1/350 USS Chevalier DD-805 1945 Gearing Class Destroyer

This is a plastic model kit, which comes unassembled and unpainted. So glue, model paints and other basic modelling tools are additionally required.


Features:
- Newly tooled radar tower is produced
- Newly tooled platform produced
- One-piece slide-molded upper hull w/undercut details newly represented
- Newly designed bilge keels w/removable sonar dome are represented on lower hull by slide-mold technology
- Finely detailed and newly designed quadruple 40mm Mk4 mount
- Whalers w/photo-etched parts newly designed
- Waterline or full-hull version can be assembled
- Finely represented in either plastic or photo-etched versions
- Deck has realistic camber
- Rudder is movable
- True-to-scale ultra-thin propellers
- Fine photo-etched propeller guards
- Mk37 gun director w/highly detailed Mk12 radar antenna assembly
- Photo-etched parts finely reproduced for radar and antennas
- Twin 40mm Mk4 guns reproduced w/delicate detail
- Twin 20mm guns finely reproduced w/photo-etched shields
- 3-directional slide-molded twin 5-inch gun turret
- Every detail present, right down to access ladder and rivet head
- Realistically detailed slide-molded gun barrels w/hollow ends
- Side doors in plastic or photo-etched are available
- Side door can assembled open/closed
- Extremely fine parts like davits for whalers
- Finely represented Mk51 gun director
- 5-inch practice loading machine in great detail
- Shield wall on superstructure and bonus captain's chair both w/full detail
- Detail like hose and ladder patterns on superstructure walls delicately reproduced
- Extra-thin shield walls on superstructure reproduced for accurate 1/350 scale appearance
- Front and rear funnels w/DBM antennas
- Funnels provided w/option of molded-on ladders or add-on photo-etched ladders
- Platforms on funnels finely modeled by photo-etched parts
- 12-inch and 36-inch searchlights provided
- Movable mount for 36-inch searchlight w/clear part included
- Oval- and square-shaped rafts look authentic
- Depth charges molded w/extra-fine detail
- Extra-fine detailed superstructure
- Passageway for crew access realistically presented w/interior detail
- Bridge supports portrayed w/photo-etched parts