Here is the USS Santee in 1944. I used the Iron Shipwrights 1/350 Sangamon kit and modified it to be the Santee. I added scratch built 20 mm tubs on the bow, searchlight platform on the stern, additional details to the bow and island, and the aircraft crane. I used Master Models 40mm kits and Blue Ridge Models 20 mm mounts. I used Trumpeter aircraft. I used AK Interactive acrylics and True Color paints on her. This was my first attempt at spinning props on a couple of the aircraft and I think it turned out pretty decent. I mounted her in a piece of Styrofoam and made the sea from acrylic gel medium that was painted and glossed. I build her for man whose Grandfather served on her in WWII.
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