New ship kit news

Greetings:

Wow, finally a Vittorio Veneto class battleship in plastic and in 1/350 scale!!!!! This would be great if it's even fairly accurate. The only way to get one now is to buy the resin version from Delphis (which I did and have never started) which is very expensive. I'm looking forward to this one.

Michael Lacey

Indeed, that's some great news and I'll look forward to seeing them.

Now if they would only make a 1/350 plastic model of the USS Texas BB35.

Hasegawa also has a 1/350 Casablanca class CVE announced (over on Cybermodeler). Lots of good subjects coming! I guess I will not have to convert my 1/350 Arizona to the 1944 Pennsylvania as I was planning to do. Guess she will now be the Arizona... Definately gonna have to grab the Trafalgar class SSN and the Z39 Zerstorer.

For you ship builders with extra cash I found these jems in a Halifax shop. Multi-media and high quality resin should make for value vrs. after market add-ons. The contact information is shown on the labels.

Resin Shipyard website here for those of us who can't make it to Halifax.    Darren "Mr Resin Shipyard" Scannell is a good fellow to work with

http://www.resinshipyard.com/pages/catalog.html

Also check his decals -- Hawk Graphics

http://www.hawk-graphics.com/pages/decals.html

SuppressionFire

For you ship builders with extra cash I found these jems in a Halifax shop. Multi-media and high quality resin should make for value vrs. after market add-ons. The contact information is shown on the labels.

That makes my mouth water. I have been wishing for a 1:350 scale plastic kit of the Tribal class destroyer for years. Hopefully, we may see one from Dragon's Smart Kit series at reasonable price. A destroyer in 1:700 scale is just too small.

We have plenty of Japanese destroyer in plastic kits, some American and even some German. But the Naval power of world in the early 20th century, Great Britian, is NOT represented in the most popular 1:350 scale.  

keilau ahh these kits ARE 1/350! Took the pictures at a shop in Halifax. Not my thing but was to make a point that domestic kits are available in a forum topic I started. Im sure Resin shipyard has tasty offerings for everyone who enjoys ship construction. I actually tried to get a job at Irving shipyards when I came out here, not to be as the spots filled quickly after the new year.

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That makes my mouth water. I have been wishing for a 1:350 scale plastic kit of the Tribal class destroyer for years. Hopefully, we may see one from Dragon's Smart Kit series at reasonable price. A destroyer in 1:700 scale is just too small.

We have plenty of Japanese destroyer in plastic kits, some American and even some German. But the Naval power of world in the early 20th century, Great Britian, is NOT represented in the most popular 1:350 scale.  

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White Ensign Models has just announced that their Tribal-class model has gone off to the casters and should be ready for sale in about 2 months.  

Iron Shipwright already makes a Tribal as the Eskimo.

Soon you will have your choice of three Tribals in 1:350 scale.   Not represented?

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[quote user="keilau"

That makes my mouth water. I have been wishing for a 1:350 scale plastic kit of the Tribal class destroyer for years. Hopefully, we may see one from Dragon's Smart Kit series at reasonable price. A destroyer in 1:700 scale is just too small.

We have plenty of Japanese destroyer in plastic kits, some American and even some German. But the Naval power of world in the early 20th century, Great Britian, is NOT represented in the most popular 1:350 scale.  

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White Ensign Models has just announced that their Tribal-class model has gone off to the casters and should be ready for sale in about 2 months.  

Iron Shipwright already makes a Tribal as the Eskimo.

Soon you will have your choice of three Tribals in 1:350 scale.   Not represented?

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Yes, I am aware of all those resin kits in 1:350 scale.  I am mostly an aircraft modeler and am somewhat scare of resin ship kits.

Besides, when I can get (and did) a very high quality plastic kit of the Buchanan and PE fret for under $50 and $99 for the 1:144 Fletcher, it is hard to make a decision on a over $200 purchase. Hopefully, when the Buchanan and Fletcher are dispatched from my stash, the 1:350 plastic Tribal will be available. 

The lack of representation is referred to plastic kits only.