Well crew, your opinions have been heard. Coach and I spoke today on the carrier subject. We are shelving the Shinano for now, but expect to see it back some day… :wink:
In it’s place, our plan is to go back to plan A, a regular fleet carrier sized Unryu. I’m working to convince him that the Shokaku/Zuikaku need to be included as the fleet carrier in set 3, The Basic Set. How does that grab everybody? Give us your feedback.
I just added more model pics for the Japanese Expansion Set.
Well crew, your opinions have been heard. Coach and I spoke today on the carrier subject. We are shelving the Shinano for now, but expect to see it back some day… :wink:
In it’s place, our plan is to go back to plan A, a regular fleet carrier sized Unryu. I’m working to convince him that the Shokaku/Zuikaku need to be included as the fleet carrier in set 3, The Basic Set. How does that grab everybody? Give us your feedback.
Perfect! And thank you guys!
I just added more model pics for the Japanese Expansion Set.
Good stuff all the way around!!
Great pics of the new pieces to come. I think that I have found a problem with your Type 97 medium tank. I think the gun barrel is incorrect. The overall body and turret of the tank look to be the late war version but the gun barrel looks like the early war version.
With the Type 97, the early versions had a short-barreled 57mm gun. While it did okay in simply blasting infantry positions, when they went into battle against enemy armor (I believe it was against the Russians on the Manchurian/Soviet border) they found it lacking in armor-punching power. So the Japanese came out with an “upgraded” version with a longer barreled high velocity 47mm gun.
While the new gun did provide better armor penetration, I think it’s success against Allied armor was still questionable.
Look at the picture of my 1/35 scale models of both versions. The early model is on the right, the later model on the left.
Well crew, your opinions have been heard. Coach and I spoke today on the carrier subject. We are shelving the Shinano for now, but expect to see it back some day… :wink:
In it’s place, our plan is to go back to plan A, a regular fleet carrier sized Unryu. I’m working to convince him that the Shokaku/Zuikaku need to be included as the fleet carrier in set 3, The Basic Set. How does that grab everybody? Give us your feedback.
Sounds very equitable. I am very happy that the Shinano is on hold rather than cancelled. Thanks for listening to our feedback, that really is amazing customer service. When it comes down to it though, I know that everyone here would like HBG to make the best decisions for their company to remain profitable in the business. But the consideration is eminently appreciated.
Two thumbs way up.
As long as I can get an escort carrier, a cargo plane, a paratrooper, and a heavy bomber I’m good.
@coachofmany:
Really it might be better to make another carrier, forget the Shinano, everybody has 50 of them already. Akagi was done in 1941 game, we are doing Kaga as a fleet carrier (same size as OOB), maybe we should do another fleet carrier for second set and then people can decide to use them however. Thoughts?
Coach I really love what you guys do. I don’t have anything critical to say at all when it comes to HBG’s product line. If I were to chime in on current and near future projects though I simply would suggest creating sets that emphasize compatibility with previously released sets. That being said it seems that’s what you gents are doing.
I also think sets of sub genre pieces would do well like say a Pacific set with UK, JAPAN, US, ANZAC battle pieces that are comparable in stats.
Lastly, I think there maybe a market for large sets similar to FMG’s Italian set with larger quantities. Maybe combining the already produced German and Axis minors sets or USMC and US Supplement set.
Keep up the good work!
Coach,
Awesome lineup for the Imperial Japanese set 2. Will be ordering 10 sets when you
have them up for per-order. I really like your version of the Battleship Yamato, it looks to be bigger and has more detail than the OOB Yamato.
Second I trust your choice for a Fleet carrier for the IJN for this set.
Maybe include a Shinnano, Shokaku and Zuikaku sculpts in an all Japanese naval set like we discussed in 2011
WARRIOR888 :-D :-D :-D
So no one else notices the gun barrel on the Type 97 tank?
I saw the updates to the second Japanese set and everything looks very nice! You guys did a wonderful job on the Unryu!
Just noticed the change in the Type 97 tank. Didn’t think I was being heard, but apparently I was. Thank you guys at HBG.
Coach,
I noticed your picture of the IJN Kagero Destroyer looks like a Tama or Kuma Light Cruiser.
WARRIOR888
Just noticed the change in the Type 97 tank. Didn’t think I was being heard, but apparently I was. Thank you guys at HBG.
Yep, we heard you. At first we weren’t sure which we wanted to do. I suggested the Shinhoto but the early version was in the model queue. So just for YOU (and me :-D) Coach was kind enough to change the model instead of doing the early version. Thanks for helping to catch that! I like this one much better.
Coach,
I noticed your picture of the IJN Kagero Destroyer looks like a Tama or Kuma Light Cruiser.
WARRIOR888
Gotta totally disagree here… The first pic below is our model. The second is a Kagero. Third is the Kuma. As you can see, our model and the Kagero are two-stackers. The Kuma and Tama are 3-stackers…
Coach,
I noticed your picture of the IJN Kagero Destroyer looks like a Tama or Kuma Light Cruiser.
WARRIOR888
Gotta totally disagree here… The first pic below is our model. The second is a Kagero. Third is the Kuma. As you can see, our model and the Kagero are two-stackers. The Kuma and Tama are 3-stackers…
Kuma
@Pacific:
I saw the updates to the second Japanese set and everything looks very nice! You guys did a wonderful job on the Unryu!
Thank you! We have some very talented modelers that Coach has found. No expense spared to produce the finest quality possible.
Variable,
This is the first time ive seen your version of a Kagero Destroyer. Previously it was not showing up on your images of this set.
The image you have now displayed is a real close match to my 10 each Kagero 1-700 scale waterline models. Good job, keep up the good work.
WARRIOR888
Variable,
This is the first time ive seen your version of a Kagero Destroyer. Previously it was not showing up on your images of this set.
The image you have now displayed is a real close match to my 10 each Kagero 1-700 scale waterline models. Good job, keep up the good work.WARRIOR888
Perhaps you saw the Nagara Light Cruiser we’re doing in the set.
Just noticed the change in the Type 97 tank. Didn’t think I was being heard, but apparently I was. Thank you guys at HBG.
Yep, we heard you. At first we weren’t sure which we wanted to do. I suggested the Shinhoto but the early version was in the model queue. So just for YOU (and me :-D) Coach was kind enough to change the model instead of doing the early version. Thanks for helping to catch that! I like this one much better.
Yeah, I do too. I might not have caught it if I hadn’t built models of both versions.
Really love your ship sculpts. That 3D modeling is amazing. I would love to see it up close some time. It’s really fascinating the things that you can do with computers these days. (Geez, I sound like some old fart.)
At one time, I was attempting to rebuild the entire Japanese Navy that served in WW2 in 1/700 scale waterline models. I was doing pretty good at finding models of each ship too. Most were made by Tamiya and Hasegawa. There might have been a couple of other manufacturer names too, although I think they might all be the same company now. I got all 12 Battleships, all but 1 carrier, all the Heavy Cruisers and most of the Light Cruisers and twenty-some Destroyers. I even had some submarines and auxiliary ships.
Then I got a book all about the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1889 - 1945. I made listings of all the different classes and models of ships that served from 1940-1945. That’s when I found out that Japan had about 160 different destroyers in service throughout the war. Not all at the same time of course. As some were lost in battles, others were built to replace them. Still, I realized I would not be able to get that many destroyer kits. I wasn’t even sure if all of them were even available. Shortly after I guess I just lost interest and gave up on that quest. Ended up selling most of the kits un-built. Still have the Battleships though.
