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Nelson Wallace, on Flickr
Hello everyone! I thought I would do a simple build thread for this as I should hopefully have it finished up in a relatively short time.
A little background. I went to visit Hawaii for my honeymoon with my wife. A family friend of mine arranged for me to meet his brother in law, Captain Lance Thompson in the USN. Recently, Lance was promoted to Commander of the Naval Submarine Training Center Pacific (NSTCP) on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Lance has been in the submarine force for nearly 30 years and held many positions. While we were on Oahu, Lance arranged for me and my wife to take a tour of an active Nuclear attack sub. We were thrilled, and we got to have a great time onboard the Virginia class sub USS North Carolina SSN-777.
During our tour we learned that Lance had been the CO of the USS Chicago from September 2013-May 2016, and she is also based in Pearl Harbor. He had mentioned to us that the Chicago was his favorite boat (obviously lol). So as a thank you for everything he showed us, I decided to build a model of the Chicago for him.
I started off with the Riich kit for the Flight 2 LA boats. At this point I have not done very much except for open the kit and organize all the parts. I've gotten the hull halves glued together and worked on the seam. At this point I am waiting to get some hardware for mounting the model when it is done before I go about fitting the upper hull.
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Nelson Wallace, on Flickr
I'm going to a model shop this weekend to get some supplies, so I should hopefully have more progress to share next week once I get going.
Thanks to all for stopping by!