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Next question: we got the big 5 from Trumpy, and the Texas and New York. Does anyone know: any chance of us ever getting a 1941 Oklahoma and a 1944 Nevada?

What about the New Mexico's? Hardly see them mentioned!

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Hard a starboard.......Shoot!

Nah, they never did anything famous...

(Said facetiously... but only slightly: weren't at Pearl Harbor and none still exist. (Applies to Arkansas, too.) Not that I'd object, certainly! Heck, the weapons sprues from the Big 5 ships give them a head start on the NM class already!) But to Guest's point... yes, of the Pearl Harbor set, no love yet for the Nevada-class in injection! (Lindberg diorama set doesn't count)

- Sean F.

Uhhhh no we haven't. Not in the correct scale, anyway

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Tracy White -Researcher@Large

"Let the evidence guide the research. Do not have a preconceived agenda which will only distort the result."
-Barbara Tuchman

If there is one battleship uglier than the Nelson, it would be Nevada with the bent crooked funnel extension.

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Assessing the impact of new area rug under modeling table.

Fujimi will release in 1/700 IJN Mogami and IJN Mikuma early war versions(1942) and IJN Suzuya and IJN Kumano late war versions (1944) in new tool, late 2019.

tasty

JMSDF Kongo and JMSDF Kirishima soon(Summer 2019) in 1/700 full hull by Fujimi:
JMSDF Kongo

JMSDF Kirishima



Edit:No 1/350 IJN Mogami class only in 1/700, JMSDF Myoko(DDG-175) and JMSDF Chokai(DDG-176) late 2019. Full hull and in 1/700.

Interesting that the Kongo class DDG seems to be a full hull 1/700.
Lately I have been feeling that the Big 4 (Fujimi, Hasegawa, Tamiya, Aoshima) had come to a secret agreement to make all 1/700 a waterline series.

HMS York 350 scale with water lined hull just like the good old days (Trumpeter).

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10594567

And trumpeter Schleswig-Holstein 1908 added to the list of coming ship at their website!

Henk

Freetime has the 1/200 Titanic up for pre-order.

They are also showing a Tamiya 1/350 Fletcher. Is there anything new about this kit, or are they just letting folks know they have it in stock?

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Jeff

Sorry, folks, parks closed. The moose out front should have told ya'.

My guess is from the box art that it is just a re-release of the same FLETCHER kit they have been selling.

Forgive me if this is old news. I did a search and scanned through this thread and couldn't find mention of it. I was looking for something else on the Flyhawk site and saw a posting about a Kajika Hiei special edition that has turned brass barrels for the mains and secondaries and a wood deck. It's only on the Chinese version of the front page there and I couldn't find any other details on the website but then found it on hobby search Japan:

This one ...right?

https://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/page/data_ ... 05SP_A.jpg

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No Whine Policy
1.- Modify it
2.- Ignore it
3.- Don't build it

Also saw the Fletcher. TAM78012, its the same everything since 1996 unless there was a Re-Box that nobody announced.
That Titanic is a beast

do it yourself new manufacturer 1/duplo scale LHD in water-line (test shots)

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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! - David Glasgow Farragut

Trumpeter 1/350th HMS Cornwall sprue shots etc are available at:

http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.ph ... =3333&l=en

I had my suspicions that Trumpeter's been using Profile Morskie plans during their kit design process but the Cornwall confirms it. Comparing with my paper copy of the Morskie plans for that ship the kit parts are identical in shape.

Sooo, any inaccuracy in the plans will translate onto the kit.

Mike.

I seem to remember someone (last year) inquiring about 1/350 Walruses. There's one included in the above Cornwall kit. Maybe Trumpeter will market them in their small aircraft packs.