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Notice: photos in the carousel show the model in 1/125 scale.  The model in 1/144 scale is identical, just slightly smaller.

 

Scale: 1/144

Recommended to help build a "round bridge" Fletcher-class destroyer from:

  • Revell 1/144 scale Fletcher Class Destroyer 
  • Revell 1/144 scale Fletcher Class Destroyer, Platinum Edition
  • Revell 1/144 scale German Destroyer Class 119 (Z1/Z5)
  • and more!

 

This model represents the original "round bridge" design of the US Navy's Fletcher-class destroyers.  Details varied between ships of the class.  This model's configuration replicates the bridge of many early Fletcher-class destroyers as the bridge appeared circa 1942-1943, before the addition of an exterior door to the captain's sea cabin.

 

The 2,050-ton Fletcher-class was one of the most successful wartime and post-war destroyer classes of the US Navy and arguably the most significant US Navy destroyer class in the Pacific war.  175 ships of the class were produced over a 32-month period during World War II.  They were produced in two groups:  58 were built with a high, "Round Bridge" and 117 (two-thirds of the class) were completed with a low, "Square Bridge" which afforded better visibility for anti-aircraft defense.  Several Fletchers served in foreign navies, the last in service was Mexico's Cuitláhuac, the former round bridge USS John Rodgers DD-574, retired in 2001.

 

Features:

  • accurately scaled from Bath Iron Works builder's plans
  • exterior door locations per Bath drawings and photos of actual Fletchers
  • detailed torpedo directors
  • integrated peloruses
  • exterior antenna trunks
  • flag lockers (flag bins)
  • extensive rivet detail

 

Sets of doors are available separately (click here).

 

Notice: this 3D-printed model is designed to match the overall scaled dimensions of a real Fletcher-class bridge as recorded in official Bath Iron Works builder's blueprints.  This model is not a copy of any injection molded plastic or resin kits' parts and therefore may be differently shaped and sized than  the parts in your kit.  Some adjustment to your kit, or other aftermarket products such as photoetch, may be necessary for best fit.


© Model Monkey LLC.  This 3D-printed product may not be copied or recast.

1/144 Fletcher-class Destroyer "Round Bridge"

SKU: 144_Fletcher-class Round Bridge
$60.00Price
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