What are the "must have" ships?

I watched a Kirov transit out ot the Med in late 89,  she was far off in the distant and still very impressive ship.

The ship I really want to have is a 1/350 Kirov class cruiser, unfortunately, it doesn't exist yet, so to the manufacturers : please, please, please... My fascination for this ship started with the prologue in one of the books of Janes all the worlds ships, and since...

For the rest I sure want to build a Bismarck, an Iowa-class, the USS entreprise (nowadays version), USS Lexington, and after those I will have to check space...

regards

 

Where to start! I think the first would be ones of that specific historical significance, whether from an event (battle etc) or because of it's design. The list would vary by country of course but here's mine (In no particular order).


USS Constitution: from a design standpoint she is an excellent ship but was involved in several historic moments including the presentation of the Mamaluke sword to the USMC.
USS Arizona: For obvious reasons.
HMS Dreadnaught: The beginning of the battleship!
HMS Rodney: The culmination of "all or nothing" design.
CVN - Nimitz class: The most powerful ships afloat
HMS Victory: another obvious one!

Others of historic Significance:

HMS Bounty: Not because of the mutiny but because that mutiny caused navies around the worlg to look at, and change, their methods.
Charles W. Morgan: Not a particularly pretty or important vessel but in whaling her record "harvest" has never been beat (She was at it for nearly 100 years!).

Of course the list could go on to include vessels of personal importance but I'll stop now.

688 Attack Sub & Soviet Typhoon.

Is the Testor's 1/700th kit still around with this pairing?

ppvr wrote:

without the six 1:350 kits i allready have, i want badly IJN Mutsu or Nagato, IJN Takao, RN Vittorio Veneto, HMS Hood, Prinz Eugen, Richelieu and some smaller ships too. Just more these ones and i'm happy. (i think).

 

Aoshima is releasing a 1/350 IJN Takao in July, Trumpeter has released a 1/350 Hood in 1941 fit, is making noises about releasing another 1/350 Hood in 1931 fit, and has circulated pictures of a injection molded 1/350 Richelieu hull, which indicate a Richelieu kit is in the works.   There are also rumors of a 1/350 Akagi from Trumpeter.   1/350 RN Vittorio Veneto is available form some European resin house, if I recall.

Nagato would be a pleasant surprise.   However, I would prefer Fuso because because of its odd appearence, or Hyuga for the unusual carrier-battleship hybrid configuration.   I very much want a Warspit.   No ship of the machine age I can think of has had as exciting a life as that of the Warspit.   If trumpter can do a 1/350 Warspit, then surely it can also reuse some of the molds to do a WWI era Queen Elizabeth class BB.  

 

 

Someone listed the Yamato, why? Not starting a thing but why the Yamato over her sister ship the Musashi? Both did about the same things and both suffered the same fate. I myself would include one of these in my list because they were the "Largest"....  I also second the Kaga and the Akagi(especally in 1/350). A u-boat should also be listed.

i would say

 the andrea doria

the lusitainia (spelling)

and the calypso

and the langley

oh and

the ss minnow from gilligans island in 1/60 scale or larger

i know it ain't real but it would be fun

Since we're getting into fantasy .... aaarrgghhh .... what say ye the Black Pearl and Flying Dutchman, eh?

gjek wrote:

Someone listed the Yamato, why? Not starting a thing but why the Yamato over her sister ship the Musashi? Both did about the same things and both suffered the same fate. I myself would include one of these in my list because they were the "Largest"....  I also second the Kaga and the Akagi(especally in 1/350). A u-boat should also be listed.

 I would say Yamato over Musashi because of Yamato's "suicide" run at the end of the war.

How about an WWII LST?

-Jesse

I did not review all of the posts (my fault) so if I repeat some one else's, Sorry.

Napoleonic Wars Royal Navy vessels...

Cherokee class RN Brigs (there is a small scale resin out there) in a 1/100 or larger scale

HMS Shannon

Belle Poule (not the Heller 1820's, but the Napoleonic, The french had alot of ships named Belle Poule)

Bomb vessel, either side

and some of the auxillary craft:  Victualling ships or water and powder hoys (great for a dio!)

USS Essex (as it appeared on it's "Lone Wolf" cruise to the Pacific)

I say U-505 and U-49. Both in 1/72, one was the only ship captured (In battle) by the US NAvy during WW2 and the U-49 because it snuck into Scapa FLow and attacked a Batttleship (On the surface) and sank her. Also, HMS Dreadnought for being the first battleship and HMS Glowworm for being the only ship whos Captain was reccomended for the Victoria Cross by the enemy. Heres an interesting story about her.

http://www.rickard.karoo.net/articles/weapons_HMSGlowworm.html

David

On October 14, 1939, the U-47, commanded by Gunther Prien, sunk the battleship HMS Royal Oak at anchor in Scapa Flow.

 We all make errors ... in another thread I referred to DD 777 Zellars as a Gearing and was corrected that she was a Sumner class.

 

No biggie ... 

Oops!

Good news, Professor. Model Shipways has announced a new kit of an 1880s Ohio River sternwheeler, and from the photo in their catalog, it looks very credible. Its good to see the Western Rivers represented by such a typical vessel, and will be in wood, given its source. I'd add that its good to see new quality wood models by American manufacturers, too.

A kit of Delta Queen (and Delta King, which has been restored minus its engines to its 1920s appearance in Sacramento) would be popular with modern steamboaters and Americana buffs, and it would sell. A Hudson River style sidewheeler like Mary Powell would be sensational, as would a workaday sternwheeler like the ones up in Alaska or the Northwest. And a more regular Western River sidewheeler would be pretty neat too.

In terms of "Must Haves," using the "available in plastic" and "worth building" criteria, here's my list, using my preference for early vessels:

Zvedza Cog

Revell Mayflower

Revell Batavia

Vasa

Maybe the HMS Prince but at 1670, its pretty modern. I think there is a kit for a 1620s French ship but I cant remember. Soveregn of the Seas is not typical, so I omittted it. None of the Santa Marias are worth bothering with, and there are no good carrack models out there. But at least we have a really great cog, a nice Elizabethan merchantman, a pair of large Dutch designed vessels, and with the Prince, a ship of the line.

Right now I'm building the resin Dutch yacht of 1746 from Artitec and its sensational. Way too modern for me, but I really wanted to build one of their kits. After that is Skuldelev 3 and then who knows.

Jim

If I were to say the Yamato instead of the Musashi, it would be because she was Yamamoto's flagship.  But I've seen so may different kits of that class that I wouldn't include it on my list.  But I would include (all in 1/350, of course, unless specified otherwise):

USS Langley

USS Enterprise (CV-6) (ever since reading Stafford's "The Big E" as a kid)

USS Arizona

Kongo

Mogami

USS Houston (CA-30)

flushdeck DD at the beginning of WW2 (maybe even 1/72 for this one) - probably USS Ward

Akagi

USS Lexington (CV-2)

Japanese midget sub (1/72 or 1/48)

Africa Queen (1/48)

 Sure, I came into this thread assuming it was meant to be a discussion of what people thought should be the core list of landmark ships that should be made into kits (if they weren't already), or maybe some special limited-edition series - but that isn't possible without a lot of dissention and personal preferences coming forth.  Which isn't really a bad thing.  There are a lot more ships I'd like to have, but if I were limited to only a handful and had to pare down the list to a minimum, I think the above would do nicely.

I read that "ever since reading Stafford's book as a kid" and looked on my bookshelf, top shelf, farthest to the right. Its a really good book to. I agree about haveing the Houston.

David

I'd like to add a 1/72 USS Panay to that list - thanks for the reminder, ps1scw!

And a USS Canopus, for that matter (1/350).

My - a styrene 1/350 Victory ship and T-2 tanker to go with Trumpeter's 1/350 Liberty ship, and Gold Medal Models PE for both!

any wwII destroyer in 1/144 scale.   it would be about 27-31 in long, very big but tolerable

and there are enough aircraft models in that scale to make a nice dio of it being attacked

For me, I would like to do my Dad's ship - the Columbus. But it's hard to find.

Also important because of the time I have spent on the ships are all the CG class.

Especially the CG 57.

I'd like to see a model of the U.S.S.Coral Sea as she was during 1969,1970 . When I served on her. Also I'd like to see a model of the U.S.S. ELY PCE. I was on her for a week while in the Naval Reserve's.I know Dumas has an R.C. model of a PCE that could be changed to look like her, but a plastic model would be better. How about a collection of Naval Reserve ships that served on Lake Michigan?

Are we forgetting the WW I German ship Emden?  Look it up, you won't be disappointed!

USS Pennsylvania in 1/350

NSS Savannah in 1/350 

The Great Lakes Paddle carriers.

DAvid

what a lot of "wooden men" with their iron ships,- everyone knows that iron does not float. Where are all the iron men with wooden ships? chinese treasure ships, work vessels,military ships etc.. Wooden ships are more colorful, not just battleship gray. We have to plan our color scheme. What have you got to say "iron men"??

What about the USS George Washington (SSBN-598)? She was the 1st SSBN able to launch underwater. Then maybe the Ohio class boats.

What ship models? For openers, I wish 1/600 would make a comeback. BUT, 1/400/350 better suits my aging eyes, so my wish list: HMS Dreadnaught; USS Arizona BB37 in "as launched" configuration; USS Houston "the Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast"; USS Maine BB2; HMS Lion-class battlecruiser; USS Oregon (no, please DO NOT push the old ITC kit on me!!); RMS Aquitania; ANY Lloyd liner; ANY per-Dreadnaught other than the recent proliferation of Czarist (thank you, ICM-have 'em all) might sate my needs.-John Marganski (just finished an Aurora Chinese Junk)

Dutch Destroyer Hr.Ms."Amsterdam" (D819).

I would have to say the French liner Normandie. I can imagine a diorama the size of a small garage with all the major liners parked in New York Harbor.