Kit Review & Construction: USS Bunker Hill Cruiser (CG-52) 1/350 Shanghai Dragon

Episode 1 takes a look at the venerable USS Bunker Hill Cruiser kit from Shanghai Dragon (1/350) with the excellent photoetch detail set from White Ensign Models.
Find out more:
USS Bunker Hill History: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bun...)
US Navy Image resources
Flickr: flic.kr/p/QeLWRt
Flickr: flic.kr/p/2kjTVLh

[@zacd7266]

I bought the USS Mobile Bay version of this kit and it’s absolutely awful. I truly regret buying this kit, 1/3 of the pieces it seems are warped or don’t even fit right and the directions are poor, bordering on indecipherable, which leads to even more fit issues. I’ve only completed about a quarter of the kit and I’m already considering binning it.

[@mdanumurthi]

Sorry to hear that, Zac. I concur with you. It is a horrible kit.

[@mdanumurthi]

I ll be doing another video that includes more work on the model and using PE set from White Ensign Model.

[@zacd7266]

@@mdanumurthi It’s a shame that I believe this is the only Ticonderoga Class kit in 1/350 scale. And I’ll look out for that video, maybe getting more fine detail pieces will help fix the issues with it.