Building a Fleet of 1/300 Perry Class Guided Missle Frigates

Jeffrey,

 Are you building the Academy 1/350 kit?  If so there should be a photoetch set out in a few weeks from White Ensign Models that will solve your radar problem.

 As for the decals - you could probably get away with printing your own since there they aren't nearly as extensive as what I've run into on some 1/32 aircraft!

 At any rate - I won the Academy Perry kit in a local raffle so I'll be trying my hand at this as well!

 John

Since you are working in such a unique scale as 1:300, there is no direct decal set nor aftermarket radar improvements for the CC Lee kit.   For the flight deck line decals I would recommend either masking and painting, or getting some white decal paper and cutting the stripes and applying them individially.

Unfortunately you chose the wrong kit.   Iron shipwright is offering their decal set which accompanies their 1:350 scale Perry for individual sale.  

As far as using aftermarket 1:350 scale details on a 1:300 scale kit,  the parts will appear to be 12.5% too large.   As a matter of personal preference I try to not mix scales in excess of 10%,  but even that can be just too visually jarring.

EdGrune wrote:

As far as using aftermarket 1:350 scale details on a 1:300 scale kit,  the parts will appear to be 12.5% too large.

Shouldn't the 1:350 parts and decals be 16.7% TOO SMALL for 1:300 kits?

From this review, the 1:300 kit by Lee does not seem too bad. It is cheap enough to build a fleet.

Thanks Ed for the Ian MacCorpuodale review.  It sounds like he had the same problems I am having. 

So far the ships are building out quite nice and will make a good addition to my fleet. Over the next ten years I hope to have over fifty ships in my fleet. 

I will solve my problems and build a excellent group of Frigates from three countries.

Hello

I found a source for 1/300 Perry class decals.  I have also found a potential choice for the SPS 49 radar and the antennae.  This is not the normal scale 1/300, but the ships are showing nice detail and are flexible enough to build ships from different countries.  They will make a nice addition to my fleet.

I have also acquired an Academy 1/350 Oliver Perry ship.

Thanks for the advice everyone. 

I am building the modelcraft Perry class for my Task Force and just thought you might want to know...that the modelcraft model represents one of the long hull version of frigates as opposed to the short hull....I'm doing mine as the USS Rueben James(FFG 57) as I'm a huge Tom Clancy Fan and the RJ is in two of his books.....Gary

Hello everyone

I finally finished my 1/300 Perry Class Frigates.  This was an exercise in learning ship modeling. Painting, using photo-etch and just adding things. I built one ship from the United States (USS Wadsworth FFG-9), one from Austrialia (HMAS Darwin FFG-04) and two from Taiwan (ROCS Cheng Ho FFG-1103 and ROCS Tian Dan FFG-1110)

As to photo-etch, I used Flagship Models SPS-49 radar 1/350 scale on three ships and the kit provided radar on one ship.  The Flagship Models radar seems to fit these ships.  I used 1/350 rails from various providers on all four ships.  I did a very poor job with the rails.  I used 1/350 LionRoar flightdeck netting on two ships, a "hybrid" on one ship and the kit provided flightdeck netting on one ship.

As to painting, I used several different color schemes.

As to decals, I used ModelCraft decals for the 1/300 Perry Class Frigate with a couple additions.

Other additions, antennae, a solid peice of metal above the windows, various supports for the decks, cruise missiles and 500-pound bombs.

Here a few pictures.  I am still learning.

 

the choice is yours, remember you are the builder, and as far as some people are concern if it does not have 16 nuts and bolts when it should, that is their issue not yours, you will never build a 100% replic of a ship unless you pick a specific one with lots of photos at that the one time, trust me I know. I was active duty for a number of years and was station on the uss doyle ffg-39 during her work-ups just after the being comissioned as a 1st class midshipmen. I am active duty army now medical. That is what make this a hobby not a job, if it's like it supposed and your happy that is all that matters.  I am working the same issue, i have the lee kit /300 with photoetch sets from the resin 1/350 perry class along with acad 1/350 i am planning of building the lee as the doyle for my desk and the acad for my better half office.  just enjoy, I have one more set of 1/350 let me know if you want them.

 

Jeffry,

        Where did you get the decals for the 1/300 scale CC Lee I have had this kit since 09 and now want to build it as My old ship FFG 29 the Stephen W. Groves. thank you