Scale: 1/200

Recommended to help build a "round bridge" Fletcher-class destroyer from:
Digital Navy 1/200 scale USS Fletcher DD-445
Digital Navy 1/200 scale USS Leutze DD-481
Digital Navy 1/200 scale USS Black DD-666
Digital Navy 1/200 scale USS Caperton DD-650
Halinski 1/200 scale USS Heerman DD-532
Modelik 1/200 scale USS Leutze DD-481
Progresswerk Nürnberg 1/200 scale Z1 Zerstörer (Fletcher klasse / klasse 119)
Trumpeter 1/200 scale USS Fletcher DD-449
Trumpeter 1/200 scale USS The Sullivans DD-537
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
 
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.