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  11. DaveSeay
    All done! 8 months! Phew! This was the most first 1:196 wood kit and was the most PE I've dealt with. Just to remind everyone... this is a model of a Sumner Class DD FRAM II on which I spent the first 5-1/2 year of my naval career.
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    Here's the latest progress. All the handrails for the 01 level an above are done and I got a good start on scratch buiilding the VDS.
  13. DaveSeay
    The Mustangone.com is my personal website and i set up the Putnam pages. I used the shipyard plans for the 692 for a lot of this build. The sonar dome is included in the kit.
  14. DaveSeay
    Very nice on your 710! Making progress on my 757, slowly. Weather is getting better so it easier to work in the garage! Finished the main mast and gun director. Helo deck nets next. Still have a lot of things to do.
  15. DaveSeay
    The latest changes... ECM Antennas (quite different than the Gearing class.) Motor Whale Boat and davits. Deck edge chocks and bits. Angled ladders Anchors Main deck to 01 level supports. Flight deck markings. With the weather starting to wam up, I'm hopping my progress will increase. while there is still a lot of detail needed, the 4 major projects I have left area the handrails, the main mast, the VDS (which I will have to scratch build) and the flight deck safety nets. The last one has me stumped at the moment. The sections of safety nets that came with the Gearing kit are insufficient for the Sumner so I'm not sure how to proceed. I have not been able to find a photo etch set that has something I can use. Feel free to leave a suggestion. Thanks, Dave
  16. DaveSeay
    Next steps done... weapon systems installed, unrep station built, anchor chains in place. Looking forward to it warming up so I can put more thant a few hours a week into this!
  17. DaveSeay
    Got the helo hanger and ECM platform completed and installed. The gun mounts are just sitting loose for 'effect'. LOL!
  18. DaveSeay
    I really should have provided some info on this latest stage of completion so here it is... Since this was a Gearing kit, there are numerous mods that I needed to do and will need to do going forward. So far, the changes are these... 1. (Previously mentioned) The hull had to be shortened 14 scale feet (which also removes the ASROC launcher and associated equipment.) 2. The Sumer had 3 - 5"/38 twin gun mounts while the Gearing only had 2 with the torpedo tubes located in the area of where mount 52 is on the Sumner. The deck in that area has been reduced and the torpedo tubes will be amidships. 3. The bridge is significantly different between the 2 classes and is what took most of the time for this latest stage. 4. The Dash hanger is also different with Gearing having the door and control station on the Starboard side while the Sumner had them on the port. The hanger is not as wide on the Sumner, over hanging the port side main deck on the Gearing but not on the Sumner.
  19. DaveSeay
    Next step. Foward superstructure in place but I have some gaps to fill. The DASH hanger 7 ECM platform is just getting started. Its a bear working in that cold garage!
  20. DaveSeay
    OK. Back Again! I said this was going to be slow and I wasn't kidding. Between waiting for parts from BlueJacket, the holidays, visitors and the cold weather (my workshop is in a detached garage that gets cold) its been hard to find time to work on this. That said, I'be made enough progress to post my latest results. The 01 level is still not attached because I have some detail painting I need to do on it first. Next will be the bridge and superstructure underneath it. I also need to determine if the somar dome was a type of rubber and therefore black. Anyone know for sure?
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  22. DaveSeay
    I served on the USS Putnam DD-757 for 5 years as the first ship of my 20 year naval career. The ship was a Sumner class WWII destroyer that went thru the FRAM II program in 1961 for modernization. The closest I can come to this ship, in any scale, is a Gearing class DD which was a 14' longer version of the Sumner class DD and was outfitted with several different feature as part of the FRAM I program. This will be a slow build so bear with me. The kit will require quite a few modifications to get the desired end result. I found a set of blue prints on line for the USS Allen M. Sumner DD-692 which was the first ship of that class. I digitally enlarged the prints to 1:196 scale. This first step was to shorten the hull to the desired length... and the reattached the 2 sections... THe main deck plan view was then glued to the hull form and sanding began (what a mess)... I've sprayed it black (or any dark color) so I can more easily see where I need to make corrections to the hull shaping... and thats where I am at this point. More to follow...slowly.

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