Hi, guys,
Have a batch of new items to release (within 2 weeks), here to submit a quick preview.
Before that, a small announcement. We have a replacement etched sheet for the 1:350 SMS Vulkan kit. The changes are:
1. Replaced the side-to-side planking with in-lline arrangement. There was no data clearly showing one way or the other, but base on suggestions, especially from Jim Baumann, we felt it was appropriate to make the change. A section of the deck also is now smooth (without planks).
2. In the original design, we neglected the fact that some of the outboard railing had 3 horizontal lines. This is now corrected and the new etch will be supplied with kits bought here on. Any modeler had previously purchased the kit and wished to acquire new etch can contact us directly, or go through the distributors where they obtained the product.
OK here's what's coming
in 1:350
3 types of IJN bollards. Basically for DD, cruisers and battleships. They are in 16, 16, 20 packages (some BB used up to 10 pairs) and come with both types of bases (etch). Sometimes the ship kit had pretty nicely molded base, wouldn't be necessary to replace those.
5 types of IJN mushroom vents. We did these for USN and they were resin. The Japanese ones are bit smaller and had shallower cuts, we felt they would be better machined. Each type would be one product, comes in package of 12. These pictures aren't sized correctly, they don't differ in size that much.
price on these machined things can be touchy issue, and we don't yet have a precise pricing, but safe to say less than $10 a package.
We already had a Japanese radar set, here's our USN WWII radar set. This set will only include these variants illustrated, all commonly used during the war. No FRAM II or picket radar... The set will come with resin bases (some our sample builder chose wrong, I noted on the pictures). We used 0.15mm brass, so some the more complex constructions looked a bit thick, but this is so they can be easily built, material gotta be a little forgiving (and he built these samples in 1 night, maybe we went overboard a little
). Shape and dimension wise they should be very accurate.
Awning stanchions. This is labeled "for IJN", but we all know post dreads used them. The commonly seen ones are just 2 types, we included both.
Also flightdeck safety net sets for USN and IJN. The Japanese used them on all sorts of ships, but for USN, really just CV-2 and 3. Some the earlier ones might had a section or two but not all around the flightdeck like those two ships.
2 last items in 1:350 are "dynamic propellers" for IJN and USN carrier planes. I don't have built examples yet, guess best way to illustrate the idea is showing you guys an example in a different scale (1:350 ones have roughly 1/4 amount of lines). The 350 sets are going to come with many copies for each type of propeller, and also stationary options. We had 7 types of planes picked out for each set, that's most of the types saw actual combat.
It had been a while since we released all the 1:700 shipyard diorama items. Here are 2 new editions, YD-117 and YD-72 floating cranes.
There was probably another built according to YD-117's specifications, but we know YD-72 is one among many that were the same. We chose to do these 2 because both pontoons were more universal (than others), and we can probably do the other types of cranes sharing these bases.
I'll update you guys when these items are released, and hopefully by that time I could disclose some our bigger projects.
Login
Register
FAQ
