Montana class

I think it was never made a model from Montana class, but i'm not 100% sure.

Imperial Hobby Products (IHP) made a Montana in 1:700 scale resin. It was a limited run item and is now OOP. IHP has made models of several never-were ships.

Mike Bartel of IHP has posted on SteelNavy that he is working on a 1:350 scale master of a Montana to be produced under the Yankee Modelworks label

I thank you both for the fast response. It seems that I will have to wait a while, it will look very good in 1:350.

There are at least two Montanas in 1/1200.

The January FSM has an ad for Yankee Modelworks' USS Montana, in 1:350 scale resin   The price is steep at 450 USD.  

Remember that is is a unique subject that you will likely never see in a mass-market plastic kit - so you don't have the economies of scale working for you.   The raw material costs for resin are more than styrene and you have items such as photoetch provided in the kit - not an aftermarket add-on.

The Montana class design had never reached its final stage, because of it being canceled. The biggest changes would have been:
1. The secondary armament would have been changed from the twin 5inch/38 guns common durring WW2 to the 5inch/54 semi-automatic that was fitted to the USS Midway class.
2. At the projected time of completion the Mk38 fire control systems for the 5inch guns would have the Mk25 radar in place of the older systems; thhis means that the directors have dish radars on top.
3. There is a posibility that the ships of this class when completed would not be fitted for sea-planes, but have a helecoptor landing pad for those funky looking Sikorsky "Dragonfly" helecoptors.

EdGrune wrote:

Remember that is is a unique subject that you will likely never see in a mass-market plastic kit -

Give it time and I think Trumpeter will produce it, after all they made a kit of the 128cm armed Sturer Emil, and there were only ever 2 of those AFV's ever produced by the Germans.