Howdy folks, a couple of years ago I won a 1970s release of Revell’s U.S.S. North Carolina kit. I need a couple of small parts that are missing.
It’s missing 1 kit part #17 40mm Bofors, and 2 of kit part #18 20mm guns. If anyone has these, please e-mail me, and maybe we can work a deal. I’m not any good at resin casting, and I really want to build this “blast from my past”. Thanks SO much[bow] I bought her right, so I can pay for the parts if anyone has them.
The package is kinda unique. It’s a plain cardboard box with a big sticker on the front that replicates Revell’s '70s box art, with a copyright date 1969. on the right side, under the Revell logo, there’s an oval that says, “A Model Builders Club of America Selection”. The decals have curled into a nice little tube with age, but other than the missing 3 light AA weapons, she looks as if she was packaged yesterday. The parts and instructions are flawless.
Wow. no one has had this beauty, or am I delusional in beleiving this is a kit worth anything?[%-)]
I know about her flaws. I’m going to correct them while I build her. I guess I can scratch the missing parts. Who knows. They might turn out better than the kit parts.[swg]
Sorry I can’t help, but I haven’t seen that kit in many years. I do remember buying one when it was released; that, according to Dr. Graham’s fine book, was in 1969. I remember being extremely disappointed in it, and concluding that the slightly larger (and considerably older) Renwall kit was better. In fact I think I wrote a nasty letter to Revell about it; I did not, of course, get an answer.
I know of four other styrene North Carolina kits. (She’s a rather popular subject in my neck of the woods.) The old Renwall one was pretty good, by the standards of its time (the late fifties, I think). It had individual 20mm guns, thereby making a huge improvement over the only other “fast battlship” kits, the Iowa-class ones from Revell, Aurora, and Lindberg. I suspect it would look pretty crude by modern standards, though. Aoshima produced one in the 1/700 “Waterline Series,” a cooperative venture by four Japanese companies that began in (I think) the early seventies. Aoshima was generally regarded as the weakest of the four, and this kit was a pretty typical Aoshima product. (I have the impression that the company’s products have improved enormously since those days.) A couple of years ago Trumpeter released a big, 1/350 kit that seems to have been quite well received, though some of the real enthusiasts have found some flaws in it. Most recently, Trumpeter released a 1/700 version. I haven’t seen it or read a review of it; I suspect it’s an excellent kit. If I were thinking of building a North Carolina that’s the one I’d be inclined to investigate most closely.
my nc was also from revell but in a standard model box not like yours at all. i would go with scratch building the missing parts unless you happen to find an incomplete model of her in a garage sale.
Can’t help either, sorry - I have a North Carolina (a built, second-hand model) but it is the Renwal 1/500 one, not the Revell kit. (In reply to JTilley’s comment on this kit - the Renwal NC certainly isn’t up to present standards, but it’s a very good model for its era, and a lot more detailed and sharply moulded than, for example, most of Airfix’s 1/600 range. According to my measurements the scale is actually somewhere around 1/480, which is about the same as Revell’s Essex-class carrier and Baltimore-class cruiser - could make an interesting diorama!) To kustommodeler1 - if the missing parts are just a couple of AA guns, it would be fairly straightforward to scratchbuild them, from styrene stock (e.g Evergreen) or brass wire.
