Revell New 1/450 HMS Victory

Gee, we have so many scales for those small scale sailing vessels.  Airfix and Heller used to do 1:600 scale- that seemed to be the most popular, but there were also some 1:500.  Now, 1:450.  We seem to be getting back to box scale era!

Seems awfully small to me.

i grabbed a couple of Heller 1/400 sailing ships Years back.

so small. Really bendy spars.

Interested to see this build.

We also return to the same issue concerning the manufacturers. Just how many models of the Victory do we need?  I wish Revell had manufactured HMS Queen Charlotte, HMS Vanguard, HMS Shannon, or any other famous sailing warship instead of yet another HMS Victory.

Let's see . . .

1. Heller 1/100 HMS Victory

2. Zvesda 1/180 HMS Victory

2. Airfix 1/180 HMS Victory

3. Revell 1/225 HMS Victory

4. AMC 1/225 HMS Victory

5. Airfix 1/600 HMS Victory

6. Heller 1/600 HMC Victory

7. Pyro approximately 1/600 HMS Victory

8. Lindberg appx. 1/600 HMS Victory

and now . . . Revell 1/450 HMS Victory

I wish the manufacturers would produce other ships.  It's hard to get excited about this new model.

Bill

warshipguy

 

I wish the manufacturers would produce other ships.  It's hard to get excited about this new model.

Bill

 

Me too!  If you got your knowledge of sailing warships by looking at plastic models, you'd get the idea only Britain and France built major sailing warships.  Okay, the US might have built one, the Constitution.  There were several other European nations that built them!  I'd like to see some Spanish and Danish warships, and especially Dutch (theirs were the most unique looking, with their shallow draught).

It is the same old preditable kits that makes some modelers want to construct scratch building. The kit manufacturers believe the public wants the MAYFLOWERS, CONSTITUTIONS and VICTORY style kits and not the diversified and unsung vessels of the past.

Happy modeling    Crackers   

Crackers,

I knew that you would respond! Unfortunately, you are quite correct. I remember discussing this issue with the Head of Product Development at Revell of Germany last year. He informed me then that they were developing a new sailing warship but refused to mention that it was yet another HMS Victory.  He next said to me that he prefers wood ship kits over plastic, and that is where sailing ship modelers should focus their efforts, and that there are few people actually interested in building sailing ships.  I referred him to the Model Ship World website, a site that has a membership of over 20,000 ship modelers, most of whom build sailing ships.  I cannot understand the fact that such membership is ignored by the manufacturers.

Bill

Rob,

I fully concur!

Bill

I'd like to see more Trafalgar ships aside from the Victory too  (Santissima Trinidad plus some 2 deckers) but I  picked this up Xmas time and it's quite a nice little kit. 

It's nice to have a Victory with injection plastic sails as I hate those vacform ones.  They never look right. 

warshipguy

Crackers,

I knew that you would respond! Unfortunately, you are quite correct. I remember discussing this issue with the Head of Product Development at Revell of Germany last year. He informed me then that they were developing a new sailing warship but refused to mention that it was yet another HMS Victory.  He next said to me that he prefers wood ship kits over plastic, and that is where sailing ship modelers should focus their efforts, and that there are few people actually interested in building sailing ships.  I referred him to the Model Ship World website, a site that has a membership of over 20,000 ship modelers, most of whom build sailing ships.  I cannot understand the fact that such membership is ignored by the manufacturers.

Bill

 

Maybe sailing ships aren't as popular as some things (possibly as they're harder to build?) but I bet there's more people who want new sailing ships out there than they think. 

These new smaller kits like this Victory and the ones from Zvezda like the Revenge and San Martin could be a good thing as they look really nice when finished but are much easier to build.