"1/350 Veteran Models IJN Type 96 25mm Single AA Guns" Topic

Has anyone seen these? They look just right for Cruel Seas' ships. Some photo etch, but the barrel is round and the stand and breach look cast, maybe…

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Link to Freetime Hobbies, where I first saw them (in a news letter):

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Cruel Seas is 1:300, those guns are 1:350, so 21.4 mm AA?
300/350 = 6/7 ≈ 15% smaller or 86% of size.
Gun length is 90", or 7 1/2' link
90" x 86% = 77" or 6'5" still bigger than 6 mm crew figs. So it should look close to these link

I was thinking more for the larger ships. They like to use 1/350 scale for their big ships, although the possibility is there as you point out.

I played in a Cruel Seas game at Enfilade last weekend. The Germans had 6 S-boats and a DD the GM said was 1/350 scale. They looked fine together.

The bigger ships used in Cruel Seas are all 1/350 scale plastic models from Tamiya and others for availability, as 1/350 is a typical big-ship modeling scale.

I was going to say that 1/350 scale detail kits can get really expensive, but $14 USD for 10 guns looks to be a really good deal.

Guess I missed the edit window.

Anyway, I've been looking at hlj.com for their 1/350 scale ship kits, and I've found quite a few really good additions for coastal gaming. In addition to the usual battleships and cruisers, there are corvettes and destroyer/destroyer escorts available in 1/350 scale.

Now for some highlights of 'Interesting models':

USS Gambier Bay, CVE-73. link

IJN Heian Maru, submarine depot ship. link

NYK Line Hikawa Maru, a passenger ship. link and later turned into a Hospital Ship link

a Polish torpedo boat (I think a former German one). link

This next kit is a really good deal, even if you just throw the E-boat away for being visibly the wrong size next to your Warlord E-boats: the Sailing Ship Christian Radich, a surfaced U-boat, and an E-boat! link

How about an IJN transport sub for your PT boats to chase down? link

There are all sorts of submarine kits to work with, from German to British to American to Russian to Japanese, and you can even get some of the Japanese sub-carriers (several different classes). You can also get Japanese submarines with Kaiten suicide torpedoes.