Does anyone make an Injected plastic 4 stack Destroyer class model in 1/350 or close scale ?

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Ive checked Scalemates and not turned up anything but resin. Im curious to know if anyone makes/made an injected plastic kit in 1/350th or anything larger than 1/500th ? Anything smaller and its just not very easily buildable by my hands. Ive found Resin kits for a couple of types, and if needs be would go that route. However just doing my due diligence and checking to see if Im missing anything ? 

[Stephen Allen]

1/400 Mirage kits also repackaged as Airfix.  Then the venerable Revell kit at around 1/280-ish?

 

Steve

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

4 minutes ago, Stephen Allen said:

1/400 Mirage kits also repackaged as Airfix.  Then the venerable Revell kit at around 1/280-ish?

 

Steve

Thank you, I could not find anything under class but maybe should try specific ships names in the future ? 

[Orso]

Mirage/Airfix: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-03250-hms-campbeltown--100339

 

It is sad that it is in 1/400 scale. If it had been in 1/350 I would have bought one

Edited October 7, 2022 by Orso

[Stephen Allen]

HMS Campbeltown and St Albans, USS Ward and USS Noa are all four stack releases under the Mirage label. Airfix also released the kit as St Albans.

 

cheers

 

Steve

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

45 minutes ago, Orso said:

Mirage/Airfix: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-03250-hms-campbeltown--100339

 

It is sad that it is in 1/400 scale. If it had been in 1/350 I would have bought one

If I can find one Id be ok its still bigger than 1/700. I prefer 1/350 myself but some types aren't catered for/to

[ArnoldAmbrose]

Gidday, Airfix kit A03251 HMS Montgomery in 1/400? HTH. Regards, Jeff.

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

8 hours ago, ArnoldAmbrose said:

Gidday, Airfix kit A03251 HMS Montgomery in 1/400? HTH. Regards, Jeff.

Thank you Jeff, Good info but now need to find one and hope I can afford it. 

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

Would you be interested in good quality photographs of what's inside the Atlantic Models resin kit in 1/350 exactly as the parts come and how they go together? I don't have the photographs but have the kit and would be happy to do it if it was more uncertainty about the quality / value for money as opposed to simple refusal to glue resin models together. If definitely not interested then I won't waste the time though  

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

19 minutes ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

Would you be interested in good quality photographs of what's inside the Atlantic Models resin kit in 1/350 exactly as the parts come and how they go together? I don't have the photographs but have the kit and would be happy to do it if it was more uncertainty about the quality / value for money as opposed to simple refusal to glue resin models together. If definitely not interested then I won't waste the time though  

Sure if it isnt too much trouble ? Ive considered an all resin build before just haven't made the leap yet. But seems more of the subject Im into are available that route. 

[Faraway]

It’s not an injection kit but....

https://blackcatmodels.eu/en/us-navy/329-uss-ward-dd-139.html

Jon

[mick b]

13 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

Thank you Jeff, Good info but now need to find one and hope I can afford it. 

https://www.kingkit.co.uk/product/airfix-ships-1-400-03251-hms-montgomery
 

I have no connection with kingkit 

 

Mike

[Tincan_Warspite]

I built the Mirage 1/400 kits before. Borderline frustrating build. 

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

3 hours ago, Tincan_Warspite said:

I built the Mirage 1/400 kits before. Borderline frustrating build. 

Thank you for letting me know that. Might push me towards the resin faster. 

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

Here's Atlantic Models' HMS Montgomery kit. The parts do need some clean-up similar to lower quality plastic kits such as Trumpeter ones do, but there aren't huge sanding blocks to saw away or spend hours sanding down in a cloud of harmful dust. It's also very complete.

 

 

[dickrd]

50 minutes ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

Here's Atlantic Models' HMS Montgomery kit....

Any painting instructions?(!)

[scotmid]

White Ensign Models do a PE set for the Mirage/Airfix kit. You can also get weapons and a number of other 1/400 3D printed parts from Black Cat Models in France. 

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

49 minutes ago, dickrd said:

Any painting instructions?(!)

 

Indeed. I should have included them earlier but I'd mentally dismissed them as I've been marking the kit up to butcher into LRDE HMS Stanley.

 

 

You will, I assume, recognise this as an attempt to practically interpret the scheme given in Raven's Warship Perspectives Camouflage Volume Two: Royal Navy 1942 page 53, although where Peter Hall has called for MS2, Raven calls for "Light Medium Green".

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

5 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

Here's Atlantic Models' HMS Montgomery kit.

 

3 hours ago, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

 

Indeed. I should have included them earlier but I'd mentally dismissed them as I've been marking the kit up to butcher into LRDE HMS Stanley.

 

 

You will, I assume, recognise this as an attempt to practically interpret the scheme given in Raven's Warship Perspectives Camouflage Volume Two: Royal Navy 1942 page 53, although where Peter Hall has called for MS2, Raven calls for "Light Medium Green".

Thank you very much sir. The photo’s give me a good idea of size/quality. 

[dickrd]

On 10/10/2022 at 4:04 PM, Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies said:

 

You will, I assume, recognise this as an attempt to practically interpret the scheme given in Raven's Warship Perspectives Camouflage Volume Two: Royal Navy 1942 page 53, although where Peter Hall has called for MS2, Raven calls for "Light Medium Green".

Yes. Whilst available photos show that there is something wrong here I doubt that there are sufficient photos available to say what might be 'right'. For example, given the way the dark (black?) draught numbers show up on the dark camouflage panel on the upper starboard bow it was obviously not an MS1 camouflage panel there; given the dark pendant number to port shows up on the lower dark camouflage panel there that panel cannot have been MS1 either; the pendant number to starboard is all light/white (not black) but its contrast with the lower light camouflage panel on the bow starboard side is not great suggesting something of a medium/light tone ie not MS2. 

 

[neilh]

Just an update on this thread. Although I am yet to start my first ship model in nearly 50 years, I was also on the lookout for a kit of these 4 funnel lend lease destroyers since my Grandad served on HMS Salisbury until its transfer to Canada.   Although the Atlantic models kit was listed until recently, it's no longer available.  I'm told if demand should increase he may mould some more, but for now, it's the Mirage/Airfix kit or second hand for the WEM/Atlantic models kit.