Surfing around the web I found a couple of announcements of new kits.
Freetime Hobbies is taking pre-orders on a Tamiya 1/700 Saratoga (CV-3). This seems slightly weird. I've got the Trumpeter version, and it seems like a mighty nice kit - especially with the addition of any of several photo-etched sets available for it. Last time Tamiya did an aircraft carrier (the Yorktown [CV-5], it was a disappointing dud: a very slightly modified version of the company's almost-40-year-old Enterprise. If Tamiya can do a better Saratoga than Trumpeter, great - but I'm not holding my breath. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.freetimehobbies.com/1-700-tamiya-uss-saratoga-cv3-aircraft-carrier/ .
The more interesting release is from Trumpeter: a 1/350 Russian World War I battleship, the Tsarevich. You have to give that company credit for picking subjects that modelers wouldn't have dreamed of ten or fifteen years ago.
Trumpeter also is announcing a 1/200 Iowa. There's no information other than the box art, but it appears to be in the ship's initial configuration (with the open bridge).
Here's the Trumpeter link: http://www.trumpeter-china.com/a/en/news/20140411/2633.html .
Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.