USS FANNING
Destroyer


Scratchbuilt 1:500
by John Bange

(My build of USS Fanning at this point is) as done as any of my ships:


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...I paint early (in each build because) it gives me a better look at the shapes of wood. With Fanning, the first thing I saw was (too much) extra girth and height. The next thing was the 5" enclosed mounts were way out of scale. I made them smaller.


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I added rails, some of my precious, expensive, and hard to get carly floats...


Click on Image to Enlarge ...(and) for now (I) will call it a day...until I get the Squadron Signal book out again.




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