Well ;
This is interesting for a Zombie thread though . Many ask for certain ships and if you could , imagine a National poll . What would come out of it ? Sail Ships for sure . I don't have any room for those unless they were 1/700 or whatever .
Now for Victories , Yes there are some that are close . But after actually sailing in one in the 70s for a steamship line out of Seattle I say let's have a really good one .
The Ocala Victory looked nothing like the Revell offering . The U.S.S. Haskell , right ? Well maybe , but a very distant replica .
I feel all liners of all eras have gotten short shrift .The great ships should be represented .Why ? Well , have you ever seen such a sight as the Kaiser Whilhelm de gross , Lusitania , Mauratanias or the Queens and of course for her short life , the Normandie ? For more modern ships , The S.S. United States , America , Andrea Doria , Christphoro Colombo and the Q.E.2 all lined up at their piers at the same time ? Awesome !
I have seen pictures of the older great Ladies of the seas and seen with my own eyes the latter. Many warships are done and it's because of the fact they got sunk ! Or a certain event took place on their decks ( The end of W.W.2 ) on the " MO " .
Speaking of her . Most of the models of the Great Iowa class are post 1982 .let's have them back as they were at the end of the war , before their conversions !
They mention " Battle Cruisers "( American ) Is the U.S.S. Rochester one of those ? I saw her across from the Missouri in Bremerton and thought she was a smaller version of the " MO ". Darned fine lines and very Big guns !
Anyway there's my thoughts . P.S. of course the Nelson and Rodney ! Why ? Well they certainly had an unusual profile . Tanker - Builder P.P.S. How about a 1/350 Graf Spee before she got toasted in , Montevideo was it ?