1:350 Dragon USS Buchanan DD-484 1942 #1021

...I was thinking of those that made it to WW2 service.....

You're right ,Puma. My Tamiya swabbies arrived today, and they do look just like gingerbread men ! I expected better from them !  My 1/350th Fujimi Kongo arrived today, it included about a thousand or so Japanese swabbies and they're in 3-D ,unfortunately they're all walking , saluting, standing at attention ,or an officer holding his binoculars. Still not as good as the ones included in the Dragon kit. They are sold separately!  Cheers, Flyguy

Just got my 'Buchanan' yesterday, and it really is very nicely detailed, and should make up into a very fine model.  As I am still working on 'Atago,' it will be a while before I get to it, but one thing has struck home.... One of the reasons I try to get my models in the same scale is for the purposes of comparison, and as I am now building the Aoshima 1/350 'Atago,' of course I put the hull of the USS Buchanan alongside.  All I can say is to remark on how brave the 'Tin Can' sailors must have been, including my uncle, as the USS Buchanan looks like a dinghy alongside the hulking mass of 'Atago!'  It must have taken enormous bravery to charge a heavy Japanese cruiser like this in something so tiny and unprotected... I think if it had been me, I would have been paddling just as fast as I could in the other direction!