D-25 Jorge Juan – Destroyer Spanish Navy

It is about the conversion of the Uss Sullivans to the Jorge Juan of the Spanish Navy, ex-McGowan DD-678, belonging to the Fletcher class and which was transferred by the US on December 1, 1960. The Trumpeter kit is quite It can be improved both to make this version or the model it represents and which comes to make two versions, the 43 or 45 version and requires many improvements.

In the specific case of the Jorge Juan, an extensive scracht work has been required for which I have followed other models of modelers and reviewing the ship's documentation. The work carried out has consisted of the total sanding of the deck, replacement of fairleads, bitts, chains, chimneys, bridge and stern structures, complementing with plasticard, copper wire, photo-etched parts, main guns rebuilt and replaced by tubes, ammunition boxes , anti-submarine hedgehogs, torpedoes, fully rebuilt 3-inch guns, main mast, firing direction, life rafts, midships gutters, propeller guards, flag boxes, winches. It has been completed with voyager railings, flyhawk ladders. They have been used as Vallejo paint, using 70990 as the main color of superstructures, 70868 for the deck and a mixture of 70947 70818 for the hull. Light effects have been given with oil and pastel, not dirtying it by seeing various photographs of the real model that was not particularly worn.
The full hull option was chosen to adequately represent it in navigation using a 3 cm wavy Porex base and using various types of gloss (relief varnishes) together with cotton according to the method I usually use.
The decals are left over from other kits and the flags have been printed and lightly varnished.

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