1/1200 or 1/1250 scale US and Japanese WW2 ships?

[Lt. S.Kafloc]

Could anyone help me source 1/1200 or 1/1250 scale US and Japanese WW2 ships. Especially Japanese carriers, any cruisers, any destroyers. I've seen the superior ones from US. Just wondering if there were any others.

Thanks in advance.

NEIL.

[Dom S]

It's a bit of an awkward scale on a wargames budget - a lot of the stuff out there in 1/1200 is firmly aimed at the "collectors" market, and painfully expensive.... (Eg. the 1/1250 from Navis Neptun in Germany - a big range, and lovely models, but you're talking twenty quid for a destroyer....)

The one reasonably priced option that springs to mind is Mick Yarrow, although right now his website's down. From Google though:

American

1233 Marbelhead Cruiser £6.00
1313 Atlanta AA Cruiser £6.00
1225 Fletcher Class Destroyer £2.75p
1225D Buckley Class (Butler type)DE £2.00
1315 Porter Class Destroyer £2.75p
1318 Sims Class Destroyer £2.75p
1313 Sangamon Escort Carrier £8.50p
1332 Florida Battleship 1929 £9.50p
1255 Liberty Cargo Carrier £6.50p
1256 Liberty Tanker £6.50p
1332A Utah WW1 BB £9.50p
1332B Delaware WW1 BB £9.50p
1332C AG19 Utah 1941 £9.50p
1342 USS Indiana BB 1893 £5.50p
1346 LCL landing craft £1.70p
1248 LST £2.00p
1249 LCG £2.00p
1347 PC/AC minesweepe r £1.70p


World War Two Japanese

1239 Chitose Aircraft Carrier £9.50p
1259 Kumano Heavy Cruiser £9.50p
1260 Oi Light Cruiser 1944 £5.50p
1221 Kitakama cruiser 1944 £5.50p
1355 Kuma L/Cruiser 1941 £5.50
1356 Tenryu L/Cruiser 1941 £5.50

1219 Fubuki Class Destroyer £3.00p
1226 Akitsuki Destroyer £3.00p
1271 Kimikaze Class destroyer £2.75p
1272 Yugumo Class Destroyer £2.75p
1321 Shiratsuyu Class Destroyer £2.75p
1360 Wakatake type destroyer £2.00
1348 W17 type Minesweeper £2.00

1238 Mamiya naval cargo carrier £6.00p
1244 Tatekawa naval oil tanker £5.00p
1223 1/400 submarine £3.00p

Mick Yarrow

7 St Peters Lane
Laxton
Goole
East Yorkshire
DN14 7UA

Tel/fax (01430) 431009

Email us at: royalistmymins@yahoo.co.uk

Probably worth dropping him a line....


The other one that springs to mind is Clydeside, but they appear to operate under some kind of batch production system - their website has hardly anything available - rather you have to hunt for them on Ebay or through other resellers. Similar rummaging might also get you models from the long-gone Ensign Models range (not to be confused with White Ensign Models.)

Finally for the larger stuff there's the occasional plastic kit - Revell have Shinano, Yamato and Missouri currently in production, but the kit firms don't tend to do cruisers or smaller - just a few BBs and carriers.

[Zakopious]

Ebay has a lot of 1/1200 ships up for bid.
There are some 1/1200 wood ships but only 2 hours left to bid on them.

[Lt. S.Kafloc]

Managed to procure some of Mick Yarrows excellent ships Dom. Cheers for the heads up. Have decided to scratch build a battleship and a few carriers. (Well I have in production 5 fleet carriers and 1 light carrier having completed 1 sea plane tender, 1 light carrier and a battleship)

[Dom S]

Managed to procure some of Mick Yarrows excellent ships Dom. Cheers for the heads up. Have decided to scratch build a battleship and a few carriers. (Well I have in production 5 fleet carriers and 1 light carrier having completed 1 sea plane tender, 1 light carrier and a battleship)

Nice one - glad it was helpful, and good luck with the scratch builds.