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Posted by Ralph Wood on July 24, 2025, 19:15:37, in reply to "Re: LPD"
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Thanks for the link, Ralph, there is quite a lot of information there. Previous Message
Read this article for details:
https://www.twz.com/sea/san-antonio-class-looks-very-different-after-shedding-its-stealthy-masts
Included within it is this statement:
"Altogether, there are “roughly 200 changes from the prior flight” in total, according to a 2022 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)."
I will grant you that a lot of those will be internal. Still, Flight IIs are different ships, and--even truncated to LPD-33--are a larger class.
(And I would note that LPD 28 & 29--at this point--are still considered within the "Flight I" group of ships, possibly ending up something like Flight IA, but distinct from Flight II.
"Similar" is not identical. We have a board full of rivet counters who gleefully rip apart other ships. Imagine the field day they would have when Trumpeter releases LPD-29, and calls it "close enough" to LPD-30, and expects we'll all be satisfied. Um...NOT !! Previous Message
Yes, Ralph, I agree with you that only two ships wouldn't gain interest from model producers, but does LPD-30 ... would have similar feature with those transitional ships? Maybe a supplement kit is the best option to add on top of the existing Dragon, Hobbyboss models. Previous Message
LPD-28 & -29 are transitional ships. I am not sure they are worth a large company like Trumpeter investing in. It would be just those two. Better to wait until the first Flight II, LPD-30, is commissioned, and do a kit of that. That will be a class of at least three--probably four--ships, and "many" more if Congress, the Navy and the Marines can resolve the differences which have currently paused the program at LPD-33.
Because there are only two ships of this version, it looks like the realm of resin or 3D print makers, and quite possibly indeed just some supplemental parts to alter a regular LPD-17 class. Previous Message
Hello everyone, I recently dug out an old kit of Dragon Model's LPD-21 (I also have Hobby Boss's version). Just wondering if anyone would release a kit of the latest various of this class of LPD, the LPD-28 and -29, even a supplement kit to reflect this different feature would work.
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