Kinda tangential, but I saw this exact ship in a satellite image a month or so ago (it was part of a project to locate and identify all Chinese Warships, or ships that are Armed and could be used in a war).
It was cruising around off the coast near the shipyard in Shanghai that built their most recent carrier.
Most of their ships tend to be packed into a motley collection of junk and Junks, and are not in terrific repair.
We noticed that they tend to have exactly three squadrons of Frigates, One Squadron of DDs, and about twice that of small patrol craft out at sea, along with two or three of their Missile Subs (they haven�t many of those). But a LOT of their coastal, diesel and Nixon-nuclear subs seem to never be in port (probably because of idiots like me spending whole days scrolling along their coasts and rivers looking for them).
MB
At a cost of 100 millions per unit they can be produced massively
taskforce48 wrote:For you fans of the modern era, looks like a newer company, Magic Factory is working on a Injected Molded USS Gerald Ford CVN-78.
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I couldn't find a release date for this but I hope it's soon. I finally have something to put at the top of my Christmas wish list if it's not out in time for my birthday.
I searched Hovbbyeasy to see if Magic Factory has any other kits available. Currently listed by them are 3 1/35 items, Iron Dome System and 2 NATO modern weapons sets. Hobbyeasy also has listed a 1/48 Corsair 1A/2 for preorder. There are photos of the Corsair model on the listing under construction.
Below the Magic Factory Facebook LINK, if the assumptions are what I see, model makers in general could have great and interesting satisfactions. We will see .
Regards
Maurizio
Frank Fowler wrote:I searched Hovbbyeasy to see if Magic Factory has any other kits available. Currently listed by them are 3 1/35 items, Iron Dome System and 2 NATO modern weapons sets. Hobbyeasy also has listed a 1/48 Corsair 1A/2 for preorder. There are photos of the Corsair model on the listing under construction.
"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
According to a well regarded Australian painter and prolific boxtop paintings author, we are expecting an injection 1/350 USS Midway Class carrier.
Following his wip on Facebook.
Can't complain about the Iowa too much. It's welcomed based on it being a round bridge example, giving different types of modellers two options including the Tamiya one. Choice is good.
"settle" hell, I'd celebrate 
