Dan K wrote:What a great project & comparison! Does anyone notice how overscale the Fujimi portholes/eyebrows are compared to Aoshima? OTOH, the Fujimi PE looks pretty good.
Ryuji, any comments on fit/assembly between the two?
Thanks for comments!
Both kits are good and well detailed. The plastic parts fit well but some photo etching, not.
Aoshima kit have less parts and is more easy and fast to build. Fujimi kit have a LOT of small parts - at least there are some extra parts for case of lost or damage.
For Fujimi kit I used Fine Molds AA gun set (the original part looks a bit out of scale)
... and for Aoshima kit I used the Fujimi part.
Both are marked as "1941 version" but Fujimi came with old tower (the top part of Aoshima I used Fujimi part)
So, I will build as 1938 and 1942 version.
Aoshima released the 1942 version few months after I bought this kit, but I didn�t want to buy another model just for 1 different part that I can build in scratch - the tower extension I builded with plastic sheet.
[quote="Dan K"]What a great project & comparison! Does anyone notice how overscale the Fujimi portholes/eyebrows are compared to Aoshima? OTOH, the Fujimi PE looks pretty good.
Ryuji, any comments on fit/assembly between the two?[/quote]
Thanks for comments! :smallsmile:
Both kits are good and well detailed. The plastic parts fit well but some photo etching, not.
Aoshima kit have less parts and is more easy and fast to build. Fujimi kit have a LOT of small parts - at least there are some extra parts for case of lost or damage.
For Fujimi kit I used Fine Molds AA gun set (the original part looks a bit out of scale)
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... and for Aoshima kit I used the Fujimi part. :big_grin:
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Both are marked as "1941 version" but Fujimi came with old tower (the top part of Aoshima I used Fujimi part)
[url=http://s229.photobucket.com/user/celsoryuji/media/Plamodel/IJNsoryutower1_zps439c8ea9.jpg.html][img]http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee295/celsoryuji/Plamodel/IJNsoryutower1_zps439c8ea9.jpg[/img][/url]
So, I will build as 1938 and 1942 version.
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Aoshima released the 1942 version few months after I bought this kit, but I didn�t want to buy another model just for 1 different part that I can build in scratch - the tower extension I builded with plastic sheet.