Paul Revere Class U.S.S. Francis Marion

The Paul Revere class were built on C4-S-1A Mariner hulls. If there is a kit out there for a Mariner class cargo ship you have a good starting point. Looking at photos of the Francis Marion, and having a tour of duty on a Haskell class APA, I would say there is a world of difference between the gun mounts, cargo handling gear, and superstructure. I think it would be very difficult to make an acceptable representation of Francis Marion from the Haskell class kits out there.

Hmmmm, I was thinking you might be able to take the 1/700 Loose Cannon Productions Haskell-class kit as a starting point, since the overall hull shape is similar, but it'd be a stretch in several respects: the Paul Revere class is 108-feet longer (doable with a big hull insert), 14-feet wider (much, much harder to fix), and has the unique pyrimidal kingposts fore and aft that you'd have to cobble together from either scrap PE or small-diameter plastic rod.  It's also a resin kit, which would be easy to expand lengthwise but not so easy widthwise ... still, in 1/700 scale, 14 feet is about 3/8-inch at the widest part of the beam, not really THAT noticeable if you kept everything else in scale. Still, you'd have a fair amount of scratchbuilding ahead of you, although the basic superstructure shapes look mercifully simple and some could be scavenged from the Loose Cannon kit.

I am very interested on it. I served in TA Castilla (spanish name of APA 248) for a long time.