This Revell kit originally dates back to 1957. When introduced to the model builders' market it was better than most of the kits available at that time. By today's standards there is much to be desired but this is to be expected after 60+ years. Yet the kit has been reissued about ten times over the decades, sometimes under different names and even different national flags and still seems to be popular in the model ship builders' market place. This kit is made in the 1:249 scale. Today many of the ship model kits are offered in one of two popular scales; 1:350 and 1:700, plus numerous less popular scales. 1:249 is referred to as "box scale" which simply means that the manufacturers had standard sized boxes and their various kits were designed to fit one of those boxes. Constant scale did not exist for a number of years until the introduction of the 1:72 airplane kits. Yet, the Revell "Buckley" is a good kit in spite of its lack of standard scale and high-tech details. It is a boon to the kit-basher who might want to modify, improve, and/or update the model. It is an easy model to work with for eyes and fingers who just might find the smaller kits a bit too challenging. There are still two real WW2 DE's (museum ships), USS SLATER in Albany, New York and USS STEWART near Galveston, Texas, on display in the U.S. and the Revell kit is very similar to both of them. The two museum ships provide excellent photo resources to the modellers that want to strive for more accuracy than the kit provides. It's still a good kit to build.Read full review
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