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Old 10-05-2022, 05:19 AM
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USS Lyndon B. Johnson

I’ve not built anything in ages; between international moves and having most of my tools in storage in the U.S., I just wasn’t able. But we’re now settled in Manchester and I’ve been reunited with my toolkit and so I decided to resume modeling with something simple just to see how rusty I am. Pretty rusty, it turns out.

This is the USS Lyndon B. Johnson, the last of three Zumwalt-class destroyers for the U.S. Navy. The model is offered by Bryan Tan (Rocketmantan) and I’m not sure of the scale; I believe it may be 1/700 or thereabouts. I was looking for something easy with a low parts court — this model has 22 parts, including hull formers.

Bryan’s model dates to 2011 and the LBJ looks a bit different from what he offered. The biggest visual change is that the superstructure is covered, in part, by some sort of tiles (radar-absorbent?) and as I’m not capable of repainting, I couldn’t figure a way to replicate it.

I made a few corrections and added some details here and there. Fortunately, these ships have relatively clean hulls and there’s not much on deck. I couldn’t find any photos of the LBJ fitted with the 57mm guns, so I left them off.
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