The kit is from Trumpeter. Overall, I found it to be a disappointing kit with many out of scale and/or poorly molded parts. Many of the parts did not fit together well. No photo-etched brass fret was included with the kit.
I improved the kit by customizing it with the following:
- Black Cat Model's 1943 Square Bridge Fletcher detail set. This set provides all the weapons, directors, whale boats, rafts and a multitude of small fittings.
- 3D-printed smokestacks from Shapeways.com.
- 3D-printed CIC, bridge deck and pilot house from Model-Monkey.com. The existing kit pieces are really bad.
- Gold Medal Model's Fletcher Class photo-etched detail set.
- Infini Model's Fletcher Class mast detail set. While this made some of the Gold Medal Model parts redundant, the brass mast was a significant upgrade.
- Main deck nonskid is photo-etched brass from L'Arsenal.
I built the ship in her 1943 configuration in which she experience the Pacific War. The ship is painted in Measure 21-the Navy Blue System. All vertical surfaces are navy blue 5-N without exception and all horizontal surfaces are deck blue 20-B. The 1943 mixture for navy blue was lighter than the 1945 shade.
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