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What is the most desired model
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 4, 2003 12:56 AM


I wonder what sub kit/model would be the most sought after? would it be an I-boat, midget sub (German or Japanese) or...?

curious what you all think.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 4, 2003 1:52 AM
World War II submarines USS Narwhal and Nautilus. Probably the largest American submarines to ever see action in the Pacific. Good detailing possibilities too.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:53 AM
West Virginia, Maryland, California, Colorado or any other BB's at Pearl Harbor besides Arizona.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 12:43 PM
I agree with ltfahey I wiuld ike to see them with build options for commisioning to decommissioning. I will add any pre-WWII warship from any country back to about 1900.
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Posted by Jeff Herne on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:08 PM
My dream model...a 1/350 HMS Hood in plastic.

Then of course, Scahrnhorst, Warspite, Takao, Taiho, Prinz Eugen, Baltimore, Atlanta, Rodney, Lexington...should I go on?? :-)

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Posted by paulnchamp on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:54 PM
I'd also love to have a 1/350 (plastic) Hood alongside my Bismarck. . .
Paul "A man's GOT to know his limitations."
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:32 AM
ICM will realease HMS HOOD some day 1:350, Its a very awaited plastic kit.
The question is when.
will it happen this year? next year?

ICM 1:350 IJN heavy cruiser Takao and Chokai are coming too. But when..
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Posted by Jeff Herne on Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:59 AM
I have completely given up on ICM, and I don't expect a Hood or Takao or Chokai from them.

I just got the new Minekaze 1/350 Tone, it's expensive though, but what a great looking kit. The review is on the site www.modelwarships.com

There's been all sorts of rumors from Trumeter about potential new ship releases, so we'll see what they're up to as well.

As for ICM, don't wait, sell sell sell your stock like Martha Stewart!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:25 PM
I would like a good " omaha class light cruiser in either 250 or 350 in plastic in a pre war version such as "Marblehead" also a correct wilkes class dd in either of these scales
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:34 PM
I would like.....In plastic 1/35th scale, of course !
From WW2:
First...An PT boat ( # 450 onward )...A MUST ! With these lovely twin .50s...
LCVP.....A good one, at last !
LCM3....In plastic, I said, Mr Verlinden !
And maybe...just for fun....An LST !
From Nam brown water navy:
PBR Mk 1....
APSB....
PCF " Swift boat "....Any Mks !
LCM " Monitor "....Any kind !
RPC " ragboat "....From SVN folks !
And a tiny Boston whaler....For my Seal troops !
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 13, 2003 8:10 PM
A PHM would also be nice.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 16, 2003 5:29 AM
About Trumpeter i hope to see the continuation of 1:350 plastic ships, now they will realease CV Lexington, Saratoga, CVN Nimitz and i think one Russian modern carrier too, then i hope to see not only carriers.
About ICM, if it comes true about 1:350 Hood and Takao better for us, if not...
We will survive anyway.
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Posted by djmodels1999 on Monday, June 16, 2003 9:03 AM
Captain Nemo's Nautilus, at a decent price! Other than that, the HMS Bounty (a new kit please!), and the Graf Spee, at a larger scale. And some American Civil War ships too.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 3:35 PM
My most wanted Shipmodel is the German (Bundesmarine) Destroyer "Hessen" on which i served for 3 Years.
1:350 would be cool but 1:700 is also ok.
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Posted by tigerman on Friday, June 20, 2003 12:20 AM
I agree with djmodels1999, it would be nice to see some larger Civi War models. Others that I would like are BB Maryland and CA Indianpolis in 1/350 scale.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 23, 2003 3:00 AM
1/350 Nevada Class: spacifically USS Oklahoma, BB37

pleeeeeeeeeeezzzzz!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 27, 2003 9:09 PM
A 1/350 scale WW II IJN Carrier. Doesn't matter which ship. I would love to have a carrier along side of the Yamato!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 28, 2003 8:38 AM
I think WW2 warships looks very majestic and awesome, especially Japanese ones.

I'm beginning my collection of them, starting with Yamato, Bismarck and Prince of Wales of the 1/350 Tamiya series. I just couldn't keep my eyes off the still shrink-wrapped boxes! Haven't started building!
Also just got 1/450 Akagi from Hasegawa.
Man! I'm gonna be broke buying all these majestic queens of tWW2!

Any recommendation for a solid reference of these warships?
I was hunting around the net but not much luck.

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Posted by allan on Saturday, June 28, 2003 9:57 PM
How about modern auxiliary vessels and amphibious support ships (other than the Tarawa and Wasp), and mine countermeasures vessels. Injection molded 700th scale Cimmarron would be nice, Ive always wanted to have a complete CVBG.

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Posted by allan on Saturday, June 28, 2003 11:46 PM
Oh, and USCG Cutters, the Hamilton, Bear, Casco, Cape...

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 29, 2003 9:44 AM
hello

I am new on this forum
My favorite model wpuld be , all in 1/350 plastci
SS NORMANDIE
SS FRANCE, MICHELANGELO, QUEEN MARY ETC
All big liners will be great:)
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:14 AM
1/350 HMS Vanguard (1946)
1/350 HMS Hood (1941)
1/350 HMS Agincourt (1918)
1/350 Richelieu (1954)

All plastic/all tamiya quality or better/all full hull :)
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:59 AM
1/350th HMS hood for sure. And the WWII british carriers too. Eventually someone will get around to them. Of course we may have to wait until they run out of US, German, Japanese, and other countries subjects first. LOL!

And as I am Canadian, a HMCS Halifax in 1/72nd would be grand. A little on the large size, but still grand! LOL!

James Smile [:)]
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Posted by styrene on Monday, September 15, 2003 10:53 AM
1/350 USS North Carolina and Farragut class destroyers such as USS Aylwin (DD-355).
Gip Winecoff

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 15, 2003 8:26 PM
How about a nice YTB, YTM, or just about any US Navy Fleet Tug or Harbor Tug would be great. We have YTB 178 (USS Dekaury) here at Alameda. She is sister to USS Hoga, which played a vital firefighting role at Pearl Harbor. Old tugs are really funky and cool, especially Navy ones.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 15, 2003 9:34 PM
A couple of you guys mentioned Civil War ships. Once you have the C.S.S. Alabama (the Shark of the Confederacy), what else do you need and the Revell kit is not bad. As for my desire, The H.M.S. Hood in 1:350 tops my list. After that, a Nimitz class carrier in 1:350. We also need more ships of the 1950's and 60's. Post FRAM WWII vessels. This could probably be accomplished with conversion kits.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 15, 2003 10:42 PM
Are there any other Canadian ships out there besides the Snowberry. If so I'd like to build them. I'm not a "built it from an old log" type.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 15, 2003 11:13 PM
A Bathurst class MSC in 1/72.
There were quite a few of them and they served in the RN, RAN, Netherlands Navy, Indonesian Navy, Red Chinese PLAN, as well as being converted to Civilian use.
The conversion posabilities are almost endless!
Dai
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:12 AM
Mutsu or Nagato 1:350 plastic
Vittorio Veneto 1:350 plastic
and almost other battleship major classes
Maybe it happens this century.

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Posted by rcboater on Thursday, October 9, 2003 9:42 PM
If I was to pick one, it would be an LCM(3), in 1/35 scale. (In plastic, not resin-- somehting that could be converted to RC.)

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