New liners?

I can't be optimistic about this. To my knowledge (maybe someone can correct me) the only 1/350 liner kits on the market are the Minicraft Olympic and Titanic, and Hasegawa's Hikawa Maru. Revell has a good-died Queen Mary 2, but it's in 1/400.

As has been noted often in this Forum, liners and civilian ships in general are appallingly under-represented in the plastic kit industry.

No, Charles. Liner kits- no big surprise, seem to be associated with movies.

The Meng 1/150 Taiping Steamer is the first I've seen in a long while.

AFAICT theres NO connection to "American Manitowoc" ot "Great Lakes" that I can find, despite Meng's pub, and I've looked.

I didn't know Minicraft's Olympic was out yet? I have the 1/350 Titanic and the the 1/400 QM2. I also have in 1/350 the Bismarck and Lusitania. Trying to find one more to top off my collection for my curio cabinet.

Charles,

i just saw a Hasegawa 1/350 Hikawa Maru on evilBay. Opening bid $70 USD or buy it now at $100. Here is the link if you would like to check it out.

Steve

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hasegawa-N-Y-K-Line-Hikawa-Maru-Plastic-Model-Kit-/231798934950?hash=item35f84b0da6:g:4PEAAOSwHjNV90bQ

Airfix recently re-released the 1/600 Mauretania and Queen Elizabeth. Both are decent kits for their vintage.

Fred

GMorrison said, "AFAICT theres NO connection to "American Manitowoc" ot "Great Lakes" that I can find, despite Meng's pub, and I've looked."

I've looked too.  It has some similarity to a family of three passenger ships, of one line, but the term some here is very loose.  I decided the similarity was not good enough to want to build the model- especially at the price they are asking.  There is a re-release of an old Lindberg kit that is closer to that family than the Ming one, and I bought that instead, though even here there are a LOT of mods that will be necessary, including sectioning out one of the decks!

At the last Omaha Nats, a firm had a prototype of a resin Christopher Columbus, a Great Lakes whaleback liner- a one-off- that they said they would be releasing, but that never seemed to happen.

Which Lindberg kit is that, Don?

A thread started by Rcboater, a few down the list from this one, says Revell Germany is going to release a 1/600 SS United States in 2016. I'm pretty sure it's a reboxing of the kit Revell initially released in 1955 - which means it doesn't approach today's normal standards of detail. But even if I'm right, it will be noteworthy as (unless you count the Round 2 ex-Lindberg ex-Pyro American President liner, which I personally don't) the only American ocean liner in plastic kit form. Sad, but true.

GMorrison

Which Lindberg kit is that, Don?

 

It's the Q Ship.  I think it was in this forum a few years ago that someone pointed out the similarity to a line of lakers converted from US WW1 military supply ships.  I found my folder of info I collected at the time, and it consists of only photographs with index numbers for captions- except for one that was labeled Jack.  I vaguely remember something about a line of maybe three ships that were labeled after cards, like Jack, Qween and King.

Ahhh....

This project you'll remember, splicing two together.