A model kit wish list thread!  Is it Christmas already? 

I have a stock list:

A C-46, B-32, B-18, and a Fieseler Fi-167, all in 1/48.

A 1/700 USS Langley (CV-1) and USS Ranger (CV-4).

I'd like to see all of these in styrene.  There are resin kits of the Langley and the Ranger out there, for example, though not currently in print.  I prefer a styrene kit, injection-molded, or even printed.

Sometimes wishes come true.  I used to include the Wasp (CV-7) in 1/700 in my lists, and eventully, Aoshima came out with its kit.  Of course, it's just in the stash, not under construction...

Let's see, girls carrying donuts.  With your luck they would end up looking like Homer Simpson.

Theose crabs are on Bikini Atol, so they should still be somewhat radioactive, perfect for a Japanese movie.  Wait we already did one about giant crabs on a island.

Real G

 

 

modelcrazy

 

 

 

 

YES!!!

Gamera, those troop carrier half tracks are so weird that I think Fine Molds will do them someday.

 

LOL guys! 

Not to derail the thread but my baby pictures... 

If you think the laser sharks are intimidating wait till I train the coconut crabs to use chainsaws... 

And yeah I'm a little surprised FineMolds hasn't modeled them yet. If anyone does kits I'd expect they'd be the ones to do them. 

modelcrazy

 

YES!!!

Gamera, those troop carrier half tracks are so weird that I think Fine Molds will do them someday.

Some American muscle cars from tamiya :-) 71 plymouth gtx, 70 super bee for starters..

A tamiya 1/72 n1k2 george

A Tamiya  1/72 A7 Corsair ..

armornut

   A good 1/48 Prowler with VAQ-131 Desert Strom markings including kill marks. If I were dreaming.

 

https://www.dstorm.eu/pages/en/usa/ea-6b.html

Looks like several of your squadron's Prowlers were photographed at that time

I like the "different" sort of things, like....

- 1/72 Minuteman missile with complete silo and fire control center

- Modern Indy, F1, CAM-AM, IMSA, Baja, DAKAR, NHRA, salt flat racers

- 1/350 or larger commercial ships, ice breakers, tankers, etc.

- 1/18 or 1/16 modern armor kits with complete interior and crew

That's some of them

DRUMS01 / Ben

Gamera's secret volcano base WOULD have frickin' sharks with frickin' lasers!  Plus there would be an island-wide sound system to play the Gamera theme every time he takes off in his VTOL Gamera Jet - out of the volcano!

  Real G, my birds carried HARM. missles, used to destroy Iraqi radar installations, fixed and mobile, mt squadron shot like 23 with several "kills". I remember markings painted on our aircraft however do not remember exactly how it looked.

    We were an electronic warfare platform, jamming radar signals and scrambling returns to make strike package " look" like it was somewhere else or not as big.

     Yes Kinetic has a good Prowler....and I want to take a better look at the tooling. I seen a kit open once and at a quick glance it appeared to me that the first fand stage of the engines set to far forward in the trunks. I should take a second better look as it is considerably less incorrect than the old Monogram kit.  Yea I could do FOD covers but I rarely saw them on our planes, espeacially during underway operations.

Straycat1911

Only thing on my list: Tamiya 1/32 F-106 Delta Dart. 

 

That would be awesome!  I'd also like to see them release a 1/32 A-10C...just so I won't have to suffer through building the Trumpeter A-10A that I have.

Gamera

I mean I WISH I had my own tropical island complete with volcano lair and beautiful native woman who bring me donuts. 

Would your volcano lair also have sharks with lasers attached to their heads? 

I was just thinking it would be really cool to have a modernized version of the old Flap Jack model from the 70s.  Maybe have it be USB-powered and blue-tooth controlled.  Hmmm...I still have a partially-built Flap Jack...I might just be able to make this wish a reality.  

Only thing on my list: Tamiya 1/32 F-106 Delta Dart. 

Tojo72

 

 

MJames70

Wishes are lovely. But 99.99% of the things listed are thoroughly impractical, would never sell, and bankrupt any company that did release them. If you're so sure they're 'licenses to print money', bankroll them yourself. It's a sure thing, right? Pretty easy to wish with other people's money, after all....

 

 

 

 

Exactly but it's fun,I know I'll never see my dad's ship released,and I don't expect a big company to kit it just for me,but it's fun to talk about what subjects interest us,it's a modeling forum,so I say dream on,post it here and talk about it. 

 

Yeah Robert/Glamdring did post is as a WISH list. Not as a SERIOUS list.

I mean I WISH I had my own tropical island complete with volcano lair and beautiful native women who bring me donuts. 

But there's a better chance that a meteor will fall from the clear blue sky, crash though the ceiling, and strike me dead where I am than this is to happen.

Model wise I'd like to see new injection molded 1/35th kits of the Japanese Second World War Type I Ho-Ha and Ho-Ki APCs. There's 1/72nd kits but I want bigger. There are resin 1/35th kits but they seem long out of production. That is I can't find either anywere. If anyone has a lead on the 1/35th resin kits drop me a line please!

Will they sell? Dunno, probably not all that well but I've seen more esoteric and strange stuff kited.

Tanker-Builder

Nice List;

    Mine would always start with the Victory Ship in 1/350 at least. Big backbone after the Wars. Then there's the older smaller Cruise-Liners ( The ones that still looked like Ships). See Matson Hawaii run ships.

     Then there's a new crop of Heavy lift and Technical ships. Also Dredges of all types. Ever seen one ? They go from River craft all the way to Ocean going types. Then there's Mobile Cranes and Yes, Farming Equipment.

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Trying again after the d*** 403 Forbidden Error!!!!

Like TB said too, id like converted MM ships and Victory too.  I dont know enough on the particulars, but late 20's 30's Navy Ships - like the designs and evolution....  Dredge would be nice, mabe a good cable laying ship.  Still trying to fiind a Glencoe Subb Chaser WWI that i have a deck for....

Fotofrank,

Modelsvit not to your liking?  A Tamiya would be WAY easier to build, but the Modelsvit F-82G looks gorgeous.  Yeah it is still limited run and the parts breakdown is kinda intense for the cockpits.  But they have come a long way from their earlier efforts.

Armornut,

Is the Kinetic Prowler still available?  ODS birds had kill marks?  Were they used in the Wild Weasel role?

I gotta say the kit makers have been doing a great job of satisfying my kit wishes.  One impossible/unlikely kit I would love to have is a 1983 Honda Accord hatchback, my first car and first Japanese car in my family history.  Dad had a 1950s VW Bug, 1955 and 1970 Plymouth Valiants, and a 1978 Oldsmobile Omega.  The Honda's fit and finish was a shocking eye opener compared to the US cars.

   A good 1/48 Prowler with VAQ-131 Desert Strom markings including kill marks. If I were dreaming.

I'd really like to see an F-86A, F-86E / Canadair Sabre 2 and a Candair Sabre 6 that didn't have you modify the wingtips like Hasegawa does with their F-86F-40 / Sabre 6 offering by cutting off the scale 12" extesions and then gluing on the resin tips in both 48th and 32nd scale.

I'll second the 1/48 C-46 and G3M Nell. I'd also love to see a 1/48 F11F Tiger, preferably the long nose version. Many of the other 1/48 types that I've wanted have come out or been announced recentl, so there is hope.

In 1/35 armor I have my still long requested DD Sherman's and M48 (pre A1). I'd also love to see the accompanying M57 & M75 APCs, as well as contemporary M53 & M55 self propelled guns. Some of the other variants of the CVR(T) family beyond the Scorpion & Scimitar would be nice. After all, the lower hull is already done.

Did you see ICM is comming out with a Sally?  

Some times these wishes do come true, such as when I had pined for a 1/350 USS Texas battleship, and voila, Trumpeter put that one out there.

My list tends to focus on aircraft in 1/48 scale, so here goes:

B-32 Dominator

G3M Nell

C-46 Commando

And I'd love to see Tamiya put out their P-47D (bubbletop, Razorback, doesn't matter) in 1/32.

And another thing. Some company besides Modelsvit to produce a real injection molded P-82B, Merlin powered. You know, with the short tails.

MJames70

Wishes are lovely. But 99.99% of the things listed are thoroughly impractical, would never sell, and bankrupt any company that did release them. If you're so sure they're 'licenses to print money', bankroll them yourself. It's a sure thing, right? Pretty easy to wish with other people's money, after all....

 

Exactly but it's fun,I know I'll never see my dad's ship released,and I don't expect a big company to kit it just for me,but it's fun to talk about what subjects interest us,it's a modeling forum,so I say dream on,post it here and talk about it. 

MJames70

Wishes are lovely. But 99.99% of the things listed are thoroughly impractical, would never sell, and bankrupt any company that did release them. If you're so sure they're 'licenses to print money', bankroll them yourself. It's a sure thing, right? Pretty easy to wish with other people's money, after all....

 

Heh heh - I'm not sure that's 100% true these days.   I wrote Do-335, Ho-229 and Ar-234B on Zoukei Mura's suggestion board at a show once, and the first two have been kitted and the third has been announced.  I also wrote Triebflugel, but Miniart fielded that one.

I like oddball stuff, and these days the kit makers are obliging.  I just picked up a M114 by Takom, a little known piece of armor that had an undistinguished service career.

Like Romeo Void sang, never say never!

Curtiss C-46 Commando....

         injection molded in 1/72 or 1/48.

Wishes are lovely. But 99.99% of the things listed are thoroughly impractical, would never sell, and bankrupt any company that did release them. If you're so sure they're 'licenses to print money', bankroll them yourself. It's a sure thing, right? Pretty easy to wish with other people's money, after all....

New molds or reissues of the original Mad Max cars:

Last of the V-8s (Aoshima did it years ago, but I couldn't afford it then - would like to see a repop since it goes for well over $100 on Ebay)

Main Force Patrol Pursuit 

Main Force Patrol Interceptor (Max's car)

Also

Planet of the Apes Icarus in styrene 

Aliens Drop Ship and APC in 1/35 (with new molds)

New 1/24 Indy Cars - there hasn't been an affordable kit since the Reynards in the late 90s

Some new (and old) fire apparatus - paramedic squads/ambulances, pumpers, ladder trucks, etc.

Buck Roger's Star Fighter and Marauder from the 70s

Landmaster from the movie Damnation Alley (and/or the vehicle from the Ark II Saturday morning TV show in the 70s - the vehicle was cool and the show was so bad it's good)

Serenity (from the Firefly TV series and movie)

UFO TV series models (Skydiver, Moon Interceptor, Mobiles, UFOs)

Starfury from Babylon 5 (repop)

The current military model market looks really good right now, so I have most of the military models I want already, or know where I can get them.

1:48 C-17 Globemaster

All the X-planes in 1/48 scale to include the lifting body's and the NF-104.

The Indycar DW-12 in 1/25 scale with detailed engines.

1/1 Star Trek prop series from TOS on.

1/350 scale Klingon D-7

1/48 scale The Invaders saucer

1/32 scale Apollo LM with interior

1/12 scale Gemini with Agena

Nice List;

    Mine would always start with the Victory Ship in 1/350 at least. Big backbone after the Wars. Then there's the older smaller Cruise-Liners ( The ones that still looked like Ships). See Matson Hawaii run ships.

     Then there's a new crop of Heavy lift and Technical ships. Also Dredges of all types. Ever seen one ? They go from River craft all the way to Ocean going types. Then there's Mobile Cranes and Yes, Farming Equipment.

      I would also like to see different types of Smaller Inland Capable Tankers and Freighters and River cruise Ships. I have a 1/200 model of the "Lilli Weneda". In paper! and I would love to see it in plastic, Fascinating little Polish ferry that! People only! American Car and People Ferries have gotten short shrift too. Many areas of the country still have them operating every day!

      As far as other vehicles. I guess a good 1/25 MG-TD and an equally good Austin-Healey 3000 in the same scale. Or the older Revell cars in 1/25. How about a regular 1/25 - 10 wheel heavy Dump Truck? Or Yes, even a Street Sweeeper-See the list goes on! Funny though, Many of these are out there already. Ever looked at the selection of Scale vehicles for model Train Layouts? These guys get serious! And some have really spot on details! 

       No, I didn't forget Planes or Armor. There's a lot of Armor out there now. There's more I am sure. Planes. Well, starting with Whirly-Birds and going to Fixed wing the list is another four pages long. See? I will say though, The civilian side have been poorly served. Many of the common Birds have mods for other reasons than stock. Will we ever see them? I doubt it!