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Hey Biggles, good work! Just to let you know, I moved these threads from the Online Scratchbuild Projects section. Please put your kit-based builds here in the Picture Post->Completed Models area, thanks!

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De quoi s'agit-il?

Top Notch,Biggles.

Scott

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K494 HMCS Arnprior
Royal Canadian Navy

Nice build with a great looking camo scheme.

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Gordon


"Then there was one patched-up carrier...."
Vice Admiral Thomas A. Kinkaid

LOVE that scheme and this build!!!

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Drawing Board:
1/700 Whiff USS Leyte and escorts 1984
1/700 Whiff USN Modernized CAs 1984
1/700 Whiff ASW Showdown - FFs vs SSGN 1984

Slipway:
1/700 Whiff USN ASW Hunter Killer Group Dio 1984

Nice job!

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On the Bench
1/350 Independence
1/350 Dunkerque
1/350 Shimakaze
1/350 Sharnhorst Dragon
1/350 Belfast

Thanks for liking! Seeing the close-ups shows a lot of goofs that I didn't normally see! Quite a few CA smudges that I just painted over and didn't really disappear. Oh -oh! I also see a loose deck railing hanging over the side! I'll have to fix that - some day . This camo job was really unique among US warships and totally different from the usual stuff.

I also left the hooks for the depth charge launcher hoists just dangling. In hindsight, probably not a good idea as the hooks would be swinging wildly in anything above a dead calm - but I didn't know what they looked like stowed. No. 3 turret is not in action - once the deck railing was installed the turret would not traverse a full 360*. I don't know what that's all about! If anyone could point out faults (probably a long list), I'll try not repeat them on future models.

Biggles:

Thanks for sharing. One of my favorite schemes--and nicely done!

Did you find any photos of Hobson in this scheme other than the two color shots on the Navsource website?

Please advise, as I've long wanted to do this scheme but have been lacking documentation beside those two shots..

Thanks!

Mike E.

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Mike E.

I used Squadron/Signal #6099 'US Navy Ships Camouflage WWll; Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts', by Al Adcock, as reference. There's one large(ish) B&W photo and a color water-lined illustration. Both views are port side, but the text says the same pattern was used on both port and starboard.

Excellent details !! I really like the looks of those spent casings on deck and good job on the camo!!





Jose

Yeah - masking was a real exercise!

Everything looks very nicely weathered and I don't really notice the defects. One is always most conscious of the flaws in one's own work, I think. You're probably a little too hard on yourself.

Yes, positively lovely, and a nice camo scheme and great weathering. At first I thought that was MS-12 mod, which I think is probably the most striking US camouflage scheme broadly deployed, since it wasn't terribly tightly controlled and you see a lot of variants out there. I gather that this is instead MS-15. (Snyder and Short labels it as MS-17 in one rather prominent photo but I think this is a typo, as there is no reference to MS-17 on their database page for Hobson and there are numerous other references there and elsewhere to MS-15 on same and a few other ships.)

Anyway, whatever scheme it actually represents it looks great and matches the photographs pretty well. Well done. I love the details.

Great build - wicked camo scheme!

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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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