Hello to everybody in this forum. I will put the keel of the american heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, a veteran of Guadalcanal, and the one who gave the mortal blow to the HIJMS Hiei, nothing less than a battlecruiser (more properly, a fast battleship, under japanese designation). I will use Tom Modelworks's photoetched parts, the simple ones and some documentation, both of english and spanish origin (after all, I'm an Spaniard, and maybe I'll give you a different perspective of the whole affair of the Guadalcanal campaign. Btw, Guadalcanal, like Santa Cruz and Espiritu Santo are all spanish names, as was his discoverer, Alvaro de Mendaña, buth this is another history not covered here. Guadalcanal is the name of a small village close to Seville). Like all the prewar heavy cruisers, the New Orleans heavy cruiser class are sons of Washington Treaty's or Treaty of Washington (please, don't hesitate to correct my mistakes in English, after all, is not my mother tongue, and do the same with my modelist's skills, which are average to say the best). Well, after all this speech, let's go with the pictures.
This is the front box, very nice.
Here is the content of the already mentioned box
The etched parts, generic for heavy cruisers
The camouflage scheme
And, finally, the documentation
I'll use too the books "La guerra naval en el Pacífico" (Naval war in the Pacific) of Luis de la Sierra a spanish Armada's officer who is very famous here. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and can give you the point of view of a naval officer.
And that's all, folks (I loved Bugs Bunnie's cartoons when I was a kid, consider this an homage).
Borja, CEO of Astilleros Zubimusu S.L./Zubimusu Shipyards Inc.
Hace a nice time, wherever you are
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