Thanks Rich, I’m please your enjoying this build.
Back in the late 80s when I started this project I lost interest with it as hull frames and skinning was not going well so it was put into storage. Then in the 90s as most of the actual OHPs were being decommissioned, retired, sold or scraped, the model came out of storage, but again I lost interest in it. So as it returned again, I read that the US Navy still have 12 long hull in there mothball fleet that they are looking in to reactivating. I think the model has more chance to seeing service than the mothball fleet.