OK, I have been working on this for a few weeks, so here is all my work up to this point:
Here is the orginal kit and box, a 1970s issue of USS Ramsey, a DEG later reclassified as a FFG. Roughly 1/300 scale. I am adding ssome PE from Gold Medal Models. It is 1/350, but it works on this kit!
Construction began with the bow sonar dome. I had to add a sheet styrene shim becuase of a gap in the fit.
and I began painting the main components- Neutral Gray for Haze Gray, Gunship Gray for Deck Gray, and Black and Anti Fouling Red on the lower hull.
I also assembled most of the sub assemblies before painting and adding on PE and scratch built details. I put them in place without glue for these shots...
The kits' air search radar was the incorrect type, so I made a new one from sheet styene and tea bag mesh
And I made some modifications and added PE ladders, railings and surface search radar to the Mack (Mast/Stack) assembly
basic Mack with PE ladders
and completed modified Mack
I also removed molded on stairs and added PE vertical and inclined ladders to the superstructure
I have scribed on detail to the ASROC launcher
Hollowed out the dishes of the gun and missile fire control radars (gonna add some scratchbuilt fine details soon)
built and cleaned up the kits' SH-2 Sea Sprite
and yesterday after getting to this point put everything built so far on the painted hull for a current status shot
