Here’s a neat model I picked up today at Franciscan Hobbies. They used to be my LHS until I moved north across the bridge, but chance found me on their street this morning after visiting the jobsite for a building I’m designing.
1/350 and it’s the original limited release of one in the series of “Famous Ships”. The actual ship was commissioned as a CCCP icebreaker and sold to the Japanese just before WW2.
The kit is 9" long, but absolutely packed with detail.
I have this kit (the 3rd Corps version) along with Hasegawa’s upgrade photo-etch. Mine came with a set of 2 dogs and a figure. In a way it’s like a miniature aircraft carrier since it comes with a couple of helicopters and a floatplane. It looks like a great kit. Have you started yours yet? In all the reviews it looked like a bigger model with all that detail. I think I may have to get a more powerful magnifying light to work on this!
Picures are always welcome. If you like, send me an email address by “conversation” and we can work a trade…
Mine is “First Corps”. It has a little Bell eggbeater and a Cessna floater, without the big helo deck and those impressive big Sikorskys. It did come with two metal sno-traks though.
63 posts in 7 years… you are running better than me by a factor or 100, because that post is a treasure to me. First of all, the general stuff with those naval rifles. I’ll have to study on those.
I knew the story of the dogs because a couple of days ago, when I came home with the model that I grabbed blind because it was on the sale table at $ 20.00 off, I did the usual net search. No I don’t get leaving them either, but then I wasn’t there.
A disappointment is that the Hasegawa “Famous Ships” series is otherwise most all about WW2 warships. Except the Mikasa, which I have.
Thanks again, very nice collection. Have you been to see the Mikasa?
AHA! Another reason to post , yay ! Hey guys BEWARE. the kit is GREAT no matter which version you have . The biggest problem I have had is the forward wall of the deckhouse . WHY? , Well it has a lot of detail on it and it,s molded in CLEAR ! You will have a divil of a time keeping all that detail sharp to get enough white primer and paint on it to prevent you from seeing through it . That,s all . I got stuck with the dogs and their handler? Thats alright though , I haven,t done a figure since 1979 so I,ll see if I remember all I was taught on and in the pages of FSM . tankerbuilder
