I was at Nurnberg today, and made some shooting of the new ship kits. From the highlights, a test build of Graf Zepellin at Trumpeter, Junyo from Hasegawa, several other Kongo-class ships from Kajika. Also the new Academy Missouri in 1:700 was quite nice. And many more of course. Quite interesting is a wood and metal kit of USS Maine from some smaller spanish company (I need to find its name in my notes
) in 1:130. In the wooden kits, Artesania Latina would release a galeon kit with complete interior before Christmas.
Regarding the news, ICM confirmed to release all 4 Koenig-class ships over the year, and then see how they sell. If they sell well, they will do more - so go buy them - they look decent!
One of the Trumpeter guys also told me about a veeery big huge 200 scale Yamato coming way too soon for my budget
But its a secret, dont tell yet, so tsss!
ARK Model Aurora in 1/400 is limited to 300 pieces with over the half already booked, so go get them!
From Flyhawk, I found out some release dates for new kits - Duke of York and Prince of Wales are to come in may-june, while Illustrious and Koenigsberg are to come september-november. A subject to change of course.
I am uploading photos to
my gallery site, it would be available in half a hour or so, and would try to caption, where necessary.
P.S. Upload finished
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Model kit manufacturer and distributor:
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1:350 HMS Diana 1794 - nearly released
Further kits in preparation.