USS Buckley Revell 1:249 Scale Kit #85-3013 Review
RoR Review 20100728 – USS Buckley Revell 1:249 Scale Kit #85-3013 Review
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Smaller than destroyers, the destroyer escorts (DE) were a WWII ship type whose primary tasks were convoy, escort and anti-submarine warfare. The United States built a number of DE classes including the Buckley class. As the war progressed, armaments were increased or customized to meet local needs. Reference information is easily found on the various classes of DE (Squadron and The Floating Drydock both have good ‘In Action’ type books on DE’s). Revell’s Buckley class destroyer escort model #85-3013 is good for both an out of the box build or as a detailed conversion. I used this model to detail the U.S.S England (DE 635) and not the Buckley itself.
For the modeler: The Revell Buckley kit is a box scale kit (1/249) from the Golden age of Revell in the 1950’s. For its time, the kit has a highly detailed superstructure with hatches, ladders, and rafts. And for the most part–this kit holds up very well today. The kit does have a couple weaknesses. The weapons only slightly resemble the originals. The guns should be replaced or extensively rebuilt for a contest model. The railing stanchions are attached to narrow rectangular parts engineered to be inserted into the deck. It leaves a nasty seam to fill –but doesn’t look as bad as it sounds when filled. The only real detail missing from the kit’s hull are the bilge keels on each side of the lower hull. This is easily remedied with scratch-built strip styrene parts. All this and more is fully explained in the Step-by-Step review
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I really liked your review of this kit, but I wish you had included more info on the available P/E set for it. I’d really be interested to hear what is included because while this kit builds up pretty well out of the box, a good photo-etch set that included railings, ladders and maybe some of the armament pieces could turn it into a real showpiece. In the future, when you’re going to do an out-of-the-box build and there is a P/E set available, could you please include more info on the P/E set? Thanks!
George,
That’s a great suggestion and such aftermarket products as the Gold Medal Models photo etch set certainly do enhance the appearance of models such as these. If we had only had the time to include the photo etch in the build and review!
For the most part, even though the builder mentions aftermarket enhancements, if they don’t use them in the build it wouldn’t be best for RoR to bring them up without the benefit of actual appliaction on the model to make a thorough review of its merits.