Revell Germany 2016 releases! (Yacht America, and a new 1/144 Flower class!)

Bismarck "platinum" could be interesting.  Saw a couple of others I might look for.

Very interested in the 21 window bus. I have always liked that kit.

There's a couple of America kits cheap on eBay. I now see why.

That 1/600 SS United States presumably is the old, original US Revell kit from 1955 - one of the company's very first ship kits. (It's part of the group with flat bottoms - and trestles to sit on. In this case Revell had a good excuse for leaving off the underwater hull: the ship's lines were still classified.)

The 1/150 Gorch Fock is almost certainly the old Heller version (which has appeared in a Revell Germany box before). Nice kit. If I'm right, it represents the modern German training ship - sometimes referred to as the Gorch Fock II.

The German destroyer, judging from the odd stand it's mounted on, looks to be a Zvezda kit.

The 1/144 Flower-class corvette is a pretty exciting prospect. And the yacht America will resume its place as one of the best styrene sailing ship kits that can be recommended confidently to newcomers. And the 1/96 Cutty Sark, though certainly not state-of-the-art (it was originally released in 1959), is one of those kits that, in my personal opinion, always ought to be available. I'll be interested to see whether the new version's rigging instructions are as botched up as those of the relatively recent Revell Germany version of the Alabama were.

Yes Heller kit is the II

I will definitely be picking up an America. I have wanted to build that for some time now, although I do not think I can top the America that you are building now Bill.

One good thing about Revell putting the Cutty Sark out again is that I will have spare parts available if I break anything on my upcoming CS construction.

I have the 1/350 Tirpitz so I won't be doing the Bismarck. The 1/144 Flower Class might be an interesting subject. Even though the 1/400 HMS Victory is a new tool, I wish they would have made it in say......1/96 scale! Come on guys, 1/400?!!!!!!!

Steve

Wasn't it 1/450???

Yes, kind of silly small.

But wait- a Trafalgar diorama could be out there!

goldhammer

Bismarck "platinum" could be interesting. 

 

Might mean sales have become sluggish.

GMorrison

Wasn't it 1/450???

Yes, kind of silly small.

With ratline thickness closer to 1/96th- providing they could even contemplate including 'em ? 

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 

GMorrison

Wasn't it 1/450???

Yes, kind of silly small.

 

 

 

With ratline thickness closer to 1/96th- providing they could even contemplate including 'em ? 

 

GMorrison

 

 

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 

GMorrison

Wasn't it 1/450???

Yes, kind of silly small.

 

 

 

With ratline thickness closer to 1/96th- providing they could even contemplate including 'em ? 

 

 

 

 

Wher those trained spiders come in handy!

 

 

LOL !

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 

GMorrison

 

 

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 

GMorrison

Wasn't it 1/450???

Yes, kind of silly small.

 

 

 

With ratline thickness closer to 1/96th- providing they could even contemplate including 'em ? 

 

 

 

 

Wher those trained spiders come in handy!

 

 

 

 

 

LOL !

 

Where can I find me some of them riggin'spiders?

I wonder if Revell is trying to start competing with Zvezda's 1/350 Wargaming sailing ships? But why 1/450? Although, the way Revell handles scale with sailing ships, that 1/450 Victory might be 36" long!

" Even though the 1/400 HMS Victory is a new tool, I wish they would have made it in say......1/96 scale! Come on guys, 1/400?!!!!!!!"

Yes Steve, but they also list this:

Admiral Nelson Flagship
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR-Set
Product Number: 05767 | Scale: 1:225
Availability: 05/2016

Mike

Mike,

The Trafalgar set is just the 1/225 Victory and is a rerebox of the Victory kit that has been around since 1959 or thereabouts. Revell put out this same set for the 200th Anniversary. So maybe this set will commemorate the 210 year and 7 month anniversary?! I wonder if Revell will charge more the cool package?

Steve

Steve,

After I posted above I looked in one of my closets and realized I have not one but two of those old kits .

Mike

1943Mike

Steve,

After I posted above I looked in one of my closets and realized I have not one but two of those old kits .

Mike

 

That sort of thing happens over the years.........OTOH, better to have more than one just in case..........at least that is what I tell myself..........

Sprue-ce Goose

 

 

1943Mike

Steve,

After I posted above I looked in one of my closets and realized I have not one but two of those old kits .

Mike

 

 

 

 

That sort of thing happens over the years.........OTOH, better to have more than one just in case..........at least that is what I tell myself..........

 

I SO understand that Mike! I too have secondary kits just in case I break parts.......

I love the small scale sailing ships.  Big ships, of which I have quite a few, or really eating up the available display areas in my house.

A couple of mfgs used to kit 1:600 sailing warships, like Airfix and Heller, and I loved those old kits.  These were the days before PE ratlines.  Wish they'd re-issue some of those, and someone would put out PE rigging sets for them!  Wow, I'd get a whole fleet of them.