A wooden deck for the USS Missouri BB-63 in the Deck Blue shade, 1:350 scale, is an accessory for a plastic kit of the battleship from Pontos Model. It is not a model of the ship but a deck of real wood.
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A wooden deck in 1:350 scale from Pontos Model, intended for a plastic kit of the battleship USS Missouri. The deck is of real wood and has the individual planks suggested by a precise cut, so that once it is laid down both the plastic sheen and the engraved grain, which tends to be disproportionately deep in this scale, disappear. The Deck Blue treatment matches the blue-gray deck finish American ships wore in the later part of the war, unlike the variants in the natural tone of wood. It is not a kit of the ship but an accessory for one.
USS Missouri BB-63 was a battleship of the Iowa class, taken into service in 1944. With a main armament of nine 406 mm guns she was among the fastest battleships of all. On her deck, on 2 September 1945 in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese surrender was signed. The ship also served in the Korean War, went through a modernization in the 1980s and in 1991 took part in operations in the Persian Gulf. Today she is a museum ship at Pearl Harbor. The deck finish in the Deck Blue shade was part of the camouflage schemes meant to make the ship harder to recognize from the air.
First lay the deck on dry and check that it lines up with the openings for the superstructures, the turrets and the deck equipment. The base has to be clean, degreased and painted in a dark shade, so that plastic showing through does not make itself felt in the gaps between the planks. If the veneer has a self-adhesive layer, peel the backing film off gradually from one edge, lay the part from the center toward the edges and press it down with a soft roller or with a finger through paper; otherwise use a thin layer of contact or PVA glue. Separate small pieces with a sharp, new knife, and do not pull or bend the veneer. Once it is laid down the surface can be gently toned with oil paints or pastel and fixed with matte varnish in light coats; a heavy coat of varnish will fill the wood grain and the effect will disappear.
The accessory is supplied unassembled and unpainted. The base model, glue and paints are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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