Good Kongo Bad Kongo

Yes; that is correct. Kongo was the last major warship Japanese warship built overseas.

 Here is a link to an article about her. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/japan/japsh-k/kongo2.htm

I like the comment, in the article, that the later ships were modified to accomodate the smaller stature of the average Japanese seaman.

aardvark1917 wrote:

I am currently working on a Fujimi Kongo-class battleship, the Hiei, and have noticed there doesn't seem to be much detail. This looks like the solution; however, I'm wondering if anyone has built the kit with this PE and what actually is on the fret? (Hard to see with such a small image.) Does anyone make a better Kongo-class?

Here is a photo-article about PE-ing and enhancing the Hasegawa kit.

Look carefully: at the very bottom of the page, there is a link to a Page 2 (and on subsequent pages, 3 & 4, thought the latter is a text link).

Aardvark, that link goes to an awesome set of photos of a Kongo model - thanks!

And Dreadnought, thanks for the tip on the Hasegawa kit.  It's hard, over the internet, to tell the old kits from the retooled ones - even the price can be misleading, depending on where you go.  Although I don't  know if Fujimi is even in business any more.  But I suppose it would be easy enough for me to tell - I own just about all the old 1/700 kits, so if I spot a particular ship from a different manufacturer I'd know it is a newer tooling.