So which is better: Trumpeter’s or Dragon’s ???
I have a natural aversion to anything sold by Trumpeter. I’m not judging, just my thing. That being said, does either one include PE railings? Price? Never built either so I’d have to go by what comes in the box.
Does not compute: define “better.”
…hmmmmmmm…bestest?
Actually, I asked someone in the locked thread a question that never got answered?
He said that the Dragon kit had more detail. I asked for specifics. He gave none…
Let’s start there…
By the way, I’ll end up buying one of each (or more) so I’m not really biased towards eiter company, just like a good, honest debate,…
More bestest-er? Least worstest?
Well, I asked because as we’ve seen, price is a very important feature of a kit to some people. Some people value fidelity of details, where others want fewer pieces. I will say that on my trumpeter kits I don’t worry about whether or not I sand down and lose details as I’ll probably be replacing them anyway, whereas with the Scharnhorst and USS Buchanan kits I’ve worked on the detail is so fine I’ve worked to keep it. Although I now have one of the Z-39s, I haven’t had a chance to directly compare it to the Trumpeter Z-25s.
You can compare the detail in the following reviews:
Shall we compare stack detail? Trumpeter / Dragon
Other specific areas can be targeted that way as well.
Did I mention that I love the Tirpitz?
a) I’m getting Trumpeter’s kit, and yes it is principally down to cost, not to mention that Dragon’s isn’t in the UK yet
b) Why was the other thread locked? Who lobbied for this action and why?.
That is a good question. I was puzzled m’self. Usually when Matt or Aaron swoops in, they leave a smack-down message. But this was done completely anonymously…[:^)]
One of the ship “know-it-alls” insulted me and it went downhill from there…
You know, I want a British destroyer in 350th, but I’m not sure I want it to be from the Tribal class…what other types did they have that were common? And, did the Italians have many destroyers?
How about a Norwegian destroyer?
There’s a veritable alphabet soup of Btitish DDs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_World_War_II_destroyers
Rare German destroyer footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlslM81ie4M&feature=player_detailpage
Just outside of Naples Harbor. I recognize the water.
I’ll stop now.
The alphabet soup classes were smaller. The Tribal class was designed and built in responses to the larger German destroyer during WW-II and also entered service with the Canadian and Australian Navy post war. It will be very good to see the 2 adversary along side each other. The Canadian and Australian services will probably generate wider interest too.
Les Brown’s “British Destroyers- A-I and Tribal Classes” in the Ship Craft series is a good reference for the modelers.
Besides the Tribal class—what was another common class in WW2 for the Brits?
Wow, they’re much smaller than I thought! [;)]
Manny, RCN used mostly Tribal Class as well as the smaller Corvettes (Flower Class??) built up for WW2, I think the Brits would have been similar, any other DD class was probably earlier & being phased out by the Tribals.
I think…
I reported Manstein’s last post where he insulted another member. It was deleted and the thread locked.
Thanks for dropping in on my new thread—you seem to enjoy them. maybe you can contribute to this one?
Gents,
I locked the other thread because it had clearly gotten out of hand. If this one goes south I will do the same thing and the people responsible, and I mean everyone, will have account suspended. I have said it before, and I am pretty sick of saying it, personal attacks and insults will not be tolerated.
Aaron