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I checked on our favorite international website and the only 3D-printed USS Brooklyn, CL50 (shown beside its related USS Helena) is the orange resin-printed kit from Gaga (presumably; Chinese 3D kit manufacturers can be difficult to identify). SSModel kits are, from what I've seen, printed in dark blue-grey resin and with multiple, sometimes poorly fitting hull sections (build of their otherwise very good USS Pensacola had six hull sections!). Gaga makes their full hulls in two (for battleships) or just one section (usually for cruisers), which makes for an easier and cleaner assembly. I built their USS Marblehead and can heartily recommend it, with a few caveats for including the two rear casemate 6-in. guns that had been removed before the war and are difficult to properly cover over. As for the accuracy of this USS Brooklyn, it is obviously a late war version (multiple splinter shields for light AA guns) and I cannot vouch for the accuracy of their number and placement; their USS Helena was severely criticized for this shortcoming on this forum when it first appeared a couple of years ago.