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I've seen 1/700 models with sharper and cleaner detailing than that!

Actually... there's a lot worth considering here. It has the deck planking absent from the Trumpeter kit, and note how it has the hull bulges as separate pieces - and I think I see a flat funnel cap among the pieces. If you're interested in building the GZ as if she completed in 1940, this might be an easier place to start than the Trumpeter kit.
- Sean F.

I am impressed! Why would they produce such kits with such bad molding? Quite a junk kit and indeed no better than the Tamiya rip offs like Minihobby KGVs... On the bright side, one might not need to do much to represent the 'battle damage' on one of these kits!

Anyway if it's cheap, then it worths the quality.
Aop

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This is another open box report with some compare with other kits.

both link are not prepared by me

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5070218721

From a Chinese website alleged trumpy's 1/700 product

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/5038981669

Well, my thoughts:

IF....you explicit want to build a 1940 Graf zeppelin......oké

But when i look carefully at the pics and see how crude the plastic parts are...
you have to use an sander to get the parts flat.
I think this kit is coming from C.C. LEE, notorious for there moulding
and suspect them using CONCRETE for their moulds .

Anyone who can give some more know how about the manyfacturer ??

greetings Chris

Would that pic contain both german ww2 aircraftcarriers, the 1/700 rodney or nelson in progress and the 1/700 new york class in progress?

Kind regards,

Henk

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Oh Dear !

I think you need new glasses - if you can't recognise "The Ark" you need an extensive course in ship i.d..

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Thanks for clearing that up...
Nope Just not as much in aircraft carriers.

one can't know it all

Cheers

Well, anyway...

Please little birds, tell me more about a 1/350 all gun Hyuga....

Maybe we can speculate it into existence

Oh dear. The only offering from ICM is a 1:700 of GroBer Kurfurst, a ship which they already have in 1:350. ICM really have a bee in their bonnet about the Konig class battleships don't they?

+1

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Aaron Propper
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"This is how Admiral Okita fights."

Check this out, as far as I know it's only ever been tooled in resin by Pitt Road I believe.
https://hlj.com/product/AOS05059

+ 1 more. I must say I have never understood why Fujimi did not issue it. From Ise, it was a modification, most of the kit was ready ...

Now it is turn for the 1/350 Trumpeter CV 4 Ranger and the 1/350 Hobby Boss Condorcet



again ...a couple of months to be available , I wish the 1/350 Rodnol will be the next

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Really hoping they don't screw up the Ranger. At least not too badly....

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Aaron Propper
"I don't understand any of this! But when we get in the giant robots, WE MUST FIGHT!"

"This is how Admiral Okita fights."

REALLY hoping they then scale it down by 1/2.

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Harold

Ditto.

MB

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USS St. Louis
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HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 4 - 7
HIJMS Sub-Chasers No. 13 - 16

news from Shizuoka Model Show 2017
FlyHawk 1/700 light cruiser HMS Penelope

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1/350 battleship Sevastopol 1914
1/700 heavy cruiser IJN Haguro 1942
1/350 SSBN K-551 Vladimir Monomakh

oh yeah. did dflyhawk display any more ships?