Kitbash of USS Chester

[Ron Smith]

Starting to look like a warship.....5-D mixed to a touch lighter than the sample from CV-6. 5-O and 5-L straight from the bottle MM Acryl. Teak for decks mixed to a color I like with 5-D steel horizontal and sloping surfaces. The decks were oure hell to mask as assembled as the ship was in the previous photos but it's that or try to get those tripods built after painting. Lots of little touchups for bleeds and adhesion problems.

[Ron Smith]

And you thought the willow green and insignia red was loud?

[Quincy]

I like the paint job very much!!!!





Bob Pink.

[Ron Smith]

Thanks Bob. Paint scheme is often half the reason I decide to build a particular ship. Sometimes I'll even decide I want to do a certain measure, find what ships wore it then find what model I have that will build that ship. This time I simply had one photo that had a cool scheme and enough parts to kitbash it.

[MartinJQuinn]

Sweet build. Boy, that 5D is DARK. Holy Cow!

Oh, and those turret markings are quite gaudy!!

[Ron Smith]

Sweet build. Boy, that 5D is DARK. Holy Cow!

Ahyup! Photos of it fresh on Reuben James show it as just barely lighter than the boot stripe. The sample from CV-6 can't be discerned from black until you put it on the 0 swatch of the Munsell neutral scale under photo floods. Since I usually build dockyard style I went with the freshly applied mix.

[MartinJQuinn]

Ron,

Any new pictures? Would love to see how she came out...

[Tony Bunch]

Hi Guys,
Ron,
Good work!
Good scratch building and research effort; a perfect complement.
Tony

[Ron Smith]

Thanks guys! I will at some point get around to taking photos of my builds over the last year for the gallery here but first I have a few research jobs to finish (as in I just started a 2 week job with Steve in town and about 20 minutes ago got home from NHC) then I get to clean up the photo area in the basement.

[nick]

Amazing work on the superstructure Ron!!