USS Underwood 1/87 scale

My first large model ship of a FFG 7 class Oliver Hazard Perry, the USS Underwood FFG 36. I used a photocopier and scale calculator to enlarge the instructions from a 1/700 scale kit to the scale seen in this video. I cut the traced sections from sheet polystyrene. After editing video, using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 4, Souza music played by the U.S.N band was added. I added a touch of reverb and kept the sounds caught by the camera. This is my first outdoor, on the water, ship model video.

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• Underwood
• Navy
• Perry
• Frigate
• Model
• Ship
• Hobby
• FFG
• Souza
• Music

[DilLspitZen]

did it take many lives this underwood ship??

[hearwig]

Thats a strangely worded question,.... do you mean did it take much time to build the model?, if so, it did take a couple of months to build the model over a few evenings, and its still incomplete. So, it was a bit of construction here and a bit of construction there, when I got to finding the time.

[whelk]

Nice job. I spent 1993-96 on board the Underwood. It's nice to see it remembered. It seemed like the missile launcher didn't work half the time anyway. I was an ST so maybe it just seemed that way.

[FLOWER4191]

Was a plankowner of FFG 28, have say nice job on the Underwood

[Stifsim6]

@tonyaj1972 ...Operation "Support Democracy", in 1992. I was there aboard the USS Antrim (FFG-20), and was home-ported next to the Underwood in Mayport. (Cool model, huh?)

[TheEastBranch]

THIS IS GREAT! ... FFG 29 is named for my late uncle who died in the Battle of Midway and I would LOVE to build one of these... Interesting enough, I boarded UNDERWOOD last summer to take a photo of our ship last 4 JUL.

[levisnteeshirt]

hopefully they keep some other ship around that can protect a FFG should it get attacked ,,,, I wish i knew how many times Iranian planes tried to see how close they could get to our ship in the gulf ,, i'd hate to be on one now without a missle ,, CIWS is a joke ,, they stay broke down

[DilLspitZen]

KNOW

I was askin HOW many men sailed on thee 'ship'

a pleasure chatting wiv U gents

peace-out

[hearwig]

Scratchbuilt using styrene sheet, a remote control motor and propeller from a RC model boat, sold at Tandy. Used plans from a 1/700 model, used a scale calculator to get the correct dimensions. Photocopier enlarged original plans cut out paper shapes of hull and superstructure and traced them onto sheet styrene using a marker, scoring the styrene with a scalpel, installed the RC motor with built in servo and propeller, I glued the masts together directly onto plans, painted a overall hazegray.

[geNMEting]

SO HOW do they train 2 save 'Hiatians'

throw one another over board

wait till they nearly drown then effect a rescue

??

\_ME_/-out

[tonyaj1972]

lol..think he may be asking if it has killed many men. well i know it saved a lot of lives. spent many months off the coast of Haiti picking up the "boat people" trying to make it to the U.S. on thier improvised "boats."

[tonyaj1972]

there were none assigned to this ship...however had one board our ship steathly while underway for his own training purposes...