1/350 kits we all would like to see!

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