– Second torpedo tubes located
– Newly tooled flat-sided funnels for Benson class destroyers like USS Laffey
– New director radar dish
– New separate piping on rear of funnel
– New flexible self-adhesive materials for signal flags
– Photo-etched parts finely reproduced for radar and antennas
– Funnels provided w/option of molded on ladders or add on photo-etched ladders
– Realistic photo-etched funnel caps gills and funnel platform
– Extra-fine detail on superstructure walls like hose and ladder patterns delicately reproduced
– Extra-thin shield walls on superstructure reproduced for accurate 1:350 scale appearance
– Extremely fine detailed parts like davits for whalers
– Whalers w/photo-etched parts finely reproduced
– Sky-lookout shield reproduced w/photo-etched parts
– Open topped upper-mount 5-inch gun w/textured canvas cover
– Upper-mount and lower-mount 5-inch guns realistically reproduced
– Realistically detailed gun barrels are slide molded w/hollow ends
– Turret w/realistic detail
– One-piece sldie-molded upper hull w/undercut details realistically represented
– Deck has realistically reproduced camber
– Waterline or full-hull version can be assembled
– Sponsons are represented on lower hull by slide-mold technology
– 5-inch practice loading machine in great detail
– 20mm AA guns finely reproduced w/photo-etched shields
– Quintuple Torpedo launcher in fine detail
– Special device included to bend specific photo-etched parts to correct angle
– Photo-etched propeller guards finely reproduced
– Optional barrels provided for gun turrets
– Rudder is movable
– True-to-scale ultra-thin propellers reproduced
– Bridge supports finely represented w/photo-etched parts
– 12-inch, 24-inch and 36-inch searchlights provided
– Movable structure for 36-inch searchlight w/clear part included
– 36-inch searchlight platform delicately rendered
– Side doors (w/optional photo-etched parts) can be assembled open or closed
– Smoke generator with fine details