One large problem with this kit Gaston, the secondary armament casements are all the wrong shape. The Aoshima ones are correct. I am surprised you didn't pick that up...

Cheers
Warren

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One large problem with this kit Gaston, the secondary armament casements are all the wrong shape. The Aoshima ones are correct. I am surprised you didn't pick that up...

Cheers
Warren

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Are you speaking of the Fujimi Kongo secondary armament casemates? I don't know of much wrong with the Nagato...

I knew about the Fujimi Kongo casemates, since it is a well-known blunder, and that is one of the major reasons why I don't like the Fujimi Kongo. There are other more subjective things wrong with both maker's Kongos, since I don't like the overall appearance of either of them unfortunately...

This is very unusual, as I tend to like almost all of the recent 1/350 WWII Japanese ships releases since the 2000s, except for the new tool Tamiya Yamato and the Kongos (and even then, the new-tool Yamato does look impressive, and looks right from the front at least)...

The Fujimi carrier-version Ise looks nice but is rumoured to be a hard build with very confused instructions, the wrong kind of airplane (the major point of such a build), and there are serious gaps or interferences between some of the complex components like the catapults and surrounding structure...

Overall Japanese WWII warships are very well served in 1/350 and I don't mind it at all...

Gaston