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Bruce Smith
Vero Beach, Florida
“For a long time, I have had an idea to create a catamaran destroyer,” Bruce says. He purchased two Trumpeter 1/350 scale Arleigh Burke-class kits and joined them with a deck made from Evergreen styrene. He painted the fanciful ship with Testors Model Master spray-can enamels and Tamiya acrylics, added Trumpeter 1/350 scale aircraft to the helicopter pads, and fitted Gold Medal and White Ensign photo-etched metal parts. “The model includes an aircraft hangar deck with a flight-control bridge above,” he says. “I spent about 70 hours on this project.”