I ordered the KA deck and from what I’ve seen in pics it appears to have cut-outs for the deck furniture already on the sheets…almost cost as much as the kit…
Trust me on this one…this is one of the finest injection-molded kits I’ve ever seen…the detail and crispness is amazing and a large PE sheet is included with all railings and other delicate parts…
…can be builts as launched or as configured right before the Yalu River Battle, where turret tops, boats and other other deck fittings were removed to reduce splinter risk…if you build it this way then you can see all 4 of the massive 305mm cannon!!! This MOJO even has two early steam driven torpedo decks on the aft deck that were lowered into the water during battle!!!
If you like ships you gotta get this for its historical and COOLNESS factor…
Indeed, and that one’s for sale at Freetime Hobbies as well.
So is the Chen different from the Ting (kits). The decks look the same, but the 5016 and 5017 kits don’t cost the same. I’m inclined to buy the cheaper one (Ting) because then I can afford the deck.
Bondo, although I can’t swear on it I’d say that the two ships are identical as far as the kits go—when I priced 'em it was the other way around and also the Chen was the only one I could find anywhere in stock, and I got the last one. I was guessing the Ting was more expensive because it was the flagship of the force at the battle and therefore more popular; indeed it sold out first at Great Models…they were sister ships and built in Germany by Krupp…you won’t regret it…
EDIT earlier post…torpedo boats on aft deck…
Aaron, thanks for increasing my stash by one more ship!!!
Borodinos carried two torpedo boats as well. Aft of the second funnel.
Torpedo boats and destroyers were a much larger part of early twentieth century navy strategy than previous.
Witness the battle of Jutland where the two fleets ran in circles avoiding possible destroyer torpedo attacks, and for good reason because each had 40 to 60 destroyers deployed in an area the size of a quarter of the Gulf of Mexico.
Yep, knew that. Just thought it was cool to see these ships being joined by a kit that connects the dots between periods. Sorry for the off-topic post.
picked up the wood deck at NATS. it is wafer thin and has the cutouts to slip over the deck furniture and self adhere to the plastic deck. looks like it has a bunch of pe circles, probably for coal scuttles.
also bought a bunch of other stuff i guess i really needed.
