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Posted: **Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:38 am**

I have always dreamt of having an APD kit as i have wanted to have all models of Philippine Navy ships. One of its earliest capital ships was RPS Rajah Soliman (D66), or the former USS Bowers (APD 40/ DE 637), a Buckley class DE. Having had a spare Buckley kit, i took my time to search the web for ways to convert a Buckley DE to an APD and finally mustered enough courage to kitbash/ modify my last Buckley hull...

Dry fitting...

Some modifications

The biggest corrections...

So far done...

Hope to finish this before the end of the year. It was not in the ship kit list but for some reason i had to make the kit, dunno why...

Posted: **Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:20 am**

This'll be cool, Jepot!

Posted: **Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:30 pm**

NukeMM wrote:This'll be cool, Jepot!

thanks Carl! mebbe that is what i need, enough courage to build OUR little special project- until i would have all the drive to do and finish it too! i see that being done after this one...hopefully...

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:01 am**

some little progress.....

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Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:11 am**

The mast:

Mast up...

railings, rigging, finishing touches and oh the rear derrick...hmmmm....

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2014 4:40 pm**

Had never seen these ships, nice work!

Posted: **Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:40 am**

Nice conversion, Jepot!

Posted: **Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:04 pm**

after 2 long years....

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