looking for fishing trawler models

It seems Heller has reissued its Bodasteinur kit; it's listed as a "new release" on the Squadron Mail Order website:  http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=HR0608 .

Earlier today I was up in Tidewater Virginia and paid a call on a friend of mine who runs an excellent hobby shop called Denbigh Hobbies, in Newport News.  He had all three of the Lindberg fishing vessels, in their new boxes, on the shelf.  Also one of the old Revell trawlers, in its "Russian spy trawler" box.

Revell 'Kandahar' Grimsby registered Icelandic Trawler is a nice model of one of the last 'traditional' styles of deep sea fishing vessels. It is 1:142 scale (i.e the pictures of the model look a lot like the pictures of the real ship!). It hasnt been in production in Europe for a good number of years, but was never a very popular model so comes up pretty often on ebay, especially ebay UK.

 http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/misc/other/kandahar-142-bk/bk-index.html

Will 

hud wrote:

Anyone know of any fishing trawler/vessel kits? I think Lindberg made a couple some time ago but can't find one. It doesn't have to be an elaborate kit. I just have the hankering for a fishing boat. Thanks in advance. Hud

If you like working with wood, the HILDINA that John mentioned builds up into a great-looking model.  I built one as a waterline for a customer a few years ago and was a bit reluctant to part with it.  They show up from time to time on eBay and usually sell for about $60. 

Al Ross

Lindberg does in fact have three fishing vessels in its web catalog: http://www.lindberg-models.com/models-in_the_water5.html .  The "North Atlantic Fishing Trawler" and "Tuna Clipper" are reissues of old Pyro kits from the mid-fifties.  (The trawler is in fact one of several designs that Pyro "borrowed" from the old, original Model Shipways wood kit company the owners of which henceforth referred to Pyro as "Pirate Plastics."  The name of the trawler was originally Hildina.)  The shrimp boat, I'm pretty sure, is a Lindberg original - also dating from the fifties.  They're pretty basic kits, but not bad - certainly capable of being turned into nice models.

Lindberg came under new ownership recently, and I don't think all the products in its web catalog are actually on the shelves yet.  Micro-Mark, however, lists the trawler and the shrimp boat:  http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp?MerchantID=RET01229&Action=Catalog&Type=Department&ID=210 .  That implies, at least, that Micro-Mark has them in stock.

Revell also used to make a trawler (on a somewhat smaller scale than the Pyro/Lindberg one, but quite similar to it), but it doesn't seem to be in the web catalog of either Revell US or Revell Europe at the moment.

Off the top of my head those are the only styrene fishing boat kits I can think of.  Civilian ships and boats are notoriously under-represented by the model companies.

Hope that helps a little.  Good luck.