My Ships Wishlist Item

ikar01

A Great Lakes carrier in 1/700th or 1/350th scale.

Blue Ridge Hobbies is doing just that:

http://freetimehobbies.com/1-700-blue-ridge-models-uss-wolverine-ix-64-model-kit/

It's in pre-order now.  The release was delayed when the original master of the hull was damaged.

Ration Mr. Eric a rum. Very true, very true.

EBergerud

After a couple of years of screaming we got a CV-6: it may be a bad one, so watch out about gettig what you wish for. But there is one obvious hole in the historical wall for a WWII warship: 1/350 USS Washington, dressed for the dance of February 1942. How many WWII battleships sunk enemy battleships in a group action? Not many really. How many WWII BBs sunk an enemy BB on their own? We've got Bismarck - a kit that we probably have enough of. (Especially when you think of how badly botched the entire operation was - It was like the German Navy spent the first two years of WWII helping Churchill's stading with his own people.) But look gents, the Guadalcanal Battle was a history with a captial H and Lee's ability to annihilate Kurishima at warp speed at night is most impressive. (Let's not forget that barring Fuso, Japanese capital ships didn't blow up after one hit.) And it was important - after Iron Bottom Sound (whch Washington capped off) it was down hill (or almost so) for Combined Fleet in the PTO. So the USN's Bismarck has not available in 1/350 styrene. Impossible. Unthinkable. We've got KGV, Rodney, NC, Alabama, Tirpitz (what a dog) and even a Yamato - uber-dog. Someone must do this right - and hope they don't mess up the hull.

Eric 

 

After a couple of years of screaming we got a CV-6: it may be a bad one, so watch out about gettig what you wish for. But there is one obvious hole in the historical wall for a WWII warship: 1/350 USS Washington, dressed for the dance of February 1942. How many WWII battleships sunk enemy battleships in a group action? Not many really. How many WWII BBs sunk an enemy BB on their own? We've got Bismarck - a kit that we probably have enough of. (Especially when you think of how badly botched the entire operation was - It was like the German Navy spent the first two years of WWII helping Churchill's stading with his own people.) But look gents, the Guadalcanal Battle was a history with a captial H and Lee's ability to annihilate Kurishima at warp speed at night is most impressive. (Let's not forget that barring Fuso, Japanese capital ships didn't blow up after one hit.) And it was important - after Iron Bottom Sound (whch Washington capped off) it was down hill (or almost so) for Combined Fleet in the PTO. So the USN's Bismarck has not available in 1/350 styrene. Impossible. Unthinkable. We've got KGV, Rodney, NC, Alabama, Tirpitz (what a dog) and even a Yamato - uber-dog. Someone must do this right - and hope they don't mess up the hull.

Eric 

I love this thread and want to BUMP it...

A Great Lakes carrier in 1/700th or 1/350th scale.

I want to see a 1/350 krevak class destroyer.they used to shadow the U.S. NAVY in the Indian ocean.I saw them alot when i was onboard the Ike in 1980.

I want a 1/350 birdcage mast USS Arizona or other BB in a styrene/mixed media kit. Presumably the masts would have to be photoetch.

the Baron

Aoshima covered one of my long-time wish-list kits, with their release of the Wasp in 1/700.  I got the kit, and it's not bad, par for the course for the Waterline Series.  The aircraft are the weakest part of the kit, but I'll replace them with Trumpeter aircraft, anyway.  Aoshima issued two boxings, one kitted with the I-19 at the time of her demise, and another one depicting her during her Atlantic/Mediterranean service, with a fret of Spitfires.

And Blue Ridge Hobbies is bringing out a resin Wolverine in 1/700.  Now if someone would bring out the Langley and the Ranger in 1/700, preferably injection-molded, my list would be complete.

 

Aoshima covered one of my long-time wish-list kits, with their release of the Wasp in 1/700.  I got the kit, and it's not bad, par for the course for the Waterline Series.  The aircraft are the weakest part of the kit, but I'll replace them with Trumpeter aircraft, anyway.  Aoshima issued two boxings, one kitted with the I-19 at the time of her demise, and another one depicting her during her Atlantic/Mediterranean service, with a fret of Spitfires.

And Blue Ridge Hobbies is bringing out a resin Wolverine in 1/700.  Now if someone would bring out the Langley and the Ranger in 1/700, preferably injection-molded, my list would be complete.

EdGrune

 

 

Don Stauffer

We need a Langley and a Wolverine!

 

 

 

Blue Ridge/Freetime is coming out with a 1:700 scale Sable/Wolverine.  Release got delayed because the master was dropped and broken.   Hop on the order fast because it is going to be a limited run release.   

Loose Cannon makes a 1:700 scale Langley.

Like it or not,  both of these subjects are PE intensive.    The girder-work cannot be effectively replicated by cast/injected means.    3D printing is possible but would be an expensive cost driver

 

 

I agree about the need for much PE.  That is the reason I have not scratched either of them.  I did buy one of those PE-making kits from Micro Mark, but it is a lot of work making that stuff.

Don Stauffer

I'd like to see more WW1 stuff, especially torpedo boat destroyers and light cruisers.

Just saw this listed on the US Naval Institute's clear-the-decks book sale list.    May have to spring for it.

WARSHIPS OF THE GREAT WAR ERA

I'd like a 1/350 USS Tennessee or California and a 1/350 USS West Virginia. 

I think a 144 scale s boat would be great in any configuration. Yeah the 72nd is a very cherry kit but the 72nd still scales out to a foot and a half which is still kinda big. I can't wait to see some reviews on that corvette!

GMorrison

1/144 E boat or S boat

 

1/144 E boat or S boat

Tojo72

A plastic 1/350 WWII German Commerce Raider.

Atlantis

Pinguin

Orion

Kormoran

Really detailed by Dragon or Hasegawa style.

 

AWESOME subject matter!!!

A plastic 1/350 WWII German Commerce Raider.

Atlantis

Pinguin

Orion

Kormoran

Really detailed by Dragon or Hasegawa style.

Amen to Modelcrazy. Starting with a 1/700 or 1/350 Treasury-class cutter. (Preferably in three versions: prewar white and buff with seaplane, wartime camouflaged convoy escort, and postwar white.)

New Coast Guard stuff. 

As far as kits already produced...the Dragon 1/350 Scharnhorst.

Steve

Any 1/700 liners. Aoshima has released a 1/700 Ark Royal and Wasp with the submarines that sank them. How about a Lusitania and U-20?

1/700 HMS Lion.

1/350 or 1/144 WWI U-boat.

All in injection molded styrene - so people like me can afford them.

Don Stauffer

We need a Langley and a Wolverine!

Blue Ridge/Freetime is coming out with a 1:700 scale Sable/Wolverine.  Release got delayed because the master was dropped and broken.   Hop on the order fast because it is going to be a limited run release.   

Loose Cannon makes a 1:700 scale Langley.

Like it or not,  both of these subjects are PE intensive.    The girder-work cannot be effectively replicated by cast/injected means.    3D printing is possible but would be an expensive cost driver

EdGrune

Revell of Germany is releasing a new mold 1:144 scale early Flower corvette as the HMCS Snowberry.

 

 

The new release was announced at the Nuremburg Toy Fair in February.  It is supposed to be available next month.

Jester's desired 1:350 scale DE is more than fulfilled by the Trumpeter USS England.    Also, see if you can find the PitRoad version with changes to make a Cannon class DE.   These Cannons were transferred to be part of the JMSDF.

(PitRoad & Trumpeter have a cooperative agreement.   PitRoad designs the 1:700 kits and has first option on sales under their label in the Orient.   Trumpeter has the option in the West.   They have cooperated on some larger projects with similar arrangements.)

 

 

I'd like to see more WW1 stuff, especially torpedo boat destroyers and light cruisers.

I'd like more civil subjects and small craft.

New or even repops of small scale sailing warships.

We need a Langley and a Wolverine!

I would love to see a decent 1/350 square-bridge Fletcher class DD, FRAM DD's from the 1960's, and a 1/350 Charles Adams class DD.

Bill

The Snowberry in 1/144 by RoG sounds fantastic! I had not heard of that one. I have looked into the England but have heard absolutely terrible things about it with regards to accuracy.

*EDIT* I think I am confusing the DE with the Tribals that Trump released.

Revell of Germany is releasing a new mold 1:144 scale early Flower corvette as the HMCS Snowberry.

The new release was announced at the Nuremburg Toy Fair in February.  It is supposed to be available next month.

Jester's desired 1:350 scale DE is more than fulfilled by the Trumpeter USS England.    Also, see if you can find the PitRoad version with changes to make a Cannon class DE.   These Cannons were transferred to be part of the JMSDF.

(PitRoad & Trumpeter have a cooperative agreement.   PitRoad designs the 1:700 kits and has first option on sales under their label in the Orient.   Trumpeter has the option in the West.   They have cooperated on some larger projects with similar arrangements.)

Jester75

A good 350th destroyer escort and corvette.