cruiser conversion

DURR wrote:

using the trumpeter 1/700th scale  uss baltimore/pittsburgh what if any mods are needed to create the uss boston  and uss quincy and uss fall river they  are named after places here in my state so i thought it would be cool

For their wartime appearance you can probably get by with the Baltimore for the Boston & Quincy and the Pittsburgh for the Fall River.  Paint the appropriate camouflage & apply hull numbers.   Minor deltas occur between follow-on ships, but most people will not be aware of them. 

After the war the Boston was converted to a missile ship.   There would be major reconstruction required to model that.  Work from plans & photos.

  CAG-1 USS Boston and CAG-2 USS Canberra retained most of their World War II-vintage gun armament and were later returned to their gun cruiser designations CA-69 and CA-70. USS Quincy CA-71 was a Baltimore class, USS Quincy CA-39 was a New Orleans class. USS Fall River CA-131 is listed as a Baltimore class, as is USS Pittsburgh CA-72. As Ed suggested, photos are the best bet for the individual differences in these ships of the same class. I served in USS Columbus CG-12(CA74), a Baltimore class CA, in '69 and '70. Right after arriving at Gibralter, we steamed directly to the eastern Mediterranean. I don't think the "Tall Lady" had been pushed that hard in a long time.

 I ordered and received a Trumpeter "USS Baltimore CA-68 1944" kit, to model USS Newport News CA-148. What I've seen so far is excellent. I may have to order two more, USS Wright CVL-49/CC-2 was built on a "Baltimore class hull", and USS Columbus CG-12 ( CA-74, also a Baltimore class )is only available in Monogram's "box scale", which is somewhere around 1:435. Now, if only someone would release USS Yellowstone AD-27, and Coontz class DLG/DDG, USS Luce DLG-7, and USS Farragut DDG-37 in 1:700, I'd be able to model all the ships I've served in.

DURR wrote:

using the trumpeter 1/700th scale  uss baltimore/pittsburgh what if any mods are needed to create the uss boston  and uss quincy and uss fall river they  are named after places here in my state so i thought it would be cool

if your doing "YOUR STATE" you forgot the uss salem

Actually, there was a Baltimore Class USS Quincy CA-71. She would be made from the Baltimore Kit. Baltimore, Boston, Canberra, and Quincy had 2 Cranes at the stern, Pittsburgh and the rest of the class had only 1.

Hi Sumpter250 know what ya mean about modeling the ships you served on. Been able to find good models in 1/700 of USS Lawrence DDG-4, and USS Fairfax County LST-1193 one by Dragon and one by JAG in resin. If I get another LST kit I can do USS Boulder LST-1190 but there's no decent model of USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 or USS Affray MSO-511. The last one is an Acme class MSO. I guess I'll have to carve one out of soap or something like that. As far as conversions for the cruiser, you're right about using some good photos they will help a lot. Rick Martin

Hi

I have 4 converted 1/700 C.A.'s. I converted the Tamiya kit "Indy circa Aug. '45" to the Indy circa 1938-1942. I took the same kit and converted it to the Chicago circa 1934{W/torpedo's}, cut down in scale length. And I converted one to the Northampton early 1942 Jap base raid. And the same kit to San Francisco on trials{t.G. for plastic putty!}. I found them to be rather "easy" to do!

SteveH