Dragon 1/700 Perry Class FFG released

I don't think this is new - I built this kit two years ago and the box was dated 1996. It was the version that came with the very tiny Pegasus class hydrofoil as a bonus.

The 1/700 version, in its original Skywave box, is in my "to do" drawer.  A couple of reviews that I've seen seem to imply that the new Dragon reissue only covers the long-hull ships.  In fact (assuming the plastic parts are identical to those in the kit that I've got - and I think they are) the kit lets you build either version; the "long hull" is created by adding a not-very-big extension piece to the stern. 

It's a beautiful kit - even without the new photo-etched parts that Dragon has added.

I believe the recent Dragon reissue also includes the option to build it as a "full hull" model rather than a waterline.

I think Phil H is right.  The underwater hull, along with the etched brass fret (which, I believe, includes the delicate mast components that were a little over-scale in the original, all plastic version), makes this new reissue quite a bargain.  I may have to plunk down the extra cash and buy it.  For quite a while I've been thinking of building it as the U.S.S. Samuel Eliot Morison, which has the distinction of having been one of two ships I can think of that were named after history professors.  (The other was the Naval Academy training ship Bancroft, named after George Bancroft, who taught history for quite a few years - and wrote a standard U.S. history textbook - before getting appointed Secretary of the Navy and becoming known as the "father of the Naval Academy.)

Hmmmm ... my 1996 kit was a full hull version, with no waterline option, which was great because it was supposed to be a display model. I built it as the "long hull" USS McInerney, FFG-8, and if I remember correctly the extra piece at the stern was not quite a quarter inch long. Seemed like a piddly difference to me, but I was just getting back into the hobby at the time.

I agree about the PE making a huge difference for the masts and radars, though - I used the Gold Medal Models set (my first) and was amazed at the difference.

PS - jtilley, check your PMs!

MFSOB - I got your private message last week, and sent an answer to it the same day.  Did you get it?

Ummmmm ... no. I shall go rummage in the junk mail drawer just to be sure, though.

mfsob wrote:

Hmmmm ... my 1996 kit was a full hull version, with no waterline option, which was great because it was supposed to be a display model. I built it as the "long hull" USS McInerney, FFG-8, and if I remember correctly the extra piece at the stern was not quite a quarter inch long. Seemed like a piddly difference to me, but I was just getting back into the hobby at the time. I agree about the PE making a huge difference for the masts and radars, though - I used the Gold Medal Models set (my first) and was amazed at the difference. PS - jtilley, check your PMs!

If it is only an extension to the short hull version, I may have to pick this up.  I hope that the kit has a nice number jungle to represent 1 of the 4 short hulls I served on.  FFG-11, 12, 20, 23

http://navysite.de/ffg/ffg7class.htm

 

ps1scw wrote:

Now if they would throw me a bone and let me know that the short hull version in 1/350 is next!

Blue Water Navy(Yankee) 1/350.

raider-hall wrote:

ps1scw wrote: Now if they would throw me a bone and let me know that the short hull version in 1/350 is next! Blue Water Navy(Yankee) 1/350.

Iron Shipwright also makes a very nice short-hulled Perry in 1:350 scale as the Clifton Sprague

http://www.commanderseries.com/ships_350.html

ps1scw - pulled out the decal sheet that came with my 1996 Perry. IF it's still the same, then you get your number jungle. It includes all that you want except the last one, which you could easily piece together. And really, added the extension on the end was nothing. The way that kit was made, there was no stern, so you had to add something to close it off.

 I was stationed aboard the uss doyle ffg38 in 1983, the main difference betweent the short ffg7-21 was eight feet added to stern to accomdate asw gear. So to make your short hull you need to remove 8 scale feet and relocate the capstan on the rear deck.  hope this helpful.