| Cold Warrior | 02 Sep 2016 8:25 a.m. PST |
How common are they at this scale? Not too familiar with the scale itself, just know a lot of plastic kits are available. Do most come with a waterline option? |
| StarCruiser | 02 Sep 2016 9:11 a.m. PST |
Google "1/700th ship models"… |
| Keelhauled | 02 Sep 2016 9:25 a.m. PST |
Both Dragon Models (DML) & Trumpeter have a good selection of modern 1/700 ships. Also check out Total Navy's website |
| Garand | 02 Sep 2016 9:41 a.m. PST |
Yep, 1/700 modern stuff is very common. Damon. |
| Fatman | 02 Sep 2016 10:37 a.m. PST |
To answer your original question the modern vessels, while far out numbered by WWII, are available. I know that many are available in waterline versions. I have seen a lot of Trumpeter for instance. Try some of the naval modeling sites, those guys are more geeky than us! Hope this helps. Fatman |
| Mako11 | 02 Sep 2016 11:14 a.m. PST |
Very. Most common scale for modern plastic vessels. |
| Fatman | 02 Sep 2016 11:16 a.m. PST |
Just been talking to a friend on another forum and both Trumpeter and Dragon come with waterline options. Fatman |
| SteveZodiac | 02 Sep 2016 12:00 p.m. PST |
What ships are you looking for? |
| Mako11 | 02 Sep 2016 12:38 p.m. PST |
Don't know what you plan to use them for, but 1/1200th – 1/1250th are good scales for naval/air gaming as well. |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 Sep 2016 4:02 p.m. PST |
1/700 modern warships are going to be big, ranging from about 8" for a Burke DDG up to about 16" for a carrier. Even the LCS are about 6" long. But smaller craft like FACs are definitely more reasonable size. |
| Cold Warrior | 02 Sep 2016 6:22 p.m. PST |
Gents; should have been more clear in my initial question. I am aware that 1/700 is a popular modern scale, my question concerns whether the kits themselves come waterlined or with a waterline option. Some above have answered this, my thanks. Looking at doing coastal actions (Bulldogs Away!) in this scale. I already game fleet actions in 1/2400. For this scale would go with PT Dockyards for patrol craft, and look at picking up a few plastic Corvettes and Frigates (such as a Grisha and Perry). |
| StarCruiser | 02 Sep 2016 6:37 p.m. PST |
Some do have the option of waterline, some only come as waterline. Even if the kit is not a waterline model, it's not generally that hard to cut along the waterline and make it that way. Brands:
Dragon
Hobbyboss
Flyhawk
Tamiya
Pitroad (Skywave)
Revell
Aoshima
Hasegawa
Fujimi These are just the ones that I can think off right off that are plastic kits and most (if not all) at least have the option of building the kit waterlined. Most also have at least a few modern ships. |
| Mako11 | 02 Sep 2016 7:57 p.m. PST |
Other than perhaps starships/spaceships, this is the one area where I think it might be okay to mix vessel scales. Enemy vessels are a long way away, generally, in most modern combat, so you can use larger scale missile boats and others, and smaller scale "targets" which gives a forced scale perspective, at least from one direction, which makes the smaller scale ones work in some cases. |
finds bridges to match the river sets.