As stated in my post about the Zuikaku, I cant do small details with my tri-focal wearing eyes, but I can on occasion muddle my way through a small build like this.
Here is Hasegawa"s 1:700 scale South Dakota, with a few replacement parts. Hasegawa's secondary armament didnt look really all that accurate, expecially in the 20mm, and the shape of the 5 inch turrets, but I ran across a great prize that I didn't know I had:
Dragon's BB-38 Pennsylvania is absolutely LOADED with extra parts, so many in fact that I had enough to replace all the secondary armament on the South Dakota with parts from the Dragon kit and still have enough to build Pennsy when I get up enough nerve to tackle the included PE.
The Dragon 20mm Oerlikon, 40mm Bofors, and 5" 38cal turrets look absolutely right at home on this ship, like I said earlier, if I could see the PE, I would have gotten shields for the 20s and it would have looked even better. The 20s are 2-piece assemblies are the 40s, the 5"ers there was only 1 set of barrels in the Pennsy kit, but as we know, barrels are as easy as stretched sprue
Thanks for looking, and hope you like. If and when I master modelling water, she might look better.