Re: My Review and Build of USS Samuel Roberts, Blue Water Navy's 1/350 scale Kit #35
This particular kit had more small detail parts in its photo etch section and in the small metal pieces, and they are glued together with a different, slower setting compound...so that makes things a bit more difficult because you have to get the piece into place and then hold it there while it sets up enough to let it remain there on it own...and that takes 4-5 times as long with the resin and metal cements than it does with the plastic cements and glues.
But, it was a fun build and looks nice.
...particularly next to its larger sisters.
Well, this vessel is still the same 1/350 scale as the others I have been building. So, though the ship itself is smaller and has less "space," the size of the objects (guns, railing, missile launchers, life buoys, etc) are the same as on the larger vessels. You just do not have as much room on the deck for example of a Perry Frigate to navigate as you do on the Enterprise aircraft carrier, or even a Burke destroyer.
This particular kit had more small detail parts in its photo etch section and in the small metal pieces, and they are glued together with a different, slower setting compound...so that makes things a bit more difficult because you have to get the piece into place and then hold it there while it sets up enough to let it remain there on it own...and that takes 4-5 times as long with the resin and metal cements than it does with the plastic cements and glues.
But, it was a fun build and looks nice.
...particularly next to its larger sisters.
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