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1/700 Flyhawk USS Ward Review/Preview

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  • From: San Diego, CA
1/700 Flyhawk USS Ward Review/Preview
Posted by Ranger_Chris61 on Friday, June 25, 2021 11:32 AM

Going to be looking at a destroyer kit of the USS Ward, the ship that fired the first American shots of WWII, in 1/700th scale.

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Posted by Teenage Modeler on Friday, June 25, 2021 2:19 PM

Pretty small destroyer. Hope you have fun building it!

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  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, June 27, 2021 2:06 PM

Wickes class carried 4"/50, but calling the guns five inch is a common uh-oh.

And YT is not set up to allow for easy edits.  Sigh.

If the world were just, there would be a 1/144 Wickes.

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Posted by Ranger_Chris61 on Friday, August 6, 2021 12:02 PM

CapnMac82

Wickes class carried 4"/50, but calling the guns five inch is a common uh-oh.

And YT is not set up to allow for easy edits.  Sigh.

If the world were just, there would be a 1/144 Wickes.

 

 

Fair enough, 5" guns have been standard for so long its natural to automatically default to it. Thank you for the correction, is one of those things I will make sure to look out for in the future.

 

Also while 1/144 could be good, 1/72 would be where the moneys at.

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  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, August 8, 2021 1:29 PM

Ranger_Chris61
Also while 1/144 could be good, 1/72 would be where the moneys at.

My calculator gives that as a 52" long hull, which would be ompeting with the 1/48 Trumpy U-boat in size (and probably price, too).

There are some options in 1/96 (if multi-media) which is right at 39 inches.

Scale Shipyard, back in the 90s had a 1/48 Ward, well over eight feet long.

 

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