1/350 USS Aries - PHM-5

[McRunty]

I know at the end of my USS Texas thread I said I was holding off from building ships for a while however life has a way of changing things

The model club I am a member of has an annual group build and this year the theme is “Anything associated with Missouri”

I have spent months trying to decide what to build since nothing in my stash has anything to do with Missouri until I somehow found myself on the wiki page for the US Navy Pegasus class hydrofoils and discovered to my delight that one of the ships, USS Aries, still exists and is currently part of the USS Aries Hydrofoil Museum located in Gasconade, MO. This is about 70 miles away from where I live. I also very conveniently have this in the stash! Plus it comes with decals for every ship in the class.

I started building her today. Her parts are not bad. Bit of flash and some pesky casting blocks but nothing to major and she isn’t exactly a big ship.

I also quickly whipped up a stand using an old Warhammer part and a basic plastic base.

I think this will look pretty good with the ship.

I am hoping this will be a fairly quick build and she looks very simple to paint.

[McRunty]

My build was going along great. Got most of her built with no issues at all.

Until I got to the radar tower. The PE was very flimsy and the instructions unclear to how fold it. So of course I immediately destroyed it with my clumsy attempts.

I had to break out scrap PE and some stiff wire and scratch built a vague approximation of what it should look like. I am ok with how it came out in the end. Its not good but its good enough from 3 feet away I will go back and clean up some of the excess CA glue when its all dried.

[jfrank]

Good save!