1/200 USS IOWA

[kevin]

Just got this build underway. I picked up an excellent reference book, the Pontos Detail Up kit, and some tools to help with all the PE.
The Pontos kit has 18 sheets of PE, but great brass barrels and a "wood" deck.
I got the hull together and I'm going to try something I saw on YT, using tape and a few layers of primer to build up the lines between the hull plates.
This is my first ship build since the PT 109 when I was kid in the early 1970s.

 

[wjbrandel]

I'll be following this, Been thinking about getting this model

 

[the Baron]

What a kit! It's simply amazing, what is available to us these days. I'll enjoy following your build, kevin!

Do you know where you're going to display the finished model? I ask because I just got the latest IPMS/US magazine yesterday, and the cover story is about a build of a 1/200 Yamato kit. It goes into some detail on the display case the modeler built for the ship to display it. The finished model itself is around 5 feet long.

 

[BarleyBop]

5 feet long.

Holy shermoly! Does Tamiya paint come in quarts?

 

[kevin]

Displaying the model was one of things that made think twice about the kit, it's just over 53", that and the price.
You only live once so.........
I'm going to install a new a shelf in the living room for it when the time comes. This flyer for display cases from MasterTools came with the kit. I haven't looked into in yet, no website listed. A flyer for new Trumpeter releases also came in the box, for 2012.

 

[TimM63]

Displaying the model was one of things that made think twice about the kit, it's just over 53", that and the price.
You only live once so.........
I'm going to install a new a shelf in the living room for it when the time comes. This flyer for display cases from MasterTools came with the kit. I haven't looked into in yet, no website listed. A flyer for new Trumpeter releases also came in the box, for 2012.
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For the 1500mm one I found this. $360
https://www.zonehobbies.net/en-us/p...cyljxch7A_vsnpYQ-ljF5En9okiuAiJsrodJNUmtrmtGF

 

[Steve Ski]

Wow, bloomin huge, huge, Kevin! Ruck On, Bby!

 

[kevin]

For the 1500mm one I found this. $360
https://www.zonehobbies.net/en-us/p...cyljxch7A_vsnpYQ-ljF5En9okiuAiJsrodJNUmtrmtGF

Thanks for the link.
Final decisions on display cases are way down the road, so I got time to save my pennies again.

 

[Edbert]

For the 1500mm one I found this. $360
https://www.zonehobbies.net/en-us/p...cyljxch7A_vsnpYQ-ljF5En9okiuAiJsrodJNUmtrmtGF

You should be able to make one for less, even with tempered glass and aluminum frames. Hmmm, I'm already thinking of putting my BB on the mantle, but we have cats, two, and they are a breed known to be a bit crazy. Tempered glass and a lead base might be in my future.

But seriously, even wood with plexiglass can be a very nice result without spending half of aluminum and tempered glass. If you go the custom route, consider the back panel being a mirror, unless it will be in the center of the room like a coffee table thing.

 

[Edbert]

This is my first ship build since the PT 109 when I was kid in the early 1970s.

I'm past halfway on my 1st ship since the 1970s, the Bismarck, probably monogram but do not even know. Like all kits it was a bit of love and hate, and even if I can see the finish line, the worst is yet to come, but overall a definite positive, I'm already thinking what the next ship will be.

 

[kevin]

About the only thing I remember about that PT 109 kit ( Revel, Monogram? ) is me and my little brother walking down the railroad tracks to the local reservoir. We covered it with glue, stuffed some fire crackers in it.....set it on fire and launched it......