Thunder on the Seas and Taffy 3

This is OT I realize,but I see you've got Porco Rosso for an avatar. Thats a cool movie.I bought the DVD.

Aurora-7 wrote:

So of course I was curious about available model subjects in 1/350 of the combatants.  I would have liked to do a display of the DD USS Heermann and the Kongo or Haruna. There's early and late model Fletcher class kits available but nothing for IJN battleships (aside from Yamato and Musashi). I never realized but no manufacturer ever seemed to give attention to the ships like the Kongo, Haruna or Mutsu for 1/350. I would have thought by now there would have been a big demand for kits of these type of ships. Maybe Trumpeter (and they can through in a 1/350 CVN-6 Enterprise while their at it!).

Yankee Modelworks makes a 1:350 scale resin & brass Gambier Bay.

Also, look at YMW's USS Johnston instead of the Trump Square-bridge F;etcher.  That kit is fraught with problems.   It comes with PE - an expenditure you do not have to make as an add-on for the Trump kit.  Also the time you save fixing the issues with the Trump Fletcher will offset additional costs of the resin kit.   The YMW Johnston is a bargain compard to the Trump Sullivans + aftermarket.

YMW also makes several IJN destroyer and cruiser classes.  They make a Kirishima, but she was sunk at Guadalcanal.  They make an Ise.

The kits are available.  You just need to know where to look.  You can get them all in 1:700 scale.

Dont forget the Trump USS England for the DEs involved at Samar.  Specific mods are relatively simple.  

Mr. Evan's book will have to go a far distance to beat the "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"

reklein wrote:

This is OT I realize,but I see you've got Porco Rosso for an avatar. Thats a cool movie.I bought the DVD.

I like Porco Rosso alot. Hence my avatar. I've been working on a 1/48 kit of his Savioa 21 seaplane fighter forever and I've got a 1/48 kit of Curtiss' fighter on pre-order.

I know there's 1/700 of the ships I've mentioned and some 1/350's of others from that battle but I was really wanted a 1/350 Kongo or Haruna.

The author's name is actually Evan Thomas, not Thomas Evan.   He has previously written a well-received biography of John Paul Jones, and in an article in the current issue of Naval History magazine discusses Thunder at Sea and how he came to write it.   Looks like it might be a pretty good read.