1/350 kits we all would like to see!

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Cleveland Class CL

Idependence Class CVL

Rudderow Class DE

RN WWII Carriers

Vietnam Era Essex

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.

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

 Jerry

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

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?   

Put me down for:

Graf Spee

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

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

Steve

Who's doing the Zuikaku/Shokaku?

A Taiho would be cool too...

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

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.

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

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

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.