Are there kits of these??

Modeling Subjects Ships
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USS Luce DLG-7, USS Guide MSO-447, USS Niagara Falls AFS-3, USS Shasta AE-33.

I’m wanting to put a collection together of the ships that my dad served on during his 20 year USN career. I’d rather have plastic, but if I have to do resin that’ll be OK.

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I’d have thought that the first two would be the easy ones and the last two would be hard.

Iron Shipwright makes a 1:350 scale Mars-class AFS for the Niagara Falls and Ships & Company makes a 1:700 class Kilauea-class AE for the Shasta. Sorry, both are resin. You won’t find such esoteric subjects in mainline plastic format

I sure thought that someone made a Farragut-class DL as the Koontz which would be your Luce and as far as the MSO, nothing I can think of.

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Thanks for the prompt reply. I have found that since my mother and dad moved away from here, that I’ve been thinking a lot about his days in the Navy. I thought it would be a nice gesture on my part to do this for him. We never got along too well. We get along a lot better now that he moved 350 miles South of me!!

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Ed. I was in both USS Luce DLG-7, and USS Farragut DDG-37(DLG-6). I always knew them as Coontz class DLG/DDG, and Destroyers online lists them under the heading Coontz class DLG/DDG. It is interesting that they also identify Coontz, as a Farragut class DLG ??? I believe Coontz was the first commissioned, in July of 1960, and Farragut was commissioned in December of 1960. Perhaps it was because of the com’g dates that the confusion arose. My first C.O. in Farragut was (then CDR) J. M. Boorda III, who later, supposedly, committed suicide over some medals, as CNO. I can still, neither rationalize, nor believe, “suicide”…it simply wasn’t Mike Boorda’s way.

I would very much like to see the class modeled, in almost any scale, preferably as they were in 1979- on, with the Harpoon system onboard. I can backdate Luce to her appearance as a DLG, I was in her 1972-1973, short tour due to Sea-school-Sea…the school time counted as sea time for rotation.

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My dad was on the Luce in the early 60s. He talks fondly of this ship.

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If it makes you feel any better, Adm Boorda was not so much assassinated, as given ‘Rommel’s Choice,’ in order to protect the President and cover up the tracks of some pretty illegal activities in the Balkans that occured on his watch (at the behest of the President). I can’t tell you much more at the moment; you will have to wait a few more years before the details will be releasable…

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Thanks all for the answers. I need to add one to the list, and I expect it will be the hardest to find a kit of. USS Brule AKL-28. Why couldn’t my dad have been on the Carriers or more popular ships? I have to admit though, after looking at pics of the Brule, she’s not a bad looking ship.

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Don’t know if I will live “that long”, but I am interested…will wait.