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Posted by kustommodeler1 on Friday, November 14, 2008 5:49 AM

I would like to see a 1/350 scale BB-38 Pennsylvania in her late '44-on configuration. It would be perfect if Dragon could take what they've done in 1/700 scale and do it in 1/350. Here she is seen leading colorado:

 

Of course most any of the Pearl Harbor salvage/survivors would be great, like BB-46 Maryland, BB-36 Nevada, BB-45 California, BB-48 West Virginia, and especially after thier '43/'44 rebuilds like BB-43 Tennessee seen here in mid-'43:

 

My nomination for 1/350 carrier would have to go to one of my favorite old gals, the Forrestall-class CV-60 Saratoga in her final fit just before decommissioning as seen here in her '90-'91 fit. What Charms me the most about this old girl is all the modern equipment were add-ons in her long life and they look like it.

 

I'm doing the Revell 1/542 scale kit with scratch-built upgrades to this configuration, as you an see all that is in white is scratch built from sheet styrene, but I want a BIG one.Cool [8D]

 

 

Well, that's it for me for now. Thanks for listening.

 

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Posted by TD4438 on Friday, November 14, 2008 8:40 AM
Anything with tri-pod or cage masts.Some WWI ships would be nice as well.

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Posted by eatthis on Friday, November 14, 2008 9:16 AM

repulse

ww2 ark royal (my grandad was on it)

scharnhorst

 

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Posted by Silent One on Friday, November 14, 2008 9:32 AM

Id like to see the Fuso and Yamashiro

Some WW1 battleships like Queen Elizabeth class. lets get a battle of Jutland line up. 

Warspite , Rodney, Nelson and some british cruisers 

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Posted by billydelawder on Friday, November 14, 2008 9:34 AM
Also, SMS Baden/Bayern, they were nice looking ships. A 1/350 Agincourt would be a monster!
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Posted by Chuck Fan on Friday, November 14, 2008 10:24 AM

French Pre-dreadnoughts

German Pre-dreadnoughts

American Pre-dreadnoughts

British Pre-dreadnoughts

Any predreadnoughts that's neither Russian nor Japanese.

French Pre-dreads preferred because of their fantasy castle appearences.

 

 

 

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Posted by squeakie on Friday, November 14, 2008 11:12 AM

just two ships come to my mind right away

* a really up to date four stack destroyer

* a better kit of a destroyer escort in the Atlantic configuration

maybe down the road I'd like to see some British stuff. Like maybe the Ajax. And the Langley.

gary

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Posted by searat12 on Friday, November 14, 2008 11:46 AM
If you like the French pre-dreadnoughts, i'm surprised you don't like the Russians!  'Tsesarivitch' is a classic example (and built in France to a French design)
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Posted by usmc1371 on Friday, November 14, 2008 11:48 AM

I want some Amphibs.  LPD's, LHA's, LSD's, LST's 

 

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Posted by Chuck Fan on Friday, November 14, 2008 1:19 PM

 searat12 wrote:
If you like the French pre-dreadnoughts, i'm surprised you don't like the Russians!  'Tsesarivitch' is a classic example (and built in France to a French design)

 

Russian and Japanese pre-dreads are already available.  I put priority on ones not currently available.

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Posted by roowalker on Friday, November 14, 2008 4:23 PM
  In school I think they used to call this "repetition for emphasis",it sure can't hurt to list these again:   SMS Derfflinger,with parts to build her with either the pre-Jutland pole foremast or the post-Jutland tripod.....   Then her British opposite number,HMS Tiger,likewise a beautiful ship. If these two are released as accurate,builder-friendly kits,I believe the interest will snowball into lots of other gems we want from the WWI era.
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Posted by warshipguy on Saturday, November 15, 2008 4:30 PM

How about:

Conte di Cavour/Giulio Cesare/Littorio

Queen Elizabeth (WWI)/Mayala (WWII)

Queen Elizabeth/Valiant (WWII)/Warspite (WWII)

Iron Duke

Any Revenge Class BB

Von der Tann/Goeben/Seydlitz/Derfflinger

Kongo/Fuso (WWI)

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Posted by ps1scw on Saturday, November 15, 2008 4:51 PM

Knox Class FF (USS Capodanno)

Perry Class FFG ((short hull) Antrim, Clark, Lewis B. Puller, George Philip)

Utah 1941

Nevada / Oklahoma 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Tennessee / California 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Maryland / W. Virginia 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or) 

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Posted by warshipbuilder on Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:48 PM
Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser?

Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford.

HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.
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Posted by deadhead on Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:31 PM

USS Indianapolis

ANY Jeep Carrier Both in Plastic! Can't afford a $250+kit

 

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Posted by chris hall on Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:57 AM

 warshipbuilder wrote:
Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser?

Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford.

HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

Yes!!!!! Wonder who'll be doing the tooling (can you say 'Trumpeter'?) Series 12 kits sell for about £40 (say USD60). Not at all unreasonable.

If it comes about, I think this would be the first 1/350 injection-moulded kit of a serving RN vessel ever!

Cheers,

Chris.

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Posted by Allen109 on Sunday, November 16, 2008 5:19 PM

kustommodeler1- please send me any all info you have on the Sara, and a list of mods you did to the 1/542 kit. I've got that exact kit, and would like to do it configured to pre-desert storm,when my dad did a tour aboard her.

For kits I'd like to see in 1/350-

Any ship involved in the Battle of Jutland

USS Baltimore CA-68

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Posted by SNOOPY on Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:25 PM

 TD4438 wrote:
Anything with tri-pod or cage masts.Some WWI ships would be nice as well.

I agree!  I think something either pre-WWI.  Like the Konig or USS Maine, USS Texas, or even the USS Olympic.  How about something from Sail and Steam era combined.  Last suggestion, how about Ironclads???

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Posted by searat12 on Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:24 PM
Well, the Koenig is available in 1/350 NOW (originally by ICM, but now made by Aoshima), so it is worthwhile asking for others in the same scale.  I heard a rumor that Aoshima has hired a couple ship design guys fro ICM to help produce a number of additional WW1 kits in future, with SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Lutzow, and others mentioned as possible kits in 1/350.....
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Posted by constructor on Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:18 PM
The only wish I have is a new Iowa class battleship. The Tamiya USS Missouri was ok but technology has overtaken it and a more accurate version is my only wish. Other wishes has been granted thanks to Trumpeter and Hasegawa.
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Posted by eatthis on Monday, November 17, 2008 2:14 AM

 warshipbuilder wrote:
Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser?

Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford.

HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

 

no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s 

 

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Posted by Nelson Ott on Monday, November 17, 2008 5:23 AM

Hi all,

In my opinion the Kaiserliche marine and the Kriegsmarine produced the best looking battleships, battle cruisers and cruisers ever. So my list for new 1:350 kits is:

- SMS Von der Tann

- SMS Seydlitz

- SMS Moltke

- SMS Lützow

- SMS Derfflinger

- SMS Baden

- DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau

- DKM Graf Spee

And any British ship that fought at Jutland too.

 Regards,

 Nelson

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Posted by eatthis on Monday, November 17, 2008 8:03 AM
 Nelson Ott wrote:

Hi all,

In my opinion the Kaiserliche marine and the Kriegsmarine produced the best looking battleships, battle cruisers and cruisers ever. So my list for new 1:350 kits is:

- SMS Von der Tann

- SMS Seydlitz

- SMS Moltke

- SMS Lützow

- SMS Derfflinger

- SMS Baden

- DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau

- DKM Graf Spee

And any British ship that fought at Jutland too.

 Regards,

 Nelson

 

i beleive trumpeter are gonna be doin a scharnhorst along with repulse but i dont know when

 

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Posted by archelon on Monday, November 17, 2008 8:39 AM

I would ask for some Soviet Cold War-era subjects, but seeing that Trumpeter's just released a Kirov makes that request seem purely greedy. 

So, how about a Vitenam-era Essex class carrier? Say the Oriskany, BonHomme Richard or Intrepid?

And well,I'll second the call for a Forrestal or at least a Kitty Hawk/Constellation as well.

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Posted by sfcmac on Monday, November 17, 2008 9:52 AM

 I would like to see some WWII British Carriers like the Ark Royal or Eagle.

Remember the old Pine Island sea plane tender? It would be cool in 350 with new tech as well.

Maybe then something diff like an Italian Battleship Like the Roma or something.

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Posted by davros on Monday, November 17, 2008 10:00 AM
 eatthis wrote:

 warshipbuilder wrote:
Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser?

Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford.

HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

 

no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s 

The last time I was on Hermes was when I was about eighteen months old in 1959. It was on an open day for the families of the workers who built her and my dad took me; or so I'm told. I, obviously, don't remember any of it.

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Posted by eatthis on Monday, November 17, 2008 12:06 PM
 davros wrote:
 eatthis wrote:

 warshipbuilder wrote:
Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser?

Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford.

HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

 

no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s 

The last time I was on Hermes was when I was about eighteen months old in 1959. It was on an open day for the families of the workers who built her and my dad took me; or so I'm told. I, obviously, don't remember any of it.

 

hedve been about the same age lol

 

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Posted by diggeraone on Monday, November 17, 2008 12:19 PM
As for me any Baltimore heavy class cruiser and one battleship the Texas.Digger
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Posted by searat12 on Monday, November 17, 2008 3:25 PM

Might be nice to see an HMS Malaya as well, since these QE's and the R battleships did so much in the Med.....

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Posted by Nelson Ott on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:45 PM
 eatthis wrote:
 Nelson Ott wrote:

- DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau

 

i beleive trumpeter are gonna be doin a scharnhorst along with repulse but i dont know when

 Excellent, but I'd rather see Revell of Germany doing this. Their new Bismarck is first class ! Trupeter sometimes makes silly mistakes.

 Regards,

 Nelson

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Posted by searat12 on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:02 PM
Not sure about the DKM Scharnhorst, but I know Trumpeter is releasing a DKM Prinz Eugen that is getting rave reviews, and come to think of it, most model manufacturers make mistakes at some time or another (not an excuse, just a reality!)..... I know Trumpeter has held up the release of HMS Repulse in order to sort out a bunch of flaws, Hasegawa screwed up it's 'Nagato' something awful with heavily molded CAD lines all over the hull, Fujimi's 'Kongo' and 'Haruna' has the wrong shape hull embrasures for the secondary armament, and Aoshima put huge ridges on the turrets of their 'Takao' class cruisers..... And that was just in the last year!
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Posted by squeakie on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:19 AM

 searat12 wrote:
Not sure about the DKM Scharnhorst, but I know Trumpeter is releasing a DKM Prinz Eugen that is getting rave reviews, and come to think of it, most model manufacturers make mistakes at some time or another (not an excuse, just a reality!)..... I know Trumpeter has held up the release of HMS Repulse in order to sort out a bunch of flaws, Hasegawa screwed up it's 'Nagato' something awful with heavily molded CAD lines all over the hull, Fujimi's 'Kongo' and 'Haruna' has the wrong shape hull embrasures for the secondary armament, and Aoshima put huge ridges on the turrets of their 'Takao' class cruisers..... And that was just in the last year!

I kinda like the 1/72 scale offerings, and they're not perfect. But still seem to have fewer errors than the others.

gary

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Posted by Nelson Ott on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:03 AM

The main prblem with Trumpeter is their inconsistency. Maybe this is related to the level of information available to the Chinese toolmakers. Each new release is a Pandora box, we can never be sure what we will find inside. It can be either an outstanding model like their Hood or, in aviation, the 1/32 Me 262, or the model has shape errors that are difficult to fix, one side of the hull is bigger than the other, etc. I've never heard Revell of Germany has made serious shape errors on their most recent kits. Even the Bismarck I mentioned before has some small detail errors, but nothing difficult to fix.

 Regards,

Nelson

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Posted by 2/20 Bluemax on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:31 PM

I would like to see more pre-dreadnought plastic, mainly U.S. battleships and cruisers, also late 19th century coastal monitors(probably a little too esoteric for most mfgrs.) How about R/RG doing a new PT boat in 1/72 with the same quality as the S-100's?. There is a serious lack of Coast Guard ships as well, or how about late 19th/early 20th century subs? I know some of the aforementioned are addressed in resin, but I along with many others, I'm sure, can't afford to buy resin all the time.

Jim

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Posted by searat12 on Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:58 AM

I'm very fond of pre-dreadnoughts myself, and a few come immediately to mind that I would love to see in 1/350 scale styrene:

Russian 'Peresviet' battleship

Russian 'Gromoboi' Armored cruiser

Russian 'Askold' Light cruiser

Japanese Tokiwa Armored cruiser

Japanese 'Hatsuse' battleship

HMS Canopus battleship

HMS Good Hope Armored cruiser

USS Brooklyn ACR 3 (my favorite predreadnought!)

USS Charleston C 22

USS Pennsylvania ACR 4

USS Tennessee ACR 10

German SMS Yorck Armored cruiser

German SMS Blucher Armored cruiser

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Posted by Space_Moose on Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:02 AM

Definately we would like to see these ships in 1/350 injection moulded kits:

HMS Daring Type-45 Destroyer (Trumpeter I know you can do it well and the people you send to research the ship can do spy work for the Peoples Liberation Army Navy.) Even better in 1/200

HMS Hermes with an option to make it as the INS Viraat (Again a Trumpeter profit maker, maybe a million potential customers in India alone.)

HMS Astute SSN, A very exciting ship. Even better in 1/144

HMS Incomparable, A mighty ship that never was and would make a 1/350 scale battleship model that was 87cm long and beautiful in mystery since it was designed in 1915 but never ordered (a lot bigger then any 1/350 Yamato, Bismarck, Iowa or Hood)

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Posted by Pavlvs on Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:20 AM
I would like to see the current HMS Invincible (glad to hear of the Airfix announcement).

HMS Dreadnought (the origin of the species)
USS Bogue (in a kit that is less than $200.00)
Anything from the great white fleet
USS Olympia in a new tooling
HMS Nelson/Rodney
USS Montana (BB 65)
Any us destroyer from the early cold war era such as FRAM'ed WWII DD's or anything from the 1950's-60's
especially with the DASH system
IJN Fuso
IJN Kaga

Deus in minutiae est. Fr. Pavlvs

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Posted by jazzy_jeff on Saturday, December 13, 2008 1:10 PM

Cleveland Class CL

Idependence Class CVL

Rudderow Class DE

RN WWII Carriers

Vietnam Era Essex

 

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Posted by kustommodeler1 on Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:23 AM
 chris hall wrote:

 warshipbuilder wrote:
Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser?

Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford.

HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

Yes!!!!! Wonder who'll be doing the tooling (can you say 'Trumpeter'?) Series 12 kits sell for about £40 (say USD60). Not at all unreasonable.

If it comes about, I think this would be the first 1/350 injection-moulded kit of a serving RN vessel ever!

Cheers,

Chris.

 

Excellent choices Chris, but Trumpeter is not the one to do it. Dragon would be the first choice, with Tamiya right behind.

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Posted by dragonfly on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:48 PM

A Butler Class DE so I can build one for my Dad.

 Jerry

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Posted by n9lge on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:12 PM
Hi All, kits in 1/350 I'd like to see would be any of the modern support type ships.....Task forces dont just sail with the capitol ships by themselves. and dont forget the escorts....destroyers,cruisers,ffgs.  Also any of the phibs would be good too.  1960's to present... Gary P
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Posted by warshipbuilder on Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:56 AM
How about HMS Dreadnought - the one which started it all.
Can't get more historically significant than that!

Definitely need far more RN & K.M. subjects

I'm yank & Japped-out!


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Posted by searat12 on Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:14 AM

Yup, I think a British 'County' class heavy cruiser would be a good thing (HMS Dorsetshire would be a good choice), along with a British 'Tribal' class destroyer, and of course, a few WW1 ships would be very welcome indeed!

HMS Lion battlecruiser

HMS Iron Duke battleship

HMS Queen Elizabeth battleship

HMS Glasgow cruiser

SMS Derfflinger battlecruiser

SMS Scharnhost armored cruiser

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Posted by Chuck Fan on Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:07 PM

 warshipbuilder wrote:
How about HMS Dreadnought - the one which started it all.
Can't get more historically significant than that!

 

USS Monitor?   HMS Warrior?  Soviet Kashin destroyer?   

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:26 PM
Well in 350th injection molded surface ships we now have or had for Cold War subjects: Soviet; Udaloy, Sovremmeny, Slava, and Kirov- US; Nimitz,  Enterprise, New Jersey, Ticonderoga, Spruance, Kidd, Arleigh Burke, and forthcoming the Perry. All things considered, not bad. Maybe a Tarawa class would be nice for USN. For Soviet, a Kresta... and pretty much anything RN would be nice.

 

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Posted by Tojo72 on Friday, December 19, 2008 11:08 AM

Put me down for:

Graf Spee

Any WWII German Raider.........Atlantis.....Kormoran....Orion

 

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Posted by dnatech on Friday, December 19, 2008 6:31 PM

I would like to see USS Midway, prefereably as she was retired.

Steve

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Posted by yeapjacky on Monday, December 22, 2008 12:03 AM
I am all in for IJN Shinano...! I am sure this fella's gonna be way bigger than the upcoming Zuikaku...or was it Shokaku?
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Posted by stikpusher on Monday, December 22, 2008 1:51 AM

Who's doing the Zuikaku/Shokaku?

A Taiho would be cool too...

 

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Posted by searat12 on Monday, December 22, 2008 8:40 AM
Fujimi
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Posted by ikar01 on Monday, December 22, 2008 9:22 PM

I'd like to see a decent, affordable kit of: the Ruben James, sunk 31 Oct 41/

                                                        Uss Enterprise, 1970 Configuration

                                                        USS Shangri-la

                                                        Tucumcari Gunboat

                                     Civil War ships

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Posted by yeapjacky on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:25 PM

So let's hope Fujimi will learn a thing or two from Dragon's DD-484 and put their standard there....else the Shokaku's gonna be a huge let down after all the excitement/announcement.

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Posted by styrene on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:08 AM

USS Aylwin (DD-355) ca. 1939-1942.

USS St. George (seaplane tender) ca. 1943-1945.

1882: "God is dead"--F. Nietzsche

1900: "Nietzsche is dead"--God

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Posted by searat12 on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 11:54 AM
Well, based on what I have seen of the Fujimi vs Aoshima 'Kongo,' I think the Fujimi Shokaku should be a very nice kit!  But based on some issues I have had over the past year with Hasgawa and others, I would not pre-order it, but wait until it comes out and gets reviewed....
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Posted by airdale 1 on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:24 PM
I would like to see a Forrest Sherman Class DD, USS Alaska, Vietnam Era Essex Class Class carrier, and I will second the votes for 1970's era Enterprise and the Midway. These I would like to see in plastic. Resin kits are nice but cost more than I can afford.
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Posted by keilau on Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:08 PM
 searat12 wrote:

Well, it is that time once again to put our best requests forward!  While many on this forum feel that this is a waste of time, it is important to note how many wonderful kits have been produced in the last year!  .......... Revell of Germany got into the act by producing a splendid update of 'Bismarck'!  ....  Finally I would like to hand out sincere thanks to Dragon for the 'Buchanan' destroyer,

My wish is very modest: An Iowa class battleship done with modern tooling technique similar to those of the Revell Bismarck or the Dragan smart kits and at the Revell Bismarck price range. They have proven that high quality kits can be produced at reasonable price using modern engineering techniques.

I don't want another $150-plus kit so Hasegawa, Tamiya or Trumpeter, please, stay out of it.  They should focus on the specialist market where customers are willing pay extra for subjects of less popular appeal.

 

 

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Posted by warshipbuilder on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:00 PM
Well finally - It appears Trumpeter is releasing their 1/350 HMS REPULSE kit in May

http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtml
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Posted by searat12 on Thursday, January 1, 2009 10:20 AM
I'd love to believe that about the Repulse (I have had one on pre-order since last February!), but there has been so much false information 'released' in the past year that I won't have my hopes up until I see it on the Trumpeter website itself.....
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Posted by PhantomGhost on Thursday, January 1, 2009 10:51 PM
I'd like to see more sailing ships such as from Nelsons era, more nuclear submarines (both older and newer) and ships like supertankers.  I'm not a big fan of WW2 battleships and UBoats I'm afraid.
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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, January 2, 2009 12:27 AM
Well Trumpeter has the Repulse on thier new release list of their site now... and a 350th scale Kilo class sub. Gotta get me that Kilo!

 

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Posted by eatthis on Friday, January 2, 2009 2:40 AM
linky?

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, January 2, 2009 2:45 AM

http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtmlhttp://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtmlhttp://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtml

 

 

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Posted by searat12 on Friday, January 2, 2009 9:08 AM
 stikpusher wrote:
Well Trumpeter has the Repulse on thier new release list of their site now... and a 350th scale Kilo class sub. Gotta get me that Kilo!
I don't know about that... I just went to the Trumpeter site, and while they mentioned a 1/144 Kilo, I saw nothing about HMS Repulse...... Sure wish it was true!  I did see that Stevens International is also saying Repulse will be here in May, so maybe it IS true (or just 'circular reporting!')
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Posted by torren_of_amber on Saturday, January 3, 2009 3:09 AM

Hi all,

I am new 350th builder, well new to all of it again after a 20some year absence, and I would like to get some WWII allied Subs and the big E as well as any other escorts, ok and the Ronald Reagan or a new supercarrier as they are right now. 

I decided to only do 1/350 so you could really get the size difference down.

Later all

T

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Posted by searat12 on Saturday, January 3, 2009 10:05 PM
I sure would like to see a few more US heavy cruisrs, and British heavy cruisers as well.....
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Posted by warshipguy on Sunday, January 4, 2009 8:18 AM

I still would like to see anything in the realm of the never-before-modeled range, including Italian WWII battleships and cruisers, anything from WWII, etc.

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Posted by warshipbuilder on Monday, January 12, 2009 6:22 PM
Trumpeter Repulse update

1/350 HMS Repulse WWII British Battlecruiser, 1941

It is anticipated that this kit will consist of some 662 parts on 14 sprues. It will have upper hull, lower hull, waterline plate and a display stand. Additional features will also include a deck wood pattern, 15 inch gun turrets, two Supermarine Walrus aircraft, and photo etched handrails, masts and antennas.

The completed kit is expected to measures over 27 inches long.

The suggested retail price has been estimated at US$169.95.

The expected release date for these kits is May 2009.

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Posted by woodburner on Monday, January 12, 2009 6:53 PM
World War I and earlier would be very welcome, so would anything cool and out of the ordinary.

What about RMS Aquitania, the Cunard liner? The big four stacker served as troopship in both wars, moved thousands of troops, and was a hospital ship during the Gallipoli Campaign. Wartime livery included everything from dazzle paint to ghost grey with hospital white thrown in. Plus you get two markets with the liner buffs.

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Posted by searat12 on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:00 AM
Why not simply Lusitania (Aquitania sistership), as this is a more historic ship?  It can easily be repainted as Aquitania....
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Posted by bryan01 on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:26 AM

 searat12 wrote:
Why not simply Lusitania (Aquitania sistership), as this is a more historic ship?  It can easily be repainted as Aquitania....

Because she wasn't her sistership, Mauretania was! Aquitania was a completely different stand-alone liner. Btw even though Lusitania and Mauretania were sisters they were quite different.

 

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Posted by searat12 on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:34 AM
Sorry!  I'm not a liner-man (they are all just targets to me!)
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Posted by warshipbuilder on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:06 AM
Who wanted a 1/350 Lusitania?

http://www.modelshipwrights.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4225&mode=thread&order=0

I got mine last time it was released - cracking kit, and this one comes with 'extras'!

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Posted by tucchase on Sunday, January 18, 2009 4:37 AM
 Space_Moose wrote:

HMS Incomparable, A mighty ship that never was and would make a 1/350 scale battleship model that was 87cm long and beautiful in mystery since it was designed in 1915 but never ordered (a lot bigger then any 1/350 Yamato, Bismarck, Iowa or Hood)

If we are looking at phantom ships, I believe a good choice could be the REAL Battlecruisers started by the USN in 1920. Navsource has a profile view of the class. It looks like it would have been a fascinating ship to build. According to Navsource, it would have had 8 16"/45 guns and 16 6" guns, with a speed of 32 knots.  All six of the class were started, but the Washington Treaty caused four to be scrapped and CC-1 and CC-3 became CV-1 Lexington and CV-3 Saratoga.  These would have been more powerful than any other battlecruisers in the world, imo, and also most of the battleships at that time. The Alaska Class Large Cruisers would have been little sisters to these. The naval archives might still have the plans.  Maybe?  We have models available of the USS Montana (BB-65), and these were closer to completion than it was.

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Posted by arki30 on Sunday, January 18, 2009 8:21 PM
USS Indianapolis.  That would get me to actually build a ship model.

Building Now:

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1/48 Tamiya F4U-1A - 5%

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 19, 2009 10:23 AM
Zuiho...
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Posted by lolok on Monday, January 19, 2009 11:45 AM

   Merchant marine/Passenger vessels please......

      So many many many Titanics but nary a Carpathia to accompany them....Even a California would be nice but stretching it.

           Also how about a 'Wilhelm Gustloff' Both historically significant ships...but grey steel will always come first I suppose...:-(

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Posted by stikpusher on Monday, January 26, 2009 3:42 PM

I dont know how many folks here have seen this.... Tamiya 1/350 Mogami in her late war configurtion with the rear seaplane flight deck.

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=78021

 

 

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Posted by searat12 on Monday, January 26, 2009 7:29 PM
Outstanding!  But check out that price ($191.00!!!)..... Holy rolley!
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Posted by warshipguy on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:54 PM

I have a general comment for the kit and the price . . . WOW!!!!  But, Mogami is an interesting ship. She would really complement the Ise!

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Posted by searat12 on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:39 PM
Oh yeah!  Mogami in that configuration is a perfect consort for either Ise, or maybe the new Shokaku coming out soon.... I also heard some rumors that Aoshima may be coming out with a Maya class heavy cruiser, as well as some light cruisers too... But then again, there's no telling what the current economic depression is likely to do to the model manufacturers.... I'd like to think that prices may soon come down (reduced oil price means cheaper plastics, and increased unemployment lines means cheaper workers too!), but I hope the companies themselves don't go bust....
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Posted by warshipguy on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:01 PM

I guess that we now have a reason to support our favorite manufacturers . . . Make a Toast [#toast]

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Posted by ejhammer on Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:18 PM

I'd like a 1960 - 63 USS ESSEX, first of her class

 SS Lurline or any of the Matson line ships converted to troop carriers before the liberty ships came on line.

 

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Posted by sharkbait on Friday, January 30, 2009 12:55 AM

I'll vote for the Lurline and anything Matson also - my Uncle was an Officer aboard on Dec 7 - 1941. The copy of the report written about what they did as they continued to sail ( AS fast as possible being as they believed that the Japanese may have attacked Pearl Harbour while enroute to the US west coast) towards the US mainland from Honolulu is fascinating.

 Also a canadian built Fort or Park freighter as well as a couple of typical WW2 tankers ( Brit and US T-2 and would be interesting builds.

Corvette,of course, as well as a Castle class frigate would be nice.

USS Guadalcanal, a DDE and U-505 would be an interesting group.

 

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Posted by ejhammer on Friday, January 30, 2009 7:47 AM

Yup, my dad was in the 32nd Red Arrow Division and was on the first boatload of guys to be shipped out on the Lurline to Australia and on to New Guina, "The Ghost Mountain Boys".

 

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Posted by searat12 on Friday, January 30, 2009 8:22 PM

The 1/350 scale is very heavy these days with Japanese ships, and really, there are only a few more that I would like to see from the IJN.  Currently, you can (of course!) get a Yamato or Musashi, a Ngato or Mutsu, an Ise, a Kongo, Kirishima, Haruna, and that's just the battleships.  There is an Akagi, and aa Shoakaku soon to be released for carriers, the Takao class, the Mogami (in AC mode) and rumors of the Myoko class coming too.  There is the Yukikaze destroyer from both Hasegawa and Tamiya, and Hasegawa has a limited release (at enormous cost!) Floatplane tender.  If I had my wish for remaining Japanese subjects, it would be another common class of destroyer ('Shigure?'), a light carrier of some sort ('Zuiho' would be good!), and most importantly, a couple light cruisers.

In this line, I would recommend first a 'Agano' class light cruiser, and either 'Jintsu,' or 'Kitikami.'  This last (in full torpedo mode) is a ship-type that amazingly, did little in WW2, although the Guadalcanal campaign cried out for ship of just this type!!  It is a strange thing, but I have never understood why the Japanese, after cleverly creating a class of 'light cruisers' in the Mogami class, did not design a light cruiser class to take advantage of the available 6" turrets when the 'Mogamis' traded turrets for 8"... The 'Aganos' could really have benefited from the triple 6" turrets available, and would have been better ships for it (9 x 6", vs 6 x 6")

But while I would really like to see something like 'Yamashiro,' I think it may be time to have a look at some of the US and other ships of WW2.  There is currently a wide range of US fleet carriers available (thanks to Trumpeter), and certainly the Iowas, North Carolinas and Massachusetts classes are well represented.  But there is only one US heavy cruiser class (San Francisco 'n friends), and no light cruisers (love to see a USS Brooklyn, as fine and beautiful a class of light cruiser as ever sailed!!), plus two destroyer classes (Fletcher and Gearing), and the liberty ship (Jeremiah O'Brian).

Some British light and heavy cruisers would be a very good thing!!  Some French and more Italian cruisers would be even more welcome!!  And finally, a selection of more German ships (Graf Spee!  Scharnhorst!!), and even perhaps a Russian WW2 ship or two would be most welcome!!

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Posted by kapudan_emir_effendi on Sunday, February 1, 2009 4:59 PM

Fuji class Japanese predreadnought. It also can be easily converted to the memorable "Royal Sovereign" class RN predreadnought.

Either protected cruiser Yoshino or the armored cruiser Iwate. Especially the Yoshino can be converted to a dearth of other Armstrong cruisers of South American navies so my choice would be Yoshino. But Iwate also can be converted to other South American ships.

Dreadnought HMS Royal Oak

plus, I would like to see Flagman's upcoming "30 knotter" type Yarrow built imperial russian destroyers in the market asap. To these kits, you can raise most of the contemporary navies' ensigns without any modifications.

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, February 7, 2009 4:37 PM

Here's a shot of the upcoming Trumpeter Repulse from the Nuremberg show

http://www.kitlink.com/Images/ProductImages/salespic/toyfair09/TSM5312.jpg

 

 

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Posted by warshipbuilder on Monday, February 9, 2009 4:53 AM
Academy have announced a 1/350 Graf Spee, with possibly a Admiral Scheer & Lutzow to follow -

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Posted by searat12 on Monday, February 9, 2009 7:20 AM
Hooray!!  All that's missing now is 'Scharnhorst!!'
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Posted by warshipbuilder on Monday, February 9, 2009 1:34 PM
My only reservation is that the boxart design looks a bit like the old Heller stuff. I dearly hope that Academy haven't just rescaled the old Heller 1/400 kit.

Academy are well known for rejigging kits from other producers.

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Posted by warshipguy on Monday, February 9, 2009 2:47 PM

Searat12,

How about Gneisenau, Lutzow/Deutchland, Admiral Scheer, Blucher, and Admiral Hipper as well as Scharnhorst?

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Posted by searat12 on Monday, February 9, 2009 4:56 PM
Well, Revell has the Bismarck (and soon the Tirpitz too), Trumpeter is coming out with Prinz Eugen (which comes with a S-100 torpedo boat and it should be on my doorstep very soon!), which is the best of the three German 'heavies.' I have heard that Graf Zeppelin is due out as well. The Graf Spee and Lutzow are virtually the same (until Lutzow had her tower changed to a pole-mast affair), and i don't care about ANY of the German light cruisers (all rubbish!!), and if a Scharnhorst comes along, it can be easily modified to become Gneisenau (if the model companies don't do it first!).  The only other German WW2 ship I would like to see might be one of the German destroyers, but I won't hold my breath.  So here's to hoping that Scharnhorst will come along soon, and I also hope likewise the Academy Graf Spee doesn't turn out to be rubbish.....
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Posted by Robertone139 on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:12 AM

It seems as if te Japanese manufacturers have caught up and are now flooding the market with new incessant 1/350 IJN subjects. Only three left that I may be interested in are Fuso, Tone and Oyodo (I just happen to like this latter's lines).

The WWII US NAVY kinda' fell behind the Jap onslaught, no more cruisers? I know I would like a Canberra and this would lend itself to a post war modernization subject. Also missing from the US line-up are the all important CVLs and CVEs.

Italy's WWII Royal Navy is probably the worst represented, missing is at least a Littorio Class BB or an earlier one, but the Littorio was the most widely known. Also Italy's cruisers of the four Condottieri sub classes are not at all represented.

The Kriegsmarine has been well represented in the last few months and the WWII Hipper is due out in the next future.

The Royal Navy is missing a couple of important light cruisers that may go hand in hand with the recent releases of the Graf Spee, as well as carriers and destroyers.

The French....whatever.

As for more modern subjects, we are getting the Illustrious and the gator navy's Wasp by year's end.

So, here's my listing:

1- Roma, of course.

2- CVL or CVE

3- Fuso

4- US cruiser

5- British cruiser

 

 

 

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Posted by eatthis on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:24 AM

the graf spee prince eugen and gneisenau (sp) are all out in the uk iv had hold of the kits i bought graf spee as couldnt afford any others lol

were scharnhorst and gneisenau sister ships?

 

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Posted by bondoman on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:15 AM
 Robertone139 wrote:
Also missing from the US line-up are the all important CVLs and CVEs.
A very true observation new fellow. The French would be much better served as well.
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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:06 PM
I've been bitten by the 1/350 bug. Over the past few weeks I keep finding them on sale at a couple of the LHSs here. Today, I found a Soviet November Class sub for $10. Over the weekend it was USS Arizona for $29. Neither are "new" releases but stuff that was not available a few years back.

 

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:10 PM
eatthis, yes on the sister ships.
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Posted by constructor on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:37 PM
All I want to see is a better detailed USS Missouri to replace the aging Tamiya kit with its molded on ladders.
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Posted by stenscience on Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:58 PM
I am 'on board' with EJhammer and sharkbait...I am looking for anything that I can adapt or build for the Matson liner Mariposa, used in WWII as a fast troopship. My Dad did 2 trips in the engine room, delivering troops to Libya and Oran. I will be building the Trumpeter Liberty ship and adapting it to look like the one he was on later (the McCormick, torpedoed April 1945) and the carrier Kearsarge (using the 1/700 Ticonderoga), but I would love to build the Mariposa, as it was his first ship.Since I am a recent returnee to the hobby after 35 years, any tips and advice would be appreciated

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Posted by onyxman on Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:23 PM

It's quite a stretch, but you could go this route:

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/service/liners/mariposa-380-rw/rw-index.html

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Posted by stenscience on Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:39 PM

Thanks, Fred...I saw this page and pic.It is nice to have a much more experienced modeller confirm what I found. I agree that it is quite a stretch. I don't think I have the chops to do what that guy did, at least not for a while. On the other hand, it looks like it is a possibility.I have a couple of other projects in mind anyway...

Regards,

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Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:59 PM

Wow,when this thread started awhile ago or threads like this one,there were many,but now I believe I'm pretty much set:

Akagi........check

Graf Spee.....check

Type VII or IXB U-Boat......Check

Japanese 8" Cruisers.......Check

Still waiting for a new SMS Emden by Hasegawa or Dragon,a US Assault ship like Tarawa or Saipan

otherwise I'm pretty happy for now.

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:35 PM
Well we have for WWII cruisers in 1/350 from Japan, US, Germany, and Italy- But not one British... How about an HMS Ajax, veteran of the River Plate and Normandy?

 

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Posted by surfsup on Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:00 PM

I would still love to see one of the following......

Ark Royal

Nelson or Rodney

HMS Belfast

Suffolk of Norfolk

USS Canberra

USS Salem

HMS Cossack

or one of the Liners like Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary or the Andrea Doria.......

We can all still dream now can't we..... 

 

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Posted by bondoman on Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:35 PM
 onyxman wrote:

It's quite a stretch, but you could go this route:

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/service/liners/mariposa-380-rw/rw-index.html

 Fred

Thats amazing. The Monterey was docked just down the street from my office for many years. I think the ILWU got her in some kind of settlement, and I am a little surprised there are no models of Matsonia, Lurline, Mahalo or Monterey available. But then, I'm not.

The Matson family built the fabulous estate named Filoli on the Peninsula south of here, most famous as the setting of "Dynasty".

William Matson Roth ran unsuccessfully for Governor in maybe 1980.  Anytime anyone of you come to SF, we'll walk up and down Montgomery Street and look in on the Dollar and Matson and P&O buildings and admire their models. The good old days. We did a building that had a big basrelief of Harry Bridges on the entry.

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Posted by oceano75 on Friday, October 23, 2009 6:59 AM

An angle deck Essex boat

A USCG 210' Medium Endurance Cutter (Reliance-class)

USCGC Bear (though I would really like her in a larger scale like 1/96!)

USCGC Northland

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Posted by onyxman on Friday, October 23, 2009 8:28 AM

".....Dollar and Matson and P&O buildings and admire their models. The good old days. "

Some enterprising kit manufacturer could turn out models of the old '518' and '535' post WWI passenger designs and they would cover any number of  historic Dollar Line and President Line ships.  

Of course, I'm raving. 

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Posted by Dutchmodler on Friday, October 23, 2009 12:49 PM
Would love to see any ships from the Royal Dutch Navy during WW2 as well as any Civil War era ships.
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Posted by Medicman71 on Friday, October 23, 2009 10:01 PM
 oceano75 wrote:

An angle deck Essex boat

A USCG 210' Medium Endurance Cutter (Reliance-class)

USCGC Bear (though I would really like her in a larger scale like 1/96!)

USCGC Northland

That's what I'd like to see. USCG Boutwell. That's my wife's maiden name and i'd like to build that one. 

 

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Posted by OldOak on Sunday, October 25, 2009 4:46 PM
Has anybody seen this? And is there any substance to it?

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Posted by ps1scw on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:22 PM

 

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Posted by eatthis on Friday, November 6, 2009 4:38 PM

i heard a romour that airfix are developing a 1.350 scale warspite anybody know if theres any truth in it

ps dreadnaught seems to have been very overlooked considering its importance

 

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Posted by armyrn on Saturday, November 7, 2009 3:57 PM

  I  would like to see some of the resin kits now out their such as  USS Virginia, Or Uss Leahy along with a Knox class FF and of course a IWO JIMA LPH all in 1/350 as for some other would be  USS Boston with her missle upgrade and a Type 23 british FFG such as the Iron Duke.. I know 1/350 USS WASP LHD-1 is coming out soon for around 260.00.  My thought is would be to keep these babies around 50 to 60.00 if possible.

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, November 8, 2009 3:48 PM

The only company that seems to be keeping all of their 1/350 kits in that price range is Academy. All the other major brands only have their smallest (destroyers) warships in that price range. It's too bad Revell(Monogram) step in to this area- In aircraft kits they have pulled off some great competition for a lower price.

 

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Posted by Robertone139 on Monday, November 9, 2009 10:11 PM
 armyrn wrote:

  I  would like to see some of the resin kits now out their such as  USS Virginia, Or Uss Leahy along with a Knox class FF and of course a IWO JIMA LPH all in 1/350 as for some other would be  USS Boston with her missle upgrade and a Type 23 british FFG such as the Iron Duke.. I know 1/350 USS WASP LHD-1 is coming out soon for around 260.00.  My thought is would be to keep these babies around 50 to 60.00 if possible.

 

Wasp is available for less than 175$ on preorder from a major web retailer.

I would love to see a Canberra CA with possible postwar conversion to a CG.

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:12 AM
I know Revellis gonna reissue the old Monogram USS Chicago CG, I would love to see that one done in 1/350 though.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:13 PM
How about a 350th scale Zuiho?
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Posted by Bimmer1 on Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:25 AM
I'd like to see:
1. DKM Scharnhorst (yeah Dragon!)
2. DKM Admirals Hipper and Scheer
3. USS Oriskany circa 1968
4. USS Ronald Reagan
5. USS John f. Kennedy
6. Modern Replenishment Vessels
7. USS Colorado
8. USS St. Louis
9. USS Nimitz/Eisenhauer newest fits
10. IJN Fuso/Yamashiro

What I certainly don't wanna see is the USS Portland!
I just competed turning a resin Indianapolis into the Portland
with lots of scratchbuilding! Lol
isn't there some sort of law thatstates: as soon as you
scratchbuild or modify, within six months the biggees go
ahead and release it?
Oh heck...go ahead and release it! :D
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Posted by surfsup on Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:18 AM

 

 

To add to that request for 1-350 Carriers, what about the following....

USS Langley

USS Ranger 

USS Wasp

HMS Victorious

An Independence Class Carrier

Foch 

HIJMS Shoho

HMS Illustrious

HMS Eagle (Original)

USS Midway

USS Forrestal

And that is just a few...Cheers Mark 

 

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Friday, November 13, 2009 7:32 PM
 Hi, I would like to see these in 1/350. Lets start with CARRIERS. The MIDWAY (VIET-NAM era) or any of the postwar angled deck ships, the above named and as a tie in to the space program how about the HORNET and the other CARRIERS involved in this effort.We do need, (This goes without doubt) The CARPATHIA,CALIFORNIA,any ship from then and NO MORE TITANICS, --PLEASE. I would of course like to see the ANDREA DORIA and STOCKHOLM, the NORMANDIE(One of the most beautiful liners that ever wet steel) "not my words".The market needs ships like the HMS RODNEY in this scale too. ANYONE FOR WW1 ships? The ships then were many and varied lets see some of them (ALL NAVIES) How a good dose of USN support vessels in 1/350? We could use ships like the PIEDMONT etc. And then go on to do a really kick butt version ,CORRECTED, of the PRESIDENT liners, MATSON liners, MOORE-McCORMACK et. al. I think a supertanker might fit here,but, I don,t think anyone is going to tool a ship like that with what is definitely a limited appeal.My last reqest would be a good VICTORY to go with the  SS JEREMIAH O,BRIAN we already have. The list could go on as many want more JAPANESE SHIPS  GERMAN SHIPS. We need to see equal time, all eras for other NAVIES,   TANKERBUILDER
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Posted by kapudan_emir_effendi on Monday, November 23, 2009 5:19 PM

SMS Goeben

SMS Schleswig-Holstein

Any Great War British dreadnought or battlecruiser but especially HMS Iron Duke or HMS Tiger.

Don't surrender the ship !
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Posted by stikpusher on Monday, November 23, 2009 11:58 PM
Well the Bronco 1/350 HMS Vanguard boomer sub showed up at a LHS.... Now for a RN nuclear attack sub...

 

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Posted by davros on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:38 AM

 stikpusher wrote:
Well the Bronco 1/350 HMS Vanguard boomer sub showed up at a LHS.... Now for a RN nuclear attack sub...

Airfix will be releasing a Trafalgar class sub early next year. An example was seen tucked in between three Illustrious kits, at SMW, Teleford.

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:29 AM
Outstanding!

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

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LSM

 

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Posted by richter111 on Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:20 PM
Modern Midway, Essex carriers
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Posted by Fred on Sunday, September 5, 2021 2:03 AM

Austro-Hungarian and Italian battleships, pre-dreadnouhts. S.M.S. Zrinyi, Erzherzog class, Habsburg class. Cruisers like Zenta, Novara, Tatra class destroyers etc. Dante Alighieri, Regina Elena...

WW1 era ships of the Kaiserliche Marine, RN and USN.

Trumpeter started a line in 1/350 with the Lord Nelsons and Dantons, would be nice to expand.

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Posted by MR TOM SCHRY on Thursday, September 9, 2021 5:17 PM

First on my dream list is I'd like to see a 1/350 USS America, especially in her early to mid-1970s configuration for her Med. cruise.  How about 1/350 Destroyer Escorts like the Samuel B. Roberts, and a WWII minesweeper.  I know that 1/350 isn't the usual scale for large sailing ships but I'd like to see a  newly tooled large scale HMS Victory, USS Kearsage, CSS Alabama, and Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind.

TJS

TJS

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Posted by GMorrison on Friday, September 10, 2021 5:28 PM

In the case of a DE, there's the Trumpeter USS England in 1/350. She's a Buckley, not a Butler like the SBR, but they are pretty close.

Its a sweet little kit, highly recommended.

 

Bill

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Posted by MR TOM SCHRY on Friday, September 10, 2021 9:30 PM

Thanks for the suggestion Bill.  I've been looking at that exact kit but I didn't know the differences between the Buckley and Butler classes.  I've always had a fondness for the "Tin Cans" of WWII.

TJS

TJS

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Posted by ikar01 on Saturday, September 11, 2021 11:48 AM

What about:

the original CVN Enterprise with the Beehive island.

Grest Lakes carrier like the Wolverine

A double deck IJN carrier

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Posted by Hutch6390 on Sunday, September 12, 2021 6:34 AM

The RN's new class of aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales, and a relaunch of the Airfix Invincible class.  No idea where I'd put them...

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

   

TakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakka

 

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Posted by Marcus McBean on Sunday, September 12, 2021 6:53 AM

I would love to see a 1/350 HMS Rodney.

Marcus Beer

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Posted by hogfanfs on Sunday, September 12, 2021 1:55 PM

I'd like to see a Colorado class BB, ideally a USS West Virginia.

Now US cruisers:

1/350 USS Salt Lake City

1/350 Baltimore Class

1/350 Atlanta Class

I know they have these in Resin, but, I rather see these in plastic.

And a Gulf War era USS Midway flattop.

 

I'm glad Very Fire has a couple Cleveland class cruisers now, just need to convince the wife why I need one...

 Bruce

 

 On the bench:  1/48 Eduard MiG-21MF

                        1/35 Takom Merkava Mk.I

 

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Posted by Thuntboss on Monday, September 13, 2021 12:56 PM

I'd like to see some "Gator Freighters" AKA LPH's, LHA's, LSD's and especially AUSTIN CLASS LPD's {specifically USS Juneau, LPD 10}!!!

"Do it as well as your experience and skill allow. Practice and persistence increase skill"

 

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Posted by Tanker-Builder on Monday, September 13, 2021 2:05 PM

Hi,TJS!

      The Buckley and Butlers are not easily identified by novices.They are that close! But the Kit Bill speaks of is a little sweetheart! I overdid the Sea Blue so she is to dark. She's small so I won't try a repaint. I did even go to the effort to add the stokes stretchers on her deckhouse bulkheads. They were all of 3/4" long when done.

 Try to find REVELL'S larger scale one. It came around just after the " Enemy Below Movie." It was based on the one in the movie. Nicer detail because of size and only the second ship they did like that.The " Forrest Sherman" D.D. being the other.

 Either one can be corrected for authenticity as well. OOPS! I forgot one in the larger ships-The U.S.S. Buchanon of St-Nazaire Fame.The Brits used a four piper(original Issue Model) to represent what the ship had been changed to for the Drydock ramming! They got it wrong at REVELL. The Brits made her look similar to German Torpedo boat Destroyers around at the time to get close enough. 

 

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Posted by Bish on Monday, September 13, 2021 2:12 PM

Hutch6390

The RN's new class of aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales, and a relaunch of the Airfix Invincible class.  No idea where I'd put them...

 

The Illustrious kit has been released 3 times, but it is hard to find at the minute, a re-release would help that and stop the silly prices. I was glad when they re-released the Type 45 kit last year. I have the same thought about the QE class ships as well, i'd like one but where do i put it. It would not surprise me if Airfix are working on it.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Monday, September 13, 2021 7:50 PM

I'll have to look, but think I have two of the Illustrious kit I got when our club sold a member's stash he left for the benefit of the club.

Both were started when I got them, but not very far along, might need some cleanup, saw some glue marks..

If I've got them,  I can send both to one of you, and let you sort out how to get one to the other.  Look complete, but can't promise anything.

 

Edit...looked today and do have two of her.

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Posted by Thuntboss on Friday, September 24, 2021 2:49 PM

I'd also like to see a USS Bennington CVA-20 after she received her angled deck, though I'd prefer it in 1/200, as well as a 1/200 USS Juneau, LPD-10

"Do it as well as your experience and skill allow. Practice and persistence increase skill"

 

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Posted by Hutch6390 on Friday, September 24, 2021 5:12 PM

Hi, Goldhammer, apologies for the tardy reply, and thank you for your very kind offer.  I'd be happy to take one and pass the other to Bish - you would, of course, be recompensed for the kits and the postage.  Please PM me to discuss further - again, many thanks for your kindness.

Bish - can you PM me as well, please, to let me know if you're interested? 

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?

   

TakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakkaTakka

 

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Friday, September 24, 2021 5:50 PM

PM sent, I'll let you and Bish sort out the logistics over there.

Just get me an address to send to via PM.

Just glad they'll find a home.

BTW, I don't find your offer disrespectful in any way or form.

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