Dragon Model Ships 1/350 USS Buchanan DDG484 Gleaves Class Destroyer 1942 Kit
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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!
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 the lower hull by slide mold technology
- Rudder is movable
- True-scale ultra-thin propellers reproduced
- Extra thin shield walls on superstructure reproduced for accurate 1/350 appearance
- Extra fine detail on superstructure walls like a hose, and ladder patterns delicately reproduced
- Extremely fine detailed parts like davits for whalers
- Whalers with photo-etched parts finely reproduced
- Finest tread pattern ever reproduced
- Funnels provided with the 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 bending 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 finely 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 are pliant and robust stickers for signal flags
- New Cartograf decal, including the deck walkway texture
- Waterline or full hull version can be assembled
- Sponsons are represented on the lower hull by slide mold technology
- Rudder is movable
- True-scale ultra-thin propellers reproduced
- Extra thin shield walls on superstructure reproduced for accurate 1/350 appearance
- Extra fine detail on superstructure walls like a hose, and ladder patterns delicately reproduced
- Extremely fine detailed parts like davits for whalers
- Whalers with photo-etched parts finely reproduced
- Finest tread pattern ever reproduced
- Funnels provided with the 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 bending 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 finely 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 are pliant and robust stickers for signal flags
- New Cartograf decal, including the deck walkway texture
