HI folks, what companies make a model of the USS Shreveport or if not
>the Shreveport, any sister ships (if there are any)?
>
>My wife's US Marine son was ferried to Afghanistan on this ship in FAll
>of 2001 and is scheduled to deploy on this ship again in the very near
>future. She wants me to make a model of it. WHile I'm prmarily a
>1:72/6 armour modeller, I've done some modern naval stuff (mostly Airfix
>1/600) in the distant past and I figure 1/600 is probably the scale to
>go with, judging on the size of one of my surviving Airfix kits (an HMS
>Fearless, which I'm guessing is roughly the same size perhaps, as the
>Shreveport, though I haven't done any research on the subject, yet). >
The Shreveport is one of the Austin class of LPD's. JAG makes a 1/700 resin kit of the Austin class that includes decals for all twelve ships in the class. It's a bit pricey compared to Airfix kits, you can expect to pay $60-70 for it but it is a high quality kit and includes some photo etched details. You can get JAG kits from Squadron. You can see a review of the kit here:
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John Benson ------------------------ IPMS El Paso Web Guy
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