Talk:General Discussion/@comment-216.123.165.66-20150304151917/@comment-216.123.165.66-20150306145434

Thanks for taking a look

I’m not a real expert on this stuff since I build for the sake of building and to pay homage to my favorite ship girls so I’m not too crazy on historical accuracy. It should be safe to any WW2 navy’s rails on any ship, I’m not even sure if there are differences between them. I have bought most of my ship kits from Hobby Link Japan, Amiami or Hobby Search but their IJN PE selection is limited and expensive as they carry the more well known ones.

I’ll have to build my destroyers w/o their PE set some day so I’ve been picking up PE sets whenever I shop online. So far I’ve picked up

 -           Several sets of rails, the ones with 2 rungs, I suggest you over purchase rails as you can’t have too many and it sucks when a project is stuck cuz you ran out of rails or any PE parts

 -           Doors, same rules as the rails can’t have too many

 -           Stairs and ladders

 -           Depth Charge Racks and rails

 -           Ammo Boxes

 -           Reels

 -           Radars

 -           PE rails for funnels and weapons

 -           AA guns

 -           I got PE funnel cages

 -           Torpedo skids

I’ve ordered them in what I think makes for a improved visual impact, the first 4 I think are must haves for destroyers or light cruisers the rest are optional as the kit should have decent molded on details.

There is the Shiratsuyu PE set by Fujimi, there are 2 sets per pack and from online images it looks like it comes with pretty much everything I listed above except AA guns, Ammo boxes and reels. You’ll have to tweek it to fit the other destroyer classes. Hell now that I look at it makes me wonder if I wasted money on all the individual sets when I could be just using the Shiratsuyu sets… but I do have several light cruisers to use them on it should be still good.

I haven’t had any experience with fine molds, they make mostly AA guns I think but I’ve got a few stacks of PE AA guns so I won’t be using fine molds anytime soon.

To save some money I suggest you get individual PE parts from Rainbow or Five Star they seem to be cheaper than the more well known brands like Flyhawk or Eduard but you gotta get them from ebay or lesser known online retailers.