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I got mine in the mail yesterday, and indeed the engineering is worlds above the Dragon kit, as expected. My Dragon kit (the DDG-1002 release) is half completed, and will probably stay that way indefinitely. IMHO, If you have the Dragon kit unbuilt, it would be best to sell it while you can, and pick up the very affordable Flyhawk kit.

It is both more accurate, more detailed, and better engineered.

A few of Vee Hobby’s CAD shots on progress. I imagine this will follow their South Dakota class and Missouri release style. A base kit, deluxe and premium? Maybe with a smaller subject it will just be basic and premium?

Matt

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In the yards right now:
USS Utah AG-16
On Hold
1/350 USS Portland CA-33 1942
1/350 Trumpeter Texas with a twist

Latest Trumpeter monthly announcement is a 1/700th WW2 Gneisenau:

http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.ph ... d=234&l=en

Also more details on the 1/200th PLA Navy Type 055 destroyer

http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.ph ... =3788&l=en

And on the 1/700th 1942 HMS Belfast

http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.ph ... =3784&l=en

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Harold

And the Hobby Boss wing shows a 1/350 USS Missouri BB-63 for July release. Wonder what the odds are that this is yet another new tool or perhaps they have taken over the Very Fire molds?

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In the yards right now:
USS Utah AG-16
On Hold
1/350 USS Portland CA-33 1942
1/350 Trumpeter Texas with a twist

At long, long, long last

They say good things are worth waiting for, but I just get greedy and impatient

DaveW

Hmmm...might be passible if you switch out as much as possible with Flyhawk equivalents! (Or wait for a Flyhawk release!)

Joy Yard just guaranteed me a few days in "time out" from the wife. They're doing injection kits of:

* Fuso class (1919)
* Ise class (1919)
* ALL 8-8 capital ships.

All.

8-8.

Capital.

Ships.

(And some other stuff, but 8-8!)

Link: https://mobile.twitter.com/ISEHYUGA717/status/1531677511469383682?fbclid=IwAR0wMEAgXtUTzmHJzTD0CAygLYLLTY6xcImAaT96WAozMxKIFzjYTKgjXOU

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- Chris

1/700 Saratoga w/Pontos (Needs paint)
1/700 Potato w/Kurama (On hold)
1/700 Murdertorpedoboat Ooi

That's pretty cool. Even if it is WL. Definitely interested in the Fuso/Ise as built configs.



That's a interesting choice. Especially since it's right out of the blue. I think it would be very interesting if it was the VF tool, but since the TRP/HB operation has such an amazing capacity for cranking out kits I would be unsurprised if it was a clean sheet design that was aimed at the VF kit.

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- Consul Marcus Tullius Cicero

Very cool! I wish someone would do the American battleships of the same time period as built....

The Japanese market will surely buy enough of these to make Joy Yard's investment worthwhile. The US market buying enough South Dakota (BB-49) and Lexington class kits? Doubtful. (Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it and would be all over that action!) On the other hand, if Joy Yard is breaking in to 1:700, they could do reasonably well by covering the New Mexico class from WWI through Mississippi's weapons test ship days...

Sprue shots in hand for the Tosa-class - excellent! Picking up Fujimi's dropped ball first!

And Fuso... do I buy it, or complete the modification/scratchbuild I started so many years ago... (Already got the torpedo net booms on her... darn, tough call...)

- Sean F.

I'd love them as well, but I'm glad we're getting some new, interesting subjects. I imagine other "what-if's" or "never-completed" vessels may get a second look if these sell well.

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- Chris

1/700 Saratoga w/Pontos (Needs paint)
1/700 Potato w/Kurama (On hold)
1/700 Murdertorpedoboat Ooi

Agreed.

Remember Joy Yard announced 11 1/700 USN DD and DE kits back in early March. Hope those are still planned. At least a couple of these new announcements have test shots. Very big program of new 1/700 kits for a company that has been around awhile and only has a couple of 1/350 releases. I had rather see the 1/700 USN DDs and Des first.

AND the 1/700 Soviet WWII DD they've had the CAD image of on their site forever

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Harold

I can hardly breathe! A 1919 Fuso!

Terry (Caravellarella)

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Because L'Oréal keeps telling me I'm worth it!

Maybe it's Maybelline..............

Interesting…

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Thomas E. Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasEJohnson

Perhaps keeping the same level if not more detail, in an easier kit to build?

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Thomas E. Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasEJohnson

Very cool! I wish someone would do the American battleships of the same time period as built....[/quote]


I just wish that someone would do both the Arkansas and Nevada in their 1944, D Day configurations.


DaveW

I'm sure you mean in plastic kit form but I do make nice resin kits of both ships in 1944 fit at D-day.

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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
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