What subject would you like to see manufactured?

ships4ever

I'm not sure how big the Vengeance was

It's pretty massive. It would do better 1/1000. I would just like to see one produced.

Yikes!!! I just got the 1/350 TOS Enterprise, which the box says builds out to 32" long. The Vengeance would be almost 5 times as long in 1/350, so over 13 feet long! Even chopping it down to 1/1000 would make it a good 4 feet long or so. As it is, I've seen some folks say that the Enterprise models need an armature to keep their shape here in Earth gravity.

I don't know if this would count for this thread. But I would like to see someone produce more decals for aircraft, like various squadrons and air wings.

Another 109 would be GREAT!

Like that is such a rare kit to find in any scale ;)

modern American fire trucks 1/24 1/25.especially a HEMMT airport fire truck.

1/35 RR gverman ww2 boxcar, tank car, passenger car

a 1/35 4-8-8-4 BIG BOY. that would be awesome in the real meaning of the word.

the Baron

My stock answers for this, when it's presented periodically as a poll:

• An injection-molded Langley (CV-1), Ranger (CV-4) and Wasp (CV-7) in 1/700
• A 1/48th C-46 (preferably by Revell-Monogram)
• An injection-molded kit of Serenity

John

modelcrazy

...training barque Eagle (worked on it's sails as a non rate)....

I know it's not currently in production, but I believe Revell did kit the Eagle, pre-merger.

Isn't she a war prize from Germany after WWII, originally?

falconmod

the Baron

My stock answers for this, when it's presented periodically as a poll:

• An injection-molded Langley (CV-1), Ranger (CV-4) and Wasp (CV-7) in 1/700
• A 1/48th C-46 (preferably by Revell-Monogram)
• An injection-molded kit of Serenity

How about a 3d printed Serenity?  I think I could help.  if your interested

John

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Yes and it's a pretty good model. She was originally the SSS Horst Wessel. A sister is the former Albert Leo Schlageter, now the Portuguese NRP Sagres II, the Romanian Mircea and the German Gorch Fock.

It comes up for $ 30- $ 40 on eBay.

Revell has flakked the thing over the years as the Seeadler, and Revell Germany the Gorch Fock.

Imai (waterline) and rereleased by Academy/ Minicraft (full hull) sold sets of the series on 1/350 scale.

A war reparation. We drew straws with the British and the Russians.

Whenever the old Revell Eagle comes up, I have trouble resisting the temptation to review the odd, convoluted story behind it. Here's a link that should be interesting to anybody who wants to build a model of that beautiful ship:  http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/7/p/123717/1240430.aspx#1240430  .

The bottom line: what's in the Revell box, regardless of what label is on it, is a reasonably accurate model of the original Gorch Fock - with 1950s-vintage equipment (e.g., motorboats, antennas, etc.). It has the wrong length for the Eagle (ex-Horst Wessel). Whether that matters is, of course, for the individual modeler to decide.

I understand Imai used to make a really good, scale-length Eagle on either 1/150 or 1/200 scale. I've never seen the inside of that box; the kit apparently was on the market only briefly before Imai went belly-up. The 1/350 Imai kit, unfortunately, uses the same hull as its near sisters - i.e., it's too short. (That, of course, is less noticeable in such a small scale.)

The real Eagle today looks a lot different than she did in the fifties. She has a small charthouse at the break of the quarterdeck, a completely different boat complement, an up-to-date radio and radar suite, and a double-spanker-rigged mizzen mast (like she did in her German days). To get any of the plastic kits into her modern configuration would take a LOT of work.

She's certainly among the many sailing ships that I'd like to see in state-of-the-art, twenty-first-century styrene kit form.

(She's certainly among the many sailing ships that I'd like to see in state-of-the-art, twenty-first-century styrene kit form.)

Being stationed at the Academy as a non rate at the time (84), I tried to get billeted aboard the Eagle on one of her annual cadet cruses. The non-rate seaman billet, believe it or not, was somewhat on a volunteer basis for those stationed at the Academy, CO approval of course, but the cruse time frame would have interfered with my entrance into "A" school at the time. So alas. I missed out of a cruse of a lifetime. Like I said on the first post, I did get to work on her sails in the sail loft at the academy, to get her ready for that very cruse. You wouldn't believe how much fabric is involved in a Mainsail or Jib. It took a basketball sized area to fit them in there, and a crane to hoist them.

Steve

Now that somebody mentioned a 1/48 C-46, I would also like to see a 1/48 C-119.

- Soviet N-1 moon rocket, 1/144.  I need a companion to my Airfix Saturn V.  The Realspace Models resin kit is very crude.

- Zubr Class assault landing hovercraft, 1/144.  Big, brutish, weird, and so Sovietski!

- X-24A/B & M2F2 lifting bodies, 1/72.  Mach-Poo doesn't count!  MPM would definitely count.

- XP-54 "Swoose Goose", XP-67 Moonbat, and XF-11, 1/72.  Cool looking USAAF WW II experimentals.  Hello MPM, are you seeing this?

- Avro Vulcan and HP Victor B.2, 1/72.  Can we please have modern kits of these awesome British Cold War bombers?  Please?

- Blackburn Buccaneer, 1/48.  We really need a new kit of this one too.  I bought the Airfix kit, and even though for some reason it had two complete kits in the box, I was not thrilled.

- K-Wagen, 1/35.  Gargantuan German rhomboid tank clone.  As soon as "World of Tanks" gets one, the kit will materialize.

- SA-4 "Ganef", 1/35.  Menacing looking SAM that perfectly portrays the Soviet mindset (at least to me, growing up during the height of the Cold War).

- PACV, 1/35.  Vietnam-era riverine hovercraft.  A plastic kit for the masses would be so nice.

My list is admittedly a little on the odd side, but never say never nowadays!  We are now getting some stuff that I never would have dreamed of, like the Skoda "turtle" armored car, Bartini VVA-14, MBT-70, etc.

Naboo royal cruiser.

I would like to see a 62 or 63 Ford Galaxy 500 4-door. I would like to build a Mayberry squad car.

If you're going to go into the strange, how about a Great Lakes Air Craft Carrier?  It's not everyday you see a carrier with paddle wheels.

How about a city class ironclad from the civil war?  I believe they found and restored one.

ikar01

If you're going to go into the strange, how about a Great Lakes Air Craft Carrier?  It's not everyday you see a carrier with paddle wheels.

How about a city class ironclad from the civil war?  I believe they found and restored one.

Verlinden makes a bunch of nice ironclads.

1/32 scale B-17 Flying Fortress, B-52 Stratofortress, Avro Vulcan B.2,  and Handley Page Victor.

Yeah, I've got a sick mind. LOLOLOLOL!!!

How about a 1/32 Lancaster as well. Wow, can you imagine the space required for those. Not to mention the paint store you would have to buy.

Real G

ikar01

If you're going to go into the strange, how about a Great Lakes Air Craft Carrier?  It's not everyday you see a carrier with paddle wheels.

How about a city class ironclad from the civil war?  I believe they found and restored one.

 

Civil War ironclads and subs would make for interesting models.  There was a surprising amount of variation in sub designs ranging from silly to sci-fi.  Right now I think only Mikro-Mir makes a plastic Civil War sub (CSS Hunley, 1/32).

If you're interested in having any model of a Civil War ironclad, before a manufacturer gets around to making one, there are kits ironclads available, albeit in resin, in smaller scales for wargaming.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

1/32 scale B-17 Flying Fortress...

Have you had a look at the HKM 1/32 B-17 kit?

http://www.hk-models.de/p2_04.htm

I like your idea of other large bombers in 1/32, too.  Add a 1/32 B-36 to that list!

WOW, they do make a 1/32 Lancaster, or planning to rather. That's a cool site Baron, thanks.

EDIT,

That would be a wingspan 989 mm for the 17 and 971 for the Lancaster. 39 and 38 inches respectively.

Thanks for link! I didn't know they had a 1/32 B-17 Fortress - let alone a Lancaster and others.

More Japanese WW 2 armor.

HK Models is going to do a B-17E in 1/32 as well.  It seems 1/32 is the new 1/48!  Where do people keep this kind of stuff?  In the box at least they are nice and rectangular, but once built, they take up a lot of space.  Most shelves are 16" to 18" deep, but that won't cut it for a 1/32 heavy bomber.  A 1/32 (or even 1/48) Vulcan would need to have optional parts to convert it to a coffee table or something!  I feel that this golden age of 1/32 will lead to a saturation point where customers finally realize they can't display their finished kits, so they languish unbuilt in their boxes.

Regarding Civil War ironclads and subs, there are a lot of resin kits, but I was thinking injection molded ones would expand the customer base.  A lot of people don't like to work with resin, even though the more experienced guys say it's no different from a styrene kit.  I think it's the need for C/A glue to join all parts that scare me.  I've built several resin kits, but am still nervous when gluing the large pieces, as misalignment leads to serious headaches.

modelcrazy

More Japanese WW 2 armor.

Fine Molds makes pretty much all WWII Japanese armor family in 1/35 injection molded kits. With Tamiya and Dragon covering most of the rest of the family in 1/35 that Fine Molds has yet to cover.

How about the biggest cargo ship in the world? Imagine that one in any typical ship scale?

Easy - all of the following at current CAD technology levels:

Lockheed L-1011

Douglas DC-10

Douglas MD-11

Boeing 747 - 100 & 200 series

Boeing 757 - 200 & 300 series