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Well... Don�t I feel stupid, now...pascalemod wrote:waterline? what the heck, you just take the damn thing, grind it on sandpaper 3 times and there you have your waterline.MatthewB wrote:
I wonder if these will be able to be built as waterline?
If they are 1/700, that is.
MB
Well I wasnt mocking you, I was actually suggesting that the Water Line on a little torpedo boat is very sensitive to how you display it on diorama. If you wanna show it moving at a speed, you are gonna sink like a 1-2mm of the thing on the stern into the base, and the rest will be out actually. Simply put, if you model some kind of admirals barge, cutter, or lifeboat you never want it in Waterline configuration as it is simply unnecessary due to low draft. That would just limit how you can display it (i.e. stationary only). Make it move, and the thing will sag at the stern, bow will be all out, etc. Think about it, you can appreciate that WL is the only way for it.MatthewB wrote:
Well... Don�t I feel stupid, now...
Yeah...I have seen their boat sets. The US PT boats look OK, but the S 100 class look worse than terrible, and the Vospers look passable if you replace everything. I will just hold onto my money and hope Flyhawk releases these.Steve wrote:If anyone is really interested in 1/700 MTB models I suggest you pick up the Sky Wave SW-02 kit which has 2 each of PT , S and Vosper boats nicely detailed and waterlined. On EBAY they sell for <$10. IMHO Fly Hawk is wasting their efforts on 700 scale MTBs while their list of future surface ship releases continues to gather dust.
BTW Dragon released a very nice PT boat with their 1:700 Pennsylvania, but ONLY in that kit, and it is long OOP!drasticplastic wrote:Yeah...I have seen their boat sets. The US PT boats look OK, but the S 100 class look worse than terrible, and the Vospers look passable if you replace everything. I will just hold onto my money and hope Flyhawk releases these.Steve wrote:If anyone is really interested in 1/700 MTB models I suggest you pick up the Sky Wave SW-02 kit which has 2 each of PT , S and Vosper boats nicely detailed and waterlined. On EBAY they sell for <$10. IMHO Fly Hawk is wasting their efforts on 700 scale MTBs while their list of future surface ship releases continues to gather dust.
Excellent news for 1/700 modelers
Hopefully they will focus on ships that was never released in plastic, we can live with the myriad 1/350 PE sets and Tamiya's 1/350 PoW for few more years.tcl74 wrote:And what about Flyhawk's 1/350 Prince of Wales ?
Pretty cool to have a dreadnought from Flyhawk for RN. Really nice news, its not the ugliest of the dreadnoughts so might indeed be worth a build... However why they dont produce HMS Tiger in 1/700 over this is a question I would ask.Miguel wrote:
The ugliest of them all, absolutely!Atma wrote:Cause HMS Tiger is an ugly ship
pascalemod wrote:The ugliest of them all, absolutely!Atma wrote:Cause HMS Tiger is an ugly ship
