USS Guam 1/350 Hobby Boss: Assembly and Painting of a Large Cruiser 

For bottles, you need reference photos; some will be oxygen, some acetylene for welding; some will be CO2 for firefighting.

The thing that blows my mind is that your superglue just sticks.. I was building a little 1/350 fletcher and I had so many problems with PE pieces, especially the railings, that just didn't stick. I'd get them placed perfectly and then they'd get bumped or nudged and they'd pop off or shift into the wrong position and

I may be in the minority, but I love the Alaska class. I must do considering the long months accumulating the free xp to get her in World of Warships. You have built a mighty fine looking ship in my eyes. Thank you for sharing.

Superb job. One minor quibble would be to make sure the 5”/38 barrels are always exactly lined up in each mount. They share a common trunnion so their elevation would be identical. Still, she’s a beauty! BZ! (“Well Done!”)

The long baskets (as on the turrets) held free-foating nets for crew survival if ship is lost.

Staggering. A most impressive build,detail and paint. Thank you for posting this phenomenal project in such easy to follow steps

Nice build, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Your skill-sets really did this model justice.👍

Thank you for sharing this great video! 👍👍👍

Another stunner! Thanks for sharing and showing what can be done...if you have the patience and skill of course!

Thank you very much for your help.

I found a neat trick for curving photoetch , especially ships railing that requires straight pieces with a curve in

Nice build there my friend the weathering looks great very detailed top job 👍🙏

Last Battlecruiser of US Navy

You did a beautiful job, I wish my hand was as sready.

Awesome build! I’ve been thinking about getting one of these kits and this cinches it for me.

that's one nice lookin' ship nicely done bro

again a very nice model, i'm looking forward to the next video

Great work

Nice job over all, but I do think you got the colors wrong. The Guam was painted in Measure 22 during her Pacific service. This consisted of the hull being painted Navy Blue (5-N) to the shear line and all vertical surfaces above the shear line were painted haze gray (5-H). All horizontal surfaces were painted or stained Deck Blue (20-B). I built Hobby Boss's 1/350 scale USS Alaska and found it to be challenging, but fun build. I modified the kit with an Artwox teak deck veneer, 3D printed 20mm and 40mm gun mounts, Infini Model's mast detail up set, Infini Model's metal 12 inch gun barrels and some additional photo-etch detail parts from Gold Medal Model's USS North Carolina photo-etched detail set. I thoroughly enjoyed the build and agree that is an excellent kit at a reasonable price point. I spent almost 300 hours of bench time over nine months building this model. I am a fan of the Alaska class large cruisers. By the time Alaska and Guam entered service, the mission for which they were built--hunting down enemy cruisers--no longer existed. They were beautiful and capable ships.

In Box Reviews have their place but there is nothing like a build video to expose the pro and cons of a kit and I am sure it keeps the manufacturers on their toes considering what the $$ they ask for a kit these days