My 1/200 scale USS Arizona arrived today.
Been going over the instructions and sprue's.

Believe me, I'm no expert on the Arizona, but to me the kits looks good, and comes well packed against breakage. The photo etched is thicker than most, so hopefully will stand up to my ham fists.

This size will certainly not only take up a lot of room, but should look impressive right out of the box. (I'll have to actually put up a special shelf for it, just to start work on it, and display it when finished).

I'm sure those that know more than me about the ship will be pointing any inaccuracies, large and small, as more make their way to new homes.

That's encouraging news! Mine is on its way over as well.

--Karl

I did an unboxing of mine:
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=62452

Nice unboxing ! That is a huge model. I can't see myself smuggling this model into the house without mrs. gremlin56 catching onto this purchase..................
cheers,
Julian

Thanks for the link, and the photos Tracy, saved me the work of doing them tomorrow. I'm now waiting on my pre-order of the additional Trumpeter up-grade set.

I haven't had much time since then, but I did manage to confirm that the props are the wrong shape; they should be more rounded at the tips. Sounds like an opportunity....

My Arizona arrived minutes ago. As an exclusively large-scale modeler, I can only say AWESOME! Trumpy's taken full advantage of the detail potential of this very large scale and this kit will spoil all ship modelers. I have heard about issues with certain part shapes and such, but when you have signal flag bags with the interior partitions already molded, why quibble?

Trumpy has also corrected some of the issues carried over from copying the classic Arizona kit like having the casemate sides molded with correct openings instead of making the 5"-51's stubby cylinders with a barrel sticking out the side.

Although 3-D crew figures are provided, there are not enough to even make a dent on a battleship. Has anyone heard if they'll sell more separately like they did with the carrier planes?

Apart from separate moldings for the fore & aft deck extremities which will cause awkward transverse seams, the basic engineering of this kit will build into a nice miniature of the famed battleship.



--Karl

My Arizona has arrived too... almost perfect, of course I am not very fluent with all pros & cons concerning painting and other smaller & bigger issues of this ship, but this kit is awsome !!