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Gleaves Class Destroyer Ship Models
Gleaves Class Destroyer
Models
DD-484 USS Buchanan
All ships of the class can be built.
Gone for Now
Kit# DC157
For an extensive review on this kit click here!
The Dragon model kit depicts the ship as she appeared in 1942.
The kit measures 11.5 inches long. A multimedia kit comprised of a plastic ship model, a single piece lower hull (full hull or waterline construction) this will be a superb plastic model from Dragon Models.
You can now super detail this model!
This item DML3830 -Gone for Now
Special Features:
- One piece slide molded upper hull with undercut details
realistically represented
- Waterline or full hull version can be assembled
- Sponsons are represented on lower hull by slide mold technology
- Rudder is movable
- True to scale ultra thin propellers reproduced
- Extra thin shield walls on superstructure reproduced for accurate 1/350
appearance
- Extra fine detail on superstructure walls like hose, ladder patterns
delicately reproduced
- Extremely fine detailed parts like davits for whalers
- Whalers with photo etched parts finely reporduced
- Finest tread pattern ever reproduced
- Funnels provided with option of molded on ladders or add on photo etched
ladders
- 12 inch, 24 inch and 36 inch searchlights provided
- 36 inch searchlight platform delicately rendered
- Movable structure for 36 inch searchlight with clear part included
- Special device included to bend specific photo etched parts to correct angle
- Realistically detailed gun barrels are slide molded with hollow ends
- Turret with realistic detail
- Optional barrels provided for gun turrets
- Upper mount and lower mount 5 inch guns realistically reproduced
- Quintuple torpedo launcher in fine detail
- 5 inch practice loading machine in great detail
- 1.1 inch AA gun reproduced with delicate detail
- 20mm AA guns finely reproduced with photo etched shields
- Smoke generator with fine detail
- Depth charges and K-gun molded with extra fine detail
- Platforms on funnels finedly reproduced by photo etched parts
- Photo etched propeller guards finely reproduced
- Sky-lookout shield finely represented with photo etched parts
- Bridge supports finely represented with photo etched parts
- Photo etched parts finely reproduced for radar and antennas
- Side doors (with optional photo-etched parts) can be assembled open or closed
- 6 realistic 1/350 scale figures
- New Paper materials is pliant and robust stickers for signal flags
- New Cartograf decal, including the deck walkway texture
About The U.S.S. Buchanan
The USS Buchanan (DD-484) had an eventful career in WWII.
This Gleaves-class destroyer, named after a Confederate Navy admiral, was
commissioned on March 21, 1942. The vessel served in the Pacific, taking part in
such battles as Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. This destroyer holds the
honor of having shuttled General MacArthur to and from the USS Missouri to
accept the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on August 30, 1945. As well as this,
the ship endured such misfortunes as being hit by friendly fire, running aground
and colliding with another destroyer during its combat tours! Such a colorful
ship requires an equally outstanding model, so Dragon has carefully developed
this innovative model of the USS Buchanan as it appeared in 1942.
This Smart Kit represents a milestone in 1/350 warship kits, raising and
establishing the bar in one bold presentation. Employing brand new thinking,
design and engineering, this model represents a whole series of technological
breakthroughs. A one-piece upper hull made from slide molds, sponsons expertly
made with hitherto untried techniques, and use of photo-etched components, are
just a few examples of the innovation found within its keel. New types of
multimedia materials have been especially developed for this kit, from the
pliant paper fiber used to represent flags, to the decals representing the deck
walkway texture. There are even miniature figures included to populate this
impressive model. This destroyer may possess an unprecedented level of detail,
but Dragon’s clever engineering means it remains easy and pleasurable to
assemble. The real USS Buchanan was turned over to the Turkish Navy in 1949, but
it’s this new model from Dragon that’s turning heads amongst ship modelers all
around the world!
United States Benson-Livermore Class Destroyers
Class of 1937-39
Backbone of the Destroyer Navy from 1940-1942
Benson-Livermore destroyer class synonyms::
Benson class, Mayo class, Gleaves class, Livermore class, Bristol class.
USS
Benson DD421 USS Niblack DD424 USS Hilary P. Jones DD427 USS Eberle DD430 USS Gwin DD433 USS Monssen DD436 USS Edison DD439 USS Nicholson DD442 USS Bristol DD453 USS Rodman DD456 USS Laffey DD459 USS Fitch DD462 USS Aaron Ward DD483 USS Lansdowne DD486 USS Mervine DD489 USS Bailey DD492 USS Endicott DD495 USS Bancroft DD598 USS Champlin DD601 USS Parker DD604 USS Frazier DD607 USS Hobby DD610 USS Laub DD613 USS Nields DD616 USS Edwards DD619 USS Maddox DD622 USS Harding DD625 USS Welles DD628 USS Doran DD634 USS Gherardi DD637 USS Beatty DD640 USS Stockton DD646 |
USS Mayo DD422 USS Madison DD425 USS Charles F. Hughes DD428 USS Plunkett DD431 USS Meredith DD434 USS Woolsey DD437 USS Ericsson DD440 USS Ellyson DD454 USS Emmons DD457 USS Woodworth DD 460 USS Corry DD463 USS Buchanan DD484 USS Lardner DD487 USS Quick DD490 USS Carmick DD493 USS McCook DD496 USS Barton DD599 USS Meade DD602 USS Caldwell DD605 USS Gansevoort DD608 USS Kalk DD 611 USS MacKenzie DD614 USS Ordronaux DD617 USS Glennon DD620 USS Nelson DD623 USS Satterlee DD626 USS Cowie DD632 USS Earle DD635 USS Herndon DD638 USS Tillman DD641 USS Thorn DD647 |
USS Gleaves DD423 USS Lansdale DD426 USS Livermore DD429 USS Kearny DD432 USS Grayson DD435 USS Ludlow DD438 USS Wilkes DD441 USS Ingraham DD444 USS Hambleton DD455 USS Macomb DD458 USS Forrest DD461 USS Hobson DD464 USS Duncan DD485 USS McCalla DD488 USS Doyle DD494 USS Frankford DD497 USS Boyle DD600 USS Murphy DD603 USS Coghlan DD606 USS Gillespie DD609 USS Kendrick DD 612 USS McLanahan DD615 USS Davison DD618 USS Jeffers DD621 USS Baldwin DD624 USS Thompson DD627 USS Knight DD633 USS Butler DD636 USS Shubrick DD639 USS Stevenson DD645 USS Turner DD648 |