NEWS in from Trumpeter Models, China, of three scheduled early winter releases!

LanZhou PLA Navy Type 052C DDG-170
Chinese Destroyer
1/350 Scale
Kit #4530
SRP $78.95

(NATO code-named "Luyang II") Commissioned in 2004, the LanZhou features an APAR-style active phased array radar system and vertically launched HQ-9 naval version long-range air defense missile system.

This class represents China's first true fleet air defense capability. Kit consists of 325 parts on 11 sprues, with photo etched mast parts and markings for the Chinese PLA Navy, Haikou of the South Sea Fleet.


Kit details include helicopter landing platform, 8 air defense missiles, target tracking radar system, Karl-27 copter, and display stand. Completed kit measures over 17"long.


USS Quincy CA-39 New Orleans Class Heavy Cruiser
Kit #5748
1/700 Scale
SRP $39.95

In July 1936, the Quincy was sent to the Mediterranean Sea to protect US interests in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. She subsequently served during WWII in the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and later in the Pacific. In August 1942 she was attacked and sunk by a large Japanese naval force with the loss of 370 men.

Kit consists of 188 parts on 9 sprues, including two SOC Seagull planes and display stand. Completed kit measures 10" long.


SS Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty Ship
Kit # 5755
1/700 Scale
SRP $24.95
100% NEW TOOLING

Built in just 57 days, and launched on June 19, 1943, this world-renowned supply ship not only made four perilous round trip wartime crossings of the Atlantic and served on D-Day, the vessel later saw sixteen months of service in both the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. T

his kit is scaled down from the previously released, 1/350 kit. Kit consists of 151 parts on 4 sprues, with stand and name plate.

All kits above cheduled for a February, 2009 release date!