by Kieran Griffith
1/200 PLAN Shenzhen (Trumpeter)
The Trumpeter Model of the Shenzhen is very impressive in size and a lot of fun to build. What it really needs in the future is a PE set from White Ensign Models for the radar and some of the ladders.
The Type 051B Luhai-class is a class of destroyer built by the People's Republic of China. It consists of only this one ship, No.167 Shenzhen. When Shenzhen was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1998, it was then, the largest surface combatant that China had ever built. It resembles in many ways an enlarged version of the Luhu class destroyer, and is one of the first PLAN ships with a slope-sided hull to reduce radar signature.
