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Hello everyone, this will be my first build log here and mostly my first build log anywhere so hopefully as I move along threw the build I'll get better at sharing the good stuff with you all.
The Kit is the Revell Platinum Edition 1/350 USS New Jersey post 1982 era
The cool thing about this kit is it comes with tons of upgrades built into the kit it's self. Wooden deck, turned brass barrels, and PE. Revell really stepped up it's game with this kit unfortunately since I already started I don't have a nice layout of all the parts and pieces to show you guys.
One downfall to the kit is the instructions, like any out of the box kit in which you add upgrades you have your base instructions and your or instructions an the base instructions were not designed when the PE and upgrades where added to the kit so you have to work from three separate instructions books, which over all aren't the worst PE instructions I've come across but aren't the best either.
The Kit parts them selves seem to be pretty good quality not much flash or mold/injection lines and marks. And they dry fit well enough with only some minor clean up and seam work at the joints.
As a US Navy sailor a generation to late to enjoy the Iowa class battleships I never got a chance to see true surface warfare but these battleships always were the most spectacular pieces of naval engineering I've ever laid eyes upon. The USS New Jersey now rests after 4 commisionings and decommissionings as a museum ship just 30 minutes from my house, over the years I've visited her several times and even had a chance to stay aboard her for a few days as a kid. Recently I applied to be a volunteer at the museum ship to help with restoration projects how ever I have to find the time to actually get down to her and put in the work.
The New Jersey has severed in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, The Cold War, Lebanon, and the beginning of Desert Storm and between each conflict received several updates and refits, the final state she was transformed to is the state she remains and also the state in which this model kit reflects. Prior to her decommissioning she could hold her own in speed strength and reach with our most modern US fleet which is pretty amazing for a ship launched in 1943.
Personally I believe our modern navy is lacking in our surface Warfare department, ever since the naval aircraft and guided missiles came into the picture there has been at least in my opinion a miss guided belief that ship to ship combat is a thing of the past an while it may be partially true we also haven't fought a country with a modern/equivalent navy in a few decades so we wouldn't truly know but a sailor can dream, if there was ever a bucket list item it would be seeing a 16" gun broad side firing.
Tonight I worked on a small section of the super structure that had some PE I figured I'd do this build in sub sections and give my self a chance to learn PE building in small amounts so not to get over whelmed and fat finger the parts like I have in previous builds
The Kit is the Revell Platinum Edition 1/350 USS New Jersey post 1982 era
The cool thing about this kit is it comes with tons of upgrades built into the kit it's self. Wooden deck, turned brass barrels, and PE. Revell really stepped up it's game with this kit unfortunately since I already started I don't have a nice layout of all the parts and pieces to show you guys.
One downfall to the kit is the instructions, like any out of the box kit in which you add upgrades you have your base instructions and your or instructions an the base instructions were not designed when the PE and upgrades where added to the kit so you have to work from three separate instructions books, which over all aren't the worst PE instructions I've come across but aren't the best either.
The Kit parts them selves seem to be pretty good quality not much flash or mold/injection lines and marks. And they dry fit well enough with only some minor clean up and seam work at the joints.
As a US Navy sailor a generation to late to enjoy the Iowa class battleships I never got a chance to see true surface warfare but these battleships always were the most spectacular pieces of naval engineering I've ever laid eyes upon. The USS New Jersey now rests after 4 commisionings and decommissionings as a museum ship just 30 minutes from my house, over the years I've visited her several times and even had a chance to stay aboard her for a few days as a kid. Recently I applied to be a volunteer at the museum ship to help with restoration projects how ever I have to find the time to actually get down to her and put in the work.
The New Jersey has severed in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, The Cold War, Lebanon, and the beginning of Desert Storm and between each conflict received several updates and refits, the final state she was transformed to is the state she remains and also the state in which this model kit reflects. Prior to her decommissioning she could hold her own in speed strength and reach with our most modern US fleet which is pretty amazing for a ship launched in 1943.
Personally I believe our modern navy is lacking in our surface Warfare department, ever since the naval aircraft and guided missiles came into the picture there has been at least in my opinion a miss guided belief that ship to ship combat is a thing of the past an while it may be partially true we also haven't fought a country with a modern/equivalent navy in a few decades so we wouldn't truly know but a sailor can dream, if there was ever a bucket list item it would be seeing a 16" gun broad side firing.
Tonight I worked on a small section of the super structure that had some PE I figured I'd do this build in sub sections and give my self a chance to learn PE building in small amounts so not to get over whelmed and fat finger the parts like I have in previous builds
