Spots on the Internet (2021)

[minitnkr]

Stealth at any cost and a lot of "firsts" during design & construction drove a lot of the challenges. As stated above stealth has disadvantages in peacetime but getting to where you need to be undetected IS the element of surprise. Once engaged it is less important as escape & evade to pop up at another location undetected. All this in theory I suspect.

[Dave Ward]

One minor problem with the Zumwalt - it has 155mm guns - but no ammunition to fire from them - the long range shell project was cancelled & the guns can't fire std ammunition! ( project was cancelled due to cost of each shell was $1 million! - about the same price as a Tomahawk cruise missile!)
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

Wow, fire support was one of its design tasks as well….

[Mini Me]

On the Takom Facebook page ( they now handle Snowman Models ) - an upcoming release
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Has to be the ugliest ship afloat....................... If you read the story of the Zumwalt Class, it's a casebook of how not to produce a warship! ( 32 planned - 3 built! )
Dave

Looks like a throw back to a Civil War Ironclad.....

[Steve Brodie]

Wow, fire support was one of its design tasks as well….

Which would mean getting close to the shore, so unless it had Klingon cloaking, would still have stood out like a sore thumb and stealth would have meant diddly squat. :smiling5: :smiling5:

[Tim Marlow]

Which would mean getting close to the shore, so unless it had Klingon cloaking, would still have stood out like a sore thumb and stealth would have meant diddly squat. :smiling5: :smiling5:

Yep, but if the guns couldn’t fire they’d have to build a ballista on the deck and that would ruin the radar profile

[Dave Ward]

On the Zvezda Facebook page - more information on 2022 releases: this time land vehicles

I'm assuming all these are in 1/35
The Dakar Kamaz looks different!
Dave

[Gary MacKenzie]

On the Zvezda Facebook page - more information on 2022 releases: this time land vehicles
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Dave

Hopefully better than the Max - Airfix - Peerless - every other reboxer version.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Sabre Hanomag RL-20 Tractor 1/35th scale

[Dave Ward]

Sabre Hanomag RL-20 Tractor 1/35th scale

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I've only seen railway associated models from Sabre before - a new direction for them?
Dave

[Gary MacKenzie]

I've only seen railway associated models from Sabre before - a new direction for them?
Dave

see https://www.facebook.com/www.customscale.de/

A collaboration with the above facebook person/company.

[Dave Ward]

On the Meng Facebook page - available January

Dave

[Dave Ward]

MiniArt 2022 Catalogue ....................
https://miniart-models.com/miniart-models-catalog-2022/
Dave
Just had a flip through - a few models scaled up from 1/35 to 1/24 & down to 1/48, but the only new model I can see is a 1/48 P-47D Bubbletop Thunderbolt ( OK, there are new figure sets! ) - so nothing really startling!

[Dave Ward]

On the Copper State Models Facebook page - a new model - 'more info soon'


On the Roden Facebook page - new model coming soon - Ford V8 G81A Special ( 1938 ) in 1/35

Judging by the sprues, nearly ready for sale. - A nasty joint right along the roof!
Dave

[GerryW]

Can easily be worked on along the roof - far better than a joint all the way round the edge of the roof (as the Revell Trabant had!)
Looking at that, my parents might have had one after the war, know that they had a Ford V8, but had a feeling that it had running boards and 'suicide' front doors - not positive, as all I can remember is playing in it when it'd been dumped in my uncles barn (though fairly sure that dad said the bodywork was aluminium)