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Posted by Bill Oreto on April 3, 2025, 12:50:29, in reply to "Re: Iron Shipwrights offers 1/350 Pittsburgh- This Kit Has Warts Too"
JAG did a Newport LST in 1/700 and then put a protective cuff over the roadway extension/support arms. The resin shrank over time and the cuff closed the arms together. Heat would separate them but they would bend right back to closed. The only solution was to break the arms and re- glue them.
Don’t know about a 1/350 mold injected kit but Trumpeter’s 1/700 kit was a write off. They would probably upscale the warts into 1/350. if you wish to cross over to the “Devine Scale” for this subject. Waveline’s Pittsburgh was decent but not excellent. Add 3D printed accessories and it comes alive. 
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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. Previous Message
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.
Just thinking out loud gentlemen. Previous Message
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