I’ve gotten the wooden deck as well----not sure what else you two are talking about? GMM???
You are right. Does WEM even have the Varyag?
apples and oranges.
apples - Gold Medal Models has a pe set that contains parts for BORODINO and VARYAG. vectorcut http://www.vectorcut.com/ships.htm has a laser cut deck for VARYAG (and EMDEN) but i believe you have to cut all the deck furniture from the plastic deck. WEM doesn’t have a pe set for VARYAG.
now to clear up the oranges - all 4 bronco chinese ships come with pe. http://www.ka-models.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=37_45 has a super thim wood deck that slips over all the deck furniture and self adheres to the plastic deck.
now to throw in a vegetable - talked to toms modelworks at nats and, assuming the zvesda DREADNOUGHT is a quality kit, he will be doing a pe set.
hope that clears things up.
Mine did not come with the wooden deck but I did buy it as a separate item…
Are the two Bronco 1/350 cruisers kits identical?
The Ching Yuen and the Chih Yuen?
Other than decals if applicable.
i don’t know for sure but, given they were sister ships, i suspect they are. there is a difference between the 1880s and the 1894 primarily removal of boats and painting though not as significant as the difference between 1880s and 1894 on the battleships.
The Crusier I have has the parts and instructions to build in both configurations, as does the Battlecruiser…
I’ll never know… is Freetime reliable?
freetime hobbies? i have ordered from them. chatted them at NATs and picked up a TING YUEN wood deck at their booth.
They have my money…
I buy from them all the time…good people…but I NEVER buy anything from ANYONE that is backordered…always ends in disapointment and thread rants about sites that suck…
Well no rants, I just received a notice after I purchased my model and deck that my status was changed from “in stock” to “back order”. Probably because every one on this thread rushed out like Visigoths and bought them.
This happens I know, just yesterday a pouch with five colors of paint arrived from White Ensign. One is white for the Scharnhorst, but I can’t even remember why I bought the other four…
Well the Protected Crusiers are to be had (in stock) on EVERY site that I’ve checked, so if I were you I’d get one of these *MOJO’s to tide you over until the dreaded nought comes in…both ships are “cherry”…
- that’s MOJO with a “J” not an “F”.
I just ordered Zvezda’s HMS Dreadnought, the origin of the species. I am really interested in those early steel battleships. I also have Hasegawa’s IJNS Mikasa. Does anybody have any experience with the Zvezda kit? I also picked up the main guns in turned brass but I don’t know of any PE sets for Dreadnought. I am still holding out hope for the fate of the Olympia. Any news on that?
Mikasa predates Dread of course. Revell old Pyro Olympia rerelease is on the shelves at $100…sheesh for a lousy kit.
White Engisn models is working on a PE set as a matter of priority. Should be with us within months. When it is, I don’t think I will be able to resist the urge to march down to the shops singing ‘Rule Britannia’ and buy a Dreadnought of my own…
Will
talked to tom’s modelworks at NATs. he said he would probably do a set once he checked out the the quality of the model
started uploading pictures of models, drawings, and photographs of sino-japanese era ships. will scan in the ones in THE CHINESE STEAM NAVY at work on tuesday and get them posted too.
http://s172.photobucket.com/albums/w17/waynec_kits/sino-japanese%20war%20warships/
Of course, because I sit around at night with time on my hands (not) waiting for my Ting Yuen (BACKORDERED);
I’ve read Wright front to back. The battleships were really big monitors. The beam is kind of astounding, but the designers seemed to favor a low profile by installing horizontal piston engines and having one accomodation deck.
Those big gun positions had only a 1" shield, and it may be that by the time of the Battle of the Yalu, these were not in place.
Time to wrap up the Emden. Which reminds me that a Bondotip on these old ships is to not glue the stack caps on until you’ve rigged the stack stay wires. It makes it simple to glue them down into the deck, pull them up through the stack and then trim them off inside when dry.
According to my kit’s instructions, the shields were left off at the time of battle—along with a lot of other fittings, such as all lifeboats and the two torpedo boats it carried…also seems to have had a bridge deck modification that the instructions show you how to achieve by cutting it down some…