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Zowie

I'm looking forward to getting one.

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Harold

Just noticed the new Fujimi 1/700 Suzuya and Kumano available for preorder at Hobby Search:
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10628810
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10628812

The third image available there is interesting - looks like some metal-molding used for the tiny parts like 25mm guns?

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Battle of Savo Island Collection (all 1/700)
Recently completed: USS Wilson DD-408
At works: USS Astoria CA-34 | USS Patterson DD-392 & USS Bagley DD-386
Prep stage: USS Vincennes CA-44 | HMAS Australia | Yubari | Kako

For the 25mm AA guns, they're showing how you can align the sprues for the mount base and the guns together, glue them, and then snip the entire thing off the sprue.

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De quoi s'agit-il?

This turned up at Hobbysearch today:

https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10629788

County class cruiser HMS Kent in 1/700. The Benghazi raid mentioned was in Sept 1940. The possibilities of a Kent class are many. Notably the RAN cruisers Canberra and Australia. Except the hull bulges are different.

Holy Clark Kent, Batman!




Bob Pink

Nice!
But look at the SM.79s included; impossibly clunky even for this scale

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Harold

Good stuff! Count me in. I'd expect they'll do Cornwall too, and if we're lucky, Suffolk.



Yes! Yes! Any update on the timeline? July is almost over!

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

Not to hijack the thread, but how deep would a 1/700 destroyer hull could possibly be.
The dynamics of water flow on a ship moving anywhere above 18kts shall expose some of that hull below the water line anyway.

Just my 2 $

Manufacturer is about to send me the latest corrections. If I approve them, I can start ordering the parts sprues.

Mike Bartel

Pfff !!!
No manufacturer seems interested in CVN Ford or CV Queen Elizabeth. Don't know why...
Especially at 1/700, they seem to me much more interesting that any destroyer of the world which will always remain a small tiny bit

Don't worry PHILIPPE ,I am sure they will come sooner or later and yes ,I believe 1/700 will be first,the thing those guys are really new,maybe a couple of years and will have them

Both ships are super attractive

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Super attractive, yes ! So what are they waiting for ?
Or, big ships are they too expensive for the market ?

Trumpeter's updates for August, those who like big carriers now you will have the 1/700 CVA 67 JFK and I bet a lot of you will complain because for sure this kit will be only waterline.

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Hello, where did you see the information? neither on the Trumpeter website nor on his Facebook I saw information or confirmation. (I have been observing what has been related to this kit since its first announcement, I already believe 3 years ago). Is it confirmed is water line? (since there are recently released 1: 700 models that are full hull).

Regards.

Alberto

Here is the info Alberto http://www.trumpeter-china.com/index.php?g=home&m=article&a=show&id=160

and I am 99.9 % sure it will be waterline ,because Trumpeter will follow the 1/700 Kitty Hawk and Constellation style,so my friend this will be the reality

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Those recently released FULL HULL kits are:

Chinese Navy PLAN Type 002 aircraft carrier 06725
Royal Navy Type 23 Frigate 06720

I would expect all of Trumpeters 1/350 Type 23 kits to be released in 1/700 as Full Hull.
(Wish all future 1/700 releases would have the Lower hull. )

It seems strange that with Trumpeter's history, a release of a 1/700 kit that's probably based on the previous 1/350 full-Hull kit mold, would be devoid of the lower hull. Perhaps a portion of their business decision is based on whether the 1/350 version has a separate lower hull. If the 1/350 hull is one piece, like the 1/350 CV-64 Constellation, then conversion to 1/700 is easier to do as waterline. Geeez, look at all the red plastic they save...

Fortunately Trumpeters latest re-issues of the Pearl Harbor 1941 Battleships still have the lower hull. At least that is good news for those of us who want a complete model of a ship. I see they have added flag decals and an engraved name plate to the kits along with the recent price hike.

Nino

The Type 23 in 1/350 kit by Trumpeter was released at least five years ago.

It has only the full hull option. Perhaps that is the explanation: they simply were lazy and did not modify anything to adapt the kit to the typical usage in the specific scale.

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Perhaps the 1/700 Type 23 is full hull due to the fact that the ship has a lower transom, which would be difficult to produce with the hull split.

Over at Hobbysearch today Aoshima have a Dorsetshire, standard version and Cornwall with a WW1 vintage S-class destroyer. Cornwall claims to be a new mold, but I'd like someone else to scale it before I get one, having been burned by the earlier Dorsetshire. I want that destroyer though. Maybe it can double as patrol boat 102 in the IJN.

There's some sort of modern flattop too, JFK CV-67 from Trumpeter, but we don't get excited about that, do we?

Sorry, patrol boat 101, 102 was DD224 USS Stewart