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USS Laffey DD-459 Super Model
USS Laffey DD-459 Benson
Class 12" long
DC155- Gone for Now
Complete article on this kit click here!
New Features
NEW:
- Newly tooled flat-sided funnels
for Benson class destroyers like USS Laffey
- Funnels provided with option of molded on ladders or add on
photo-etched ladders
- New separate piping on rear of funnel
- Realistic photo etch funnel caps gills
- Realistic photo etch funnel platform
- 4 new superstructure mounted K-gun cranes represented by photo-etched
parts
- Forward superstructure deck retooled for close mounted 20 mm gun tubs
- Flat faced superstructure deckhouse for Benson class is newly tooled
- Rear undecked funnel trunking for superstructure is newly tooled
- New lower profile platform for 36-inch searchlight
- 6 realistic 1/350 scale figures
- New self adhesive flexible material for signal flags
- Cartograf decal, including the deck walkway anti-skid texture
Armament:
- Upper mount and lower mount 5-inch
guns realistically reproduced
- Turret with realistic detail
- Realistically detailed gun barrels are slide molded with hollow ends
- Optional barrels with blast bags provided for gun turrets
- 20mm AA gun barrels can be elevated just like the real ones
- 20mm AA guns finely reproduced with plastic or photo-etched shields
- Quintuple torpedo launcher in fine detail
- 1.1-inch AA gun reproduced with delicate detail
- 5-inch practice loading machine in great detail
- Smoke generator with fine detail
- Depth charges and K-gun molded with extra-fine detail
Superstructure:
- Extra-thin shield walls on
superstructure reproduced for accurate 1/350 appearance
- Extra-fine detail on superstructure walls like hose, ladder patterns
delicately reproduced
- Watertight doors (with optional photo-etched parts) can be assembled
open or closed
- Photo etched parts finely reproduced for radar and antennas
- 12-inch, 24-inch and 36-inch searchlights provided
- Option of superstructure walls to protect searchlights
- Movable structure for 36-inch searchlight with clear lens included
- Sky-lookout shield finely represented with photo etched parts
- Bridge supports finely represented with photo-etched or plastic parts
- Photo etched propeller guards finely reproduced
- Special device included to bend specific photo-etched parts to correct
angle
- Finest tread pattern ever reproduced on decks
- Whale boats with photo etched parts finely reproduced
- Extremely fine detailed parts like davits for 26’ whale boats
Hull:
- One-piece slide molded upper hull with
undercut details realistically represented
- Bilge keels are represented on lower hull by slide mold technology
- Deck has realistically reproduced chamber
- Waterline or full hull version can be assembled
- Rudder is movable
- True-to-scale ultra thin propellers reproduced
On the night of November 13th 1942, the Japanese naval task force at
Guadalcanal came across the battle group of which the U.S.S. Laffey
(DD-459) was a part. The Laffey unleashed its firepower on the enemy
fleet, and in the darkness it came within 20 feet of colliding with the
Japanese battleship Hiei. Launching its torpedoes and raking the Hiei’s
bridge with gunfire at point-blank range, the USS Laffey’s crew
succeeded in wounding the Japanese admiral. But surrounded by two enemy
battleships and two destroyers, the Laffey was finally sunk by a 14-inch
shell from the Hiei and a torpedo from the Teruzuki. When its magazines
exploded, the 1620-ton USS Laffey sank swiftly with the loss of 59 lives
and 116 wounded. This Benson-class destroyer had fought valiantly
despite the odds.
This destroyer is the subject of Dragon’s newest 1/350 scale ship kit.
Based on the revolutionary and extraordinary USS Buchanan Smart Kit
(Item No. 1021), this new model has received the necessary changes to
transform it into the famous Laffey. It has newly tooled flat-sided
funnels and a forward superstructure bridge that accurately depicts the
appearance of the U.S.S. Laffey in its final days. Making widespread use
of slide molds, the kit also includes a generous helping of photo-etched
parts (e.g. louvers atop the funnel) to provide the necessary level of
finesse. The kit also includes a set of six miniature figures with which
to populate this brave destroyer. In 1992, a National Geographic
expedition actually succeeded in finding the wreck of the U.S.S. Laffey
half a mile underwater off the coast of Guadalcanal, but now this model
from Dragon brings the destroyer to life again!
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 |