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Here photos of USS Freedom built using the CyberHobby (Dragon) kit:











The kit is good, but all small details are overscale. The PE parts are also overscale, especially the MGs - and some, e.g. for the antenna behind the funnel, are also not included. The Seahawk is SH-60B by Trumpeter with added wings for Hellfire missiles and rotors by BJ-Modellbau to depict a MH-60R Seahawk. The Seahawk included in the kit has only a very remote similarity with the real one. I added a MQ-8 Fire Scout from the Coronado kit of CyberHobby (Dragon). I painted Freedom using Vallejo 151, 154, brightened 59, and 167. The decks are painted with Vallejo 159.

http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3540:amerikanische-fregatte-freedom-1700-dragon-von-lars-scharff&catid=112:lars

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Nice, I like it

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"Also we will never see a 1/350 late war Enterprise from Dragon due to a paralyzing fear of success...." - Heavy Melder

Lots of unfinished model ships + attention issues = A busy slipway where nothing gets done!

Awesome! I love that these dazzle jobs are coming back.

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- Chris

1/700 Saratoga w/Pontos (Needs paint)
1/700 Potato w/Kurama (On hold)
1/700 Murdertorpedoboat Ooi

Very cool!

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Thank you for your comments!

Freedom is one of the few bigger modern ships with camouflage - some navies have their smaller ships camouflaged, e.g. the Chinese, Brazilian, Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish navies - and the US Navy for patrol boats. But non of their bigger ships...

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