Anshan by mikegr - 1/700

[mikegr]

Another model of a less popular ship on my bench, Anshan the first destroyer of the PLA Navy.

Ex Russian ships, converted with Chinese missiles replacing some torpedo tubes. This ship today is a museum

The model

I bought it from EBay. The manufacturer is Chinese but I can't see the name. There are two PE sets with lots of big and small parts and few resin pieces. In fact most are PEs even some big parts of the superstructure.

Finally the instructions are a 3 page photo copy, showing each part assembly, them fitting them all together to the hull. Not sure how helpful will that be.

 

The first I did is to straighten the banana shaped resin hull

 

Edited January 13 by ccoyle
corrected log title

[king derelict]

Wow Mike, that’s going to be interesting. My eyes ache looking at the instructions. But I’m sure you will do a great job 

alan

[mikegr]

had issues how to permanently straighten the hull. A wooden base was made, model was placed on the center and a small amount of resin was poured. It was left dry overnight.

Hull sides were painted gray already. Looks like I have to cover the base before future painting. 

The instructions are practically unreadable. So I followed some basic guidelines.

Biggest parts were attached first. 

The missile launchers:

Apart from their base, the other parts are metal ones, a frame and the "skin", mini parts than must be folder in oval shaped and attached over the frame

After trying for a couple of hours I realized that this will never going to happen. So once again using the current pieces as a reference I designed and printed my own missile boxes which were decorated with PEs and attached on the model

 

[mikegr]

More details added,  masts, boats, AA guns and few others. Masts where high detailed gave a nice look at the model. The main one was made of 13 brass  pieces and 2 resin ones.

 

[king derelict]

Very nice PE work Mike. It’s building up to a nice looking ship

Alan