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A great build!!!

As a note, I think all of the Pacific SIMS class destroyers had the SC/SC-1 radar, not the SA, early in the war. Good clear photos showing the radar antennas are hard to find, but all those I have looked at show a SC/SC-1 (square shape with sharp corners, the SA has rounded corners). What you have on your model is an under-scale SC-2 antenna. A September 1943 document shows that one of three air search radars; either SC/SC-1, an experiment radar, or SC-2, installed on surviving units of the class.

Thanks Rick, especially for that information!

The knowledge here is amazing...

That is fantastic work. The Sims class destroyers are my favorites. As far as critiques, the only thing at all I can remotely think of is that the hull plating is a little overstated here and there, but it still works. The build is clean, the paint and weathering are top notch.

The figures are outstanding. At first I thought you'd had them 3D printed. They look as good as the 1/350th sailors from Eduard and North Star. The main reason I don't build 1/700 scale is that PE figures don't look real to me. Now I have to try this method on my next build.

Amazing work!

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That is an amazing model! I hope the diorama turned out as you planned.

My dad served on the Morris. A few of his shipmates discuss rescuing those men from the Lex in a film I made. One sailor describes how they had to back the ship up through the sea filled with men in order to move away when an attack came in. In the end there were so many men aboard that they were worried about capsizing. (The Sims Class were notoriously top heavy already.)