Certainly there are differences!...here are the best images I could find to compare the islands:
I have realized for at least a year that Ford would look unique. She has the SPY-3 & SPY-4 radar combination originally selected. Zumwalt was also to have gotten this combo. It was planned as our future radar set up. Then Zumwalt had a Nunn-McCurdy breach, and part of the cost cutting was to only install SPY-3, omitting SPY-4. Then additionally, radar cooling advances allowed SPY-6 to be fitted to the Burke hull. The result has been the adoption/standardization of SPY-6, and the abandonment of the SPY-3 & 4 combo. Ford is the only ship to have this combo. JFK and all future class members will have SPY-6. That is why you find the differences. It is primarily all due to the main radars.
I wish you could post images as well. I know from reading that this has happened, but have yet to find good comparison images to see the details. Oh, well...all in good time.
Thank you so much for your close work with Magic Factory. It clearly had beneficial results. This is great kit. Not perfect, but I am really very satisfied with mine. It has so many features I like, including this nice UNREP surprise, and has gone together great so far.
I dont have the kit but they actually listened to what I sent .
the JFK just did her cat tests today and there are VISIBLE DIFFERENCES on the ISLAND!!! Subtle but enough to ID the JFK/GRF differences... wished I could post these here....
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