by Phil Reeder
1/350 USS Monssen DD-436 (Dragon Kitbash)
These are photos of my convertion of the Dragon 1/350 Livermore kit. It depicts the Monssen as she appeared in May 1941, when first completed. Luckily the Livermore kit is very near in configuration to her. I removed all traces of the 20mm mounts, and I was able to substitute .50's that she had then, with some left-over from a build of Trumpy`s Lexington. The two open 5" mounts were from a now scrapped Essex kit, these aren`t perfect, so they may be replaced by some from L`Arsenal. The pennant numbers came from GMM`s USN decal sheet. The searchlight tower on the aft structure was scratch-built.
