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Title: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: Mike_K on April 02, 2007, 03:59:12 pm

Is this going to be a coming release?  I realize the date of the posting is April 1, 2007 and the box...  Well I'll let you all take a look at it:

http://www.modellmarine.de/phpwebsite/

Anyone here read German?

Mike

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: PSSHIPS on April 02, 2007, 04:31:59 pm

Hi Mike, I beleive it is true I heard about it last year, the German post reads along the lines of after the release of the UBoat and the Gato class, now Revell are doing a gigantic kit of the American destroyer, Kidd. (Fletcher) class.
 Paul...

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: DickyD on April 02, 2007, 05:16:51 pm

I'm not too sure about the last bit, "How the Fletchers and I won the war  von Beat Adm. J. Winston Lennon "
Still cant be sure, the corvette has been a good seller.

Richard ;)

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: J.beazley on April 02, 2007, 05:45:36 pm

I for one will be buying it if the kit is as any good as my tamiya bismarck.

Jay

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: colin-stevens on April 02, 2007, 07:43:06 pm

if you open the link in google there is a translater tool. this looks like one mother of a kit, even doing it as a R.C version. when will stop.
colin

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: Liverbudgie2 on April 02, 2007, 08:07:59 pm

Gordon Bennet, you lot are such a load of muppets at times!!!!

Pavell indeed.

Budgie.

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: slewis on April 02, 2007, 09:21:44 pm

Its a wind up !
Take a close look at the kit contents in the box . There is an instruction sheet ther with a picture of the completed model .
It bears no resemblance at all to the built up one on the site .
I have blown it up below but its not very clear but you will get the idea  ;D

(http://shutter07.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/08/00A/7B/DA/53/EE/ewQrafTdXzoBxCqG6ba5yVyV4RFjMxNJ01EA.jpg)

Shane

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: Cargo on April 02, 2007, 09:50:13 pm

Nice joke... what a laugh! The instructions are from a german Lifeboat. Nice reworked photosop pictures...  ;D

Pevell must be a new corporation, maybe from Sri Lanka  ;)

 

Title: Re: Is this for real!? Revell 1/72nd scale USS Kidd?
Post by: Mike_K on April 02, 2007, 10:13:51 pm

Ah, so you noticed the "Pevell" then.  I fell for it at first but then realized the date posted and the bogus company name.  Still fun though.  I do wonder what's next from Revell in the larger 1/72nd models.  I have the Flower Class, type VII and the Gato.  Perhaps a type IX or a small destroyer?  I have the Lindberg Fletcher and it is loads of fun easing on full throttle.

Mike