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Posted by Bill Young on April 3, 2025, 4:55:04, in reply to "Iron Shipwrights offers 1/350 Pittsburgh"
I have the ISW Pittsburgh. The hull had a banana wow to it on the front 1/3; not the usual up/down but left to right. It took some time and work to re-heat the resin and somewhat remove the worst aspect of the defect- not perfect but acceptable. The ISW Pitts is NOT a fall together kit by any stretch of the imagination. Am still waiting for a 1/350 styrene version BY ANYBODY. 
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I am a 1/700 builder but ISW offers a Pittsburgh in 1/350. Probably a better and more simple build than a Trumpeter Mold Injected kit. I have yet to build a Trumpeter kit that I did not curse over because of painting instructions, fit of parts, poor assembly instructions, cheap photo-etch or obvious inaccuracy.
If you wish to think this further a Trumpeter 1/350 kit will probably cost $145-$165 with all its warts. For $100 more you get ISW customer service which you won’t get from Trumpeter but the warts. Now you’re asking yourself why would a 1/700 modeler highly praise a predominantly 1/350 resin model producer? Well I purchased their 1/700 Truxtun and screwed up the photo-etch removing it from protective card board. My goof. I e-mailed and explained I needed to purchase a new fret. A few days later a brand new photo-etch fret was in my mail box free of charge. Hmm… that I remember as I remember Trumpeter’s warts.
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