 EdGrune wrote: |
The 1:700 scale kit produced by the PitRoad/Trumpeter consortiuum (marketed by Trumpeter in the States and PitRoad in the Orient) is by far the best small scale plastic North Carolina available. Not to be confused with the 1:350 scale NC by Trumpeter which is rife with errors & fit problems. Perhaps the best small resin kit of the North Carolina is the Regia Marina kit out of Italy |
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I would like to second Ed's recommendation of the Trumpeter 1/700 North Carolina. It is indeed a very nice kit, much better than the Revell kit in the bizarre box scale. The deck detail is outstanding as is most of the rest of the kit. Some might quibble over the 20mm guns or 50 cals or whatever it is they are supposed to be at the time frame that you build the kit but at that size I can't see busting a gut over it. The only other kit out there not mentioned was the old HORRIBLE Aoshima kit (old Waterline No. 105) which was so bad as to be almost laughable.
If you want to super detail any of the kits the Trumpeter 1/700 kit is the way to go. There is plenty of PE out there that will work for it and you won't have to settle for out of scale or mis-matched components to make the old Revell kit work.
A lot of "ink" has been spilt over the problems with the Trumpeter 1/350 kit as well. I don't think all of the beat up on it will make one iota of difference to the average modeler trying to make a large scale model of the NC. When you are done with it, it will look like the ship. Fit problems plague almost every ship model and have to be dealt with, it is part of the process. Yes, it could have been better, it could also have been worse. If you want to build a NC in 1/350 go with it and buy yourself a good PE detail set and be happy, the kits certainly sell cheap enough now. They are around the same price point as a lot of 1/700 kits or less!