Future Build Preview: Showboat!
When I walked the contest tables at the Austin SMS show in late September, I was shocked to find the “Warships Greater than 1/500” completely vacant. There were a handful of smaller 1/700 scale ships on hand, and one massive fishing boat, but not a one 1/350 scale warship in sight.
That’s when the idea started to form. I think by the drive home, I’d determined that I was going to build a ship.
I started searching and zeroed in pretty early on Dragon’s USS Laffey kit. This scrappy little destroyer served off Guadalcanal in 1942, where it got itself into a point-blank shooting match with a Japanese battleship. Despite a gallant fight, it got its ass kicked, and hard.
Before I could order the Laffey, though, Great Models went and had themselves a big sale on Trumpeter kits.
And Trumpeter happens to make a 1/350 USS North Carolina.
