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Great to see. Niko continues to produce a resin kit of the sister-ship Shioya (circa 1943) in resin. The Kobu Hiryu kit is hard to find.
D-Boy wrote:Great to see. Niko continues to produce a resin kit of the sister-ship Shioya (circa 1943) in resin. The Kobu Hiryu kit is hard to find.
Ship # Ship Builder Laid down Launched Completed Fate
219 Ashizuri (???) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki Shipyard 08-07-1941 16-05-1942 30-01-1943 Sunk by USS Puffer at Sulu Sea 06�33?N 122�55?E 05-06-1944.
220 Shioya (???) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki Shipyard 01-04-1942 08-03-1943 09-11-1943 Sunk by USS Rasher at west of Manado 08-06-1944.
Bob Pink, we sit at our keyboards with similar thoughts. Too funny. Sorry for the redundant post!
GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
will reserve it now I think.
Hm. I think NIKO's Shioya is already pretty good... they should have made one of the mentioned minelayers or at least a Sunosaki-class combat support ship. That would have been pretty similar to the Ashizuri class.Quincy wrote:
Kind of interesting and disappointing at the same time. There are already very good ships of this class that are available from Niko and Kobo Hiryu. I was hoping that they would have come out with the Yaeyama. Itsukushima, or a Wakataka instead. Something that hasn't seen the light of day in plastic.
Oh well. It is, what it is.
Bob Pink.
Yup, Go SOXD-Boy wrote:Bob Pink, we sit at our keyboards with similar thoughts. Too funny. Sorry for the redundant post!
Thats because we Red Sox fans think alike!
Bob Pink.
Go Sox, indeed! We will soon be charged with stealing the thread. Imagine if DanK or Devin sees this.
That stinks. Was looking forward to picking it up soon based on the original Sept date. Oh well, Just means I can move that down the list of purchases.Timmy C wrote:It hasn't been released yet, and appears it wouldn't be until January. Have updated the list with the new date.
J�rgAnybody know if this will be better or worse than the Airfix offering?Jimmy Conway wrote:Trumpeter HMS Type 45 destroyer soon available, see at:
http://www.martola.com.pl/en1388/produk ... _destroyer
Best: Jimmy
It looks like Zvezda really fudged the design of the AA platform on the second funnel and/or the placement of the lifeboats under them. The placement of the forward boat davits don't make sense as the bow of the lifeboat is completely under the AA platform. I assume there are probably more inaccuracies and it might be better to convert a Dragon or Trumpeter Z Class.R.Ricardo wrote:Hi,
I had see here some pictures from the new Diether Von Roeder Z-17 from Zvezda.
http://www.tigerscorner.ru/index.php?PH ... g19587#new
May be the kit will be a good base for modelling but it looks to me a little bit naked when compared with Trumpeter and Dragon Zerst�res. There is some more informations about it?
Best Regards,
Ricardo
It would be a mistake not to go for one of the Dragon Z class kit. They are more than better than all the others.biggles2 wrote:It looks like Zvezda really fudged the design of the AA platform on the second funnel and/or the placement of the lifeboats under them. The placement of the forward boat davits don't make sense as the bow of the lifeboat is completely under the AA platform. I assume there are probably more inaccuracies and it might be better to convert a Dragon or Trumpeter Z Class.R.Ricardo wrote:Hi,
I had see here some pictures from the new Diether Von Roeder Z-17 from Zvezda.
http://www.tigerscorner.ru/index.php?PH ... g19587#new
May be the kit will be a good base for modelling but it looks to me a little bit naked when compared with Trumpeter and Dragon Zerst�res. There is some more informations about it?
Best Regards,
Ricardo