Buy Tamiya 78015 1/350 German Battleship TirpitzTamiya 78015 1/350 German Battleship Tirpitz Product Description:
- Plastic Model Kit-Assembly Required
- Glue and Paint sold separately
Product Description
1-350 Scale. Highly detailed kit by Tamiya. Measures 29 inches long when complete. Full hull model with decals and instructions and display stand. Skill level 2
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A fine kit by Tamiya
By William A. Hensler
Tamiya makes excellent models and Tirpitz is one of the best on the market. This kit falls together like a fine Swiss watch. The instructions are very clear. Tamiya worked with a team of translators and engineers to come up with a beautiful instruction booklet.This model is a joy to open. All of the parts trees are clearly marked and have easy to find corresponding numbers. The hull is one piece and near perfect. The pieces are near flash free (no plastic that has to be trimmed off) and have few - if any - sink holes. The boats in the kit go together nicely and look good. The Arado-196 float planes are beautifully done. The kit even supplies decals for the float planes and they add good detail to the kit.Revell has a newer version of the 1/350 Battleship Bismarck. That kit is slightly more accurate than the Tamiya kit due to further research being done. But the Revell kit is not a great leap of engineering over this most excellent Tamiya kit. The Tamiya kit goes together so well and has such great engineering that it's not really worth the extra price of the Revell kits. Indeed, the Tamiya kit is slightly superior because it has no ship railings. The Revell kit has railings and they are so out-of-scale as to be near worthless. Conversely, the 1950s era Lindberg 1/350 Bismark Battleshipis a wretched model and they don't even look close. The bottom line is the Tamiya kit is still better than the newer Revell kit and the horribel Lindberg kit.I would advise to not totally follow the instructions if you are going to paint your model. The German quad 20mm gun mounts were painted gun metal. So, make notes where they go and add them after the kit is near completion. When the model is full painted then spend a few days correctly doing the rigging and putting the flags on the model. Few things bring a ship to life as rigging.Still, if you just decide to build this kit and paint it in the grey and dark grey paint scheme then make sure to at least paint the deck wood. The Germans did not follow the lead of the US Navy so the decks were always clean and had a beautiful wood finish. You will need to paint the deck first then paint the rest of the model in the grey and dark grey paint scheme.This is a superior model and I highly encourage any ship modeler to build this worthy model. If the instructions are followed, care is taken, and a good paint job is applied then the modeler will be rewarded with a beautiful model ship that is fairly large, at over 30 inches, and looks quite impressive.This is a five star model and demonstrates why Tamiya is one of the best model companies in the world.
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