Trumpeter''s new 1/200 USS Missouri arrived today. Here is a quick preview of what''s in the box.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

Enjoy my friend !!

Nice one Warren, looking forward to the full montey review

Wow that's a big one

How big is the completed going to be?

Does it look like there's a lot of raised detail that will need sanding off?

Discussion here on the hull shape:

http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=154450&start=60

Gaston

Think you will have to return this purchase as well Warren,

thats an odd looking bow ...guess thats a cold war road kill

Yep, it is going back tomorrow.. not!!

Approx 1.4metres.

Hi

I just pick up mine Mighty Mo, I have to admit that Bismarck look much more luxurious inside the box, but ship is great (instead of some discrepancies).








Hope that we will see soon IJN Yamato or HMS Prince of Wales in this scale (I will buy both of them )

Cheers

Wojtek

MAKIETARIUM

I'm pretty sure that, besides the hull shape issues, the Missouri has a banana-shaped rising stern, which is due to the available drawings: I've looked at their 1/700 Iowas, and it is exactly the same as the most used drawings, and the same goes for the 1/200 kit.

If we want to know what the upcoming 1/200 Hood will be like, and good starting point would be to see the issues in the current Trumpeteer Hoods in other scales...

In the meantime, except for the excellent 1/200 Nichimo destroyers, I've decided to make the switch to 1/350 scale until the day genuinely serious kits come out in 1/200...

Gaston

One of my suppliers is one of the US importers for Trumpeter, and they recently posted in their "coming soon" list of a 1/200 Iowa (not really much different than the Missouri), and a 1/200 HMS Hood, as well as a rumored USS Enterprise.

The Iowa is really no surprise, pretty much same ship, different markings (sans bathtub). Enterprise is not really a surprise either, since the Merit Hornet was designed and made by Trumpeter.

The Hood is a welcomed version. Can't think that the Yamato is that far behind, as they have done pretty much every famous BB from WWII.

Now....if they decided to do a modern USS Iowa/New Jersey, I would be tempted by that. Really not that much they would need to change. Different antennas, modern weapons, and a different stern for the helo deck.

Very unfortunately, I would not hold my breath for a new 1/200 Yamato...

Trumpeteer has never made one, and they tend to stick with upsizing previous releases... The upcoming Abercrombie in 1/350 is an exception, but little of what they do is ever Japanese, and they maximize whatever "research" they can size up: If you look at what they did in 1/350, they are following it quite closely in 1/200... Also, unless they "invent" a new brand like Merit to cater to Japanese stuff, they seem to have an antipathy towards Japanese subjects, wartime issues still being touchy apparently...

Sadly I fear that 1/200, whatever its short term success may be, will wither from poor quality research, poor quality underdetailed hulls, and lack of a competition willing to make the scale "alive"...: The key issue is wether or not serious mainstream injection-moulding makers will join Trumpeteer in this scale, and I don't see this happening at all: To the point now that I would be very surprised if it did happen: It has been a while...

The size of this scale make it a too large mould investment for other makers, and without other makers joining the fray, people will tire quickly of one-sided Trumpeteer subjects, low detail levels and especially poor accuracy quality at a high price. Tamiya did the exact same thing with 1/48th armor, poor detail, initially poor accuracy and poor or mismatching "opposing" subject choices, and it failed to take off with any other maker: It is now essentially a dead scale for armor, as one company cannot really "make" a market all by itself...

Gaston

Hi Scott,

hope to see 1/200 Yamato soon, I heard rumors about big KGV and PoW from Trumpeter. Hope to see one of them under my Christmas tree in 2014 or at last 2015

Did I mentioned that I need big Christmas tree ?

Cheers

Wojtek
MAKIETARIUM