USS Mount Baker AE-4

The C-2 Seawitch is almost a dead ringer for the Mount Baker. There may be some deckhouse modifications required though. The Liberty Ships did not have the same shape or size hull. The C-2 is longer and wider than a liberty.

Type C2...no

You could check out Jag. They do a lot of modern USN Vessels although they are in Resin.....Cheers Mark

Sorry, my mistake.

'Fixer -- He's asking about AE-4,  not AE-34.   Mount Baker AE-4 was a C2-T (i.e. Tampa-built) cargo ship.  Build & launched in 1941 and striken in 1969. 

Starting point in plastic could be one of the PitRoad 1:700 scale Liberty ships or the 1:350 scale Jeremiah O'Brien/John Brown.    Know going in that some scratchbuilding may be required for the class-specific superstructure, goal post & gun layout.

Another alternative may be the Battlefleet Models C-2 Sea Witch in 1:700 scale resin & brass.  It has the correct goal posts & several gun options are available.   Being resin,  it may be a problem for a novice ship builder.

Navy auxiliaries are rare in the modeling world. Ammo ships even more so. Try a Google search, maybe there is one in resin. There were eight ships in the class, look them up also.

I understand that the Mount Baker is to be used as a target soon.