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Nice little ships, great job WB.

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-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
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These drawings/illustrations are wonderful. Nice to see some of the
less famous warships of WWII, and also see that they really did not
all look exactly alike.

Bravo! WB

Really nice ships, well done!

Alright, after many months of dormancy and on-and-off developments, finally churned out the USS Slater in its museum ship configurations (may have missed a few details here, but I don't want to overdetail either):

In 1993, two years after it was decommisionned from the Hellenic Navy, the Aetos, ex-USS Slater, was towed back to New York from Greece in a bid to save the derelict destroyer escort and restore her back to its wartime glory. Restoration efforts inside and out were made throughout the years to put her together back again in its original wartime configuration. This is the Slater as she was moored on the Hudson River in Albany, New York since 1997:


And in its camo scheme after an overhaul in 2014:


cheers -- wb21

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Nice work wb21.

Awesome! One of only two preserved DEs.

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My late uncle, Ted Felsberg, was a motor machinist mate on the USS Huse DE-145, an Edsall class DE. The ship served in a hunter-killer task force with the USS Croatan CVE-25. While onboard the Huse they participated in sinking U-856, U-488 and U-490. After "unk" was transferred to the Pacific the Huse helped sink U-880. She later served in the Pacific, Korea and the Cuban Missile Crisis. She earned five battle stars in WW II.

I love the DE threads!

In Measure 31/3D camouflage:
http://www.desausa.org/de_photo_library ... _de145.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineL ... 350736.jpg

great work, love this camo

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I was very fortunate to get to go aboard Slater while she in the floating drydock getting repainted the other year and Tim Rizzuto her executive director showed me all the research he had to do to get that paint job right. Great job matching it in shipbucket scale!

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