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| kitkiddie |
HMS RenownLatest from a recently published modelling mag is that Pit Road are doing an injection HMS Renown 1942 in 1/700, so if true I guess it'll appear under the Trumpeter banner sooner or later.Keiron |
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| Ratch |
What a pity its not 1/600 
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| kitkiddie |
Or even better, 1/350!!
Keiron |
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| Ratch |
No, I only build 1/600 
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| kitkiddie |
Try 1/350 - it is a great relief for those of us who have to wear glasses!
Keiron |
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| Flash Flash |
Is there a big difference between things that are 1/600 and 1/700? | ||||
| DJBlackburn |
Oh, yeah....I can still just manage to do 1:600 (with almost 40 years of doing so already behind me), but had to give up 1:700 as it lies just beyond the tolerance of my nerves, eyesight, and arthritis! There's a greater difference between the scales than the numbers, themselves might first suggest!
Ratch, have you considered converting an Airfix Repulse kit? This has been the usual route to getting a decent Renown in the scale we diehards use. 
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| kitkiddie |
It has now been posted on the Pit-Road site.
Here's the boxart: http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~pitroad/w/w119.jpg |
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| AFCBGeorge |
Is it just me or do virtually all battleships look the same? The only reason I'd model a ship is if it's historical significance related in some way to a book I'd read, film I'd watched etc. I know i might get slated for this but To me once you've made one battleship... You seem to have covered most of them! Am I on my own here? | ||||
| Steven Pietrobon |
The British WWI Dreadnoughts were certainly different than the 4x2 or 3x3 configuration commonly used later. | ||||
| DJBlackburn |
I suppose it's a bit like cars, the majority having a steering wheel, windscreen, four wheels, bonnet, etc. Perhaps the same can be said for tanks...it all depends on how far past the obvious one looks. On the surface, an FW-190 and a Spitfire are no different. Two wings, a prop, canopy, stabilizer and rudder. But to anyone with even minimal familiarity with the subject, they are as different as night and day, and immediately distinct from one another. Have a look at HMS Rodney or Nelson, then compare to, say Scharnhorst or Gneisenau. Perhaps that will crack the ice a bit, no?
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| Commodore Rob |
I agree its all down to perspective each nation had their own style
British - generally elegant but sometimes you get the od dud Americans - Generally ugly but practical with the odd ok looking one Japanese - took them to an art form that is remonisant of all the things they do from bonsai trees to house building German - vorspungdorktechnic (sp?) they are all based on the same pattern French - floating bagettes please note this is a generailastion and i know that it could be picked apart but its just based upon my observations. |
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| T16S |
I wouldn't agree that the Dunkerque, Strasbourg, Richelieu and Jean Bart were floating bagettes- they had such elegance and with the unusual twin quadruple gun turret layout. They surely graphically make the point, like Nelson and Rodney which undoubtedly influenced their design, that not all battleships were the same.
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