USS Vincennes CG-49 
by Michael Kaintoch 
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1/1250 USS Vincennes CG-49 (Hobby Boss)

This is my USS Vincennes, built from the 1/1250 scale Hobby Boss kit - a nice little kit with an excellent fit and sufficiently fine detail. But what's most, Hobby Boss did the superstructure and the stacks as one piece castings each - no seams, no gaps, no filling, and, in particular, no danger of loss of detail while cleaning up the corners!

Though the kit already turns into a nice representation when built out of the box, there's always a little extra that can be done. In particular, I:
 

I painted the model with anything I could get hold of - unfortunately the hull grey is rather too dark. After application, I toned down the decals with the merest hint of the underlying greys. The rudimentary rigging was done from stretched sprue, the flags are printed with an ink jet printer on cigarette paper. The water base is acrylic gel on watercolour paper.
 

Michael Kaintoch


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