1/350 ship kits we'd all like to see!

I would like to see a 1/350 of the USS Wyoming as well as an Omaha Light cruiser and a USS Montana. My father served on the USS Trenton, CL-11, in WW II he enlisted in 1940 and got out in 1946 he passed along a few stories about the T-boat as he called the Trenton. If the model companies were smart, and I wonder some times if it evades them at times, they should monitor forums for ideas. However, it boils down to how many models they can sell of a particular ship. They could combine a whole class modification into one model like the South Dakota class. I realize that would probably be real expensive to produce as for instance the South Dakota had two 5 inch/38 turrets removed so as to accommodate President Roosevelt with a state room with a bath tub. A point of interest I had read somewhere, Squadron books on battleships part 2, that the USS Montana’s bottom hull design was used on the aircraft carrier USS Midway if true that is kind of cool as the USS Midway wasn’t all that slow a ship in the water.   

I have been a Big Mo fan for as long as I can remember. All I want is a 1/350 scale of a USS Missouri in the caliber of quality of the new model ships now.

I can't believe I forgot the USS Bogue class of CVEs

I'd love to see:

IJN BB Ise

Sumner Class DDs in the 1950's-1960's era post WWII and pre FRAM

HMS Invincible Modern version (I heard Airfix was planning to release this one but not heard anything regarding dates etc. Anybody know about this?)

HMS Dreadnought  (The origin of the species)

USS Olympia new tooling in 1/350 not box scale and Oregon for that matter or any Great White Fleet ships

Modern fast fleet resupply ships.  (Go great with my Big E)

French CV Foch 

DKM Graf Zeppelin

BB USS Montana class super battleship  (I know she was never built but detailed plans and pics exist)

Italian BB Littorio  

Any pre WWI BB of British or German flag

Ocean liner Great Eastern  as a liner not a cable layer

CV USS Langley 

If I think of anything else I'll let y'all know

I'd like to see a modern kit for both the WWII configuration and post-1970 configuration of the USS Midway.

Cheers, Rick

Plastic kits of USN pre-dreadnoughts, American Civil War ironclads.

Apologies if this is a repeat, but I'd like to see a model of the first US aircraft carrier named Wasp, CV-7.

I'd like even more to see it in 1/700, though I think Corsair Armada may still offer their resin kit in their catalog.

I'd also like to see a kit of the first Ranger aircraft carrier (CV-4).  And that's one I'd like to see in 1/700, too.  Again, I know Corsair Armada made a resin kit in 1/700, but I think it's out of production.

Regards,

Brad

USS Texas (any of them, but especially BB, in both her WWI and WWII configs)

Any of the Destroyer and Destroyer Escorts of Taffy 3 in WWII

I'd like to second the suggestion of SMS Derfflinger, the most supremely elegant capital ship ever built. She was powerful and well-defended, too - a far cry from those pretty but absolutely useless British battlecruisers, with their terrible susceptibility to plunging fire.

USS Vestal AR4

Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia battleships

Tuscaloosa, Indianapolis, Atlanta cruisers

Any and all Japanese carriers that took part in the Pearl Harbor Attack

USS Greer, USS Balch, USS Monaghan, Destroyers, perhaps some could be kit bashed?

Japanese destroyers Isokaze, Hamakaze, Asashimo and Ushio

Japanese cruisers, Tone, Chokai, Tama (with refitted armament) 

Any USN WWII auxiliary ships.  

Would love to see....and some have listed,

SMS Seidlitz

SMS Hindenberg

WWI Scharnhorst/Gneisenau

WWI light cruisers

SMS Blucher(WWI)

Teggithoff

British Majestic class Pre-Dreadnoughts

My oh My what a wonderful time that would be!

It's not sacrilege. There are a lot of very nice paper card ship model kits.  Now, if we can only find them in standard 1/350 scale!

Bill Morrison

I agree that TIGER's gunnery was bad, especially at Dogger Bank. I also believe that it improved marginally at Jutland, but I am not too sure. As for the three other LION's (LION, PRINCESS ROYAL, and QUEEN MARY), LION barely avoided disaster at Jutland while QUEEN MARY exploded. I have seen conflicting reports as to the cause of her loss; one report has her magazine exploding as a result of direct hit by a 12" shell in the magazine while the other version cites poor cordite handling procedures.

That said, the surviving LION's were sold out of service within a very few short years while TIGER survived into the 1930's. I absolutely agree that her appearance improved after shipping the mainmast.

Bill Morrison 

Yeah, but TIGER was gorgeous!

Bill Morrison

warshipguy wrote:

Agreed!  The First World War is much too under-represented. Also, how about HMS Tiger? Bill Morrison

Agreed!  The First World War is much too under-represented. Also, how about HMS Tiger?

Bill Morrison

Yamashiro, certainly (it was the last battleship to duel with other battleships, if unsuccessfully!)!!!!  I also want to put another word in for WW1 battleships, battlecruisers and armored cruisers.... and some more of the Russo-Japanese war too!

SMS Derflinger

HMS Lion

SMS Scharnhorst

HMS Good Hope

HMS Iron Duke

HMS Queen Elizabeth

SMS Friedrich Der Grosse

HMS Glasgow

And for WW2,

IJN Aoba

IJN Ryujo

Prinz Eugen!!!!!!

How about FUSO and YAMASHIRO?

Bill Morrison

commando wrote:

I'd like to see more of the support vessels: LST's, LCI's, LSD's, LCT's, LCM's, mine sweepers, command ships i.e. U.S.S. Ancon.

  I would like to see them in 1/350 or 1/700.  Especially more modern day amphibs.

-Jesse

I'd like to see more of the support vessels:

LST's, LCI's, LSD's, LCT's, LCM's, mine sweepers, command ships i.e. U.S.S. Ancon. 

I agree with the 1960's Essex with hurricane bow and angle deck; also the Italian battleships of WWII (Littorrio class, Conte di Cavour, Giulio Cesare, etc.) How about the British Queen Elizabeth class ships, Revenge class, the Iron Dukes, etc.?

Bill Morrison

For what it's worth:

1) the other 5 Pearl Harbor Japanese carriers

2) USS Ward

3) USS Enterprise (WWII)

4) USS Long Beach

5) USS Shasta AE-33 

The IJNS Akagi is listed on Hasegawas website as "New Release- Available Soon"

There are two listed, The first being (I assume) 1941 and the other, in 1/700, as originally built with three flight decks.