I’m finally getting fairly close to finished with this build of the Revell Montrose kit as USS Navarro during the Viet Nam war. Need to finish it to present to a former crewman on Veteran’s Day.
Other than an overall dullcote treatment, I believe this is the remaining list of work to be completed:
Rigging on the cargo booms; rigging for the signal flags and antennas
Boat booms, jackstaff, cargo nets, searchlights,
Seascape touchup, signal flags, ensign, radar dishes
This was my first significant effort with pastel and oil weathering, and I’m of mixed emotions about the result. Don’t know how much can be “undone” at this stage and how much is stuck there for good.
Really looking forward to getting this one finished and returning to 1/700 scale where I belong.
Excellent work rick ! Congratulations, you created a showpiece out of this aged kit ! Which exceptfrom PE railings, I see that you overhauled the AA battery too. From which producer you obtained the guns ?
Thank you. The guns were L’Arsenal 1/400 resin parts, and the railings, ladders, doors and hatches are Gold Medal Models 1/400 photoetch. The steering wheels in the LCVPs are PE handwheels from the gunmount sets.
For the 1963 appearance, the ship only needed 4x twin 40mm mounts and one quad 40mm mount. That left me plenty to practice with.
That is a fine model, I like those Revell kits. I think the weathering looks great, like that Trump Jeremiah O’Brien that’s in the FSM masthead from time to time.
I like the rust down around those overboard discharge covers. It’s safe to say this is one of very few, if there are any more, models of this class in this configuration.
surface_line, I think you have a winner here! I especially like the job you did on the LCVPs and LCMs. To my eye, the weathering looks just about right, not too much that she looks like a rust ball, and enough that you can tell this is a “working” ship and not some glossy show model.
I’m currently slogging away on my 1/700 Haskell-class, as the USS Lenawee, from Loose Cannon. There’s nothing like a new job and 10-hour shifts to cut into your build time, let me tell you.
