Ahoy mates!
Fujimi stopped by the news room to show off photos of their new 1/350 HIJMS Haruna. Enjoy!
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#027
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Posted: Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 04:00 AM UTC
ChrisCarter
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Posted: Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 03:27 AM UTC
Oh boy!!!...another butt-ugly Jap battleship...*yawn*
blaster76
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Posted: Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 07:25 AM UTC
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Oh boy!!!...another butt-ugly Jap battleship...*yawn*
Well, everyone is entitled to their opinions, and mine is, this boy don't know squat... I've got the sister Kongo, and it is an absolutely earthshaking kit. The detail and the attention to detail is 2 or three jumps ahead of everything else...yes I think it even surpasses the Nagato....
ChrisCarter
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Posted: Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 09:35 AM UTC
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Oh boy!!!...another butt-ugly Jap battleship...*yawn*
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Well, everyone is entitled to their opinions, and mine is, this boy don't know squat...
This boy doesn't care to know squat!!!!!!!!...I meant that the SHIP ITSELF! is just butt-ugly!...I mean come on...Jap warships in WWII were the most clunky, ungainly and gawd aufull ugliest tubs afloat!...even the mighty TAMATO class looked a decade older than they were compared to other nation's capital ships!
Example: the 1940 Bismarck looked a generation ahead of the 1945 TOMATO and don't even think obout comparing them to an American or British warship...sheesh...even an Italian warship looked more modern!
Chris
JMartine
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 06:39 AM UTC
...some say Tomato, some say Nagato.. to each its own! 
goldenpony
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 07:22 AM UTC
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...some say Tomato, some say Nagato.. to each its own!
Isn't there an "e" on tomato?
I thought he meant Yamato.
Gunny
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 07:41 AM UTC
Tomatoe, Tomato, Yamatoe, Yamato...even Nagato! (Nagatoe? 
)..........no such thing as an ugly ship in my eyes, IMHO, they're all fine lookin' girls.......... 
)..........no such thing as an ugly ship in my eyes, IMHO, they're all fine lookin' girls.......... gator
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#027
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 08:02 AM UTC
This is my favorite version of the Kongo. As built.
Btw, I do believe that most of the Japanese capital ships were influenced by the British.
Kenny
Btw, I do believe that most of the Japanese capital ships were influenced by the British.
Kenny
Clanky44
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 09:24 AM UTC
Indeed, the Kongo class was designed by a Brit.
Frank
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blaster76
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 12:09 PM UTC
I'm with you Mark. There is no such thing as an ugly battleship (post dreadnaught)in fact until the recent chunk boxes came out in the 70's and later they all were beauties....carriers,crusiers, destroyers PT's. Now days , they all look alike (crusiers, destroyers, frigates) and even then I would hardly label them as butt ugly.
JMartine
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Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008 - 03:10 PM UTC
Yeah, he meant Yamato, but I have the Nagato in my Stash-o
Everytime I see a pic of the Kongo, I wish I had waited and purchased that one instead of the Nagato-e
Everytime I see a pic of the Kongo, I wish I had waited and purchased that one instead of the Nagato-e
blaster76
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Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 07:12 AM UTC
Jim:
It isn't like you lost when choosing the Nagato. It is definitly a first class kit as well as the Kongo. They just wanted to sell over inflated PE sheets, whereas Fujimi pretty much left rails and some details to be swapped out. I have seen the Nagato with the PE done up with up close and personal pictures of the bridge and can testify how awesome that is.
It isn't like you lost when choosing the Nagato. It is definitly a first class kit as well as the Kongo. They just wanted to sell over inflated PE sheets, whereas Fujimi pretty much left rails and some details to be swapped out. I have seen the Nagato with the PE done up with up close and personal pictures of the bridge and can testify how awesome that is.
Karybdis
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Posted: Friday, August 01, 2008 - 05:14 AM UTC
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I'm with you Mark. There is no such thing as an ugly battleship (post dreadnaught)in fact until the recent chunk boxes came out in the 70's and later they all were beauties....carriers,crusiers, destroyers PT's. Now days , they all look alike (crusiers, destroyers, frigates) and even then I would hardly label them as butt ugly.
I think the Ticos and Burkes look very different- Ticonderogas have the flat, imposing superstructure front (which I think looks very strong), and Arleigh Burkes are a little more sleek and fast looking, as a destroyer should be. And the Ticonderoga still looks sufficiently different from the Spruance class, despite having pretty much the same hull. But maybe I'm just weird.
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