USS Bronstein DE-1037
By Richard Sliwka
1/350 USS Bronstein DE-1037 Destroyer Escort (Iron Shipwrights)
Iron Shipwright's destroyer escort Bronstein was backed-dated to its late
1960's configuration. This required a single 3" 50 cal. mount in the aft
position and the removal of the towed anti-submarine device. My references
were the photos and drawing in Friedman's U.S. Destroyers. The 3" mount
was scratch-built using parts from a dissected twin mount. Barrels were
.012" dia. brass rod. A modernized 26' whale boat and davits were
added. Brass rods/tubing replaced resin mast parts with .002"-.004" dia.
nylon fishing line used for rigging. The D.A.S.H. helicopter with its torpedo
was scratch-built from misc. resin, plastic, and spare photo-etch items.
This was the tailless QH-50D version (my wife calls it "the bug"). This
took considerable time to research so I built six helicopters (three with
tails and three without so I'll have some already made when finish my FRAM
destroyers). The model was painted using Model Master Acryl paints.
Construction time was about 125 hours.
Richard
Sliwka
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