USS Frank Knox DD-742 Gearing Class Destroyer

• Highly detailed plastic pieces molded in grey.
• Newly tooled true-to-scale ultra-thin propellers.
• Newly tooled radar mounted on twin 40mm Mk4 guns.
• Newly designed quintuple torpedo launcher can be assembled i separate parts.
• Whalers with photo-etched parts newly designed.
• 5 realistic 1/350 scale figures.
• Waterline or full-hull version can be assembled.
• Selected parts available in either plastic or photo-etched version.
• One-piece slide-molded upper hull with undercut details.
• Deck has realistic camber.
• Rudder is movable.
• Bilge keels with removable sonar dome on lower hull made with _.
• slide-mold technology.
• Fine photo-etched propeller guards.
• Extra-thin shield walls on superstructure reproduced.
• 3-directional slide-molded twin 5-inch gun turret.
• Every detail present, right down to access ladders and rivet heads.
• Realistically detailed slide-molded gun barrels with hollow muzzles.
• Shield wall on superstructure and bonus captain's chain both wit full detail.
• Depth charges molded with extra-fine detail.
• Front and rear funnels with DBM antennas.
• Funnels provided with option of molded-on ladders or add-o photo-etched ladders.
• Platforms on funnels finely modeled by photo-etched parts.
• Extra-fine detailed superstructure.
• Passageway for crew access realistically presented with interio detail.
• Authentic radar tower reproduced.
• Mk37 gun director with highly detailed Mk12 radar antenna assembly.
• Photo-etched parts finely reproduced for radar and antenna.
• Doors available in either plastic or photo-etched metal.
• Side doors can be assembled open/closed.
• Extremely fine parts like davits for whalers.
• Twin 40mm Mk4 guns reproduced with delicate detail.
• Finely detailed quadruple 40mm Mk4 mount.
• Twin 20mm guns finely reproduced with photo-etched shields.
• Finely represented Mk51 gun director.
• 5-inch practice loading machine has great detail.
• 12-inch and 36-inch searchlights provided.
• Movable mount for 36-inch searchlight with clear part included.
• Oval- and square-shaped rafts look authentic.
• Bridge supports portrayed with photo-etched parts.
• Waterslide decals.
• Illustrated instructions.

• Scale: 1/350
• Parts: 700+

One plastic model