Where are all the USS Arizona kits?

Well, Trumpter's kit is new in the grand scheme of things, and Dragon just released a new 700 scale kit. The Revell 1/429 kit is not bad when you add aftermarket to it.

There's a 1921 and 1941 Arizona in resin from Iron Shipwrghts. So, in actuality, there's 6 six kits of the Arizona.

When you consider there's only three kits of the Titanic, you've got alot of choices in my opinion.

Jeff

Sheez, you guys from the other realms of modeling are spoiled! Here in the ship world we figure we're doing pretty well if there's one decent kit for a famous vessel - in any scale!

I haven't seen any of the other new Arizonas, but the new Dragon 1/700 version is a really nice kit - once you get past some slightly eccentric features (e.g., open boats molded in clear plastic). It's on my ridiculously lengthy "to do" list.

Incidentally - Jeff, I believe there are in fact six plastic Titanics out there at the moment: Minicraft 1/350, Academy 1/400, Revell 1/570, Minicraft 1/600, Academy 1/720, and Revell 1/1200. (I may have some of the manufacturers mixed up; my senile brain has trouble keeping Minicraft and Academy sorted out.) That would seem to make her one of the most popular among ship model subjects. The list of other ocean liner kits can just about be counted on two hands. I don't think any ship has the sort of coverage in the kit world that the Mustang, the BF-109, the Spitfire, and the Sherman tank get.

the new jersey, there are uncountable 1/700 kits of it out there. about 5 i think

There is a 1/700 resin Titanic from HP models. You'll have to mailorder it from pacific front hobbies, or import it directly.

I can't believe everyone left out the 1/720 scale Arizona done in plastic by Monogram so shouldn't that count too. Hey Jtilley did that lobster die yet at the Mariners Museum? That things been around since I've been visiting the museum when I was still living at Langley Air Force Base. And I'm telling you man it just freaks me out that there is a crustacean older than me and I'm 28 years old.

Lindberg also makes the Arizona in bathtub toy scale. With the 1 dimensional fighting tops.

Mikeym_us - Regarding the lobster at the Mariners' Museum - I have to confess that I have no idea what you're talking about. I quit working there in 1983, and haven't set foot in the museum itself for about ten years. I got disgusted with the way the management of the place was operating (let's drop that subject), and my wife noticed that every time I walked through the front door I got in a bad mood. So nowadays I avoid the place.

The other night on CNN I did see a story about a lobster that had been caught off the coast of Maine, and was thought to be more than a hundred years old. He was a big one, all right. As I recall they were shipping him to a zoo somewhere, but he died in transit. Somebody presumably used a lot of butter on him.

Two of them are in my basement...<g>

rcboater - re the two things in your basement - do you mean Arizona kits or 100-year-old lobsters?

Those old lobsters are tough to chew, the geezer at the Mariner's museum wasn't there last year if I correctly recall. And isn't the plural form of "Arizona" "Arizonae"? Just kidding.

god how many people even remember that old crustacean but if i'm ever back in Virginia I'm going to check out the Monitor exhibit since the Monitor's turret was recovered. Heck its been 12 years since I left. LOL SubFixer arent you glowing in the dark yet hanging around all them nuclear reactors at the Norfolk Sub pens(I always call anywhere you see a gaggle of subs tied up the Pens) come to think of it them nuclear subs do look like gigantic retractable pens.

MiniHobbyModels has a 1:350 Arizona. I don't know anything about it and haven't even opened the one I bought--several aircraft in line in front of it. I took a 50% Off coupon to Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago just to see what they had available in planes and noticed the Arizone. Haven't done a ship in years. So I figured for $14 I'd try my hand again. The box has a lot of oriental writing and a sticker that says "Remembrance Pearl Harbor, 1941-2001" so it must be several years old. The oriental writing kinda blew my mind but it turns out the kit was made in China, not Japan! I later saw the same model at a different HL.

MackP,

The MiniHobbyModels 1:350 Arizona is a rebox of the Banner model. The only difference is that the lower hull is designed for R/C operation. You'll noticed a compartment for batteries and the shape of the hull where the V-struts are has been reshaped for R/C operation. In fact, the box probably has a sticker on it that says "Static Model".

Jesse

Thanks Jesse: You're absolutely right and I've been wondering what the Static Model sticker meant. I suppose if all else fails I can open the box and read the instructions.
:>) Mack

MackP,

You won't find anything in the directions about the R/C option. If fact, if you look at instruction #1, you'll see a different hull bottom pictured than what is in the kit. Only the actual Banner kit has the correct hull. I've seen both kind of hulls next to each other, and it's hard to noticed the difference once the kit is on the display stand. So basically, don't let it bother you that the hull on your kit is incorrect. Besides, there are plenty of other inaccuracies with the kit.

Later,
Jesse

The Revell 1/720 kit gave me lots of trouble while I was building it. I spent 8 or 9 hours longer working on it that I usually do for a comperable sized plastic kit. I had to fix lots of problems with seams and odd fitting parts. I usued lots of sand paper, squadron white puddy, and my mini drill to make it look aceptable.

About a 2 years later I built the Trumpeter 1/700 and fouund it to be a better kit.

I recieved the Dragon kit last year as a present and found it to be superior to the Trumpeter kit and the Revell kit. I didn't have any trouble with any of the parts on the kit. The brass gun barrels for the 14 inch guns are very good, the photoech parts fit well, and the controversial soft plastic parts were easily glued into place with super-glue. They also had no trouble taking acyrilic paint.