1/700 USS Truxtun CGN-35 (ISW)
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by David J. Salvin |
1/700 USS Truxtun CGN-35 (ISW)
My latest commission brings us to the USS Truxtun CGN-35 by Iron Shipwrights. The Kit itself wasn’t bad (or that good either). The basic hull molding was fair with decent details, but missing portions of the upper bridge and lower weather deck which were not properly cast or included. I added them in with scrap PE. The very prominent radar towers, the focal point of the ship were only basically represented in the kit. While the kit did include a PE fret with radar and some side railing, most was simply too thick to use. Substituted aftermarket PE for the railings. The actual configuration of the towers represented in the kit was not entirely accurate and did require additional scratch building to get closer to the original. The kit did not include a decal sheet. The weakest part of the kit, however, was the instructions. A single black and white picture of the ship from a distance and a few very basic images were provided to attempt to model the very complicated radar towers of this ship. Anyone attempting to realistically model this vessel will need to consult multiple other pictorial sources rather than rely upon the instructions. Overall, the kit does provide the basics for the ship, but will require some additional work to get it looking more realistic.
