USS Stark CLV 01

[Doug K]

The model is based on several drawings found on Hybrid Warships. Scaled to 1/144th scale. Balsa hull with plastic superstructure and flight deck, she represents (probably) the most practical of the Hybrid Cruiser designs proposed to Rear Admiral Start in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The mole is fully RC (4 channel) and the flight deck is populated by Sweet's Wildcats and bodged Vindicators build from Nakajima Myrt bombers.
I guess the hull is over 15 years old now and the model has really been retired (after an accident in a particularly windy sailing day in Edinburgh) but she qualifies as a Whiff, so she'll do for my first posting.

Not sure the image worked!

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[Captain Canada]

Wonderful ! That looks very nice. Love all the guns at the front. I really like the last pic in the set, almost looks real !

[pyro-manic]

Cooool! I haven't seen this design before - excellent stuff. Oh, and welcome!

[PR19_Kit]

I like that Doug. 

Have I seen pics of it in Model Boats magazine before? Or have you sailed it any regattas down south where I might have seen it?

[kerick]

Nice work! Welcome aboard!

[Doug K]

I like that Doug. 

Have I seen pics of it in Model Boats magazine before? Or have you sailed it any regattas down south where I might have seen it?

Yes, Dave Wooley took some pix at a couple of the Warship Weekends in Glasgow. The hull was tested when I lived in Bedfordshire, but she wasn't completed until (well) after I moved back to Scotland!

[Doug K]

Nice work! Welcome aboard!

Thanks, too kind

[PR19_Kit]

I like that Doug. 

Have I seen pics of it in Model Boats magazine before? Or have you sailed it any regattas down south where I might have seen it?

Yes, Dave Wooley took some pix at a couple of the Warship Weekends in Glasgow. The hull was tested when I lived in Bedfordshire, but she wasn't completed until (well) after I moved back to Scotland!

Great, I thought it was ringing bells somewhere. 

[Martin H]

Interesting Flat top idea there.

Welcome to the nut house. 

[Doug K]

Just for info, the drawing was based on one found in Hybrid Warships by RD Layman & Stephen MacLauchlin. A good source of what if subjects

[Cobra]

Those Pictures were Superb! i Almost thought they were from the Video Game "Naval Ops Warship Gunner"! Keep up the superb Work Dan

[Joe C-P]

Very nice project, I like it.