USS Ward DD 139 - Page 7

**Texman** · #61 11-13-2018, 06:32 AM

That came out very well. Good work for a first ship!

**CMDRTED** · #62 11-13-2018, 06:45 AM

Looks good for a first effort. you should seriously consider railings next time. even basic looking ships and first efforts "pop" with them on. one of jscs short comings is the main cannons, they need some type of detail, even if it is just little discs depicting elevation wheels and or rudimentary sights. not your doing Michael but you did good on a first ship.

**Beachead** · #63 11-13-2018, 08:19 AM

Well done. Keep at it, the more you do the more fun you can have.

**SCEtoAUX** · #64 11-13-2018, 08:23 AM

Looks pretty good.

**Don Boose** · #65 11-13-2018, 02:21 PM

Belated kudos for great work on your model of this historic ship.

Don

**Robotaleem** · #66 11-14-2018, 12:34 PM

Great work! Are you going to make the Catalina on the 11th page?

**LouCoatney** · #67 11-16-2018, 06:33 PM

Then in 1945? as captain of the 2nd O'Brien, Outerbridge had to *sink* Ward, which had been converted to a fast transport and was hit by a kamikaze resulting in an out of control fire.

I read somewhere that Outerbridge's performance of duty that early 7Dec41 is considered a model of young command excellence and studied as such by midshipmen and young officers.

The depiction of him in the factually accurate docudrama Tora Tora Tora! is exactly like it happened.

For some time, I've been intending to do a 4-stacker design, and a kid in Indonesia who is a model builder would really like me to do one. (I've also done my free print-and-play boardgame Debacle: Dutch East Indies and Malaya 1941-42 )

The Norwegian St. Albans was one of our antisubmarine-converted Lend-Lease 4-stackers to Britain. Heller/Airfix did a 1:400 plastic kit of her. Here's the cover art:

**LouCoatney** · #68 11-16-2018, 06:36 PM

As far as a surface to keep the keel absolutely flat, go to a lumber yard and buy the kitchen sink cut-outs from counters, which they consider scrap and may just give you. They may even cut them down for you into nice long rectangular forms.

I use Elmer's for everything, except for any metal for which I use superglue which is very uncommon, and I glue the keel to that no-stick surface, and it stays for many days, until the glue dries so dry that it then may come off.

When working on it continuously, popping it off the surface give you the feeling of launching it. :-)

**MichaelS** · #69 11-17-2018, 07:36 AM

Thanks for adding that Lou. Yes the USS Ward story is like something out of an old Twilight ZOne episode.

**MichaelS** · #70 11-21-2018, 08:10 AM

Finished this up and added her to the USS Ward display. This is fairly historically accurate as the PBY spotted the Japanese mini sub after it was reported by a barge crew. Then the PBY and the Ward worked together to locate it.

I would have to say that 1/400 for an aerioplane is about as far as I ever want to go again....