USS Arizona BB-39

Very nice Battleship. about 10 inches long and has really good details. good pricing also.

I used this model (and price) for my first attempt in a long time at 1/700 ships. Most all parts went together well, except I had trouble with the main tripod mast and getting the wing floats on the planes. Good starter kit though I think. Next project is more 1/700 destroyers: Hammon and Cushing; USS San Francisco and CV2 Lexinton.

For a small scale kit - this is an excellent choice to build. I built the Hobby Boss 1/350 scale Arizona kit 4 years ago and this kit is almost an exact Mini-Me of that kit. It has almost all the same parts, just half the size of the 1/350 kit - so there is plenty of detail to work with. Maybe too much detail as in the case of the observation decks. I will say that these decks went together better on this small kit than they did the Large kit. A kit this small is a bit of a challenge with my Gigantor hands, but it assembled easy enough that my vocabulary did not increase during construction. The only real ding I have of this kit is the decals - they are really tiny and are squished together so close on the sheet that cutting them out is almost impossible. They also have a tendency to break apart and not stick well. Using some Micro-Scale brush on decal film before application helped hold them together and a little white glue wash applied once they are in place, holds them where they need to be.