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Happy to announce US Navy 36-inch searchlights are now available in 1/96 scale. Other scales may be possible.

Nameplates are now available for all Japanese WWII-era Agano-class light cruisers and Ise-class battleships. The nameplates for the Ise-class battleships are also suitable for modern Hyuga-class helicopter destroyers. Nameplates for all French Courbet-class battleships have been added, too.

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-Steve Larsen

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

That black resin is cool. I like it!

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Martin

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Thanks, Martin!

For those like you who prime in black, the new resin may be a help.

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-Steve Larsen

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Hello !

Does black resin have a particular physical property compared to grey ?

Or is it just a matter of choice ?

Thx !

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

Good question. Same properties; both are photosensitive acrylate resin. Choose whichever color you prefer.

Cheers!

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-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

In anticipation of Trumpeter's release of the C-class light cruiser HMS Calcutta in 1/350 scale, nameplates for all five ships of the Carlisle sub-class have been added to the catalog.


C-class light cruisers began service in 1914. The last survivor, HMS Caroline, was decommissioned in 2011, after an amazing 97 years of service. Her hull inspected and repaired by Harland and Wolff, she has been preserved as a museum ship at Alexandra Dock in the "Titanic Quarter" in Belfast, Northern Ireland since July 1st, 2017.

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

Recent printings include this New Mexico class battleship 14"/50 cal. turret in 1/200 scale. The turret is also available in most popular scales.

Nameplates for each of the three ships of the class are available, too.

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

Happy to announce pairs of AN/ALQ-144 Infrared "Disco Light" Jammers in 1/48 scale, 1/35 scale and 1/32 scale have been added to the catalog. The BAE Systems AN/ALQ-144C Infrared Countermeasures Set is an infrared jammer, providing protection against infrared missiles.


Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft receiving the system and operated by the United States military and 23 other nations include:

- AH-1W Super Cobra
- AH-64A/D/E Apache
- HH-60 Sea Hawk / Rescue Hawk / Night Hawk
- UH-1N Twin Huey
- UH-60A/J/L/M Black Hawk
- MH-60G/L/R/S Black Hawk / Pave Hawk
- SH-60 Sea Hawk / Knight Hawk
- MH-60 Sea Hawk
- Mi-17 "Hip"
- OH-1J
- OH-58D Kiowa
- S-70
- S-70A
- S-92
- Lynx MK 7/8/9
- SA 330 Puma
- AS-332 Super Puma
- AS 532 Cougar
- AW-101 Merlin
- AW-129 Mangusta
- Bell 212
- OV-10 Bronco
- RV-1D Mohawk

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-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

Recent 1/600 scale printings include Brooklyn class 6"/47 cal. turrets, 5"/38 Mk.28 mounts, and HACS Mk.V directors.

To make nameplates we design available in various real metals, we offer them from Shapeways. Due to Covid 19-related supply disruption, Shapeways has temporarily suspended printing in real metals. But nameplates are still available in paintable, inexpensive acrylic plastic.

We can also print nameplates in gray resin in our own workshop, if you prefer.

New nameplates include:
- SMS Roon
- SMS Yorck

- USS Benjamin Franklin SSBN-640
- USS Kamehameha SSBN-642
- USS Kamehameha SSN-642 (post-conversion to attack submarine)
- USS Lafayette SSBN-616
- USS Abraham Lincoln SSBN-602

- HMS Trafalgar
- HMS Talent
- HMS Tireless
- HMS Torbay
- HMS Trenchant
- HMS Turbulent

- Amagi 天城
- Unryu 雲龍
- Katsuragi 葛城
- Mutsu 陸奥
- Aoba 青葉
- Kinugasa 衣笠
- Furutaka 古鷹
- Kako 加古
- Akizuki 秋月
- Suzutsuki 涼月
- Teruzuki 照月
- Fuyutsuki 冬月

- HMS Sverige
- HMS Drottning Victoria
- HMS Gustav V
- HMS Gotland
- HMS Halland
- HMS Uppland

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-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

Recent printings include:
- funnels for King George V class battleship HMS Howe in 1/350 and 1/400 scale for Tamiya and Heller
- enlarged signal decks for HMS Duke of York and HMS Anson in 1/400 scale for Heller
- USS Saratoga CV-3 island, 1941 appearance, in 1/350 scale for Trumpeter
- USS St. Paul CA-73 enclosed bridges, Vietnam War-era appearance, in 1/490 scale for Revell
- Lexington CC-1 class battlecruiser 16"/50 cal. twin-gun turrets in 1/200 scale
- 5"/38 cal. Mk.32 twin-gun mounts with separate trunnions in 1/350 scale

New nameplates include:
- Flower-class corvette Aconit in Free French service (also suitable for the F65-type frigate and the new La Fayette-class stealth frigate of the same name)
- both Capitani Romani-class light cruisers in French service (Châteaurenault and Guichon)
- both 1934A-class destroyers in French service (Desaix and Kléber)
- all three 1936A Mob-class destroyers in French service (Marceau, Hoche and Léopard)

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-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

Hey Steve, what are the chances of seeing your fighting tops in 1/700? I've had no luck contacting 3DModelParts and they've been out of stock for a long time. Thank you for your consideration.

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-Abram

My recent orders (in the last two months) were filled quickly.

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Our CO prior to flying to the boomer: “Our goals on this patrol is to shoot missiles and torpedoes.”
Junior Nuke Officer (me) : “Captain, don’t we really want to be like Monty Python and ‘Not be seen’?”
CO “You seem to be missing the big picture”
“Oh”

Steve,
Will the Lexington class 16”/50 be produced in 1/700, as I’d like to order a few sets?

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Our CO prior to flying to the boomer: “Our goals on this patrol is to shoot missiles and torpedoes.”
Junior Nuke Officer (me) : “Captain, don’t we really want to be like Monty Python and ‘Not be seen’?”
CO “You seem to be missing the big picture”
“Oh”

Good news, yes! Hope to have them done shortly.

Cheers!

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Have fun, Monkey around.

-Steve Larsen

Catalog of over 2500 products for scale modelers - https://www.model-monkey.com/

Happy to announce a pair of "Spandau" LMG 08/15 machineguns, Model 1917, are now available in 1/28 scale for your classic Revell Fokker Dr.I Triplane and Fokker D.VII models. Larger scales are possible.

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-Steve Larsen

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Any chance of producing this in 1/18 scale?
Walt Haynes