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USS The Sullivans (DD-537) in 1/350 Scale

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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