Review Topic: Ships
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Merit International USS Yorktown CV-5
FineScale Modeler reviews Merit International’s 1/350 scale plastic model ship kit. Merit International’s 1,100-part kit represents the first USS Yorktown as she was at Midway shortly before being sunk by Japanese torpedoes and bombs. The 12″ x 30″ box has 16 sprues of gray plastic, 15 clear sprues for the aircraft, and 5 large photoetched-metal frets.
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Hasegawa 1/700 scale Akagi
FineScale Modeler reviews Hasegawa’s 1/700 scale Akagi aircraft carrier plastic model kit. Hasegawa’s new 1/700 scale Hasegawa Akagi is based on the ship’s appearance after its 1937-38 conversion to a single flight deck. It can be built as it appeared at the attack on Pearl Harbor or as it appeared at its sinking at the…
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Tamiya 1/700 scale USS Saratoga (CV-3)
FineScale Modeler reviews the Tamiya 1/700 scale USS Saratoga (CV-3) plastic model kit. The kit comprises a two-piece slide-mold, waterlined asymmetrical hull; five medium-gray styrene sprues; one slab of ballast metal; and a sheet of deck decals. The molding has fine detail throughout with no flash or sink marks. The parts count is less daunting…
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Roden 1/72 scale Fairchild C-123B Provider
Roden’s new Fairchild C-123B Provider plastic model kit brings sighs of relief from 1/72 scale builders who for decades have had only subpar kits of this significant transport. In its first issue, Roden provides the first production version of the Provider. The parts are molded in gray and clear styrene and include decent interior detail…
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FlyHawk 1/700 scale SMS Derfflinger 1916
The FlyHawk 1/700 scale SMS Derfflinger plastic model ship kit comprises a waterline hull base, 10 gray styrene sprues, and one fret of photoetched metal. The molding is clean with no flash and no sink marks. The 10-step instructions are printed front and back on a single page with several six-color sections for photoetched metal,…
