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USS Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer I recently took a trans-Atlantic cruise from Rotterdam to Norway, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Boston. I saw so many unusual ships, both models and full sized, that I had to start another model. I was intrigued by the Aeronaut Bismarck model, but I couldn't find any useful reviews. Please let me know if you've had any experience with their kits. Bluejacket Shipcrafters has a couple of WWII kits, but their kit of the Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer caught my eye and I ordered it. It is by far the most expensive kit that I've ever bought. Please don't tell my wife. Is it worth the price? Well, lets see what's Inside The Box The model came in a large box packed full of styrofoam peanuts. It was a pain to separate the parts from the junk. Here's what was inside. The hull is machine-carved from a single piece of basswood. The hull shape looks very good, but there are still attachment points that will have to be carved away. There is a 65-page instruction manual that seems to be very thorough. Bluejacket offers a CD of build photos for an additional fee. I didn't order it. The kit includes hull templates printed on self-adhesive paper, a guide for painting the helicopter landing marks on the deck, and a big piece of styrene for God knows what. The kit includes 5 pages of plans. You should be able to see the titles in the photo. There are 5 sheets of laser-cut parts. The cut lines are crisp and nearly free of char. All of the deck superstructure will be made from these parts. The instructions say that there are over 600 photo-etched parts. Whew. The kit had a tiny box packed full of beautiful cast metal parts. There are also a few cast resin parts. These don't look so great. I will be doing a lot of cleanup on them. There is a small bag of wood strips, a bag of metal strips, and a spool of rigging thread. The brass pedestals were extra. You'd think that for what this kit cost they could throw in the pedestals. I also ordered the optional paint kit. It came with a dozen bottles of Testors paints. I will probably spray most of the model gray and use the red and black for details. We'll see.
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