1/200 Queen Mary 1

I'm not sure how much manufacturers look to forums for ideas on new products, especially Chinese companies. The best way to let them know would be through their website I should think. Even then..... I have been trying to get someone to consider a 1/350 Hamilton or Legend class for years....nothin except very expensive 3D.

modelcrazy

I'm not sure how much manufacturers look to forums for ideas on new products, especially Chinese companies.

Given the thousands of dollars it costs to cut moulds, and to set up the production machinery that, even in the PRC, somebody consideres the tooling costs first.

It's one sprue per mould.  A given machine is set up to work that given mould.  You then want as many machines as you have sprues.  They then run your entire production run in a go. You strike off extra sprues is a proportion that provides spares and enough to pass QC inspections and the like.  Finished product goes off to packaging.  The machines get stripped down and the mould and their fitments go into storage.  And the next production run is set up.

If slide moulds are used, and complex things like hulls, car bodies and the like all get special setups run on very specific machines.

Keeping all those machines running is a complicated task.

Since Queen Mary is about 140 feet longer than Titanic, a 1/200 scale model of her would be a huge model to be sure, perhaps the largest injection-molded plastic model kit ever made.

As CapnMac82 pointed out, tooling for a model that big is likely to be extremely costly and complex, requiring significant market demand and sales potential to pay for it.

For a time, I was seriously considering designing and offering a multi-media kit of Queen Mary (hull in resin with 3D-printed fittings).  Licensing fees required by Queen Mary's owners at the time, Urban Commons, were found to be cost-prohibitive, so the project had to be abandoned, unfortunately.

You know it was not long ago that a sailor off watch could sit down with a sharp knife and carve up a hull.

Or more recently do a bread and butter hull from drawings.

I would do a QE but it's not my thing.

I've curated ship model collections in several museums, and I can't remember a plastic model.

My primary concern would be scale.

Inches and feet or meters?

Bill

Hi;

     Well, you have the same quandery I do. Not only they Won't do it, but it's too expensive for a limited market! As has been stated, the costs of the molds and licensing fees forgoes any model such as that. I have wanted a 1/200 S.S. United States and an Italian Lines Andrea Doria for years. It is just not gonna happen.

     Wait a minute! Is that the rustle of paper going through a press? Yep! It's not only a 1/200 Andrea Doria, but her counterpart from that dark day in her history the " Stockholm." Some are a long time coming.

     Many are never to be seen in plastic. Got a lot of patience? Then check out the 1/200 offerings in Paper or Card. I picked up a teensy(1/1200) model of the Europa( the modern one) at a Train Show.Good looking Passenger Ship!

    I got home and checked my source for card, and lo and behold there was a 1/200 model of her. And she is BIG. If you did the Q.M.1 in Plastic or Card she would be almost as big as the Carrier on Display at the Pacific War Museum in Fredricksburg Texas! Can you say about six and a half feet?

 There is No model company that is going to do a Passenger Liner from The " Golden Years" of Trans-Atlantic Travel in that scale. Not enough interest,To much in Mold Production and Licensing fees. The Titanic Society gets royalties from the models of it! It's like planes. In some cases the molds( Such as they are ) are there. But now the mfgr. must pay Royalties and or License fees for a plane that's been in public Domain since during the war! 

domer94

i had to put that click bait as a subject... so how does one go about petitioning trumpeter to pursue a new 1/200 project? since seeing the titannic they produced, i have been dreaming of a QM1. i know there are a ton of different favorites that folks would want , but in keeping with the civil maritime service theme, and the next great age of liner travel period,  i figured this would be a good place to start. would forums be able to pass around a link of sorts that could be sent to trumpeter product development?

 

Sometimes mfgs have contact links on their web sites.  Try sending them suggests via those links.

uspsjuan

I want a 1/200 Ford class carrier!

1000' @ 1/200  = 5'?  A piffle.  Go straight to 1/144 I say.  (±6'-11" right at two meters)  If only because there's a fleet of a/c at the scale already.

Those dimiensions probably preclude styrene for hull use and suggest fibreglass for major structures.  And, we have a number of digital data files handy for mould making.  There being zero excuse for not including a hangar deck at 1/114.  (Prices?  Pffft!  people are forking over $6-800 for the 1/48 U Boote.)

There is a 1/250 Bremen kit, card model. Absolutely gorgeous and more detailed than a plastic kit would be. Far cheaper too

Been there,Got that.

 My selection is kind of Eclectic. I even have a World War One battleship. I think it is the KONIG. I cannot find my original stash at this time. But I do know there's a very Large KLM airliner in there too. With aluminized skin!

 The ships run the Gamut from warships to passenger vessels,Tugs etc. I do know for sure I have a Tirpitz and Gneisenau in 1/200!