British Cruisers...

in 1/350 injection molded... long overdue...

Very overlooked. Take the Sheffield, Jamaica, Exeter as examples. Always liked the looks of them.

Dont forget the 6" cruisers... HMS Ajax from River Plate to Normandy... a hard record to beat...

Please Airfix???

what he said

Ron

Manstein's revenge

Why aren't there any models of these???

....refer to the

thread for possible reasons...........

We want British cruisers and we want them now...

Manstein's revenge

We want British cruisers and we want them now...

Admiral Jackie Fisher wanted Battle cruisers..........

Closest I can find is below but its a bit on the high side for the price. Looks like a gap in the market for one of the bigger manufacturers

http://www.freetimehobbies.com/cms4230.aspx

P mitch

Manstein's revenge

We want British cruisers and we want them now...

harumph! harumph!

stikpusher

Dont forget the 6" cruisers... HMS Ajax from River Plate to Normandy... a hard record to beat...

Please Airfix???

...you mean like the..

HMS Indestructable

HMS Indestructable II

HMS Indestructable III

HMS Indestructable IV

HMS Indestructable V

etc...etc...etc

....well you get the picture....

HMS Manchester.

There are models of British cruisers:  in 1/700 you can get Exeter from Niko, Kent, Curlew, Delhi, Columbo, Arethusa and Galatea from H-P Models and Scylla from WSW.  You can find more from White Ensign Models as well.  WS

I too would like someone to bring out a 1/350th scale, injection molded British WW II cruiser. I've had this need ever since I read Alistair MacLean's "HMS Ulysses" many years ago. It was the first book he wrote (1955) and is the story of British light cruiser similar to the Dido class pulling escort duty on the Murmansk run. Since MacLean served on a light cruiser during WW II he had first hand knowledge of what he was writing about. I consider it the best book he wrote. I've always said if I was ever stranded in a tropical area without air conditioning I would want "HMS Ulysses" to read. MacLean's writing of the extreme cold the crew of the Ulysses endured drops the temp a good 25-30 degrees and makes you shiver. If you've never read "HMS Ulysses" and are into WW II naval novels, I would recommend it highly.

I read that book some years ago. It definitely drips with authenticity

Dreadnought52

There are models of British cruisers:  in 1/700 you can get Exeter from Niko, Kent, Curlew, Delhi, Columbo, Arethusa and Galatea from H-P Models and Scylla from WSW.  You can find more from White Ensign Models as well.  WS

You don't NEED them, you WANT them.  

The convergence in pricing which has brought the cost of plastic models closer and closer to resin certainly can't be as much of a minus any more.  I just can't see the point about moaning about a lack of subject matter simply because it isn't in the medium that you prefer.  How many of them are you going to build?  

Right now we, as modelers, are swamped with choices.  It would take all of us a couple of hundred years each to build all the ship models available on the market today.

Expand your horizons and work in resin and metal (Skytrex kits).  

Yes we do have more choices than we can realisticly build in the remainder of our natural lives. But when it comes to kits that are affordable for the average US model buyer/builder, that field narrows considerably. I listen to it at club meetings I attend and most are in a similar predicament. It is hard to justify spending $100 - $300 on a single kit with a family to support and bills needing to be payed. No matter how many hours of enjoyment I will get out of a particular build (which in my case is a LOT as I tend to build very slowly these days). Injection molded kits from the main companies tend to be significantly less costly than their resin counterparts.

DITTO to the above, and I tend to find injection-molded kits much more detailed these days and easier to build than resin ones (wasn't always like that)...And besides, I haven't been able to find a single example of the kits you listed from a mainstream supplier---or non-mainstream for that matter...

Exactly what is a main stream supplier?  

Pacific Front Hobbies carries the largest supply of ship models in the USA, FreeTime Hobbies is right after that.  Why don't you try looking there instead of making wild claims of lack of availability.  You can also get H-P models from their own website as well as one the two biggest suppliers in Europe, White Ensign Models in the UK and NNT Models in Germany.

Just because you haven't taken the time and effort to find sources doesn't mean they aren't there.  WS

Dreadnought52

Exactly what is a main stream supplier?  

What exactly is a "wild claim"?

Dreadnought52

Exactly what is a main stream supplier?  

Pacific Front Hobbies carries the largest supply of ship models in the USA, FreeTime Hobbies is right after that.  Why don't you try looking there instead of making wild claims of lack of availability.  You can also get H-P models from their own website as well as one the two biggest suppliers in Europe, White Ensign Models in the UK and NNT Models in Germany.

Just because you haven't taken the time and effort to find sources doesn't mean they aren't there.  WS

That's only a mild claim, you want wild claims, talk to Charlie Sheen...

Looking for the Department of Arguments?

That's next door..............

VanceCrozier

Dreadnought52:

Exactly what is a main stream supplier?  

Pacific Front Hobbies carries the largest supply of ship models in the USA, FreeTime Hobbies is right after that.  Why don't you try looking there instead of making wild claims of lack of availability.  You can also get H-P models from their own website as well as one the two biggest suppliers in Europe, White Ensign Models in the UK and NNT Models in Germany.

Just because you haven't taken the time and effort to find sources doesn't mean they aren't there.  WS

 

That's only a mild claim, you want wild claims, talk to Charlie Sheen...

I've built in both; I just prefer plastic. I want it in plastic, end of story.

Tracy White

I want it in plastic, end of story.

Great Models, Squadron and Sprue Brothers aren't exactly the place to go for ship models.  It's like looking for a Mercedes at a Ford Dealer. They each have a limited number of common items.  They carry few resin choices and AFAIK no metal kits.  Sprue Brothers is good for plastic.  If you want to buy ship models go to the people who sell them.

Your wild claim is that the ships I noted earlier were not available from main stream or Non mainstream suppliers (whatever that means).  I note that you did not bother to check out the huge selection of kits available at the vendors in my response.

It is OK to have a preference for the material you want to work in but it is entirely another to claim that the subjects are unavailable.

I'm a little---okay, a lot---lazy.  Post some hotlinks in your next reply that will take me straight to the place where I can get the Ajax or Achilles in 700th scale...

I'm not going to look for ships for you but I will give you the links to see for yourself:

www.pacificfront.com

www.whiteensignmodels.com

www.nntmodell.com

Unfortunately the Skytrex website seems to be down right now.  You will find on those other sites plenty of choices for British cruisers. 

NNT is in Germany but has an English language version of its site available.   WEM is in the UK.   Pacific Front is in Oregon.