Regarding other SS Models in 1/350: I have purchased, and built, their various WWI era battleships -- the SMS Helgoland, SMS Kaiser, the IJN Settsu (1920), Dante Alighieri (1923) and USS Arkansas (1927). All but the last one came with segmented hulls (2 -- fore and aft, except the Alighieri, which had six!); the Arkansas had a traditional upper and lower cast cream-colored resin hull sections that did not match especially well. These subject matters were most important to me, and I accepted that much research would need to be done, as well as using aftermarket photoetch (for railings and ladders). They all were made into impressive models, but I had to purchase two Helgolands because the first one was missing vital superstructure pieces and the Alighieri, for some reason, was missing any bitts or chocks for its decks (which, fortunately, I had in abundance in my spares stash). Some kits included turned brass gun barrels, and all had reasonably accurate resin gun barrels (though too narrow for most secondary guns, which lacked bored-out muzzles). Given the current and expected future tarriff issues with ordering from China, I don't plan to build many more of these ships, and actually prefer the orange resin Globaltoy models such as the IJN Furutaka, USS Colorado, USS Marblehead and HMS Agincourt. Their main decks come with nearly all equipment molded in (if sometimes undersized) and, except for the Furutaka and Marblehead, which have the full hulls well cast in only one piece, the battleship models have front and rear full hull pieces that fit together very well. One curious situation with my Settsu kit was that one of the parts cages contained pieces that had not fully congealed (meaning some liquid material was present), but the seller/sender compensated for this by including a duplicate cage that did not have this problem.