Cannon Class Destroyer Escort - 1/1200

**lancer525** · #1 11-20-2010, 08:29 PM

I was thinking the other day, what might be a good subject for a quick model to try to help me overcome my builder's block on the Montana Project. I've gotten to the point on the thing that I am just so frustrated with it that every time I look at it, I don't want to touch it. I know this will pass, because it always has, and I've come too far to stop now. The hard parts are all behind me, I think.

Anyway, I was randomly surfing the net, just clicking on links that grabbed my admittedly short attention span, and ended up with a link to a page about the USS Eldridge.

So, I made a model.

Here it is:

As you can see, it doesn't take much to amuse me.

I was going to do it on transparency sheets, but I couldn't find my stash of them, and so I just simplified. I might, if I find the transparency sheets, go on ahead and do the project the way I wanted to in the first place, just for kicks and grins.

I hope everyone gets it. If not, I'm sure someone will explain. If that doesn't happen, I will... :D

**APA-168** · #2 11-20-2010, 11:07 PM

This. Is. Genius.

I love it!!

**DEATH ANGELS** · #3 11-21-2010, 01:59 AM

I love all the detail and air brush work. I never considered the build I couldnt find any photos of the Eldridge in that configuration. I had a set of pins for my sheets but I think they dried up.

**murphyaa** · #4 11-21-2010, 03:25 AM

This gonna be released as a free model?

**chicharrero** · #5 11-21-2010, 05:18 AM

I think the cannon thickness is correct to scale.
Are you going to add some weathering for a "in service" appearance?

**chicharrero** · #6 11-21-2010, 05:20 AM

Are you going to upload the model in the downloads section?

**treadhead1952** · #7 11-21-2010, 07:07 AM

A very clean build there Lancer. lol

**dhanners** · #8 11-21-2010, 08:07 AM

Great build. Only constructive suggestion I could make would be to add a photo of the Philadelphia skyline to the back of the base.

(And don't worry about the slump. We all go through them.)

**Phil** · #9 11-21-2010, 08:17 AM

I DON'T SEE IT! lol
Very amusing!

**rch123** · #10 11-21-2010, 10:53 AM

very good job...I always wished my models could look as clean and detailed as this one. Please post a tutorial on techniques you used to construct this.