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The first 1/350 ship model you ever built

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  • From: New Port Richey
Posted by deattilio on Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:37 PM

No 1/350 as yet but I plan to grab-up one of those USS Texas as soon as it’s released.  In fact the only vessel I have done is a 1/700 Type VII U-Boat.  The Texas will probably be my only 1/350, all other vessels in my stash are 1/700.

 

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:02 PM

Does anybody know which came first? The resin 350th lines of the Tamiya kits? Before that the biggest common scale line was 400 scale from several European companies.

 

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Posted by Tracy White on Thursday, July 9, 2015 9:43 PM

It's been a while, but maybe Tamiya's Fletcher or Banner/MIniHobby/Trumpeter's Arizona. I'd done ships for a while before that, but they were all box scale, and it's harder for me to pick out my first 350th kit because of that.

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, July 9, 2015 7:01 PM

Surface ship. Academy's Graf Spee. Subs- Dragon's twin set of USS Dallas vs Soviet Alfa Class. Since around the early 1980s when Tamiya introduced their big battleship line, 1/350 has indeed become the standard "big scale" for warship kits in injection molded plastic.

 

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The first 1/350 ship model you ever built
Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, July 9, 2015 5:45 PM

When we have discussions about kits we'd like to be able to buy and build, the subject of 1/350 scale often seems to be an important criteria. Often I think it may be a standard now for 20th Century steel warships.

It occurred to me that the first 1/350 kit I ever built was really quite recently, the Trumpeter CA-38.

Prior to that San Juan Caps, Hawaiian Pilots, Montrose, Currituck, Pine Island, Campbelltown, Eastwind... well you get the idea.

The only older kit I can remember was the Revell Emden, on that scale.

What was your first?

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