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Posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 06:22 AM UTC
Hi Guys

I have fonud this picture on the facebook Trumpeters fanpage


Cheers

Wojtek
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 02:04 AM UTC
Everything I've read said the 1/200 Mo has a 2 piece hull. It's hard to judge size by the pic bhey look too small too, like 1/350 and are completely the wrong shape.

Is this maybe a 1/350 South Dakota class?

My $.02 anyway. Please don't tell me that's it or I'll be canceling my pre-order.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 02:14 AM UTC
Hope it's OK to borrow the pic, I'm gonna ask the guys at Model Warships what they think.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 08:59 AM UTC
Teling the truth, this picture is not signed "Missouri 1:200"
so maybe You are right ?

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Wojtek
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 01:28 PM UTC
Jejeje the boys of "Free Time" already it saw live jejejje



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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 02:56 PM UTC

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Everything I've read said the 1/200 Mo has a 2 piece hull. It's hard to judge size by the pic bhey look too small too, like 1/350 and are completely the wrong shape.

Is this maybe a 1/350 South Dakota class?

My $.02 anyway. Please don't tell me that's it or I'll be canceling my pre-order.


Although I cannot tell the scale in the picture, that is definitely an Iowa class hull and not a South Dakota Class one. The South Dakota's had the skegs for the propeller shafts on the outward pair of shafts and not vice versa like the Iowa's did.

Hope this is not too terrible of news.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 03:28 PM UTC

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Everything I've read said the 1/200 Mo has a 2 piece hull. It's hard to judge size by the pic bhey look too small too, like 1/350 and are completely the wrong shape.

Is this maybe a 1/350 South Dakota class?

My $.02 anyway. Please don't tell me that's it or I'll be canceling my pre-order.


Why would you cancel your pre-order if it is a one piece hull? I see the person I ordered mine through has seen the actual item..
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 03:39 PM UTC

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Jejeje the boys of "Free Time" already it saw live jejejje



Daniel


Ha ha!!! You might have to go hide out at the Moscow airport and beg for asylum after that leak!
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Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 03:41 PM UTC

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Everything I've read said the 1/200 Mo has a 2 piece hull. It's hard to judge size by the pic bhey look too small too, like 1/350 and are completely the wrong shape.

Is this maybe a 1/350 South Dakota class?

My $.02 anyway. Please don't tell me that's it or I'll be canceling my pre-order.


Why would you cancel your pre-order if it is a one piece hull? I see the person I ordered mine through has seen the actual item..


Naw, I'm still gonna get it. It looks like I can fix the shape of the lower hull and that finished pic doesn't look so bad after all. I think that first pic looks so wrong because it's missing a fair portion of the bow (it's a 2 piece hull after all)
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Posted: Sunday, July 21, 2013 - 06:52 PM UTC

From what little we can see it appears there are some errors that are similar to the Bismarck hull errors.

One key one which can be seen from these pictures is the lack of a "hollow" area to the hull's shape just in front or just above the outer props: The plastic hull there is just one continuous straight slope when there should be a sort of concave "break": The 1/200 Bismarck was exactly the same in that respect (but in addition seriously lacked bulk and squareness all around the lower tail end and the stern), and it showed up the same way in drydock photos in that there was no "swelling" of the hull appearing in front of the outer prop when looking forward into it, quite unlike the real thing...:







The second photo shows a more modest appearance to the concave area, but still not a straight slope.

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Posted: Friday, November 01, 2013 - 05:36 AM UTC
Hi Guys,

do You have any ideas about date of release of Mighty Mo ?

Best regards

Wojtek
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Posted: Friday, November 01, 2013 - 05:57 AM UTC
http://www.dersockelshop.de/military-modeling/military-scale-1-200/38452/uss-missouri-bb-63-big-mo-/-1-200

Frank is betting on the end of November Wojtek. I would think that is a reasonable guesstimate Just in time for Christmas.
Cheers,
Julian
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Posted: Sunday, November 03, 2013 - 04:54 AM UTC
I have been told by Brandon Lowe of Freetime Hobbies that they are expecting the first shipment any day now.
Mine is already paid for..


Oh, and by the way, they are not big enough to be 1/200 Missouri hulls.
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Posted: Monday, November 04, 2013 - 08:37 AM UTC
Maybe You are right that this hulls are too small, but
I dont see anything on this picture what can be taken as
a "scale" for size of this parts.
IMHO this blue box can be any size

Injection "tree" inside hull is rather complicated and unusual
so we will see soon, I bet that the same "tree" will be inside Your 1/200 Mighty Mo

Cheers Wojtek

Sorry for my english
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Posted: Monday, November 04, 2013 - 08:46 AM UTC
Well I found something else

Surrender of Japan

Was hoping that this set is inside Missouri box

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Posted: Monday, November 04, 2013 - 10:10 AM UTC
Nothing to do with the hull, but why a 4 blade and a 5 blade prop?
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Posted: Monday, November 04, 2013 - 02:53 PM UTC
The real ship had that to cancel out / minimize vibrations. Differently bladed propellers won't "pulse" at the same rate.
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Posted: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 - 09:19 AM UTC
I have found this set today at Trumpeter's page

Surrender Ceremony

Cheers

Wojtek
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Posted: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 - 01:45 PM UTC
I am damned if I can see any 'hollow' area above the props... as far as I can see it is just a different colour there for some reason.
The Missouri hull will be more than 1.3 metres long, that is why I don't think those hulls are big enough...

Your English is fine mate. Much better than my Polish!!
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Posted: Thursday, November 07, 2013 - 02:03 PM UTC

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Nothing to do with the hull, but why a 4 blade and a 5 blade prop?


Interesting!
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