I wonder if this is a re-tooling of the very nice Panda kit?

Very good eye, Gator. . .

Might have to buy one to do as the Laboon DDG 58

Hopefully they will re-engineer the rear mast supports, delete or at least rework the incredibly oversized scaffolding mounts on the hull, and remove the raised deck markings. The smaller details could definately use a re-tooling as they are quite bland, and the vent detail is extremely heavy. The GMM modern warships set and the YMW fret does wonders for this but you almost need both to get one good model(one has much more mast detail, the other has better rails and prop blades). Also you pretty much need to remove every door and life presever and replace them as they are, for lack of a better word, strange looking. I have built a couple of these(Panda) and they are nice but take some modelling skill, not to mention the lego style forward superstructure has a lot of small gaps to fill on sharp corners as the engineering is a little odd. At least you know the decals will be good, the Panda ones were absolute garbage. A nice kit, but I am doubting that it will be much more then a re-box. DML puts nowhere near the effort into the few 'Premium' ship models that they do on dozens upon dozens of new AFV kits.

My better half just bought me the 1/350 Winston Churchill. Being a Flight IIA ship, this gives me the new USS Kidd. I have the WW2 Kidd ready to build, now I just need the Dragon kit of the second Kidd.