Calling all USS Barnegat-class seaplane tender (AVP) fans

[NukeMM]

I've added details to the Mk26 Radar Room: Lockers, vents, fire control radar unit, bulwark, whip antenna mounting supports.





Inclined ladder and railing.

[Nektarios]

Thanks, Nektarios!

If this was 1/700 I think it would be accepted in your Postwar 1/700 USN thread, right? Too, bad its 1/350.

I appreciate your monitoring my progress.

Carl, I m always watching your progress. One of my satellites is costantly monitoring you.

[NukeMM]

Here is another wonderful 1/144 scale Barnegat/Casco class AVP/WHEC being scratch built by a fellow modeler and seaplane tender small enthusiast, Roland M.

Roland is building the USCGC Coos Bay WHEC-376. He surved on it and the USCGC Humbolt WHEC-372.

He and bwross11 are almost neck-and-neck in their progress on their builds. This is a first time for Roland and he's a natural, I think!

[NukeMM]

More in-progress photos of Roland's Coos Bay..........

[NukeMM]

Here is the current status of Roland's progress.......

[NukeMM]

USCGC Coos Bay WAVP/WHEC-376

[NukeMM]

These have been called Torpedo Splinter Shields (AVPs stored torpedos on the main deck behind them), Air Castles, Companionway Enclosures, and Spray Shields.

[NukeMM]

Still some fine-tuning sanding to go on this one.

[oneslim]

Very nice Carl.

Bob W

[NukeMM]

Very nice Carl.

Bob W

Thank you, very much, Bob!

I've been watching your Doyle FFG from afar. That metal gun turret is most impressive!! Really!

I like your 1/20 train, too! I'm a boiler inspector, so the steam engines interest me. I inspect the boilers on the trains at the local zoo, here.

[NukeMM]

I think that I finally got it!

The dreaded spray shields are done!

[Nektarios]

I think that I finally got it!

The dreaded spray shields are done!

[NukeMM]

Thanks, Nektarios!

Onward and Upward....................................I think that I pulled it off!

[NukeMM]

The Flagship Models' SPS-29 kind of looks like a furnace grate, but it'll have to do.

I'll have to clean up some of the glue globs, here and there.

[NukeMM]

I had previously sanded off the small boat cradles while clearing the aft O2 level of everything that didn't belong on my 311' Cutter. I have recreated the cradles in their new positions, here, and added some small details around the stack.

[NukeMM]

More details added amidships. Life Jacket Lockers, Vent Stack, and Galley Vents. And I might end up using this 1/700 winch from Battlefleet Models.

The Galley Vents aren't permanent, yet. I may make them larger in diameter or create some caps for them if I find better photos of this area of the ship(s).

[Cadman]

Now we are getting down to the nitty gritty. Nice work Carl.

[NukeMM]

Now we are getting down to the nitty gritty. Nice work Carl.

Thanks, Tim!

I hope that you don't mind that this "Calling all.........Fans" thread has turned into a WIP thread. I think its helping to keep my thread alive. Especially with the works of Bruce Ross and Roland M. Without the WIP, I fear that there wouldn't be much interest. I'm trying to spark more interest in this class of little ships. I'd love to see others build this kit!

[NukeMM]

Some stack details and starting the deck painting. The hull color is curing before masking and painting the boot top and lower hull.





Some stairs (not a ladder).............

[NukeMM]

Working on the whale boats by L'Arsenal............