World famous scale modeling author Mike Ashey steps you through a detailed review of this brand new 1/350 scale ship kit from Very Fire/Blue Ridge Models. Mike reviews the individual part trees and then he does a tape up review of the hull, main deck and the superstructure assemblies.
This kit of the USS Cleveland, CL-55 is the first injection molded kit of this class of US Navy World War-II Cruisers. The kit is well molded with no flash and the mold seams on parts is minimal. The individual parts fit is excellent and the sub-assembly fit to other sub-assemblies is outstanding throughout the kit. There are no voids between any parts and the seam work between part halves is minimal. The surface detail on the decks and the superstructure sides is outstanding.
Mike provides some recommendations on what kit parts to replace with 3D printed parts and sources for photoetch detail parts. He also provides a recommendation for paint color mixing techniques to achieve navy blue and deck blue colors using Testors enamel paints.
7 сен 2024
