1/350 scale ships

1. 1/350 Essex class (Modernize angle deck)
2. 1/350 USS Alaska

John

Oh, almost forgot - right near the top of my list:
IJN Shokaku or Zuikaku

IJN Akagi
IJN Kongo
IJN Hiei
USS South Dakota
USS Minneapolis
HMS King George V
IJN Kaga
USS Gambier Bay
USS Cleveland
IJN Myoko
IJN Aoba
IJN Kitikami
Scharnhorst
Prinz Eugen

"There's something wrong with our bloody ships today!" Where are the Dreadnaughts in that list? Do we not all love those gargantuan steel monsters as much as T-Rex? Obsolete? Not in our imaginations and wild dreams of surface naval actions gone by. I give you my 1:350 nominations:

1. SMS Von der Tann
2. Kirov (Nuclear Battlecruiser)
3. USS Washington
4. USS Oklahoma
5. Gearing Class destroyer
6. Tribal Class destroyer
7. SMS Seydlitz
8. French liner Normandie
9. NS Savannah

Et Vous?

The best suggestion box I can recommend is when FSM does it's survey on the kit's you want to see. I'm pretty sure we run it in the late-summer, early fall. It gives you the chance to list those kits you'd like to see. I like to think we've been pretty successful, since several of the kits that have topped the list in previous years have appeared, namely:

1/350 Essex Class (Trumpeter)
1/350 North Carolina Class (Trumpeter)
1/350 Lexington (Trumpeter)
1/350 Nimitz (Trumpeter)
1/700 Essex Class (Dragon)
1/48 RA-5 Vigilante (Trumpeter)
1/32 F-105 (Trumpeter)
1/35 M551 Sheridan (Academy)
1/32 Fw-190 series (Hasegawa)

Notice any trends here?? So far, in the ship world at least, the only request that hasn't been met yet is the HMS Hood, and of course, we all know about those rumors.

Jeff

QUOTE: Originally posted by hwn@non-cents.com i think *somebody* mentioned trumpeter doing/planning the hms hood in 1:350 elsewhere in the 'ships' forum. jeff, if you know of any appropriate "suggestion boxes" please stuff with requests for graf spee, akagi, kaga, hiryu, and soryu all in 1:350. and if that works, i have further suggestions.

Yes, and a USS Texas too !!

Me too, the Nagato class battleships, please

i think *somebody* mentioned trumpeter doing/planning the hms hood in 1:350 elsewhere in the 'ships' forum. jeff, if you know of any appropriate "suggestion boxes" please stuff with requests for graf spee, akagi, kaga, hiryu, and soryu all in 1:350. and if that works, i have further suggestions.

Don't forget the Russian Cruiser Varyag by Zvezda

Well, let's see...

Trumpter has a USS Lexington CV-2 coming out in a couple of weeks.
Their USS North Carolina will be here in May, give or take a week or two.

Hasegawa has annouced a 1/350 Mikasa.
Eastern Express has just released a 1/350 Borodino.
Someone else is releasing a 1/350 subject that I'm sworn to secrecy on, and no subtle hints this time either!! :-)

That's all I know.

Jeff