Edsall Class Destroyer Escort Kit

Oh yeah, the specific one which i hope to build is the USS DE 319 Leopold, lost in 1944

Skywave made a Cannon class DE. The primary difference being the Cannon class used a diesel electric drive and the Edsall class used a reduction geared diesel drive. Hull wise they were the same. Armament details will need research as to time and place.

For some details, go to:

http://www.steelnavy.com/riddle5.htm

For a photo of DE-319 at launch (no armament yet), go to:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/319.htm

To look at other DEs, go to:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/06idx.htm


Good Luck on your project.

Iron Shipwrights does a Buckley, an Evarts, and a Rudderow, and you can convert one of these with relatively little work. I will have to research which kit you should start with, as I don't have any of the necessary books here at present.

Regards,

Jeff Herne

I'd like to do an Edsall, but in 1:200, or larger. But I'll have to modify her to 50s - 60s DER configuration. Of course that, too, would be a future project. Like the 1:72 Gato/Balao/Tench Guppy II.
Mike K.

i also am rather interested in an Edsall in the DER configuration- considering the Buckley / Cannon class are the closest matches in 1/700, what are the major modifications ( of course other than the weapons configuration and masts for the radars) that I may have to start on? thanks guys!

I don't know if you are still around or not, but I have reciently decided to build a model of the Leopold as I had a cousin lost on that ship.  If you are still active I would like to hear from you.

 

Mike

what scale?