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Revell 1/388 Tirpitz
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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 02:53 AM UTC
Our LHS has in stock an old Revell 1/388 Tirpitz and a prince Eugene. Are these any good? Despite the odd scale.

It costs roughly half of the Tamiya Bismark 1/350 version
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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 04:31 AM UTC
Hi RD!

This were released in the 60's / 70's (if I am not wrong) so there is a chance of showing their age...
But they could turn into nice models with some extra work.
You could also built them OOB and accept them as they are

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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 08:36 AM UTC
The box certainly shows it's age. Well, I might still buy them despite the obvious defeciencies it might have.

Thanks Skip

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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 07:20 PM UTC
The Prinz Eugene is probably 720 scale. For the Tirpitz it is close eough if you want to supplement it to get a 400 scale PE set. Rails add so much to a kit
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Posted: Monday, September 05, 2005 - 05:46 PM UTC
I built one of these in the 1970's. I don't remember it being a bad model, but I don't think the detail is up to modern standards. This is what bothers me about Revelle, the non-standard scales. I don't know where they come up with these wierd scales. It makes it hard to compare ships side to side.
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Posted: Monday, September 05, 2005 - 10:31 PM UTC
Hi Chuckster

There's always an explanation :-)
Back in the 60's Revell had a "series" or concept, if we may call it this way, that was "Box Scale", meaning that everymodel that went in production would have a fixed dimention (lenght) so that box sizes, storing, shipping and even showing the products on the store shelf would be easyer (and cheaper for Revell).
That's why all of the ships in this series have strange scales

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Posted: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 02:58 AM UTC

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Hi Chuckster

There's always an explanation :-)
Back in the 60's Revell had a "series" or concept, if we may call it this way, that was "Box Scale", meaning that everymodel that went in production would have a fixed dimention (lenght) so that box sizes, storing, shipping and even showing the products on the store shelf would be easyer (and cheaper for Revell).
That's why all of the ships in this series have strange scales

Skipper


I suspected as much. I built the USS Long Island. There was no published scale except the length of the boat. Even the Mission Capistrano had none.
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