1/350 IJN Carriers?

. Mstikpusher

Well, 10 years after this was originally posted there are currently 5 available IJN carrier kits in 1/350 plastic. I think one more coming soon. And one not currently available easily...

 

I believe all of the IJN Pearl Harbor attack carriers are available in 1/350 scale from Hasegawa, Tamiya, Fuijimi, and that some others (like the very large 80,000 ton carrier) they produced from what was originally to be 3rd Yamamoto BB along with a few others from other Japanese vendors...but they are spendy for plastic models. Most can be found on eBay:

ijn Zuika

ijn Zuikaku

ijn Hiryu

ijn  Shokaku

IJN Kaga

ijn Taihu

ijn Zuiho

ijn Hiryu

ijn Nihon

ijn Toku

ijn Unryu

ijn Hosh

ijn Kysho

ijn Shinano

stikpusher

Well, 10 years after this was originally posted there are currently 5 available IJN carrier kits in 1/350 plastic. I think one more coming soon. And one not currently available easily...

 

I believe all of the IJN Pearl Harbor attack carriers are available in 1/350 scale from Hasegawa, Tamiya, Fuijimi, and that some others (like the very large 80,000 ton carrier) they produced from what was originally to be 3rd Yamamoto BB along with a few others from othper Japanese vendors...but they are spendy for plastic models

Well, 10 years after this was originally posted there are currently 5 available IJN carrier kits in 1/350 plastic. I think one more coming soon. And one not currently available easily...

gjek

1/350 Akagi

Given what the a/m PE costs for the 1/700 kit . . .

There is a 1/450 scale model by Hasegawa of the Shinano out there. 

Hasegawa

Junyo came out in the last decade

IronCross1939

It would be interesting to see a kit from the converted Yamato hull into the Carrier named Shinano.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10343419

How about the Zuikaku sisters?   Was present at Pearl Harbor and Coral sea, missed the holocaust at Midway, but was around for sinking in Lyete Gulf.

A more modern and in many ways better carrier than Hiuyu, and lasted longer and offer more configuration possibilities than Akagi or Kaga.

I don't like either Akagi or Kaga.  They can't hold a candle to their contemporay and equivalent Lexington and Saratoga in either looks or design.

modelbuilder,

That's probably the 1/450 Akagi from Hasegawa.  It's relatively old (I got mine in the late 1980's and it had been around for a while even then), but it's not a bad looking kit.  Haven't built it yet, of course, but I look in the box occasionally and dream - the aircraft are pretty good quality (you get a handful of Vals, Zekes and Kates - 6 each, I think) and the quality seems to me to be pretty good overall. (Gold Medal Models makes a PE set for this kit too, I think.)

And gjek, Nichimo made a 1/500 (or thereabouts) Ise (or Hyuga) with flight deck aft - the quality is far from great, but it's big and it exists, so it at least can provide raw material for an ambitious modeler.

gjek wrote:

Are there any rumors of any 1/350 IJN carriers comming out in the future?

Back before Christmas while shopping I saw a 1/400 Akagi at a local hobby shop. I do ont remember the manufacturer though

Put me down for a Takao & I would love to see a 1/350th IJN Carrier. Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu....would be happy with any of these.

Plese don't be heartless to the wife by trading her car. Let her keep it, just don't give her any money for petrol until you have funded the ship

Oh, I can definitely see myself in one of those 1/350 cruisers - but a carrier would be nirvana.  A Kongo, even!

"Umm - honey, I just traded in your car."

"Really?  What did you get me?"

"Well, have you heard much about the new Takao model?"

In last Sunday shizuoka hobby show has held in Japan.

By the news of it, Tamiya will produce 1/350 IJN I-400 submarine on July. 

Not carriers but sub carriers

And aoshima will produce IJN heavy curiser Chokai and Takao 1/350 scale.

(I dont take permission this site web master,so plz put "h" with ueach url.  

ttp://www.kks.jp/~kks-library/neta-data3/2007shizuoka-hobby/kigyo/2007shizuoka-hobby-tamiya-a03.jpg

ttp://www.kks.jp/~kks-library/neta-data3/2007shizuoka-hobby/kigyo/2007shizuoka-hobby-tamiya-a04.jpg

ttp://www.kks.jp/~kks-library/neta-data3/2007shizuoka-hobby/kigyo/2007shizuoka-hobby-tamiya-a05.jpg

A report J_Aircraft of an overheard conversation at the Shizuoka Toy Show mentions that the some kit designers are having trouble locating sufficiently detailed plans to produce a kit of the Soryu

http://www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?topic=3531.0

They are learning.   If they don't get it right they will get blasted and sales will not be up to expectations.