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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.
Benson-Livermore Class Destroyers :

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

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