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MartinJQuinn wrote: PHILIPPE wrote: Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ... Scharnhorst has been announced as an October release. Link to photos of what appears to be a test build of the Royal Oak at the modeling news: https://www.themodellingnews.com/2025/0 ... peter.htmlRandall Wilson's Scharnhorst box art is complete.
[quote="MartinJQuinn"][quote="PHILIPPE"]Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ...[/quote] Scharnhorst has been announced as an October release.
Link to photos of what appears to be a test build of the Royal Oak at the modeling news: https://www.themodellingnews.com/2025/08/preview-lmtv-royal-oak-from-trumpeter.html[/quote]
Randall Wilson's Scharnhorst box art is complete.
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 7:14 pm |
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PHILIPPE wrote: Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ... Difference being the Royal Oak is actually on Trumpeter's website with photos of the kit built-up, and stores are taking orders with a deliver date - something Algerie, New Mex, Baltimore, and Nelson never reached.
[quote="PHILIPPE"]Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ...[/quote] Difference being the Royal Oak is actually on Trumpeter's website with photos of the kit built-up, and stores are taking orders with a deliver date - something Algerie, New Mex, Baltimore, and Nelson never reached.
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:11 pm |
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PHILIPPE wrote: Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ... Scharnhorst has been announced as an October release. Link to photos of what appears to be a test build of the Royal Oak at the modeling news: https://www.themodellingnews.com/2025/0 ... peter.html
[quote="PHILIPPE"]Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ...[/quote] Scharnhorst has been announced as an October release.
Link to photos of what appears to be a test build of the Royal Oak at the modeling news: https://www.themodellingnews.com/2025/08/preview-lmtv-royal-oak-from-trumpeter.html
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:08 pm |
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Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ...
Nice but ... announcements are just blabla until the announcer delivers. Very Fire announced Hiei and Shinano at 1/350, Trumpeter announced Algérie, New Mexico, Royal Oak and now Scharnhorst ( not to speak about Baltimore or Nelson ) also at 1/350. Seems to me a lot of announcements, but little delivered. Maybe they are just trying to focus the attention of Santa Claus ...
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 8:12 am |
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Trumpeter 1/35 Royal Oak in the way for next month. See themodelingnews.
Trumpeter 1/35 Royal Oak in the way for next month. See themodelingnews.
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:56 am |
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Very Fire's 1/350 North Carolina 3D diagram appeared at Scalemates.
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Very Fire's 1/350 North Carolina 3D diagram appeared at Scalemates.
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2025 7:37 am |
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Not sure whether this has been caught before, but Magic Factory appears to be releasing a 1/350 Type 54B frigate in China's PLANCG colors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtBkqr7v6w is the link to the video with projected naval kit releases news
Not sure whether this has been caught before, but Magic Factory appears to be releasing a 1/350 Type 54B frigate in China's PLANCG colors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtBkqr7v6w is the link to the video with projected naval kit releases news
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 6:07 am |
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 3:55 am |
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angeleyes wrote: Randall W is painting an early CVN65 painting , which seems awfully similar to a box art... I asked Randy, it's for a private commission, not a box art.
[quote="angeleyes"]Randall W is painting an early CVN65 painting , which seems awfully similar to a box art...[/quote]
I asked Randy, it's for a private commission, not a box art.
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 6:34 pm |
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Randall W is painting an early CVN65 painting , which seems awfully similar to a box art...
Randall W is painting an early CVN65 painting , which seems awfully similar to a box art...
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 12:36 am |
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burtus05 wrote: A Chinese company, Takom, has a 1/350 scale Soviet destroyer Gremyashchiy in its 1942 configuration listed. If they actually release it a new soviet destroyer is always welcome. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/takom-6 ... 2--1642052A nicely filled gap, not much WW2 Soviet stuff available in plastic. Good to see it's also being offered as the now preserved Anshan. I imagine that will be the moneymaker.
[quote="burtus05"]A Chinese company, Takom, has a 1/350 scale Soviet destroyer Gremyashchiy in its 1942 configuration listed. If they actually release it a new soviet destroyer is always welcome.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/takom-6017-soviet-destroyer-pr7-gremyashchiy-1942--1642052[/quote] A nicely filled gap, not much WW2 Soviet stuff available in plastic.
Good to see it's also being offered as the now preserved Anshan. I imagine that will be the moneymaker.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:32 pm |
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OK, but I am a bit sad that they do not continue their line of modern destroyers after the German and Italian ones. Providers are mainly focused on WWII, but we are missing warships of the modern era.
OK, but I am a bit sad that they do not continue their line of modern destroyers after the German and Italian ones. Providers are mainly focused on WWII, but we are missing warships of the modern era.
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 12:14 pm |
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A Chinese company, Takom, has a 1/350 scale Soviet destroyer Gremyashchiy in its 1942 configuration listed. If they actually release it a new soviet destroyer is always welcome. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/takom-6 ... 2--1642052
A Chinese company, Takom, has a 1/350 scale Soviet destroyer Gremyashchiy in its 1942 configuration listed. If they actually release it a new soviet destroyer is always welcome.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/takom-6017-soviet-destroyer-pr7-gremyashchiy-1942--1642052
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 2:05 am |
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http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.php?g=home&m=article&a=show&id=312&l=en Trumpeter have the 1/700 CVF HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier listed for its 2025-09 release schedule. Hopefully should be available by the end of the year.
[url]http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.php?g=home&m=article&a=show&id=312&l=en[/url]
[img]http://www.trumpeter-china.com/Uploads/202507/687df4137ecaf.jpg[/img]
Trumpeter have the 1/700 CVF HMS Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier listed for its 2025-09 release schedule.
Hopefully should be available by the end of the year.
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2025 9:17 am |
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Killerbeans wrote: Did anyone else see the cruiser San Diego release? If you're referring to the Aotori Bunka kit, it's the Very Fire Atlanta with new parts (and had been on Very Fire's release schedule for some time). You can see the instructions and sprues here: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11201052
[quote="Killerbeans"]Did anyone else see the cruiser San Diego release?[/quote] If you're referring to the Aotori Bunka kit, it's the Very Fire Atlanta with new parts (and had been on Very Fire's release schedule for some time). You can see the instructions and sprues here: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/11201052
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:43 am |
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Did anyone else see the cruiser San Diego release?
Did anyone else see the cruiser San Diego release?
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:28 am |
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PaulC wrote: Ahhhh...it's my location. If I change my shipping from Jamaica to the USA, it comes up in the search results. The current sellers don't ship to Jamaica. Gcj wrote: It doesn't look like coincidence. The Hood in 1941 fit (FH1160) was released on May 24, 2021, and the history was explicitly mentioned in the announcement OK, makes sense.
[quote="PaulC"]Its on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127194180798 ... p_homepage[/quote]
Ahhhh...it's my location. If I change my shipping from Jamaica to the USA, it comes up in the search results. The current sellers don't ship to Jamaica.
[quote="Gcj"]It doesn't look like coincidence. The Hood in 1941 fit (FH1160) was released on May 24, 2021, and the history was explicitly mentioned in the announcement[/quote]
OK, makes sense.
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:55 pm |
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PaulC wrote: Quote: Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned before but it seems last month Flyhawk released an HMS Hood in 1940 fit. Hmmm.... It doesn't seem to have been released yet. Not on Ebay or Hobby Easy pre-order. But July 3 was 85 years since Mers-el-Kebir....coincidence? Nice box art though! It doesn't look like coincidence. The Hood in 1941 fit (FH1160) was released on May 24, 2021, and the history was explicitly mentioned in the announcement.
[quote="PaulC"][quote]Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned before but it seems last month Flyhawk released an HMS Hood in 1940 fit.[/quote]
Hmmm....
It doesn't seem to have been released yet. Not on Ebay or Hobby Easy pre-order.
But July 3 was 85 years since Mers-el-Kebir....coincidence?
Nice box art though![/quote] It doesn't look like coincidence. The Hood in 1941 fit (FH1160) was released on May 24, 2021, and the history was explicitly mentioned in the announcement.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:33 am |
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PaulC wrote: Quote: Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned before but it seems last month Flyhawk released an HMS Hood in 1940 fit. Hmmm.... It doesn't seem to have been released yet. Not on Ebay or Hobby Easy pre-order. But July 3 was 85 years since Mers-el-Kebir....coincidence? Nice box art though! Its on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127194180798 ... p_homepageRather smart by flyhawk - looking at the listing it seems the difference between 1940 and 1941 - ships boats and mast details - are covered by 2 small 3d printed rafts the plastic and PE look unaltered.
[quote="PaulC"][quote]Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned before but it seems last month Flyhawk released an HMS Hood in 1940 fit.[/quote]
Hmmm....
It doesn't seem to have been released yet. Not on Ebay or Hobby Easy pre-order.
But July 3 was 85 years since Mers-el-Kebir....coincidence?
Nice box art though![/quote]
Its on ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127194180798?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20250324084321%26meid%3D441dce1d9b5449988d171a81c089c903%26pid%3D101949%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D127194180798%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2WithMLRPboosterAndUpdatedFeatures_BP%26brand%3DFlyhawk&_trksid=p4375194.c101949.m162918&_trkparms=parentrq%3A1ca4daf31980a6b4838979defffaf65e%7Cpageci%3Afb37140e-63b0-11f0-852c-eaa09e4bc8ba%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage
Rather smart by flyhawk - looking at the listing it seems the difference between 1940 and 1941 - ships boats and mast details - are covered by 2 small 3d printed rafts the plastic and PE look unaltered.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:32 am |
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Quote: Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned before but it seems last month Flyhawk released an HMS Hood in 1940 fit. Hmmm.... It doesn't seem to have been released yet. Not on Ebay or Hobby Easy pre-order. But July 3 was 85 years since Mers-el-Kebir....coincidence? Nice box art though!
[quote]Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned before but it seems last month Flyhawk released an HMS Hood in 1940 fit.[/quote]
Hmmm....
It doesn't seem to have been released yet. Not on Ebay or Hobby Easy pre-order.
But July 3 was 85 years since Mers-el-Kebir....coincidence?
Nice box art though!
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 9:57 pm |
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