The Ship Model Forum

Quaestor wrote:Dear friends at Flyhawk; I see on the "new plastic kits" thread on this forum that you are planning German WWII light cruisers. Thank you!
These ships are badly needed in 1/700th scale plastic.

May I suggest that Italian and French cruisers of WWII would be excellent subjects for Flyhawk. There are resin kits of most of these ships; but none in plastic in 1/700 and certainly nothing to match Flyhawk quality.
The most important ships to start with (that is, those that I think would sell ) would be these:
Italy, Zara class heavy cruisers
France, La Galissonniere class light cruisers
These are well-known ships which saw much action during the war; which is why I feel they would sell well enough to be worthwhile for Flyhawk to produce.

I encourage other forum members to suggest other French and Italian ships they would definitely buy (in addition to cruisers, I would very much like to have French aircraft carrier Bearn).

rdh wrote:Previous reports of an Aoshima Hermes are likely in error. It was probably Flyhawk all along. This is my guess but I cannot read Japanese or Chinese so I cannot confirm.

biggles2 wrote:I have a couple of quick questions about the announced Flyhawk kits and the HMS Aurora. On the Aurora's box, it says it's full hull but the Naiad can be made full hull or waterline. I only build waterline models, so my questions are, can anyone confirm the FLyhawk HMS Aurora is Full Hull only or is there a waterline option as in the HMS Naiad kit?

rdh wrote: Did they find out that another company will be making one and so pull the ship release to cut losses?

Previous reports of an Aoshima Hermes are likely in error. It was probably Flyhawk all along. This is my guess but I cannot read Japanese or Chinese so I cannot confirm.

rdh wrote:Excellent detective work. Now, of course, follows the question "why did Flyhawk remove the image?" They did not remove the appropriate aircraft from the posting so why the carrier? Production issues? Did they find out that another company will be making one and so pull the ship release to cut losses?

Previous reports of an Aoshima Hermes are likely in error. It was probably Flyhawk all along. This is my guess but I cannot read Japanese or Chinese so I cannot confirm.

jabarry wrote:Elementary mon cher l'amiral. Flyhawk has just about become my favorite company overnight. I hope before too long we do see some counties, towns and colonies too!

jabarry wrote:I posted this in the main thread and missed putting it here. This is what shows up when I overlay the flyhawk mystery photo with the photo taken of Illustrious in the Indian Ocean. Clouds are like fingerprints.