1/350 kits we all would like to see!

PM sent, I'll let you and Bish sort out the logistics over there.

Just get me an address to send to via PM.

Just glad they'll find a home.

BTW, I don't find your offer disrespectful in any way or form.

Hi, Goldhammer, apologies for the tardy reply, and thank you for your very kind offer.  I'd be happy to take one and pass the other to Bish - you would, of course, be recompensed for the kits and the postage.  Please PM me to discuss further - again, many thanks for your kindness.

Bish - can you PM me as well, please, to let me know if you're interested? 

I'd also like to see a USS Bennington CVA-20 after she received her angled deck, though I'd prefer it in 1/200, as well as a 1/200 USS Juneau, LPD-10

I'll have to look, but think I have two of the Illustrious kit I got when our club sold a member's stash he left for the benefit of the club.

Both were started when I got them, but not very far along, might need some cleanup, saw some glue marks..

If I've got them,  I can send both to one of you, and let you sort out how to get one to the other.  Look complete, but can't promise anything.

Edit...looked today and do have two of her.

Hutch6390

The RN's new class of aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales, and a relaunch of the Airfix Invincible class.  No idea where I'd put them...

 

The Illustrious kit has been released 3 times, but it is hard to find at the minute, a re-release would help that and stop the silly prices. I was glad when they re-released the Type 45 kit last year. I have the same thought about the QE class ships as well, i'd like one but where do i put it. It would not surprise me if Airfix are working on it.

Hi,TJS!

      The Buckley and Butlers are not easily identified by novices.They are that close! But the Kit Bill speaks of is a little sweetheart! I overdid the Sea Blue so she is to dark. She's small so I won't try a repaint. I did even go to the effort to add the stokes stretchers on her deckhouse bulkheads. They were all of 3/4" long when done.

 Try to find REVELL'S larger scale one. It came around just after the " Enemy Below Movie." It was based on the one in the movie. Nicer detail because of size and only the second ship they did like that.The " Forrest Sherman" D.D. being the other.

 Either one can be corrected for authenticity as well. OOPS! I forgot one in the larger ships-The U.S.S. Buchanon of St-Nazaire Fame.The Brits used a four piper(original Issue Model) to represent what the ship had been changed to for the Drydock ramming! They got it wrong at REVELL. The Brits made her look similar to German Torpedo boat Destroyers around at the time to get close enough. 

I'd like to see some "Gator Freighters" AKA LPH's, LHA's, LSD's and especially AUSTIN CLASS LPD's {specifically USS Juneau, LPD 10}!!!

I'd like to see a Colorado class BB, ideally a USS West Virginia.

Now US cruisers:

1/350 USS Salt Lake City

1/350 Baltimore Class

1/350 Atlanta Class

I know they have these in Resin, but, I rather see these in plastic.

And a Gulf War era USS Midway flattop.

I'm glad Very Fire has a couple Cleveland class cruisers now, just need to convince the wife why I need one...

I would love to see a 1/350 HMS Rodney.

Marcus

The RN's new class of aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales, and a relaunch of the Airfix Invincible class.  No idea where I'd put them...

What about:

the original CVN Enterprise with the Beehive island.

Grest Lakes carrier like the Wolverine

A double deck IJN carrier

Thanks for the suggestion Bill.  I've been looking at that exact kit but I didn't know the differences between the Buckley and Butler classes.  I've always had a fondness for the "Tin Cans" of WWII.

TJS

In the case of a DE, there's the Trumpeter USS England in 1/350. She's a Buckley, not a Butler like the SBR, but they are pretty close.

Its a sweet little kit, highly recommended.

Bill

First on my dream list is I'd like to see a 1/350 USS America, especially in her early to mid-1970s configuration for her Med. cruise.  How about 1/350 Destroyer Escorts like the Samuel B. Roberts, and a WWII minesweeper.  I know that 1/350 isn't the usual scale for large sailing ships but I'd like to see a  newly tooled large scale HMS Victory, USS Kearsage, CSS Alabama, and Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hind.

TJS

Austro-Hungarian and Italian battleships, pre-dreadnouhts. S.M.S. Zrinyi, Erzherzog class, Habsburg class. Cruisers like Zenta, Novara, Tatra class destroyers etc. Dante Alighieri, Regina Elena...

WW1 era ships of the Kaiserliche Marine, RN and USN.

Trumpeter started a line in 1/350 with the Lord Nelsons and Dantons, would be nice to expand.

stikpusher wrote:

Well the Bronco 1/350 HMS Vanguard boomer sub showed up at a LHS.... Now for a RN nuclear attack sub...

Airfix will be releasing a Trafalgar class sub early next year. An example was seen tucked in between three Illustrious kits, at SMW, Teleford.

SMS Goeben

SMS Schleswig-Holstein

Any Great War British dreadnought or battlecruiser but especially HMS Iron Duke or HMS Tiger.

To add to that request for 1-350 Carriers, what about the following....

USS Langley

USS Ranger 

USS Wasp

HMS Victorious

An Independence Class Carrier

Foch 

HIJMS Shoho

HMS Illustrious

HMS Eagle (Original)

USS Midway

USS Forrestal

And that is just a few...Cheers Mark 

armyrn wrote:

I  would like to see some of the resin kits now out their such as  USS Virginia, Or Uss Leahy along with a Knox class FF and of course a IWO JIMA LPH all in 1/350 as for some other would be  USS Boston with her missle upgrade and a Type 23 british FFG such as the Iron Duke.. I know 1/350 USS WASP LHD-1 is coming out soon for around 260.00.  My thought is would be to keep these babies around 50 to 60.00 if possible.

Wasp is available for less than 175$ on preorder from a major web retailer.

I would love to see a Canberra CA with possible postwar conversion to a CG.

The only company that seems to be keeping all of their 1/350 kits in that price range is Academy. All the other major brands only have their smallest (destroyers) warships in that price range. It's too bad Revell(Monogram) step in to this area- In aircraft kits they have pulled off some great competition for a lower price.

  I  would like to see some of the resin kits now out their such as  USS Virginia, Or Uss Leahy along with a Knox class FF and of course a IWO JIMA LPH all in 1/350 as for some other would be  USS Boston with her missle upgrade and a Type 23 british FFG such as the Iron Duke.. I know 1/350 USS WASP LHD-1 is coming out soon for around 260.00.  My thought is would be to keep these babies around 50 to 60.00 if possible.

i heard a romour that airfix are developing a 1.350 scale warspite anybody know if theres any truth in it

ps dreadnaught seems to have been very overlooked considering its importance

oceano75 wrote:

An angle deck Essex boat A USCG 210' Medium Endurance Cutter (Reliance-class) USCGC Bear (though I would really like her in a larger scale like 1/96!) USCGC Northland

That's what I'd like to see. USCG Boutwell. That's my wife's maiden name and i'd like to build that one. 

".....Dollar and Matson and P&O buildings and admire their models. The good old days. "

Some enterprising kit manufacturer could turn out models of the old '518' and '535' post WWI passenger designs and they would cover any number of  historic Dollar Line and President Line ships.  

Of course, I'm raving. 

An angle deck Essex boat

A USCG 210' Medium Endurance Cutter (Reliance-class)

USCGC Bear (though I would really like her in a larger scale like 1/96!)

USCGC Northland

onyxman wrote:

It's quite a stretch, but you could go this route: http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/service/liners/mariposa-380-rw/rw-index.html  Fred

The Matson family built the fabulous estate named Filoli on the Peninsula south of here, most famous as the setting of "Dynasty".

William Matson Roth ran unsuccessfully for Governor in maybe 1980.  Anytime anyone of you come to SF, we'll walk up and down Montgomery Street and look in on the Dollar and Matson and P&O buildings and admire their models. The good old days. We did a building that had a big basrelief of Harry Bridges on the entry.

I would still love to see one of the following......

Ark Royal

Nelson or Rodney

HMS Belfast

Suffolk of Norfolk

USS Canberra

USS Salem

HMS Cossack

or one of the Liners like Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary or the Andrea Doria.......

We can all still dream now can't we..... 

Wow,when this thread started awhile ago or threads like this one,there were many,but now I believe I'm pretty much set:

Akagi........check

Graf Spee.....check

Type VII or IXB U-Boat......Check

Japanese 8" Cruisers.......Check

Still waiting for a new SMS Emden by Hasegawa or Dragon,a US Assault ship like Tarawa or Saipan

otherwise I'm pretty happy for now.

Thanks, Fred...I saw this page and pic.It is nice to have a much more experienced modeller confirm what I found. I agree that it is quite a stretch. I don't think I have the chops to do what that guy did, at least not for a while. On the other hand, it looks like it is a possibility.I have a couple of other projects in mind anyway...

Regards,

stenscience

It's quite a stretch, but you could go this route:

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/service/liners/mariposa-380-rw/rw-index.html

 Fred

Robertone139 wrote:

Also missing from the US line-up are the all important CVLs and CVEs.

the graf spee prince eugen and gneisenau (sp) are all out in the uk iv had hold of the kits i bought graf spee as couldnt afford any others lol

were scharnhorst and gneisenau sister ships?

It seems as if te Japanese manufacturers have caught up and are now flooding the market with new incessant 1/350 IJN subjects. Only three left that I may be interested in are Fuso, Tone and Oyodo (I just happen to like this latter's lines).

The WWII US NAVY kinda' fell behind the Jap onslaught, no more cruisers? I know I would like a Canberra and this would lend itself to a post war modernization subject. Also missing from the US line-up are the all important CVLs and CVEs.

Italy's WWII Royal Navy is probably the worst represented, missing is at least a Littorio Class BB or an earlier one, but the Littorio was the most widely known. Also Italy's cruisers of the four Condottieri sub classes are not at all represented.

The Kriegsmarine has been well represented in the last few months and the WWII Hipper is due out in the next future.

The Royal Navy is missing a couple of important light cruisers that may go hand in hand with the recent releases of the Graf Spee, as well as carriers and destroyers.

The French....whatever.

As for more modern subjects, we are getting the Illustrious and the gator navy's Wasp by year's end.

So, here's my listing:

1- Roma, of course.

2- CVL or CVE

3- Fuso

4- US cruiser

5- British cruiser

Searat12,

How about Gneisenau, Lutzow/Deutchland, Admiral Scheer, Blucher, and Admiral Hipper as well as Scharnhorst?

Bill Morrison

Here's a shot of the upcoming Trumpeter Repulse from the Nuremberg show

http://www.kitlink.com/Images/ProductImages/salespic/toyfair09/TSM5312.jpg

Fuji class Japanese predreadnought. It also can be easily converted to the memorable "Royal Sovereign" class RN predreadnought.

Either protected cruiser Yoshino or the armored cruiser Iwate. Especially the Yoshino can be converted to a dearth of other Armstrong cruisers of South American navies so my choice would be Yoshino. But Iwate also can be converted to other South American ships.

Dreadnought HMS Royal Oak

plus, I would like to see Flagman's upcoming "30 knotter" type Yarrow built imperial russian destroyers in the market asap. To these kits, you can raise most of the contemporary navies' ensigns without any modifications.

The 1/350 scale is very heavy these days with Japanese ships, and really, there are only a few more that I would like to see from the IJN.  Currently, you can (of course!) get a Yamato or Musashi, a Ngato or Mutsu, an Ise, a Kongo, Kirishima, Haruna, and that's just the battleships.  There is an Akagi, and aa Shoakaku soon to be released for carriers, the Takao class, the Mogami (in AC mode) and rumors of the Myoko class coming too.  There is the Yukikaze destroyer from both Hasegawa and Tamiya, and Hasegawa has a limited release (at enormous cost!) Floatplane tender.  If I had my wish for remaining Japanese subjects, it would be another common class of destroyer ('Shigure?'), a light carrier of some sort ('Zuiho' would be good!), and most importantly, a couple light cruisers.

In this line, I would recommend first a 'Agano' class light cruiser, and either 'Jintsu,' or 'Kitikami.'  This last (in full torpedo mode) is a ship-type that amazingly, did little in WW2, although the Guadalcanal campaign cried out for ship of just this type!!  It is a strange thing, but I have never understood why the Japanese, after cleverly creating a class of 'light cruisers' in the Mogami class, did not design a light cruiser class to take advantage of the available 6" turrets when the 'Mogamis' traded turrets for 8"... The 'Aganos' could really have benefited from the triple 6" turrets available, and would have been better ships for it (9 x 6", vs 6 x 6")

But while I would really like to see something like 'Yamashiro,' I think it may be time to have a look at some of the US and other ships of WW2.  There is currently a wide range of US fleet carriers available (thanks to Trumpeter), and certainly the Iowas, North Carolinas and Massachusetts classes are well represented.  But there is only one US heavy cruiser class (San Francisco 'n friends), and no light cruisers (love to see a USS Brooklyn, as fine and beautiful a class of light cruiser as ever sailed!!), plus two destroyer classes (Fletcher and Gearing), and the liberty ship (Jeremiah O'Brian).

Some British light and heavy cruisers would be a very good thing!!  Some French and more Italian cruisers would be even more welcome!!  And finally, a selection of more German ships (Graf Spee!  Scharnhorst!!), and even perhaps a Russian WW2 ship or two would be most welcome!!

Yup, my dad was in the 32nd Red Arrow Division and was on the first boatload of guys to be shipped out on the Lurline to Australia and on to New Guina, "The Ghost Mountain Boys".

EJ

I'll vote for the Lurline and anything Matson also - my Uncle was an Officer aboard on Dec 7 - 1941. The copy of the report written about what they did as they continued to sail ( AS fast as possible being as they believed that the Japanese may have attacked Pearl Harbour while enroute to the US west coast) towards the US mainland from Honolulu is fascinating.

 Also a canadian built Fort or Park freighter as well as a couple of typical WW2 tankers ( Brit and US T-2 and would be interesting builds.

Corvette,of course, as well as a Castle class frigate would be nice.

USS Guadalcanal, a DDE and U-505 would be an interesting group.

I'd like a 1960 - 63 USS ESSEX, first of her class

 SS Lurline or any of the Matson line ships converted to troop carriers before the liberty ships came on line.

EJ

I guess that we now have a reason to support our favorite manufacturers . . .

Bill Morrison

I have a general comment for the kit and the price . . . WOW!!!!  But, Mogami is an interesting ship. She would really complement the Ise!

Bill Morrison

I dont know how many folks here have seen this.... Tamiya 1/350 Mogami in her late war configurtion with the rear seaplane flight deck.

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=78021

   Merchant marine/Passenger vessels please......

      So many many many Titanics but nary a Carpathia to accompany them....Even a California would be nice but stretching it.

           Also how about a 'Wilhelm Gustloff' Both historically significant ships...but grey steel will always come first I suppose...:-(

Space_Moose wrote:

HMS Incomparable, A mighty ship that never was and would make a 1/350 scale battleship model that was 87cm long and beautiful in mystery since it was designed in 1915 but never ordered (a lot bigger then any 1/350 Yamato, Bismarck, Iowa or Hood)

If we are looking at phantom ships, I believe a good choice could be the REAL Battlecruisers started by the USN in 1920. Navsource has a profile view of the class. It looks like it would have been a fascinating ship to build. According to Navsource, it would have had 8 16"/45 guns and 16 6" guns, with a speed of 32 knots.  All six of the class were started, but the Washington Treaty caused four to be scrapped and CC-1 and CC-3 became CV-1 Lexington and CV-3 Saratoga.  These would have been more powerful than any other battlecruisers in the world, imo, and also most of the battleships at that time. The Alaska Class Large Cruisers would have been little sisters to these. The naval archives might still have the plans.  Maybe?  We have models available of the USS Montana (BB-65), and these were closer to completion than it was.

searat12 wrote:

Why not simply Lusitania (Aquitania sistership), as this is a more historic ship?  It can easily be repainted as Aquitania....

Because she wasn't her sistership, Mauretania was! Aquitania was a completely different stand-alone liner. Btw even though Lusitania and Mauretania were sisters they were quite different.

I still would like to see anything in the realm of the never-before-modeled range, including Italian WWII battleships and cruisers, anything from WWII, etc.

Bill Morrison

Hi all,

I am new 350th builder, well new to all of it again after a 20some year absence, and I would like to get some WWII allied Subs and the big E as well as any other escorts, ok and the Ronald Reagan or a new supercarrier as they are right now. 

I decided to only do 1/350 so you could really get the size difference down.

Later all

T

stikpusher wrote:

Well Trumpeter has the Repulse on thier new release list of their site now... and a 350th scale Kilo class sub. Gotta get me that Kilo!

http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtmlhttp://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtmlhttp://www.cybermodeler.com/news/news081231a.shtml

searat12 wrote:

Well, it is that time once again to put our best requests forward!  While many on this forum feel that this is a waste of time, it is important to note how many wonderful kits have been produced in the last year!  .......... Revell of Germany got into the act by producing a splendid update of 'Bismarck'!  ....  Finally I would like to hand out sincere thanks to Dragon for the 'Buchanan' destroyer,

My wish is very modest: An Iowa class battleship done with modern tooling technique similar to those of the Revell Bismarck or the Dragan smart kits and at the Revell Bismarck price range. They have proven that high quality kits can be produced at reasonable price using modern engineering techniques.

I don't want another $150-plus kit so Hasegawa, Tamiya or Trumpeter, please, stay out of it.  They should focus on the specialist market where customers are willing pay extra for subjects of less popular appeal.

USS Aylwin (DD-355) ca. 1939-1942.

USS St. George (seaplane tender) ca. 1943-1945.

So let's hope Fujimi will learn a thing or two from Dragon's DD-484 and put their standard there....else the Shokaku's gonna be a huge let down after all the excitement/announcement.

I'd like to see a decent, affordable kit of: the Ruben James, sunk 31 Oct 41/

                                                        Uss Enterprise, 1970 Configuration

                                                        USS Shangri-la

                                                        Tucumcari Gunboat

                                     Civil War ships

Who's doing the Zuikaku/Shokaku?

A Taiho would be cool too...

I would like to see USS Midway, prefereably as she was retired.

Steve

Put me down for:

Graf Spee

Any WWII German Raider.........Atlantis.....Kormoran....Orion

warshipbuilder wrote:

How about HMS Dreadnought - the one which started it all. Can't get more historically significant than that!

USS Monitor?   HMS Warrior?  Soviet Kashin destroyer?   

Yup, I think a British 'County' class heavy cruiser would be a good thing (HMS Dorsetshire would be a good choice), along with a British 'Tribal' class destroyer, and of course, a few WW1 ships would be very welcome indeed!

HMS Lion battlecruiser

HMS Iron Duke battleship

HMS Queen Elizabeth battleship

HMS Glasgow cruiser

SMS Derfflinger battlecruiser

SMS Scharnhost armored cruiser

A Butler Class DE so I can build one for my Dad.

 Jerry

chris hall wrote:

warshipbuilder wrote: Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser? Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford. HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified. Yes!!!!! Wonder who'll be doing the tooling (can you say 'Trumpeter'?) Series 12 kits sell for about £40 (say USD60). Not at all unreasonable. If it comes about, I think this would be the first 1/350 injection-moulded kit of a serving RN vessel ever! Cheers, Chris.

Excellent choices Chris, but Trumpeter is not the one to do it. Dragon would be the first choice, with Tamiya right behind.

Cleveland Class CL

Idependence Class CVL

Rudderow Class DE

RN WWII Carriers

Vietnam Era Essex

Definately we would like to see these ships in 1/350 injection moulded kits:

HMS Daring Type-45 Destroyer (Trumpeter I know you can do it well and the people you send to research the ship can do spy work for the Peoples Liberation Army Navy.) Even better in 1/200

HMS Hermes with an option to make it as the INS Viraat (Again a Trumpeter profit maker, maybe a million potential customers in India alone.)

HMS Astute SSN, A very exciting ship. Even better in 1/144

HMS Incomparable, A mighty ship that never was and would make a 1/350 scale battleship model that was 87cm long and beautiful in mystery since it was designed in 1915 but never ordered (a lot bigger then any 1/350 Yamato, Bismarck, Iowa or Hood)

I'm very fond of pre-dreadnoughts myself, and a few come immediately to mind that I would love to see in 1/350 scale styrene:

Russian 'Peresviet' battleship

Russian 'Gromoboi' Armored cruiser

Russian 'Askold' Light cruiser

Japanese Tokiwa Armored cruiser

Japanese 'Hatsuse' battleship

HMS Canopus battleship

HMS Good Hope Armored cruiser

USS Brooklyn ACR 3 (my favorite predreadnought!)

USS Charleston C 22

USS Pennsylvania ACR 4

USS Tennessee ACR 10

German SMS Yorck Armored cruiser

German SMS Blucher Armored cruiser

I would like to see more pre-dreadnought plastic, mainly U.S. battleships and cruisers, also late 19th century coastal monitors(probably a little too esoteric for most mfgrs.) How about R/RG doing a new PT boat in 1/72 with the same quality as the S-100's?. There is a serious lack of Coast Guard ships as well, or how about late 19th/early 20th century subs? I know some of the aforementioned are addressed in resin, but I along with many others, I'm sure, can't afford to buy resin all the time.

Jim

The main prblem with Trumpeter is their inconsistency. Maybe this is related to the level of information available to the Chinese toolmakers. Each new release is a Pandora box, we can never be sure what we will find inside. It can be either an outstanding model like their Hood or, in aviation, the 1/32 Me 262, or the model has shape errors that are difficult to fix, one side of the hull is bigger than the other, etc. I've never heard Revell of Germany has made serious shape errors on their most recent kits. Even the Bismarck I mentioned before has some small detail errors, but nothing difficult to fix.

 Regards,

Nelson

searat12 wrote:

Not sure about the DKM Scharnhorst, but I know Trumpeter is releasing a DKM Prinz Eugen that is getting rave reviews, and come to think of it, most model manufacturers make mistakes at some time or another (not an excuse, just a reality!)..... I know Trumpeter has held up the release of HMS Repulse in order to sort out a bunch of flaws, Hasegawa screwed up it's 'Nagato' something awful with heavily molded CAD lines all over the hull, Fujimi's 'Kongo' and 'Haruna' has the wrong shape hull embrasures for the secondary armament, and Aoshima put huge ridges on the turrets of their 'Takao' class cruisers..... And that was just in the last year!

I kinda like the 1/72 scale offerings, and they're not perfect. But still seem to have fewer errors than the others.

gary

eatthis wrote:

Nelson Ott wrote: - DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau   i beleive trumpeter are gonna be doin a scharnhorst along with repulse but i dont know when

 Excellent, but I'd rather see Revell of Germany doing this. Their new Bismarck is first class ! Trupeter sometimes makes silly mistakes.

 Regards,

 Nelson

Might be nice to see an HMS Malaya as well, since these QE's and the R battleships did so much in the Med.....

davros wrote:

eatthis wrote:  warshipbuilder wrote: Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser? Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford. HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.   no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s  The last time I was on Hermes was when I was about eighteen months old in 1959. It was on an open day for the families of the workers who built her and my dad took me; or so I'm told. I, obviously, don't remember any of it.

hedve been about the same age lol

eatthis wrote:

warshipbuilder wrote: Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser? Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford. HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.   no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s

The last time I was on Hermes was when I was about eighteen months old in 1959. It was on an open day for the families of the workers who built her and my dad took me; or so I'm told. I, obviously, don't remember any of it.

 I would like to see some WWII British Carriers like the Ark Royal or Eagle.

Remember the old Pine Island sea plane tender? It would be cool in 350 with new tech as well.

Maybe then something diff like an Italian Battleship Like the Roma or something.

I would ask for some Soviet Cold War-era subjects, but seeing that Trumpeter's just released a Kirov makes that request seem purely greedy. 

So, how about a Vitenam-era Essex class carrier? Say the Oriskany, BonHomme Richard or Intrepid?

And well,I'll second the call for a Forrestal or at least a Kitty Hawk/Constellation as well.

Nelson Ott wrote:

Hi all, In my opinion the Kaiserliche marine and the Kriegsmarine produced the best looking battleships, battle cruisers and cruisers ever. So my list for new 1:350 kits is: - SMS Von der Tann - SMS Seydlitz - SMS Moltke - SMS Lützow - SMS Derfflinger - SMS Baden - DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau - DKM Graf Spee And any British ship that fought at Jutland too.  Regards,  Nelson

i beleive trumpeter are gonna be doin a scharnhorst along with repulse but i dont know when

Hi all,

In my opinion the Kaiserliche marine and the Kriegsmarine produced the best looking battleships, battle cruisers and cruisers ever. So my list for new 1:350 kits is:

- SMS Von der Tann

- SMS Seydlitz

- SMS Moltke

- SMS Lützow

- SMS Derfflinger

- SMS Baden

- DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau

- DKM Graf Spee

And any British ship that fought at Jutland too.

 Regards,

 Nelson

warshipbuilder wrote:

Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser? Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford. HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s 

TD4438 wrote:

Anything with tri-pod or cage masts.Some WWI ships would be nice as well.

I agree!  I think something either pre-WWI.  Like the Konig or USS Maine, USS Texas, or even the USS Olympic.  How about something from Sail and Steam era combined.  Last suggestion, how about Ironclads???

kustommodeler1- please send me any all info you have on the Sara, and a list of mods you did to the 1/542 kit. I've got that exact kit, and would like to do it configured to pre-desert storm,when my dad did a tour aboard her.

For kits I'd like to see in 1/350-

Any ship involved in the Battle of Jutland

USS Baltimore CA-68

warshipbuilder wrote:

Anyone want a 1/350 RN Invincible Class Thru-deck Cruiser? Airfix/Hornby announced one for 2009 this morning at IPMS 2008 at Telford. HMS Illustrious 1:350 A12202 newly tooled for 2009, no release date specified.

Yes!!!!! Wonder who'll be doing the tooling (can you say 'Trumpeter'?) Series 12 kits sell for about £40 (say USD60). Not at all unreasonable.

If it comes about, I think this would be the first 1/350 injection-moulded kit of a serving RN vessel ever!

Cheers,

Chris.

USS Indianapolis

ANY Jeep Carrier Both in Plastic! Can't afford a $250+kit

Will

Knox Class FF (USS Capodanno)

Perry Class FFG ((short hull) Antrim, Clark, Lewis B. Puller, George Philip)

Utah 1941

Nevada / Oklahoma 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Tennessee / California 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Maryland / W. Virginia 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or) 

How about:

Conte di Cavour/Giulio Cesare/Littorio

Queen Elizabeth (WWI)/Mayala (WWII)

Queen Elizabeth/Valiant (WWII)/Warspite (WWII)

Iron Duke

Any Revenge Class BB

Von der Tann/Goeben/Seydlitz/Derfflinger

Kongo/Fuso (WWI)

                                                                Bill Morrison

searat12 wrote:

If you like the French pre-dreadnoughts, i'm surprised you don't like the Russians!  'Tsesarivitch' is a classic example (and built in France to a French design)

Russian and Japanese pre-dreads are already available.  I put priority on ones not currently available.

I want some Amphibs.  LPD's, LHA's, LSD's, LST's 

just two ships come to my mind right away

* a really up to date four stack destroyer

* a better kit of a destroyer escort in the Atlantic configuration

maybe down the road I'd like to see some British stuff. Like maybe the Ajax. And the Langley.

gary

French Pre-dreadnoughts

German Pre-dreadnoughts

American Pre-dreadnoughts

British Pre-dreadnoughts

Any predreadnoughts that's neither Russian nor Japanese.

French Pre-dreads preferred because of their fantasy castle appearences.

Id like to see the Fuso and Yamashiro

Some WW1 battleships like Queen Elizabeth class. lets get a battle of Jutland line up. 

Warspite , Rodney, Nelson and some british cruisers 

repulse

ww2 ark royal (my grandad was on it)

scharnhorst

I would like to see a 1/350 scale BB-38 Pennsylvania in her late '44-on configuration. It would be perfect if Dragon could take what they've done in 1/700 scale and do it in 1/350. Here she is seen leading colorado:

Of course most any of the Pearl Harbor salvage/survivors would be great, like BB-46 Maryland, BB-36 Nevada, BB-45 California, BB-48 West Virginia, and especially after thier '43/'44 rebuilds like BB-43 Tennessee seen here in mid-'43:

My nomination for 1/350 carrier would have to go to one of my favorite old gals, the Forrestall-class CV-60 Saratoga in her final fit just before decommissioning as seen here in her '90-'91 fit. What Charms me the most about this old girl is all the modern equipment were add-ons in her long life and they look like it.

I'm doing the Revell 1/542 scale kit with scratch-built upgrades to this configuration, as you an see all that is in white is scratch built from sheet styrene, but I want a BIG one.

Well, that's it for me for now. Thanks for listening.