1/72 scale Fletcher class !

kapudan_emir_effendi wrote:

Look to this: http://www.modellmarine.de/phpwebsite/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=1039&MMN_position=169:71 The ship modelling business is going crazy

Calm down everybody!

The thread was previously posted as someone's idea of an April Fools prank

Had me ready to pull my credit card until I saw the April 1st date at the very bottom. Would be a must have model though...................................

Julian

Thus I became the poor francophone tricked by evil germans to become the first april fool

Here is a 1/72nd Fletcher going down in the harbor....

My first response was "bastages!!!!"  After I spent all this cash on the 1/300 Flether! 

Seriously though, a 1/72 Destroyer Escort such as USS England would be awesome!  Are you listening Revell?  Trumpeter? 

Dave

How 'bout a Sumner/Gearing? I'd buy two of those.

Mike K.

  I love it! You could always go for the old Lindberg destroyer. It's huge, I forgit the scale, but it requires scratch building help to look good.

 G.L.

To turn it into a Gearing, would only require you to rebuild it from the keel up. Wrong screws, wrong rudders, wrong hull shape, wrong superstructure, wrong guns... and on and on.

Mike K.

I was a bit skeptical myself, my suspicions being confirmed upon viewing the date at the bottom. Good one, though, I must admit. Pevell??

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Pat Scharr's 1/72nd scale Gearing

 And just for the heck of it, my 1/72nd scale Maestrale Class Scirocco, and Capaitani Romani Class Atillo Regolo.