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Finally got this ship, now lets start, after cutting from sprue, cleaning and glueing together... some corrections must be done
1 filling portholes wrongly placed, drilling new
2 modifie opening of side full floor windows
3 Logo wrong place so cut away
4 take away circle relief around portholes
5 enlarging portholes

take a look at this link https://archive.org/details/ship-design ... S+Savannah as it has the plans for that ship.

Txs FFG-7, I already have plans... but more there are some great films on internet of her... I use them big time
take a look at these, the first is the official launching /promotional picture made by the US gouvernment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA8W2Xpz2hA&t=10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNQ305GVOFE

some modifications on portholes
rounding the sharp edges
modifying the pool

based on the inside shown in a Youtube movie , I took a sreenshot
and cut out the door and windows of the rear big room near the pool
As the windows of the bridge are to low behind the protective wall infront I raised the top piece with 1mmnow the window botom is at top level of that wall

Today was a big day, continue making these difficult squaire windows
a little before - now
finnished Hull, including cut out for stabillisers
started making stabilisers

what are the 2 tab things sticking out of the bottom of the hull as not shown on the plans?

they are to fix the ship (kit)on the stands lol... nothing to do wth the real ship

oh, ok.

Good start!
And an interesting subject!

all windows done, now the interior... I hope it will be visible ones the ship is done

finished the stabilisers and on the ship
full ships view... and ... all decks are painted
actually I mainly wanted to see how you can see thru the windows...
and yes .... with some help of light... you can see a lot of the rear recreation/ball room

Very good looking and quite rare subject.
You're doing a great job on it as well!

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Nice work! Great project.

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Txs guy's, I do hope you enjoy and yes.... not many of this kit around, and if ... some are at crazy prices, I was lucky to grab mine at a very reasonable price.

Today I did some modification on the door openings of the top part.

a little before and after, know that modification is not yet finished
and same but with between fully cut before re-buiding up

I decided to keep the Loadig hatches closed and to not use the added bleu line sticker but to paint it
I also got a bit more done on top part
not sure yet where I stop detailing that big room there

Elegant ship, a classic kit but old schoolkit--

deserving of your extensive work!

well done
JB

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Txs Jim
little by little it goes on and on...
an opening in the kits Bow... way to big and wrongly placed, so I closed it
ah well, this we will see
some work done on most rear castle

a 2 week time out from warf so here is here state of being atm ... a realy nice looking ship to me