USS Forrest Sherman Destroyer

If you are tired of paying high prices for model kits, this is the one for you. It has an affordable price and buildes into a great looking, highly detailed, multiple options model!

This was the last all-gun destroyer class built for the US Navy. This kit dates back to the early-sixties and it shows in the thick moldings, fit the box scale and the weapons suite. I received this kit twice as a kid, once in 1970 and in 1973 so I'm no stranger to this ancient Revell kit. I saw that Atlantis had re-issued it and I had been given photos of the USS Turner Joy, taken at Pier no.1 in 1979 at 32nd Street Naval Base San Diego. I removed the hand rails from around the main deck, upper decks and the bridge and replaced them with photoetched ones from a generic set for 1/350th ships. Although they are a smaller scale there were some on the frets that were a good match for rail height and stanchion spacing. I removed the 3/50 Mk.33 gun mounts and depth charge rack since they removed them during her career. I also replaced the torpedo tubes with Mk.32 triple tube launchers. I replaced the radar antennas with ones from a Flagship Models photoetch set and the scale size difference didn't seem to be all that much and I added some of the later style antennas to the yards of the tripods. The Mk.42 5/45 gun mounts are pretty rough so I replaced them with 3-D printed ones from Model Monkey along with a pair of Mk.56 gun directors. The propeller shafts were replaced with aluminum rod and the v-struts were cleaned up and drilled for the rods. The model was painted with Gunze Sanyo USN Haze Grey on the hull, superstructure and weapons. Tamiya RLM 66 Black-Gray for the decks and Tamiya Hull Red for the hull below the waterline with a black boot topping. Although mine isn't museum quality it more closely represents the ship I saw 43 years ago, just before this once 17 year old boy started a journey that lasted 22 years. It now holds a place of honor on a former crewman's mantle.

THIS IS A FORMER REVELL KIT.HAS A LOT OF OPTIONS. GUNS TURN,A LOT OF THINGS YOU CAN DO EXTRA DETAILING YOU CAN DO.