Spruance Class Destroyer

Holger Kranich
Is this a kit or are you going to create the fuselage halves from putty???😢

Duncan Cook
This is no putty, Can't you see I carved this out a soap bar? 😄

Holger Kranich
Oh silly me, yes now i see it!😄😄

Duncan Cook
Got a Problem, My Putty is almost empty. 🙁 Maybe I will find another tube somwhere.

B
Looks nice. I haven't done a minicrap ship yet,and there is a reason. Lol

Dave Flitton
Is it really that bad!

B
Dave,these kits are a piece of crap. I did there 1/72 and I basically remolded the whole nose in putty. And the fit was so bad,putty wasn't enough to fill it. So in other words,don't get one.

Dave Flitton
I think I have one all ready. I may not want to look.

Duncan Cook
More pictures tomorow.

Phil Marchese
Plastic lamination is a more stable and expedient method for a task such as this one where contours are being altered to such a degree.

Duncan Cook
Uploaded more pictures, tried something new on the decks: because they were not in the same level as the hull, I applied small sausages of putty to the gluelines, and so I could adjust the levell of the deck with the hull and I had almost no problem with heightdifferences, but I still needed a lot of putty.
And now, I got a new problem, I don't know which paint I should use for the deck, I could not find usefull pictures, mostly, the Spruances are shot from the side, or the picture quallity is poor.

Christian Bruer
Try this:
navsource.org/archives/05/963.htm
navysite.de/dd/dd963.htm

By the way, not much of the applied putty left on the hull😉

Duncan Cook
Some gaps were sanded away, becuse I had to sand so much.
Sanded away with the putty.

Christian Bruer
scattered to the winds😉 Links are helpful?

B
Lookin pretty good Duncan!

Duncan Cook
Yes Chris, I will look though my paint stash, and thank you Brandon. 🙂

Duncan Cook
Almost done, whoever desinged this instruction sheet should be hit in the Face.

Es-haq Khosravi
Nice job!

Duncan Cook
Project is dead, lost 2 vital parts.
Not going to buy another one of those.

Es-haq Khosravi
Awful! Sorry for that...

Dave Flitton
You were so close though

Choppa Nutta
"Project is dead, lost 2 vital parts" !! 🙁
no chance of completing it with battle damage instead then ?

Duncan Cook
One part is a smoke stack, the other part is one of the parts I need to asemble the propulsion unit.
Maybe I can find something or the parts.

Duncan Cook
I'm trying something that might solve my problems. I will keep you up to date.

Choppa Nutta
cool, I did think the smoke if it is a cylinder might be an easy fix and if the propulsion bits are all on the underneath then perhaps a sea diorama ? 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff
Well Duncan... While looking at the first pictures of this album, my first thought was that this one came from a bakery store. 🙂
But after sanding down the putty it looks like a ship's hull. Just kidding. Very nice job so far. Tried something like that from the Dragon range, using tons of putty as well and never finished it till today.

Duncan Cook
Well, Dragon is much more comfortable to build than minicrap. YOu should finish it.

Christian Meyerhoff
Never heard about a company called MINICRAP😉 Did you spell something wrong? BTW, the Dragon one isn`t better. Maybe I will take some pics of my mistake in 1:700 scale tomorrow and post them here.

Dave Flitton
Please do

Duncan Cook
Belive it or not, I lost another part, but the circumstances are odd.
I layed the two propulsion shafts on my cutting map, turned around for a second and one is gone, while the other one was where I left it. I don't understand, It's gone.
I start to belie that my mother is playing a trick on me, while she is sitting on her cloud and is laughing her butt off.

Choppa Nutta
sure you were not seeing double ? 😄

Duncan Cook
No, I shit you not, I've place both party on my cutting map, and then one part is gone.

Choppa Nutta
oh dear perhaps it has rolled off onto the floor or it has got stuck to your elbow ?

Christian Meyerhoff
The carpet monster is allways watching you...

Duncan Cook
I ain't found shit, I looked everywhere. THis is the odd thing about it, it's gone.

Choppa Nutta
a frustrating feeling isn't it, I lost the rear view mirror to my last Spitfire and that was annoying enough.
Sea diorama it is then 🙂

Duncan Cook
No, I will have to improvise, maybe I can get another kit of these for some money, and then I will use these parts.

Phil Marchese
Perhaps posting the parts from the instructions might elicit some suggestions or substitues.

B
Looks pretty damn good,considering this kit should be used as firewood.

Duncan Cook
I bet this would burn good. 🙂

Dave Flitton
Propulsion shafts are easy to replace with brass rod. Or, you can turn it into a waterline model.

Duncan Cook
It's done. I will upload some pictures when the varnish ahs dried.

Duncan Cook
It's done. But I don't like the windows of the bridge, does anybody has an Idea how I can make it look better?

Duncan Cook
Uploaded more pictures.

Christian Bruer
Hi Duncan, good job in your Spruance.
About your question, there are different ways. You can cut out the windows and add PE ladders. They could be in 1/350, but that depends on the size of the window. Another way, cut out the windows and add vertical stringers according to the number of windows. Than seal it with crystal clear or close it with a piece of styrene. That depends if you'd like to have them clear or later painted!
For example check photo no. 93 – 97:
HMS Belfast | Album by Christian Bruer (1:350)

B
Pretty cool. Nice work Duncan 👍

Duncan Cook
Thanks guys, let's se ehow I solve the thing with the Windows.