Ahoy Shipmates

Tamiya have called by the news desk with information about their latest 1/350th release.

Check it out!

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!


Sean

On the one hand I say yea ! Tamiya is back to doing 350 scale ships. On the other a loud boo for releasing a LESSOR quality kit of one released by another company 2 years ago and charging more to boot !!!!!!!!!!!!!

and now tamiya starts releasing IJNs at 350 scale... yummy!

Steve, which one you talking about? I have a hard time sorting all the new 350 releases out there and you re the 350 guru

cheers

I'm looking forward to this and I'll withhold judgment until I see it. The ability to build it as full hull or waterline is nice. I'm also curious to see if the Tamiya kit has detail under the waterline- something Hasegawa's is sorely lacking. Lastly, the price isn't a big deal. Order it from Hobby World Japan and save 20% off the yen price of 5200 yen, coming out to 4160 yen, or about $42. Even factoring in shipping, that's not bad. Here's the page:
http://www.hwjapan.com/sh/TAM08090801.aspx

I'm just really happy to see the Big T get back into 1/350. Since I built the early war fit, maybe I'll build Tamiya's for late war and support their reentry into big scale...

They say PE for ladders,


how bout railings? another 10bucks or so for aftermarket railings?

I was looking at the listed price of $91 versus the listed on the Hasegawa for mid to upper $60. The hasegawa had clear bridge glass pieces, bt if I recall, I bought a PE set to complete mine from somebody. It would have been great if Tamiya had done a different class other than a Kagero as Hasegawa did both versions of that.

LIke I said, I hope this is an indicator that Tamiya is jumping back into 350 scale ships and doen't just do ones that have been done by somoen else. They could cut loose a couple of DD classes and maybe a couple of heavy crusiers.