Helena as JSC depicts it is a modified brooklyn class. After its loss. A baltimore class was named after it. The JSC Helena would be a good bassis for Brooklyn class which had open single 5" as secondary, followed by a couple like the helena Which shared its twin closed scondaries with some...
Dont recolor it. As modeled the ship wore MS21 camo. Which is overall navy blue with darker blue on decks.As a matter of fact. The wood would have been painted over dark blue as well.
If you rescale , make it 1/350th and take advantage of the plethoria of bismark etch parts in that scale. Although 400th exist too because of the Heller plastic kit.
I plan to glue down all my formers to the keel plate . But "not" glue the slots where the go together. I read somewhere that helps prevent warpage. But what about where the keel plates sections meet? Should they be solidly mounted together? We're talking waterline model with typycal multi piece...
I'm planning to display it with the cruiser Degrasse from the '61 maly CD. Which is designed like a JSC kit. Anyone know if either ship participated i the indo china conflict and if the discussed airwing would still be valid?
Kit didn't have any. Any ideas? I think when the french first took it it had Hellcats and Avengers. In which case I could buy a gambier bay and downscale the planes to 300th