{"id":10531,"date":"2026-04-07T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?page_id=10531"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:52:58","slug":"uss-laffey-dd-459-and-uss-juneau-cl-52","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?page_id=10531","title":{"rendered":"USS Laffey (DD-459) and USS Juneau (CL-52)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a diorama that took me WAY too long to build; off-and-on nearly four years. Granted there were months at a time where I did no work on it at all, but it still is a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cruiser is the Yankee Model Works kit of the USS Juneau<\/em>. I built it almost out-of-the-box. The destroyer is the USS Laffey<\/em>; it is kit-bashed from a Yankee Model Works USS Farenholt <\/em>and USS Aaron Ward<\/em> kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of photos below. I was practicing with the new hot-shoe flash I picked up for my Canon G2 and some of the shots came out great, some not so much. I didn’t feel like sorting through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read a full article on how I built this diorama on the Model Warships website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n