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USS Laffey DD-459 Super Model
USS Laffey DD-459 Benson Class
6"
long Skywave
DC156- Gone for Now
Features:
- Two options of upper hull w/undercut details realistically represented
- Bilge keels are represented on lower hull by slide mold technology
- Deck has realistically reproduced camber
- Waterline or full hull version can be assembled
- Forward superstructure deck retooled for close mounted 20 mm gun tubs
- Flat faced superstructure deckhouse for
Benson class is newly tooled
- Extra-fine detail on superstructure walls like
hose, ladder patterns delicately reproduced
- Rear undecked funnel trunking for
superstructure is newly tooled
- Optional barrels with blast bags provided for
gun turrets
- Upper mpunt and lower mount 5-inch guns realistically reproduced
- Flar-sided funnels for Benson class destroyers
- Funnels provided w/option of molded on ladders or add on photo-etched
ladders
- Turret w/realistic detail
- Realistically detailed gun barrels are slide molded w/hollow ends
- Smoke generator w/fine detail
- Quintuple torpedo launcher in fine detail
- 5-inch practice loading machine in great detail
- New lower profile platform for 36-inch searchlight
- Extremely fine detailed parts like davits for 26' whale boats
- Whale boats w/photo-etched parts finely reproduced
- Sky-lookout shield finely represented w/photo-etched parts
- 1.1-inch AA gun reproduced w/delicate detail
- Rudder is movable
- True-to-scale ultra thin propellers reproduced
- Depth charges and K-gun molded w/extra-fine detail
- Special device included to bend specific photo-etched parts to correct
angle
- Bridge supports finely represented w/photo-etched or plastic parts
Dragon’s newest 1/700 plastic ship kit set to
launch onto the international market is a Benson-class destroyer of the
U.S. Navy. However, Dragon’s kit has a few pleasant surprises in store.
The most important point is that it’s a 1+1 kit!
This means there’s not just a single destroyer in the box, but two
complete models are enclosed (one with a waterline hull and the other
with a full hull). This allows modelers to make a 1/700 scale kit of the
USS Laffey and USS Woodworth.
Another special feature is that this is the first Smart Kit in Dragon’s
1/700 sea power series, with all the associated advantages of slide
molds, advanced engineering and sheer convenience.
The USS Laffey (DD-459) was commissioned on 31 March 1942 and was
dispatched to the Pacific. It helped rescue survivors from the USS Wasp,
before later engaging in a fierce battle near Guadalcanal. In the battle
on 13 November 1942,
Laffey took on a Japanese battleship and two destroyers at point-blank
range before succumbing to the enemy’s superior gunfire. The USS Laffey
was sunk with heavy loss of life. On the other hand, the USS Woodworth
(DD-460)
was commissioned one month after the Laffey. Serving in the Pacific
theater, the USS Woodworth had a busy time in numerous engagements with
Japanese aircraft, a cruiser, destroyers, ground artillery and a
submarine. After surviving the war,
this destroyer was subsequently transferred to the Italian Navy.
Since the design of these plastic kits is based on a larger 1/350 kit,
these new ships benefit from unprecedented levels of detail. There are
photo-etched metal parts (for example, funnel ladders, bridge supports).
Modelers can produce both the
Laffey and Woodworth, with decal markings provided for both vessels.
Since the box contains one waterline hull and one full hull, modelers
can decide which ship will receive the relevant hull. With this 1+1 set,
there are two very good reasons
inside the box for ship modelers to acquire these important WWII
destroyers!
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 |