DD-661 USS Kidd
by Bob Steinbrunn

1/192 USS Kidd DD-661 (Scratchbuilt-BlueJacket Ship Crafters)

Here are some jpegs of a destroyer model I built some time ago which were taken by a friend, Ken Sallman, of the Twin City Aero Historians in Minneapolis.

The vessel is the USS KIDD, DD 661, as she appeared in August 1945. It's about 75% scratch-built, took 2025 hours over a 4 1/2 year period to build, and has 14,228 pieces in it. (Yep, I kept track just for fun).

The model is based on the BlueJacket Ship Crafters 1/192 scale kit and was entered in the "Scale Ship Model Competition and Exhibition 2000" at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Also just for fun is a jpeg taken by the museum of the damage done to the model after judging and prior to the five-month exhibition.

The model has appeared in Seaways' Ships in Scale magazine (five-part building article starting with the Jan/Feb 2001 issue (http://www.seaways.com), and FineScale Modeler in Sept 2001.