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The 55th All Japan Model & Hobby Show has just wrapped up and we have a couple of images of what appears to be the announced HMS Rodney and a 1/350 Ark Royal, labeled as '1939'.

Now, after releases of Essex class and Yorktown class US carriers, we could be soon getting a honest to goodness Royal Navy aircraft carrier from WWII in a 1/350 scale injected plastice kit. Rumors of its existence as being contracted out for other kit labels have circulated for sometime and now it looks like Trumpeter will be putting it out under their banner.

From the image that was supplied to me, I can only be sure the other ship is a Nelson class battleship and I'm not positive on the scale. I'm assumed it was the coming HMS Rodney in 1/200 announced for this Christmas but please but looking at the last image of all the Trumpeter kits at the show, it appears to be more like a 1/350 kit.

And there's also what look's like another AS365 Dauphin variant in 1/48.

We'll report more information on these kits as it becomes available.