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Posted by alumni72 on Friday, August 17, 2007 1:46 PM

I doubt it would be tops on anyone's list (manufacturers, I mean), since most of Japan's carriers were unique designs.  MOST, I said.  There were a few that were supposedly of the same class (most notably the Taiyo class of light carrier), but since companies tend to thrive on reusable molds, like the 4 Iowa-class BBs or the Musashi/Yamato, they wouldn't be able to reuse as many molds for the carriers.  They might think about doing the Shinano, since they could probably use the Yamato hull, at least - and possibly the Zuikaku/Shokaku.  But there probably aren't enough repetitive classes to make it financially agreeable.  But we can still hope - the Takao class is coming out now (I mean soon - it technically isn't late August yet) and we're seeing earlier classes of US battleships (South Dakota class).  Even though both issues are repetitive (each have 4 ships in their class) they are still new kits in 1/350 scale, so there are changes in the wind.  And the I-400 just came out, so that's another good sign. 

I'm not saying it won't happen - I'm just expecting that they're more likely to issue an Independence-class light carrier, or a Kongo-class battleship, before they move on to the much more unique carriers.  I wish they'd do their market research on these boards, though - then they'd know how well-received any new 1/350 design would be!

I'd love to see any of the Japanese carriers in 1/350 scale - I'd also like to see the pre-WW2 US battleships in the same scale.  Imagine having to deal with cage masts!  Oh, the exquisite frustration!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:30 PM
...a Zuiho would be great...
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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:46 PM
I personally would love to see it done also. I dont know how well they would sell, but the IJN carriers certainly saw more battle that the Yamato and Mushashi. There was a large variety of carrier designs used by the Japanese so it would be great to see some of it modeled.

 

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IJN carriers
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:19 AM
after writing my previous post, i was wondering has there been any discussion, rumor, etc about trumpeter or even tamiya doing a 1/350 scale IJN carrier series? i know trumpeter has wornout the 1/350 us carriers from WW2. thought it would be cool to see a 1/350 IJN carrier fleet with early or late war airwings. just a thought.
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