Plastic Model KIT USS Destry

Served on a Tim Can and this model was perfect and assembly was easy. I may order another one soon.

really nice

Fun to build but a bit more complicated than some others.

It has good details and a good size of 16", it was a gift for my dad and he loved it

Had fun building an old kit, and doing some scratchbuild modifications, so far, built two, one as DD-931 around the late 1950s/early 1960s mostly as is out of the box,, second one as DDG-32 from around late 1970s, lot more scratch building on second kit. on both kits I cut away the molded on railings, replaced the gun barrels, and torpedo tubes, and fire control radars, and other modifications. used the website photos from Navsource as a guide for what ships should look like.

I served on the USS Edson for three years, so this model was a special experience for me. I am not a model builder, so I committed myself to going very slow, taking my time and doing it right. I’m glad I did, as I’m completely happy with my build. Took me three weeks and I’m still tweaking it. Go slow and enjoy!

This is a 1950s kit of a 1950s ship (not to be confused with the modern destroyer with the same name) with all that that entails. There are two ways to build this kit. Out of the box, ignoring all the issues or go crazy and fix them all. I built it out of the box, except the water lining. I have a large collection of waterlines models and this was an exercise in nostalgia as I built this kit when I was a kid and wanted to remember what it was like in the old days before slide molding, photo etch and constant scale. Plusses: hard to find subject in large scale plastic, inexpensive and available. Minuses: parts fit is terrible, ejection pin marks are everywhere (see photo 2), oversized plating (see pic 2), ropes and lines around the deck (?), gaps and flash are a real issue. The solid plastic railings (photo 2 arrow) are tough to remove and would require photoetch parts to replace them. It would require a skilled modeler to fix the issues with this kit and quite a bit of time to do it. All that being said if you have the time and inclination to fix all the faults you can come out with a much cheaper alternative than a resin kit or you could just be happy with a kit that looks OK at 4 or 5 feet of viewing angle (photo 1).

Deck was severely warped. Hull has a slight twist. Marks where the part is pushed from mold noticeable. Flashing is present. Details are present and decent. Easy to assemble and the instructions are clear. Scale is slightly larger that most ship models. Would be frustrating for kids to assemble. If you take your time and have some decent skill it will make a nice model.

El modelo es muy básico y poco detallado. Por un importe similar la marca Trumpheter tiene un modelo más detallado de más piezas y con phototeck

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