The most popular large ship scale deserves a surface made of real timber. Wooden decks at 1:350 are cut to fit named kits of battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers: the self-adhesive veneer drops onto the turret and superstructure openings without trimming, so swapping plastic for wood takes a single evening. The kit boxing each sheet is cut for is always given in the product name — check it against your own box.
1:350 Italian Heavy Cruiser Gorizia (Trumpeter 05349)
19.56 €
1:350 Imperial Chinese Peiyang Fleet
18.36 €
1:350 HMS Abercrombie (Trumpeter 05336)
19.96 €
1:350 German Battleship Tirpitz (Trumpeter 80602)
19.96 €
1:350 Japanese Transporter Nippon Maru Wooden Deck for Aoshima kit #043134
14.76 €
1:350 Italian Heavy Cruiser Fiume (Trumpeter 05348)
19.56 €
1:350 offers enough deck area for the planking to tell, while the finished hull still fits a cabinet. Lay the sheet on a degreased surface before the railings and small fittings go on; working underneath them afterwards is miserable. Choose the hull itself from 1:350 ship model kits, then add 1:350 photo-etched parts — metal railings above real wood is the combination that makes display models. Sheets for other scales are indexed under wooden decks.
