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This old kit doesn’t seem to have a lot written about it, so I figured I might as well document my ongoing build. I started this as a build thread over on the Ships forum at Fine Scale Modeler, but I figure there isn’t a lot of overlap of readership between the two sites, so I’ll post it here, too. ( I do see that Fright is doing the same thing with his Lindberg Lightship Nantucket build.) The first several posts will be to document the work that was done over the last month or two- once I get the posts caught up, updates will be further apart! The molds date from 1956- the kit is one of Revell’s first attempts at a real scale model- their previous efforts had been the (now infamous) flat-bottomed models that were better for “sailing” on the bedroom floor. The kit represents the Secretary class cutters from the Korean War era. The kit was sold as both Campbell and Taney over the years, with no change to the contents except for decals. The model is about 12.5 inches long, and is one of Revell’s box-scale kits, at 1/305 scale. The seven “Secretary class” Cutters were built in 1936-37, and were 327’ long. The Alexander Hamilton was lost in WW2, but the other six served from 38 to 50 years! They were named for former US Treasury Secretaries (the Coast Guard was part of the Treasury Dept until the 1960s). The ships initially carried the full name such as “Roger B. Taney”, but the names were shortened soon after. The William J. Duane was named after the 11th Secretary of the Treasury, who served under President Andrew Jackson. The ship entered service in 1936, and was decommissioned in 1985. This Revell kit is certainly not up to modern standards, but it is the only one on the market. I never sailed on a 327 in my time in the CG— but a good friend and classmate was on the Duane did, so that’s why I am building it as the USCGC Duane in her circa 1980 fit.
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