Hello there, I'm currently seeking for people who have interest in WW2 Imperial Japanese Navy warships. Apparently, I'm collecting those Japanese ships as well and i find that its hard to get them in Malaysia unless i place order with the hobby shop or i purchase it online. Those are referring to 1/700 Waterline Series which are manufactured by 4 Japanese manufacturers (Tamiya,Hasegawa,Aoshima & Fujimi).



This post has been edited by SPRINTA: Jan 8 2006, 08:35 PM

Try looking at 1Utama shops
got my Agano Japanese warship at the toyshop in 1Utama

Honestly speaking, i've already got the entire Japanese ships produced by Tamiya except a few like Shokaku, Suzuya, Yahagi and Matsu.....
No point getting ships of the same class as they are the same and just a few modifications mainly on their arnament.
I'm currently getting Aoshima & Hasegawa ones.
Just need a few more ships to complete my entire Kido Butai flotilla....

Garfie, how many ships that you actually have at a moment?
Well, the Agano is a battleship look alike Light Cruiser......
Quite nice....



This post has been edited by SPRINTA: Nov 6 2005, 09:08 PM

SPRINTA
why dont post the shot of your entire fleet here... must be an awesome sight to see how you manage to arrange the entire ships in your home?

BTW how big is each of them in cm

i'm not familiar with ship scale..

kuman

Kuman, I kept my ships in my small glass cabinet and its getting overcrowded as my collections are getting more and more.
By the way, the diameter of each ship varies from each other as there are different classes of ships ranging from aircraft carrier to small auxilliary vessel. The largest i have is about 30cm and smallest is about 10cm.





This post has been edited by SPRINTA: Nov 7 2005, 12:55 PM

cool... i see you arrange the ships in a formation of a real life fleet.. (i think) since the carrier will be in the middle of the formation so that it might be protected by all the other ships around it..

cool

and your kichen cabitnet looks familiar..

kuman

Thanks dude....
Im going to get a blue colored surface on a large square table so that when my entire fleet puts on it, its like they are cruising on the pacific ocean.
There's still lotsa improvements that is needed to be done here.
I need to allocate an empty store room for these. Another four ships will be added to my collection as i've purchased it online and expected to reach today. Darn~ Its an expensive hobby to play with.

y ur ships looks so tiny ? shouldn't it be alot bigger ? i will upload some once i get back to my pc haha but those model are not mine

This post has been edited by Jackygwh: Nov 7 2005, 11:58 PM

Brother, it's basically 1/700 Waterline scale. Those ships are from WW2 era. That's why its small.... The biggest ship at the time was the Battleship Yamato (262Metres) where else a nuclear powered Carrier Nimitz is about 100Metres longer than the Yamato.

those ship detail or not ?? cause i wan big and detail one hehe

btw how much per ship ?

This post has been edited by Jackygwh: Nov 8 2005, 11:52 AM

Well, out of the four Japanese manufacturers, the best detailed is still Tamiya ones.
If you want very crisp molded and detailed, i suggest you to get PIT-Road...
It's very expensive eventhough for a small ship.

Regarding the pricing for my ships, it ranges from rm20++ and goes up to about rm130 per ship.....

wow...the pictures very nice...looks like on the way to pearl harbour

Well.. I have 3 IJN vessels.. Yamato, Mogami and Hibiki. I bought them more than 5 years ago. At that time, Yamato cost only around RM50. Unfortunately, they were destyored when my relatives came to my house. Darn those kids.. I'm so angry with them. I want to start again soon.. he he. How about the shop at Midvalley Megamall? Although not Tamiya but has Chinese today warships.

so sad to hear about your ship...

that's the reason why i kept my model in a locked-glass cabinet, so that they can only "SEE"... no touching

so far all the kids and my relatives-kids doesnt bother with the model... they only want to see it... so far atleast..

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ok as for the ship models..
i saw a couple of models here from the KITECH brand (its a Chinese brand).. hmm i think they have USS Kitty Hawk, USS Abraham Lincoln & USS George Washington and one more from the British Navy & Russian Navy.... i didnt really notice the name..

the price range is between RM40-RM50 (iirc)

since i'm not really into ship modelling so i didnt pick up the model... but recently i'm thinking of getting maybe just one model just for curisity sake..

kuman

i used to have a 2 feet long tamiya battleship. a mini replica of a ship calls BISMARC.

say, the tamiya is model kit?
it is plastic and u have to assemble urself?

bismark is which one ah ?
http://photobucket.com/albums/c40/Jackygwh...uality%20Model/

This is Yamato issit ?


This post has been edited by Jackygwh: Dec 3 2005, 08:04 PM

Thats not a Yamato Class Battleship.....
It's an American nuclear powered battleship.....
The 45000 tonnes IOWA Class battleship with 3 triple mount 16" battery......
Based on its marking, that should be the USS New Jersey (BB62).....



The Bismarck has only 4 twin mount 15" caliber....

This post has been edited by SPRINTA: Dec 4 2005, 12:11 AM

issit ? but i remember teh website stat its yamato or sth... cuase i remeber the site say "japan largest battleship" ma

Try google for Yamato pics and compare them.

http://wmilitary.neurok.ru/ijn/yamato-f.gif

Personally I can say, you can see the different of the hull. I dont know much the terms but I knew the differences.