Yankee Modelworks USS Gearing depth charge racks - help!!!!

I built a few 1/700 scale ships about 30 years ago.  Waaay before photo etch.  They were bad enough then before I needed glasses, had hand tremmors, lower attention span, back surgery, and a weak bladder - I'm more of a 1/32 scale guy now - just doing this teeeny 1/350 for a friend.  Normally I don't decend much below 1/48 scale.

Kudos to those who can do the small stuff though!

Cheers,

Paul 

And look at the bright side, compared to 1/700, you have so much more PE to fiddle with!

Depth charge rack - update.....

I was able to fold the depth charge racks last night.  I ended up cutting off the tiny brass rails that stick out from rack frame.  They are ment to be flolded back on the box shape to form the top and back frames.  I found them way too fiddley.  I ca'd this basic rack on a small square of thin evergreen sheet and glued the frame extension part next to it.  I added a thin sprew angled up to the back of this part and glued a depth charge on top.  I'll spray this assembly grey and add more depth charges to the inside of the rack - the depth charges will be painted dark grey.  So far they look great.  The Etch Mate makes folding this assembly much easier.  I also found it a great aid in folding the stairs which need each step twisted.

Cheers,

Paul 

EdGrune,

I have seen the writeup on that - I think it was on modelwarships.com.  I'm tempted but I'm on a budget - while $30.00 isn't a great amount - I've already spent $60. and still must buld a case for this.  I'm going to just do it up as best as I can from pics of builds from the net.

To really trick out your Gearing kit you need to look at the new Floating Drydock plan book for the Sumner/Gearing destroyers.  It is 311 pages in PDF format on a CD.  It has tons of photos as well as line drawings and plans.   It is a good investment.

The picture above was swiped from Jeff Herne.  He posted a walkaround of the USS Kidd in Baton Rouge.   The FD book has a nicer set of drawings (IMO)

EdGrune,

Thanks a heap!  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words - well it's true here.  I think I can build them now.  I can now see how the instructions make sense and the drawing in the instructions does bear some crude resemblence to your very detailed illustration.  If they had provided an overhead or orthographic projection it would have been much easier.  I also noted after posting the above query - that some of the photo etch parts for the depth charge racks are actually composed of two pieces.  Unfortunatly the set I chose to start with had the two pieces joined so as to apear as one piece - thus compounding the confusion. 

Thanks again for the help - much appreciated.

 Cheers - Paul

Should look like a box, raised on legs.  There is a lower side piece which goes in front of the K-gun.   Ignore the round things in the picture.  They are depth charge arbors.  I hope it helps.

I know I have a YMW fret with depth charges,  but I can't picture it in my mind right now.  Remember that there are port and starboard DC racks and that what you do for one side needs to be done opposite for the other.