Destroyer Database

The Destroyer Database at iModeler

Items tagged with Destroyer
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USS Gearing, Dragon 1/350

by Marcello Rosa on August 18, 2022
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Here is my build of Dragon's USS Gearing, lead ship of the US Navy's ultimate WWII destroyer class. This is the excellent kit from Dragon, which comes with extensive photoetch (but, surprisingly, no railing!). Built it out of the box apart [...]

Hellenic Navy Destroyer Thyella (Storm) D28 1/350

by Nikos Kosmadakis on January 5, 2022
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Hello everyone! I modified Trumpeter's The Sullivans square bridge Fletcher to depict the upgraded Fletcher of the Hellenic Navy. A fair amount of scratch building was done. Used the Fletcher pe set by GMM, 5in Turrets and Bofors by [...]

1/700 Fuyuzuki (Akizuki Type)

by Evan Franklin on June 16, 2020
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Aoshima 1/700 Yoizuki kit with the Five Star Fuyuzuki upgrade kit: The upgrade kit is essential for this build as the original kit is pretty basic. I also added aftermarket rope reels and built the wood base and acrylic case myself. For [...]

HNoMS St. Albans – Mirage Hobby 1/400

by Nikos Kosmadakis on March 29, 2020
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Finally got some time on the bench in 2020. Needed something small to get me going again, so I gave a go at the four-stack destroyer of Mirage Hobby. The build is OOB with the addition of some generic 1/350 railings. Hope you like it! [...]

Toon Time Again: Fujimi “Toon” Ships

by George R Blair Jr on September 11, 2019
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I have built a bunch of the "toon" tanks, planes, and ships over the last few years, usually as a way to decompress from some of my more intricate builds. I had previously built four Meng "toon" ships before and really [...]

1/700 IJN Destroyer Asashio

by Alex Kuo on July 6, 2019
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Hello fellow modelers, This is the IJN Destroyer Asashio, my 5th attempt at 1/700 scale modelling. My first three 1/700 builds were just straight out of the box build, then I discovered the wonderful world of aftermarket super detailed PE [...]

Japanese Destroyer Ayanami 1/700

by Carlo Farina on March 3, 2019
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Hello guys, this is the destroyer Ayanami who is veering to avoid a torpedo while an American torpedo bomber crashes nearby. It’s a 1/700 kit from Hasegawa with photoetched parts from Tetra model, the torpedo bomber came from tamiya. [...]

1/700 U.S.S. Fletcher (Matchbox) – weekend rebuild

by Michael Smith on February 3, 2019
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I've had this old Matchbox 1/700 Fletcher destroyer model for at least 25 years. I had built it partway down to the detail parts and left it, as shown in the picture to the right (no U.S. flag). Last weekend I decided that I wanted to [...]

Scratch built type 45 destroyer.

by Derek Matile on January 31, 2019
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This is a scratch built model of HMS Diamond type 45 Destroyer. I copied the dimensions from a 1/700 kit times 3 =1.233 scale.The hull is calved from a block of pine,the rest is ply.I also built Daring and Dauntless to the same scale.

1/350 Uss James E Williams DDG-95

by Olli-Pekka Immonen on December 1, 2018
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Hello! My first post here in iModeler! Though not new to modeling , here's one of my latest ship models I've finished. Trumpeters kit of Uss Momsen was used as a base. Mostly every detail was first cleaned off and everything was build up [...]