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Thanks for the news - AT LAST, after all this time (45-plus years !) hopefully a decent model of the first three of the armoured carriers.

It doesn't look like they've allowed for different flight deck ends, so only early/mid-war versions will be easy to model.

Wonderful.

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All very (!) well, but 1/700 is too small, so perhaps somebody will consider a 1/350 Illustrious / Victorious?

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@ Hugh, there is always the Heller 1/400 version

Been there, done that. My model is reposing in retirement, looking for a new home. it would be a basis for aftermarket upgrades, if there was a buyer. I have built the Heller 1/400 fleet as it arrived: Hood, KGV, Illustrious; Tirpitz,Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, Graf Spee and sisters, Zerstorer, Minesweepers, U-boot; Richelieu, Arromanches, Strasbourg and those ships of the 1950-1960's French Navy.

The worst thing about these kits was that there were so few over in the UK that I had to go over to France to fetch them, but I did get a decent discount in a model shop in Boulogne! It was quite a feat carrying an armful of kits from Lyon, particularly when two French train loads were packed into one BR train, standing in a coach vestibule all the way from the Coast to London, horreur!

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Hugh Williams wrote:

All very (!) well, but 1/700 is too small, so perhaps somebody will consider a 1/350 Illustrious / Victorious?

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Excellent idea.

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Why not their sister Indomitable? There isn't a CV HMS Indomitable available in ANY SCALE, from what I've found..............

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"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life."- Winston Churchill

re HMS Indomitable, Yes I'd go with that, not to mention HMS Glory, or HMS Centaur, BUT:
while we are on about missing models (of course this is a hugely subjective):
HMS Sheffield, HMS Kenya, HMS Tiger [C20], HMS Petard........and so on

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Aren't you forgetting the Matchbox/Revell styrene kit of the HMS Tiger (C20)? Not to mention the L'arsenal resin kit of the Sheffield.

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"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life."- Winston Churchill

Nope, I built the Frog Tiger with its clear plastic mast, when I was building the Airfix 1/600 ships (its been a lifetime job this, even at College); as for the resin kit, I have a couple of sloops and destroyers and that's enough, anything bigger would be on a par with difficulties with 1/700. Now, if resin/photo-etch combo was replaced with Very Fire level of mouldings [I bought the USS Des Moines] that would be a step forward. I appreciate the resin kit producers do a good job, but the trouble is that resin isn't for me, that said a Peter Hall 'Battle' Class fleet destroyer seems inevitable.

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While the Illustrious is a good choice, I’m still waiting for Flyhawk to release the Achilles, Ajax, Sydney which never have been done in 1/700 plastic! A Southampton, Manchester, Gloucester would be a nice wish as well.



Bob Pink

Too right there Bob, but in 1/350.

Can't see the logic in Exeter and Belfast, then Capetown class AA cruiser and Dido Class AA cruiser. Don't get me wrong, the latter two are most welcome, especially the Dido. If I remember, somebody correct me, the Dido hull is somewhat similar to the Aurora Class 6 x 6" light cruisers. Incidentally, I have the 1/300 scale Aurora, but it isn't an inviting or inspiring model.

PS: I had not intention of starting a wish-list, but Very Fire/Trumpeter please pick up on some of this.

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Sydney + Kormoran for a dogfight double, please!

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Harold

I know, you probably want a plastic kit, but if you really want to built these two ships: NNT had released both of them in 1/700.

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I was just browsing and found another "new" kit from Flyhawk;
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10724536
A "J" Class this time - looks like they're going to milk this hull for all it's worth!

This variant is needed. The Kelly was a leader with an expanded after deckhouse. Therefore, it is only accurate for the leader of each of the 3 classes. Jupiter was a "private" ship with the standard, smaller after superstructure, which is needed for the 21 non-leaders of the 3 classes. This is the destroyer from the "Battle of the Atlantic" set, without the other baggage.

Ahhh this is a FLYHAWK kit. When I saw Jupiter I thought - "HMMM that was released back in May", but that was Aoshima!

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Yes PLEASE!

I’ve really gotten into the German Raiders this year, and would love to build some of them (and their victims). Will have to get the NNT Kormoran now that global shipping seems to have been somewhat straightened out.

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I was doing some random browsing and, sad to say, I found this:
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10712929
The Trumpeter kit could actually be potentially better than the Flyhawk/Sphyrna release, even though it is annoyingly not waterlined! Trumpeter has made more use of slide-molding so there are fewer parts to the superstructure to line up. Can't address the quality of the surface detail. There's a comprehensive set of PE included. Looks like Flyhawk went totally "economy" on their release!

Latest Trumpeter update shows the 1/200 th Scharnhorst on the way plus a 1/700 PLA 051c destroyer:

http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.ph ... d=191&l=en

Still freaking Late-War!

Grrrr...

MB

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