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Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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My survey voting was Older Battleships 1890 to 1920. Sailing ships of the cargo and passenger type of the 19th Century
Good Judgement comes from a Bad Experience. Completed USS Arizona (426 scale) Starting 1/350 Banner using wood deck for Hobby Boss Kit.
Randy,
There is, in fact, a 1/350 USS Intrepid available from Gallery Models. It is an excellent kit. You should look into it.
Bill
Wow, that's one good looking cruiser! What's in the tub(s)? hanging off the stern? AA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rochester_%28CA-124%29#/media/File:USS_Rochester_%28CA-124%29.jpg
Mike
Hector Berlioz
Well,Gee!DDP59
Tanks for the Memories .She's a purty thing ,ain't she ?
Here's (I think) a reasonable suggestion, given the current interest in World War I: how about a 1/700 Lusitania? If Aoshima did it, maybe it could include the U-20, the sub that sank her. (Aoshima did similar things for the Ark Royal and the Wasp.) For that matter, how about a 1/350 WWI U-boat? Few classes of ships have had a bigger impact on history.
Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.
Nice thread. Me? I'd love to see a 1/350 scale Essex-class carrier with the angled deck, island and hurricane bow modifications.
Higgins PT boats, in 1/72 and 1/35 scales respectively, with optional PE and plastic parts for early and late-war upgrades, such as radar, torpedo tubes or launch racks, and varying fits of rapid-fire cannon and 40mm AA guns.
USCG Point-class cutters.
A USN Swift boat in 1/35 scale. A nice complement to the Tamiya PBR and Dragon Light Seal Support Craft, or LSSC.
More civilian motorboats, motor yachts and sailboats in plastic. say, in 1/48 scale or a constant scale for compatiblity in size and display.
Thanks,
Randy
I think that Blue Ridge is a reincarnation of the Yankee Modelworks Co. I bought a Blue Ridge Nautilus SSN 571. A really really nice model on 1/350.
Memory teases me that Mark Mitscher trained on one of the paddlewheel carriers, but I looked it up again and could only find reference to Langley. A true brown shoe and one heck of an Admiral. Just read a good book which involved Task Force 58, Mitscher and his brain trust including Arleigh Burke.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
I watch Jeopardy daily so I'll be on the lookout! Thanks for the details.
There were actually two of those paddle wheel training carriers, the Wolverine and the Sable. They were converted from paddlewheel steamers early in WWII. They weren't always the best solution for carrier training, as they were pretty slow, so there were times of low wind conditions where they simply couldn't be used. Still, they make a good trivia question: "Name two paddlewheel aircraft carriers". Somehow I doubt if they'll come up on Jeopardy. Nonetheless, I really love unusual subjects to model, so Wolverine would be just up my alley.
On the bench: 1/350 Trumpeter HMS Dreadnought; 1/350 Academy USS Reuben James FFG-57
ships4ever Search for USS Wolverine. It also shows up automatically as one of the first new items on the page.
Search for USS Wolverine. It also shows up automatically as one of the first new items on the page.
Crap! I'm thining I'm looking for a Great Lakes ore boat - totally missed the meaning of carrier which is of course whaty it is! I saw that kit and was saying to myself "thats an aircraft carrier not a Great Lakes boat". Prolly cuz I never knew there was such an animal!
Sorry for the trouble!
ships4ever Pacific Front, or Freetime Hobbies. Looks really cool, and the price is $99.95.
Pacific Front, or Freetime Hobbies. Looks really cool, and the price is $99.95.
I'm struggling here. Anything Pacific Fron seems to resolve to Freetime Hobbies and there, searching for Great Lakes, I don't find any new 1/700 laker for $99. What am I missing?
I believe Pacific Front is now part of Freetime Hobbies. Blue Ridge Models seems to be Freetime's house brand.
The kit does look great.
ships4ever There is a 1/700 Great Lakes carrier that will be out soon.
There is a 1/700 Great Lakes carrier that will be out soon.
From where?
There is a 1/700 Great Lakes carrier that will be out soon. The USS Wolverine is on the Pacific Front website. It is a resin kit from Blue Ridge Models. From the pics, it looks really great, with PE for paddlewheels, as well as the obligatory railings, etc.
As for City Class ironclads, Flagship Models has a 1/192 USS Cairo. You can also find that on Pacific Front.
I can never get enough of 1/200 scale and I hope we get more in the future. I would really love to see some golden age liners in the scale (and not just an inevitable Titanic... my first choice would be Queen Mary). I would sign on to a 1/200 essex class carrier too.
A 1/72 type XXI U-boat would also be awesome.
Finally I would really love to see some new tool, large scale "Age of Sail" subjects.
What about a Great Lakes carrier? It sure would attract attention to see a carrier with paddle wheels.
Or, to go back even farther, a City class ironclad from the Civil war, of some of the ships from the Great white Fleet. They had some designs you wouldn't believe.
tankerbuilder, USS Rochester (CA-124) is an Oregon City-class heavy cruiser.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=uss+rochester+ca+124&biw=1920&bih=911&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja2PSswqDLAhULuYMKHcJOA7wQ_AUIBigA&dpr=1
I want a WWII German Commerce Raider in 1/350 like Atlantis,Kormoran,Pinguin,or Orion done right,fully detailed Ala Hasegawa,Dragon.
Don, take a look at this: http://navymodelsandbooks.co.uk/product-category/meridian-1700-scale-trafalgar-ships/ .
I think this is the old Skytrex line, repackaged. I have the Skytrex 1/700 HMS Victory; it's a really nice kit. And now the new owners are converting to resin from white metal.
In the back of my mind I have the notion of a diorama featuring that 1/700 Constitution being towed by the Skywave 1/700 Perry-class frigate Samuel Eliot Morison. That scene actually happened some years back, when the Morison towed the Constitution on her annual July 4 "turnaround cruise" around Boston Harbor.
I'd love to see more of the old 1:600 sailing ships, maybe with PE rigging either included or as an option package. I saw an item in FSM about a 1:700 Victory, but the web site shown in the mag did not list the kit. And since I already have a few of the old ones built, I'd like to see them stay with the 1:600.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
tankerbuilder P.P.S. How about a 1/350 Graf Spee before she got toasted in , Montevideo was it ?
Available from both Trumpeter and Academy in 1/350
This is the little island in which I grew up. Born in 1943, I was lucky enough to see some marvelous ships along the piers on the Hudson River. My dad would sometimes drive my brother and I along Riverside Drive just to see the ships. The photo I'm attaching I just commandered from the net simply because it's from the 50's - when I was between 7 and 16 years old and this was the decade I remember best for the big ships. My dad worked for Otis Elevator Co. and one time he took my brother and I aboard one of those ships - I've forgotten whether it was the Queen Mary or the United States - to inspect an elevator in one of the stacks (His job was as an inspector ).
It would be nice to see more liners available in styrene.
Looked for awhile years back to find an Oregon, did and it was stored in the motorhome out at a friends place. Place got sold and cleaned out. Never saw any of it again, coach or a 4x4 p/u that was out there as well.
How about some of the stuff plying the Great Lakes, preferably in styrene, and in a scale for fumbling older fingers and eyes. There is close to 300 years of shipping to work off of.
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