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  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: Groton, CT
Posted by warshipguy on Sunday, May 18, 2014 7:56 AM

I still have my pre-order for the Gallery Models USS Intrepid in 1/350 that I'm eagerly awaiting. But, I, too, will add this site to my daily surf. Given that a real "state-of-the-art Arizona would be great, I would also like a 1941 or earlier Pennsylvania. I recommended to Brandon Lowe of Free Time that his Blue Ridge Models produce a conversion set for the current 1/350 Arizona to Pennsylvania, but he declined given the impending release of the Dragon 1944 Pennsylvania. I agree, though; it is a great time to be a ship modeler!

Bill

  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: Greenville, NC
Site for pre-orders
Posted by jtilley on Saturday, May 17, 2014 2:01 PM

Freetime Hobbies has set up a separate site, www.hobbypreorders.com , for stuff the manufacturers have announced for the future.  I intend to add this site to the list I surf every day or two.

There are quite a few interesting ship kits on the way.  Now Fujimi is announcing a 1/350 Kaga (for how many hundreds of dollars we don't yet know), and Dragon has a 1/350 Pennsylvania in 1944 configuration.  (Might that hint at a real state of the art Arizona down the road?)  And I'll have to buy the Airfix 1/400 Mary Rose, though I suspect it's quite basic.  (Airfix is selling two of its old, old small-scale sailing ships in "gift sets": the VIctory and the Cutty Sark.  It's pretty clear that they, and the new Mary Rose, are intended to be marketed in the ships' gift shops.)

Nothing else in the way of forthcoming sailing ships, but we may hope.  This is a great time to be a ship modeler.

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

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