1/350 kits we all would like to see!

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