support the whip aerials

Then I notched the centre and top cross beam



One end frame!

End frames with their feet and part of the whip aerial base

Whip Aerial bases made


Bases fitted with their brackets

Bases and Frames assembled

Aerials attached

Part of the lowering handles fitted


Mounted on the Ship

Canberra with her new Whip Aerials

So now you have seen were I had left Canberra for way too long I have started to do some work on her to try and finish this model! In the next few days I will have some more work done and will post my progress as I go. Scott

That's the plan at least. The car I use to take the boat to the lake is fine for everyday use but not too sure how it would go crossing the Nullabor. I'd take my falcon but Brisbane doesn't fit anymore! Haha still time to sort something out as it would be great to meet some of the guys from over east and like you said have the three AWD's together for the first time.

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1/72 Arleigh Burke flight iia
1/72 Hobart class AWD HMAS Brisbane
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=154767
1/72 Friesland
1/75 Wasa
1/53 STS Leeuwin II
1/72 HMAS Perth 1942
1/72 Russian Corvette Steregushchy

My suggestion to Rob awhiles back was for the guys that are coming over to pool your resources and hire a LWB or SLWB (super long wheelbase.....make sure its a turbo diesel)Hiace or Transit for transporting any models you are bringing and a second vehicle for people (picked from who's is most reliable/best range/efficiency/comfort). The other way to do it is to jump on the Indian Pacific for the Perth to Adelaide leg with car (its cheaper Perth/Adelaide than Adelaide/Perth) and drive back in convoy...

Cheers Bruce

PS I would also suggest making up some transport boxes to prevent damage on the long trip.

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Hi guys as I said in my last post is that I would keep you up too date on the progress of Canberra and I have got some bits and pieces to show, As stated earlier in my post, Canberra has no deck Railing so I've started on her Starboard side with Styrene stanchions and I made some Jigs to help me with the spacings of her five rail. This has worked really well and I've finished the Starboard side and have nearly finished painting I've done the storm grey and the black now I just need to do some small touch ups and paint the small silver bits near the Stanchions to look like buckles. And why I was painting I did some double and triple claets in White. Scott

Used the Chopper 2 and cut all the components for the deck handrails

The start of the five rails

The Jig


Getting the hang of this

Fore Deck done

MidShips started

Done


Rails off the ship and ready for paint


Rails under coated

The rails had been painted in stormgrey no photo sorry but then they were masked up ready for the black rails.

just sitting on the ship to have a look, they need some small touch ups and the silver done

And the Ships cleats in White

Blimey Scott, she is looking stunning, really coming along nicely, love the the way you are building all the rails.

Im wondering, are these posts in real time with your build as she is coming along so fast, or do you just not sleep

Hi Scott!
It's not a model just real ship!
I enoy it.
Song.

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Dave I started Canberra a few years ago but I had never finished her, I've posted photos of her so people could see her come together as well as the rest of her build. So no I'm not fast just jump from project to project. Song I look at your beautiful builds and your work blows me away!!!! Thank you for your kind words. Scott

I look at this and I can hear the fans and blowers, feel the wind and the movement. This stunning build brings back a lot of memories, some good some not so. Well done Scott, I can't wait to see her finished. Will you be posting a video of her in the water when finished for those of us who cannot get a long to see her live?

Scott all i can say is: