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Informal "Your Most Wanted Ship kit" Poll

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Posted by kapudan_emir_effendi on Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:34 PM

Considering all to be injection moulded:

1/350 Kongo Optional fit (I'd like a WWI fit of her !)

Plus my suggestions:

1/350 SMS Goeben

1/350 Tzesarevitch

1/144 UB III class WWI U-boat

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Posted by pmm736 on Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:01 PM

USS Tennessee class

USS Colorado class

USS New York cass

USS Northampton class

USS  New Orleans class

USS Atlanta class

USS Wickes class

USS Gleaves class

(All 1/350 scale)

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Posted by DURR on Sunday, December 31, 2006 10:13 AM

 

 all my choices would be in 1/600-1/700 scale  and all in plastic

 

#1 i would like to see more support ships, tenders,tankers,libertys etc....

#2  it seems to me that some of the best choices of ships are in  (dreaded) resin  i would like to see some of them in plastic

 

and something very unusual a  battleship or an a/c carrier  made like some of those sub models with the clear 1/2 so All the great details can be seen (engines, the diff levels inside a 15" gun turret etc...) a super detailing nut could have a field day on that too

 

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Posted by reklein on Sunday, December 31, 2006 10:13 AM
1:350 Essex class carrier, angle deck conversion.
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Posted by Grem56 on Sunday, December 31, 2006 10:49 AM

I would love a 1/72 Vietnam era River Monitor to go with the Tamiya Pibber. (and yes I know there is a resin version but I would prefer a plastic version)

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Posted by DURR on Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:35 AM

also 2-3 more british a/c carriers

in plastic  1/600 -1/700

i would like to see more 1/600 scale any thing the difference between this and 700 is

not significant for space (storage) ranging from 1/2" to 3 1/4" depending on the ship

but the lousy 1mm or 2mm difference when working on the parts (especially for us older folk) really does make a difference on the hands and eyes (read arthiritis and coke bottle eye glasses)

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Posted by alumni72 on Sunday, December 31, 2006 5:39 PM

I've dreamed of a 1/350 Kongo-class battleship for years and years!

Others I'd like to see in 1/350:

 USS Houston (CA-30)

USS Marblehead (CL-12)

IJN Mogami-class CA

Amatsukaze DD

Shoho light carrier

HMS Exeter

US Carriers Langley, Lexington, Ranger, Enterprise, Wasp

USS Pope (DD-225)

HMAS Perth

HNLMS de Ruyter

I'd also like to see some non-Fletcher class destroyers in 1/700 class:

Sims, Farragut, Porter classes especially

...and some USN cruisers from early in the war - Minneapolis, New Orleans, Astoria, Portland & Chester

 

And maybe a 1/72-scale Japanese mini-sub.  1/48, even?

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Posted by yeti0010 on Monday, January 1, 2007 5:53 PM
I would like to see a 1/350 Scharnhorst, a 1/350 Prinz Eugen, and a 1/350 Graf Spee all in plastic
 
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Posted by Glamdring on Monday, January 1, 2007 9:46 PM
I want an re-release of the 1/700 HMS Rodney. I know Tamiya released one, but I can't find it anywhere. I would also like to see the US Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship released. The firsst one is being built not to far from me, so I'd love to have one on my shelf.

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Posted by weebles on Monday, January 1, 2007 10:59 PM

How about the following ...

1.  1/144 or 1/72 U-869.  This is a type IX C 40 U-Boat.  This is the subject of the book "The Shadow Divers" and the PBS show "Hitler's Lost U-Boat".  For that matter any type IX boat would be a good subject to compliment the 1/72 Type VII C.

2.  1/35 PT-59 which is a 77' Elco and Kennedy's last boat.  It's a very interesting subject. 

3.  1/35 PT-103 class boat.

4.  1/35 Vosper Boat.  See Al Ross for best subject piece.

5.  1/72 Balao class late war fleet boat to compliment the Gato Revell put out.

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Posted by jtilley on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 9:38 AM
In my opinion the biggest yawning gap in the currently-available range of plastic warship kits is World War I and the period leading up to it. How about a British capital ship or two (say, the Warspite and the Lion) to balance those nice German battlecruisers from ICM? Better yet - how about H.M.S. Dreadnought - arguably one of the most important warships ever built? And now that we have some coverage (not much, but of pretty high quality) of the Russo-Japanese War, how about something from the Spanish-American War? A genuine, scale plastic kit for the U.S.S. Maine, and an up-to-date one for the Olympia, would be terrific. And, as long as I'm indulging in totally unrealistic dreams, how about a Spanish ship or two to go along with them?

I'll take any of the above in any scale - though 1/350 would be especially nice.

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Posted by sumpter250 on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 11:14 AM

I'd like to see:  a pilot schooner, other than phantom in plastic, 1/72, 1/87, or 1/96.  Any one of the three or four masted coasters from the east coast. Any one of the lumber schooners (sail) from the Pacific Northwest. At least two clippers, that have never been done before. How about a 1/96 Hudson River Sloop, or a 1/48 model of the Rebecca t. Ruark one of the few Chessapeake Bay Skipjacks with round bilges instead of the familiar deadrise.

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Posted by rockythegoat on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 11:53 AM

All of the below as plastic, injected molded.  Resin as a second choice. 

Sailing Ships

1/700 Ships of the Line, Frigates, Sloops from "100 yrs War" and "War of 1812"

RN Modern(ish)

1/700 HMS Hermes from Falklands Conflict

1/700 Type 22 Frigates

1/700 Type 23 Frigates

1/700 Type 45 Destroyers

1/700 RN Assault Ships (all)

USCG

1/700 Anything not already done of the modern era!!! Especially the patrol boats.

1/700 Icebreakers, to include the Tugs

USN

1/35 SEAL Mk V Spec. Ops Craft.  (I know it would be big, but, Oooo, what a build that would end up being!!!)

 

 

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Posted by jtilley on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 12:46 PM
I assumed we were only talking about steel warships. If we enter the realm of sailing ships, I don't know where to start. Let's see...a big (say, 1/96 scale) American clipper ship; a seventeenth-century British warship (H.M.S. Prince, for instance); an American whaler; any American sailing warship other than the Constitution (one of the frigates from the American Revolution, for instance); a few nineteenth-century river steamboats...I could go on and on. I also wouldn't mind seeing some of the old classic sailing ships get reissued. I'd be particularly happy to see the Revell Flying Cloud, yacht America, Charles W. Morgan, Golden Hind, Mayflower, and Viking ship again. And any Imai sailing ship reissue gets my whole-hearted approval.

Rocky - it doesn't get much publicity in the U.S., but there's an excellent line of 1/700 sailing warships in cast white metal from a British company called Skytrex. I only have one of them (H.M.S. Victory), but if the others are done to the same standard the whole range is worthy of serious attention. The detail is excellent, and the overall shapes look just right. Go to www.skytrex.com, then click on "ships," then on "Meridian Trafalgar Series."

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Posted by Grem56 on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 12:57 PM

I would do a murder for a 1/96th scale Charles W. Morgen in plastic !

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Posted by Gerarddm on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 2:34 PM

1/700 A140A proto-Yamato

An accurate Greek bireme or trireme in 1/350

A parts kit of two-three-and four gun main turrets of varying gun calibers and turret shapes for kitbashers - 1/700, maybe 1/350.

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Posted by DanCooper on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 3:53 PM
For me deffinitely the 1/72 Type XXI U-Boot

On the bench : Revell's 1/125 RV Calypso

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Posted by Wot on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 5:12 PM
I would love to see a 1/35 scale kit of the USS Alacrity, MSO 520, a wooden-hulled ocean-going minesweeper on which I served. Built in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., around 1953.
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Posted by dhenning on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 5:57 PM

1/72 or 1/96 Point Class Coast Guard Cutters (WPB- 82') with options for configuration for Vietnam service or Drug Bustin'!

 1/35 is too big for me for PT boats, so how about a 1/72 early Elco 77 footer (the early PTs that evacuated MacArthur) or a 1/72 Higgins PT boat?

A 1/72 LCAC would be cool too!!!

 Prefer injection molded plastic to resin.   Still have the 1/96 early Elco PT that I bought at Dallas at the Nationals.  Afraid to touch it after laying out that much money (for me at least)!

 

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Posted by Steve H. on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 10:24 PM

Hi

To that  I would add similar in 1/700 scale list.  BUT , , I'd also add U.S.S.'s Chicago,Northampton,Vincennes,Quincy,{all circa Aug '42}. And the British Q.E. class fast battleships, and the American New Mexico's.

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Posted by MBT70 on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 12:11 PM
In 1/350 ... SMS Von der Tann or Seydlitz in plastic.  In 1/200 ... Kirov/Frunze in plastic.
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Posted by rockythegoat on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 12:38 PM
 dhenning wrote:

A 1/72 LCAC would be cool too!!!

I know, I know, it will be big, but, a 1/35 LCAC!!   Yes

 

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Posted by rockythegoat on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 12:42 PM

 jtilley wrote:

Rocky - it doesn't get much publicity in the U.S., but there's an excellent line of 1/700 sailing warships in cast white metal from a British company called Skytrex. I only have one of them (H.M.S. Victory), but if the others are done to the same standard the whole range is worthy of serious attention. The detail is excellent, and the overall shapes look just right. Go to www.skytrex.com, then click on "ships," then on "Meridian Trafalgar Series."

Thanks for the heads up on Skytrex!  Pretty nice kits that I just may have to bite on.  Guess I'm going to have to have a 20x loupe superglued to my eye!!! Cool [8D]     Those cannon look awful dang small....Boohoo [BH]

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Posted by bryan01 on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 3:41 PM

Well, this is my list. It grew quite large after thinking about it and some of the ships are maybe a little strange but it is a wish list, right!?

If only one of them would be released I would be quite happy.

 

Early 17th century warships:

1610 Prince Royal   England

1628 Vasa (Wasa)   Sweden

1637 Sovereign of the Seas   England

 

Mid and late 17th century warships:

1655 Eendracht (Concord)   Holland

1655 Royal Charles (launched Naseby)   England

1664 Hollandia   Holland

1665 Zeven Provinciën (Seven Provinces)   Holland

1669 St. Michael   England

1670 Prince   England

1692 Louis Quinze   France

 

Royal yachts:

1749 Royal Caroline   Britain

1778 Amphion   Sweden

1896 Standart   Russia

1901 Victoria & Albert III   Britain

 

Early 19th century warships:

1814 HMS Nelson   Britain

 

19th century oceanliners:

1855 Persia   Britain

1888 City of Paris II   Britain

1892 Campania or Lucania   Britain

 

The first ironclads:

1859 La Gloire   France

1860 HMS Warrior   Britain

 

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Posted by kapudan_emir_effendi on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 3:53 PM

In a second look, I saw that I rather acted without much thinking in my previous post Smile [:)] so I renew my choices.

Just like Professor Tilley, I think that there are not enough sailing ships around for age of sail enthousiasts. But considering those excellent kits by Pyro/Lindberg, Revell, Imai, Airfix and Heller; I think their reissues would be just fine. I'd only like to have an accurate model of a Greek Trireme (preferably that of Olympias itself) in 1/144 and a 38 gun Sané designed frigate in that same scale. Just like Heller's Superbe (a Sané 74), a 38 can be built into dearth of individual ships with a little craftsmanship.

As there are two excellent pre-dreadnoughts in the shape of "english looking" Hasegawa Mikasa and "french looking" Zvezda Borodino/Orel; I drop out my wish for Tsesarevich. However, except for one or two USS Monitor kits, there virtually are not any plastic models from the age of Ironclads. My suggestion to plug this hole is the Chinese barbette ship Ting Yuen in 1/350 scale. An almost incredible thing happened in shape of a 1/1 floating replica Ting Yuen recently, and she was also a historically significant ship for her role in the battle of Yalu.

As Professor Tilley said, warships of the first world war are nearly non-existent in plastic model range. This is especially true for dreadnoughts. Except for ICM's König class, there are not any WW1 dreadnoughts in styrene. I think a Moltke/Goeben would be magnificent to accompany them and a Queen Elizabeth class with an accompanying "Splendid Cat" would be equally fine for RN fans.(Though the only one that I would buy is naturally the Goeben Smile [:)]). A world war I U-boat, preferably of UB-III class is equally important to represent the post-jutland German arm of decision.

The armored cruiser, a naval platform which influenced warship design so much and served in every fleet action of importance before and during WWI is totally lacking in styrene. My candidate to fill this niche is the versatile Guiseppe Garibaldi class. They were truly "best seller" weapons and were present both in battle of Santiago, Tsushima and Turco-Italian War of 1911-12 as first line warships.

As a final remark, the torpedo boat and the early destroyer, platforms which created a so deep effect in naval strategy and construction both as a result of theory and experience are nonexistent. My candidate for this class is the british "30 knotter" type TBD. With turtleback stem, low freeboard, multiple funnels and historical role (russo-japanese war), they epitomise 19th century underwater warfare.

So to sum up, I'd wish:

for "Wood and Cloth era"

1/144 Accurate Greek Trireme

1/144 38 gun Sané frigate

for "Ironclad age"

1/350 Ting Yuen barbette ship

1/350 Garibaldi class armored cruiser with multiple fit choice for different navies.

1/200 scale "30 knotter" British TBD

for "dreadnought age"

Moltke/Goeben, multiple fit Queen Elizabeth class, Lion class; all in 1/350

1/144 World War I U-boat, preferably a UB-III class.

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Posted by bob36281 on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 8:52 PM
I agree on the "Pearl Harbor" battleships and any capital Japanese ship not already done to death like the Yamato. But, how about the USS Langley, CV1 ??
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Posted by uspsjuan on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 10:38 PM
why hasen't anyone mentioned the USS Indianapolis ? you think with its history it would have already have made it in 1/350. i would get one.
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Posted by wooverstone8 on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 11:11 PM

I would like to see a 1/700 scale USS Houston (CA-30) and the USS Langley (CV-1). I know there is a resin kit of the USS Houston, but it's very expensive and beyond my modelling budget.

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Posted by Shellback on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 11:30 PM

A 1/350 scale kit of the USS OKLAHOMA CITY CLG-5 . Not a very popular subject i know , but i served on her .

SHL

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Posted by Sailorman on Thursday, January 4, 2007 12:05 AM

1/72 San Pablo from the film "Sand Pebbles" in plastic

1/350 LST in plastic

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Posted by MBT70 on Friday, January 5, 2007 4:12 PM
Here's one I know anyone would like, even though it's always been considered a white elephant.  How about the Alaska Class Battlecruisers of WW II in 1/350 and plastic?  Despite their obsolescence before they were even launched and their limited service life, they are still absolutley gorgeous warships with very fine lines from stem to stern.  And some of the cammie schemes they wore make for outrageously cool builds.
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Posted by bob36281 on Friday, January 5, 2007 6:13 PM
i just finished reading a book on the uss enterprise ( WW2) and they mentioned the Alaska and another "battlecruiser". I thought it was a typo. I didn't realize we had any battlecruisers.
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Posted by reklein on Friday, January 5, 2007 7:16 PM
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Posted by Steve H. on Friday, January 5, 2007 11:03 PM

Hi

The "Alaska Class" were considered{and classed as} "Large Cruisers" and designated by the letters "CB". 6 were autherized, but only 2, Alaska and Hawaii were completed. They carried 9-12"/50cal.,12 5"/38cal., 56-40mm,and 34-20mm. displaced 31,500 T, LOA 808 3/8ft. long,90-9 3/8 beam, draft 49.6 ft. SHP{trial}173,808 hp., speed{trial}32.72 kts. Like the German "Pocketbattleships", they were designed to out shoot anything they could not out run. This info from page 483 of the book "U.S. Cruisers, An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman. If only they had been alotted in 1935, not 1940. Guadalcanal would have been a really different story, as mentiontioned above, our Navy classified them as "Large Cruisers". However, in Janes Fighting Ships, the Brits called them for what they were, , ,Battlecruisers!{from the 1st mention of them{about 1942}, until they were "mothballed"{mid to late '50's.}

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P.S. They had a profile that was more like a typical American battleship at that time.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Saturday, January 6, 2007 2:26 AM

I'd love to see the following in 1/600 or 1/700 scale, preferably 1/600:

 

Modern Italian Carrier  Guisseppe Garibaldi

Modern Italian Helicopter carrier Vittorio Venetto

Modern French Carriers Foch, Clemenceau, and Charles de Gaulle

Any modern French and Italian cruisers and destroyers

Any/all WWII Italian and French Battleships 

Russian Kresta, Kashin, Kara and Kynda class ships from the 1970's

Russian Ivan Rogov amphibious assault ship.

Russian Sverdlov class gun cruisers circa 1960-70's

British Courageous, Majestic, and Formidible class carriers, with options to build as RAN, and RCN

British HMS Hermes from the Falklands War. 

 

These are all ones I've been wanting to build in plastic forever. Can't afford all those expensive resin kits. Maybe someday.... 

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Posted by Grem56 on Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:18 AM

 reklein wrote:
Grem, I will help you do your murder for the Charles MorganEvil [}:)]

 Just check this link out: http://gallery.drydockmodels.com/album311 . Now there is no way I will be able anything in wood to rival this gentlemans work. A 1/96th scale plastic model of the Morgan would be a fascinating build IMHO.

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Posted by EPinniger on Saturday, January 6, 2007 4:49 AM

This is what I posted on a similar thread on Modelwarships.com:
- WW2 destroyers and smaller warships in 1/200 or 1/144
- Any pre-dreadnoughts (or destroyers, cruisers, monitors etc. from the same period) in 1/250, 1/200, 1/144 or similar
- More WW2 (or post-war) torpedo boats and small craft in 1/72 - Fairmile MTB/MGB, armed trawlers, earlier Schellboot types, USN sub chasers, Soviet torpedo boats, etc...
- More WW1 ships in 1/350 (especially a RN BB)
- More WW2 destroyers in 1/350 (again, particularly RN)
- A WW2 cruiser, of any navy, in 1/350
- A RN or IJN aircraft carrier in 1/350

This is a relatively "realistic" wish list, however - only subjects which would have a good chance of selling, to ship modellers at least if not the general public, if produced as injection-moulded plastic kits. All of these subjects I would buy, other than possibly the BBs and CVs which would be out of my budget.


For a "pie in the sky" list, however, I'd like to see a kit of HMS Warrior (1860) in 1/200 scale or larger, and anything from the following list: 19th century pre-dreadnoughts and similar ships (monitors, turret ships, armoured cruisers, gunboats, etc.) in anything from 1/96 to 1/350, Civil War Union and Confederate ironclads and other ships (to be fair, many of these are available as resin kits, in 1/96 and 1/192 - though these are hard to obtain in the UK and a bit out of my price range) and some smaller warships from WW2 and WW1 (i.e corvette size or smaller) in 1/72, 1/96 or 1/144.
1/144 or 1/150 might be the best scale for a HMS Warrior kit, as this would produce a model about 3' long, the same as the large Revell sailing ships.

If nothing else, I'd like to see some of the interesting and unique old kits from Lindberg, Pyro, Aurora, Revell etc. (both sail and powered ships) reissued. It looks like this will be the case with Lindberg kits at least, as Hawk are reissuing most of them this year. (No idea whether they'll be available in Europe and the UK though)

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Posted by rcboater on Saturday, January 6, 2007 9:27 AM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned what I always thought was the biggest hole in Revell's 1/96 scale series of ships:   A Royal Navy 38 gun Frigate, from the early 1800s.

Other injected plastic kits on my wish list:

1/350 scale CVE (USN or RN)

1/144 scale CVE (about 3 feet LOA)

More 1/72 and 1/35 scale WW2 amphibs, to go with the fine armor kits in those scales.

US Revenue Cutter BEAR in 1/96.

USCGC Eagle in 1/96.

 

 

  

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Posted by Tojo72 on Saturday, January 6, 2007 2:52 PM

1/350-IJN-Takeo or Myoko   Akagi    Tone 

1/350-Northampton   Tarawa  

1/350-Graf Spee   U-Boat Type IXB   Atlantis 

        

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Posted by billydelawder on Saturday, January 6, 2007 3:33 PM
What I'd Really love to have would be a kit of the Gearing FRAM modernized destroyers with parts for each version.
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Posted by Zero Enna on Saturday, January 6, 2007 5:48 PM
I'm Peruvian... of course I want the BAP Huascar in a big scale, as it's a very small turret monitor. I want also the BAP Independencia... I've heard somewhere that somebody in my country is going to release a resin BAP Huascar... I'll be waiting it... Oh yes, I want also a WWII Scharnhorst, in 1/700 like Dragon's Premium Edition quality...
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Posted by Strathcona on Saturday, January 6, 2007 8:31 PM

Hello Folks,

How about some 1/350 scale Canadian warships , like HMCS Protectuer ( The "Battle Tanker" as the Americans called her, she pushed the limits of a tanker , in hostile waters) , or some Town class frigates , or perhaps a 1/200 scale Tribal class destroyer from WW2 , like HMCS Athabaskan  But the good ole Matchbox/ Revell HMCS Snowberry , well represents one of the great " little ships " , of Canada's fine navy.

Frank , by the way I am in the armored corps. Land bound . LOL

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Posted by davros on Sunday, January 7, 2007 3:59 PM

Living in a shipbuilding towm; I would like to see a kit of any of the boats built here preferably in 1/350 scale.

Kongo (as built so I can nip to the local museum to see the bulder's model)

HMS Erin (for the reason above)

HMS Ajax

HMS Illustrious (WW2)

Jervis Bay

Oh Heck; to save space just look at this page for a fine list:-  http://www.southlakes-uk.co.uk/ships.html

 

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Posted by ftozier on Sunday, January 7, 2007 4:33 PM

I would like to a 1/350 Knox Class FF in plastic with options for pre-1980 overhauls. I served on a Knox Class.

Soviet Navy:

1/700 Moskva, Kashin, Mod Kashin, Kresta I & II, and Nanuchka.

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Posted by MBT70 on Sunday, January 7, 2007 4:54 PM

Hey Strathcona,

 I'd love to see HMCS Athabascan and Haida in 1/200.  Both battle vets with fine lines and comrades in arms in the Scharnhorst chase.  I think Haida is a museum ship now.

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Posted by ddp59 on Sunday, January 7, 2007 5:46 PM
MBT70, haida was on toronto water front at ontario place till about a couple of years ago. she was taken down to hamilton, ontario to be refurbished & displayed down there.
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Posted by Glamdring on Sunday, January 7, 2007 6:26 PM
I want to make an addition to my desire list. After playing Silent Hunter 3 on my computer for the last few days, I wish there was a larger array of U-Boats available in styrene. I think around the 1/150 scale might be nice but a little larger or smaller would be fine.

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Posted by yah4sure on Monday, January 8, 2007 8:24 AM
Thanks for asking! 1/350 Any USN or IJN CVL 1/350 Any USN Attack Transport or Oiler (it would be cool to have the Essex alongside an oiler) 1/350 Shokaku or Zuikaku 1/350 Kongo, Fuso, Ise
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Posted by jtilley on Monday, January 8, 2007 11:39 AM
rcboater - I guess I have trouble thinking of the Revell 1/96-scale sailing ships as a range with holes in it.  It actually consists of four kits:  the Cutty Sark, Kearsarge, Constitution, and Golden Hind.  All the others are reissues (modified or otherwise).  I'd be delighted to see ANY new sailing ship kits in that scale.

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Posted by Chuck Fan on Monday, January 8, 2007 12:58 PM

Historically notable sailing warships meriting attention:

Henri Grace à Dieu,

Wasa,

Sovereign of the Sea,

La Corona (SP?  French counterpart of Sovereign)

Improved Soleil Royal,

De Zeven Province (SP?  Dutch flagship, AngloDutch war),  

Early 18th century 3 decker,

Typical American revolutionary war or Napoleonic war 3rd rate, 74 or 80 guns, say HMS Ballona.

Typical Napoleonic war frigate,  32 or 36 gun 18 pdrs.  (USS Constitution is not typical),

HMS Warrior.

Xebec frigate,

Napoleonic Armed Brig, Armed cutter, and other smaller combatants,

 

Other sailing ships deserving attention:

17th century East-Indiamen

18th century Enast Indiamen

Royal Yachts

Various mediterranean coasters

Late 18th century whaler

Mid 19th century whaler

Vraious Arab and Far eastern ocean-going crafts

All in 1-96 or 1-100 scale of course

 

 

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Posted by RogerP on Monday, January 8, 2007 4:27 PM

Greetings from OZ,

The following is my 1/72nd scale wishlist I sent to Airfix, who as we know has been taken over by the Hornby model train group.

1st choice: A Fairmile B class ML with enough 'extra's' to do any version. This would encourage me for one to buy more than one kit.

2nd choice: A Fairmile "Dog Boat" -- D class MTB/MGB with again enough parts to do different versions.

3rd choice: A 70 foot Vosper MTB with other boats on the list including a 72 foot HDML, a WW1 ML, MGB 314 being the very gallant HQ gunboat which almost made it home from St Nazaire (the raid becoming one of my story writing interests), a WW1 CMB (Coastal Motor Boat -- either the little 40 footer or the larger 55 footer) came to fame at Zeebrugge and Ostend in 1918 and a year later at Kronstadt and for the US fans a Sub Chaser which I would do as the "Hitra" of the 'Shetland Bus' fame.

They are my choices, in the meantime I'll continue doing the above and many others in 600 scale and this year I'm looking into producing some of the above in 350 scale using card models as a basis.

If anybody wants the survey form which was being handed out at the the model at Telford last November please e-mail me at debrogerp@hotmail.com and I'll be happy to send you a copy and the address to post it to.

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Posted by ridleusmc on Monday, January 8, 2007 6:35 PM

I'd like to see some 1/350 Wasp class LHD's.  They're the only kind of ship that I've actually spent any time on.  USS Bataan (LHD-5), USS Kearsarge(LHD-3), USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7).  The Kearsarge had the best Food.

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Posted by ronsecks on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:43 AM

I would like to see a 1/350 USS Wisconsin. Th 1/700 version dosn't have the proper refit for the bow. 2 versions would be nice WWII and Gulf war ,since she fired the first cruise missle to hit Iraq.

 

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Posted by raider-hall on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:45 PM
1/350 uss sacramento plastic or resin.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:17 PM
I would like to see the Raider Atlantis in 350th or any of the other raider ships of the WW2
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Posted by MBT70 on Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:58 AM
Hey ronsecks, couldn't you just convert Tamiya's 1/350 modernized New Jersey to Wisconsin?  Are the two ships very similar or quite different after the mods?
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Posted by alumni72 on Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:20 PM
Didn't Aurora at one time offer a kit of the Atlantis?  Just curious - I seem to remember seeing it on the toy store shelf long, long ago.  Funny what we tend to recall...
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Posted by billydelawder on Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:16 PM
Another thing I'd like is some sort of modification set to turn the Trumpeter Sullivans kit into a Fletcher from the 1950's with tripod mast, and 3 inch guns.
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Posted by AJB93 on Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:00 PM
Thank you all for your replies. They will be added to the list and will be "Offically" published on my site and this and other forums. Got much more of a response than I thought.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:37 PM

How 'bout a 1/700 Q-ship, such as the Atik.

 Better options for U-boat towers would be nice for the u-boat junkies out there (you know who you are).

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Posted by MackP on Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:52 PM

1:350 Styrene:  Sumner class DD (late 1950s but pre-Fram)

                       Essex class CVA or CVS (late 1950

                        USS Texas (BB 35)

                        USS Houston (CA 30)

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Posted by woodburner on Friday, January 19, 2007 12:36 AM
Bryan01 hit it on the head, at least for me. All of his choices are perfect and the choice of the 1855 Cunarder Persia is totally perfect - one of the best looking liners of the 19th century, right up there with the Inman ships. I'd build the Persia in a heartbeat.

Other liners I'd love to see would be Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of 1897, maybe one of the Guion Blue Ribband holders, and Imperator (I know, Normandie should be there, but this is my wish list, and I'd rather build Persia or Alaska).

Mr. Tilley suggested some riverboats and I could not agree more. The famous Hudson River steamer Mary Powell would be wonderful, so would the Sacramento River steamer Chrysopolis, both with walking beams. A smaller, more workaday Western River boat would be welcome as well; and the mountain boat Far West is a great choice, something that would be a hit with boat and history buffs alike.

How about a large 1:70 kit of Mary Rose, or the Revenge in the same scale? Each would be sensational.
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Posted by razordws on Friday, January 19, 2007 12:58 AM
As a modeller who likes to build a variety of subjects I would love to see some of the larger landing craft in 1/72 scale such as the LCM (6) or more especially an LCT.  At 1.5 to 2.5 feet long in that scale they would be perfect combined with all kinds of cargo.  A minesweeper in 1/72 scale would also be very welcomed and would still fall in that reasonable size of around 2.5 feet.  In the other realm of wishful thinking I would love to have a frigate or destroyer in plastic in 1/72 scale from WWII.  Maybe even an LST in 1/72.  Some of the smaller destroyers would be in the 4 to 5 foot size range and the LST would be around 4.5 feet.  Given the popularity of the recent submarine offerings in similar sizes and the reissue of Matchbox's Corvette I say why not? 

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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Friday, January 19, 2007 3:33 AM

EXCELLENT THREAD !!! Thumbs Up [tup]

I believe have responded a "formal" FSM poll time ago (when was the last one???), but without having at hand what I responded then (and the U VIII has already been released!) I can contribute with the following "nice-to-have":

1- Combattante Class fast patrol boat, 1/72, with "lots" of options to allow different versions (maybe upscaling the 1/144 Revell-EUR kit? Big Smile [:D] )

2- Any (or several!) small german warship, in 1/72 (minesweeper, R-Boat, MFP, etc).

3- A Fletcher Class destroyer in 1/72, why not (that would be HUGE, boy! Shock [:O] )

4- Any cold-war or modern Soviet/Russian small warship in 1/72 (OSA, torpedo boats, etc).

5- All the "small" U-Boot (Biber, Seehund, type XXIII, etc) also in... 1/72!

6- And for now will end with... a Type IX and XXI (in which scale can be? hmmm... 1/72!)

I apologize for the "odd" naval scale, but 1/72 (and 1/76) is my personal choice for tanks & aircraft, and I already have most of the ship kits in that scale. Blush [:I]

Ah! And please in injection moulding (mainstream or not), just to reach a wider audience (I still don't dare Vacs, and Resin is way too Expensive!).

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Posted by Pavlvs on Friday, January 19, 2007 9:33 AM
Mr. rocky the goat must like small models. A war of 1812 frigate in 1/700 would be teeny but it would be cool to see it next to the Nimitz for comparison.

I would like to see in 1/350:
HMS Dreadnought
USS Olympia
USS Oregon
IJN Fuso (Way cool TALL superstructure)
USS Gambier Bay or similar CVE
DKM Prinze Eugen
New USS Wasp or similar LHS
USS Forrestal with included C-130 to model that cool experiment the Navy did.
Any destroyer of the 50's and 60's like a FRAMed Sumner or gearing
Sumner class DD of WWII fit to go with my Fletcher.
A Square bridge conversion for the Tamiya 1/350 Fletcher.
A modern Fleet supply ship like the USS Niagara Falls to round out a 1/350 task force.

The recent releases of Hood and North Carolina were long awaited welcome dreams come true.

Deus in minutiae est. Fr. Pavlvs

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On Deck: 1/200 Arizona.

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Posted by ps1scw on Friday, January 19, 2007 11:58 AM

1/350 Knox Class Frigate

1/350 Perry Class FFG (short hull)

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Posted by rockythegoat on Friday, January 19, 2007 12:10 PM

 Pavlvs wrote:
Mr. rocky the goat must like small models. A war of 1812 frigate in 1/700 would be teeny but it would be cool to see it next to the Nimitz for comparison.

Mr. Pavlvs:  Yea, you're correct.  I like the little boats, as does my available storage space.  But, my aging eyes are tired of looking at the small stuff, so I guess I'm gonna have to buy some 20x magnifiers!!Cool [8D]

Funny you mention an 1812 frigate next to a Nimitz, as I have a 1/600 USCG Eagle I'm thinking of doing that with in a diorama with a 1/700 carrier.  I know it's a 15% size error, but, close enough to have fun with anyway. 

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Posted by chester101 on Saturday, January 20, 2007 11:24 PM

 

 1/350 Kirov

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Posted by AJB93 on Sunday, January 21, 2007 7:13 AM
 EAKenepp wrote:

How 'bout a 1/700 Q-ship, such as the Atik.

 Better options for U-boat towers would be nice for the u-boat junkies out there (you know who you are).



Murphy's law forsees a 1/700 Atik. I just finished scratchbuilding one.
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Posted by Shipwreck on Sunday, January 21, 2007 7:47 AM
I would like to see more tug boats, fishing boats, river boats, and tall sailing ships!

On the Bench:

Revell 1/96 USS Constitution - rigging

Revell 1/48 B-1B Lancer Prep and research

Trumpeter 1/350 USS Hornet CV-8 Prep and research

 

 

 

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Posted by Grymm on Monday, January 22, 2007 7:30 AM

I'd love to see more 1:96 scale period ship models.  By comparison there are relatively few in plastic.  Heller and Revell, I thank you for the kits you have produced.  I'd love to see some more though...

 Grymm

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Posted by thunder1 on Monday, January 22, 2007 9:34 AM

Wow, every post offers a great range of vessels, all worthy of a manufacturer's catalog. My injected molded "wish list" would include;

82' Viet Nam era Point Class patrol boat in 1:35 to accompany my Tamiya "pibber",

65' Air Sea rescue boat in 1:35 found at many coastal Naval air stations,(I believe the USAF ran a number of these also)

POLAR CLASS ice breaker any scale

180' buoy tender in any scale, painted up gray for WWII service or black hull for peacetime service

An oil tanker like the old "TEXACO Tanker" gas station premium from the 1960's in 1:96    

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Posted by jwintjes on Monday, January 22, 2007 5:22 PM

Well, I guess my true wishlist would be too long to post and too expensive for me to get anyway, so I stick to what I probably want most:

A decent ancient ship model, be it Athenian Trireme, Roman Polyreme or late antique Lusoria. Just so it for once not marred by poor research; I'd probably already happy with a re-release of Heller's Bireme.

1/72 late-18th century Royal Navy cutter; with the current technology that could be an outstanding, yet still manageable model (I'm not so sure about a current-technology ship-of-the-line; upwards of 2000 parts might be hard to sell)

1/72 CMB 

1/72 Vosper 70ft

1/72 Fairmile (any type)

1/72 LCT

And finally something larger: 

1/72 Castle or even better River class

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Posted by alumni72 on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:46 AM

How about some oldies?

USS Bainbridge (DD-1) in 1/72 - 57 feet shorter than the Gato, so should be manageable Whistling [:-^]

USS Jacob Jones (DD-61), first US ship sunk after entering WW1

U-53 (WW1 U-boat) - sank the Jacob Jones

Some ships of the Great White Fleet - maybe the Maine?  Has the Maine ever been offered in a kit?!

The Monitor and the Merrimac?  Maybe 1/72 with complete interior - that would be nice!

The same for the Hunley - complete interior.

And how can we get away with having no kits of the HMS Warrior or the HMS Dreadnought?

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Posted by EPinniger on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:07 AM
 alumni72 wrote:

Some ships of the Great White Fleet - maybe the Maine?  Has the Maine ever been offered in a kit?!

And how can we get away with having no kits of the HMS Warrior or the HMS Dreadnought?

I think Iron Shipwrights (ISW) produce a 1/192 resin kit of the Maine, though it is seriously expensive as you might imagine. Pyro produced a "USS Maine" kit in the 1960s, but this was simply a modified USS Olympia kit with the turrets moved to the sides, not even a vaguely accurate representation of the Maine.

I agree about the Warrior and Dreadnought, particularly the latter (though the Warrior is the one I'd most like to see as a kit). I can't believe the Dreadnought hasn't been produced as a kit (you'd think it would have been an obvious choice for Airfix's 1/600 range back in the 1960s and 70s, although they mainly concentrated on WW2 subjects)

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Posted by jtilley on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:55 AM

Many of the ships that have been named recently (including the Maine and the Dreadnought) are available in the form of 1/700 resin kits from the remarkable Russian manufacturer Combrig.  A good way to see its offerings is via the Steel Navy website, www.steelnavy.com

Combrig has been around for several years now, and its kits have been getting better all the time.  It started out by covering the Russian and Soviet Navies; just about every Russian/Soviet steel warship is covered by the Combrig range.  (That includes some fascinating pre-Dreadnoughts from the Russo-Japanese War period.)  Some of the firm's first offerings were a little on the crude side, but they've gotten steadily better.  The newer ones include frets of photo-etched brass detail parts (usually excluding railings and ladders, which can be found in generic sets from the aftermarket manufacturers).  Nowadays new Combrig releases seem to be concentrating on the British and American navies.  The latest announcements include the four WWI battleships of the Iron Duke class (a separate, different kit for each one) and the battlecruiser Tiger.  (I believe the Lion and Queen Mary are on the way.)

From my personal standpoint, one big attraction of the Combrig kits is their prices.  Due to the current condition of the rubel, they're quite reasonable for "cottage industry" kits.  A battleship is likely to cost somewhere between $40 and $50.  By the definitions of Olde Phogies like me, that's a lot of money - but take a look at the prices of the latest 1/700 styrene warships from Dragon and Trumpeter.

It takes a little time to get used to resin kits, but after you work with the material for a few hours you'll wonder why you ever thought it was a more difficult medium than styrene.  (In some ways it's actually easier.  I've noticed that some Combrig detail parts, such as masts and boat davits, are cast in a rather soft, ever-so-slightly flexible resin that's far less likely to get broken by accident.)

This thread has been fascinating - a real wishbook for ship modelers.  Realistically, though, we might as well acknowledge that the mainstream styrene kit manufacturers simply aren't interested in most of these subjects.  Anybody with a deep-seated interest in steel warship models really needs to get reconciled to resin kits.  They've come a long, long way in the last few years, and enough of them are now available to last most of us the rest of our lifetimes.

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Posted by MBT70 on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:09 PM
1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov, 1/350 Kirov ... and the Destroyer Leader, Norfolk ... in 1/200.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:47 PM

All below in plastic 

1/700 USN Alaska class

1/700 HMS Dido and other WW2 RN cruisers

1/700 Brooklyn class CA's or any USN CA's priot to Baltimore class CA's

1/700 RN DD's

1/700 Midway class CV's as commissioned, Korea, 60-70's

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Posted by Phil_H on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:28 PM
 ftozier wrote:

I would like to a 1/350 Knox Class FF in plastic with options for pre-1980 overhauls. I served on a Knox Class.

Soviet Navy:

1/700 Moskva, Kashin, Mod Kashin, Kresta I & II, and Nanuchka.

Frank

A Nanuchka (actually a pair of them, a  (I) and (III)) was done by Dragon, kit #7012 - my box is dated 1990.

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Posted by MBT70 on Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:41 AM

It's interesting to note how Russian warships are finally coming into the mainstream kit market.  My father spent 24 years in the Navy on destroyers and brought home lots of photos of them.  I was always impressed with their sleek lines and low profiles, like sports cars or fighter planes, so it stands to reason they make good modeling subjects.

 So, let me ask a question:  Other than the Kirov/Frunze cruisers, who would be a hands-down winner, what modern Russian warship is the most beautiful or interesting?

 My vote goes to Udaloy with Krivak at a close second.

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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Friday, January 26, 2007 2:06 AM
What about the "Ivan Rogov" amphibious ship class?
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Posted by Duke Maddog on Friday, January 26, 2007 1:28 PM
Yeah dp, I had that in my list too. That would be an awesome ship to see in injected plastic.
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Posted by Glamdring on Friday, January 26, 2007 8:46 PM
Yet another addendum. After reading the chaper in "The Glorious Cause" by Jeff Shaara, I want a model of the Bonhomme Richard. I can't believe that subject hasn't been released in decades....

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Posted by afspret on Saturday, January 27, 2007 3:07 PM

USN:

1/72 Early Elco 77ft'ers and Higgins PTs (w/options for various configurations)

1/48 All three class of USN PT-Boats (w/options for various configurations)

1/350 USN Treaty Class CAs 

1/350 Omahas, Brooklyns & St Louis Class CLs

1/350 USN Wickes/Clemson DDs

1/144 Perch/Salmon/Sargo/Tambor/Gar Class subs (1941/42 fit), Would be kind of interesting to do a pink USS Sea Tiger (as seen in the movie "Operation Petticoat").

RN:

1/35 RN MTBs (2 different types) 

1/48 RN MTBs (2 different types)

1/350 WW2 RN CLs, such as Dido, Leander, Ajax, Hobart/Perth, Dauntless, Enterprise, to name just a few. 

1/350 Corvettes and Frigates

 

All these would of course be injection molded and have the option of being built in pre-war or WW2 configuration, which I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for.

 

 

 

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Posted by arki30 on Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:05 PM

 uspsjuan wrote:
why hasen't anyone mentioned the USS Indianapolis ? you think with its history it would have already have made it in 1/350. i would get one.

I'm an aircraft guy, but if there was a 1/350 USS Indianapolis in injection plastic, I'd be all over it.  The resin one is just too darn expensive.

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1/48 Academy Bf-109G6 - 100%

1/48 Tamiya F4U-1A - 5%

Upcoming:

1/48 Revell F-14D

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Posted by alumni72 on Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:25 PM
The Battleship Potemkin?
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Posted by Archangel Shooter on Sunday, February 4, 2007 4:30 PM

Well...since we have the 1/72nd German and American subs, why not make the British, Japanese and Russian sub models to round out the same scale?

 

In work: 1/72nd VIIC/41. In the wings...VIIC and all it's detail sets. 1/32 F-18D, F-105D and G, for starters. So many models, so few years left.

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 On the bench: So many hanger queens.

 

 

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Posted by AJB93 on Saturday, March 3, 2007 10:34 AM
Once again, thank you all for your replies. It's a great big list, but this got a lot better response then I had thought it would.
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Posted by aardvark1917 on Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:23 PM
1/100 Kongo class, full hulls and internal details.

Separate kits for engine room, superstructures, etc, etc.

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Posted by MBT70 on Monday, March 5, 2007 3:03 PM
Dang ... you want the guns to fire, too?
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Posted by MrSquid2U on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 10:34 PM

I like to try and focus within 1:350th scale, although I've deviated. So how about I echo:

1:350th WWII in plastic of course-

U-boats so dioramas are more possible, although I've enjoyed those Mirage 1:400th offerings.

Escort carriers- so I'll stop being tempted to bash one or build a resin kit.

A Rodney- so funky it's cool!

South Dakota class BB

BB44 California,,,,actually, almost anything after the Arizona, of the "old" BBs from WWII. Thank goodness for Trumpeter (North Carolina) finally adding to the existing Tamiya BBs (NJ and Missouri) !

 

BTW- I have no aversion to resin until it comes to the prices they must command for the larger offerings like Battleships.

And of course for everyone else to get their wishes so I'll have that many more choices!!!

 

Yeah!! [yeah]

 

       

 

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Posted by qmiester on Saturday, March 10, 2007 8:02 AM
How about a 19th century whaling ship in 1/96?
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Posted by searat12 on Monday, March 26, 2007 12:46 PM

Steam warships, all 1/350 scale, all plastic:

WW2 

HMS Repulse

USS New Mexico

USS Brooklyn

IJN Kongo

IJN Chokai 

Scharnhorst

Prinz Eugen

WW1

SMS Lutzow BC

SMS Moltke BC

SMS Helgoland BB

SMS Scharnhorst AC

HMS Lion BC

HMS Invincible BC

HMS Iron Duke BB

HMS Good Hope AC

Pre-WW1 All 1/350 Scale

USS Brooklyn AC

USS Pennsylvania AC

Osliabia BB

Tsesarevich BB

Retvizan BB

Rossia AC

IJN Yashima BB

IJN Asama AC

Sailing Ships, various scales:

HMS Prince 1:125

Zeven Provincien 1:125

HMS Bellona 1:150

HMS Royal George 1:150

HMS Shannon frigate 1:96

Bucentaure 80 1:150

San Josef 1:150

Hesper pilot schooner 1:50

Bluenose schooner 1:50

 

 

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Posted by Chuck Fan on Monday, March 26, 2007 1:14 PM

 qmiester wrote:
How about a 19th century whaling ship in 1/96?

 

Aurora makes one.

 

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Posted by jtilley on Monday, March 26, 2007 8:49 PM

The Aurora whaler, the Wanderer, was on 1/87 scale.  (Sumpter250 is working on a beautiful version of it, on another thread in this Forum.)  It was released sometime back in the mid-seventies, if memory serves - not many years before Aurora went out of business.  To my knowledge it's never been reissued under any other label.

The four kits in that Aurora series that came out at that time - Wanderer, Bonhomme Richard, Hartford, and Sea Witch - seem to have attracted more than their fair share of interest among modelers. I have the impression that they command remarkably high prices on E-bay and such places.  Personally, I was never able to work up much enthusiasm for them.  The detail on their hulls and decks wasn't bad, but the spars were simplified and were molded integrally with utterly awful, injection-molded plastic "sails."  And the whaleboats in the Wanderer kit had hull lines that were distorted to the point of caricature.

Back in 1968 Revell issued a nice version of the Charles W. Morgan.  The detail on that kit was really remarkable - an almost-last gasp, it seems, of the talented, knowledgeable artisans who had been designing Revell sailing ship kits since the mid-fifties.  That kit is pretty small (quite a bit smaller than 1/96), but I'd really like to see it reappear - along with quite a few other Revell sailing ship kits from that era.

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Posted by navy07 on Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:01 PM

My list would be in 1/700 scale:

A good plastic kit of the Yorktown, CV5

Screening vessels Battle Of Midway (destroyers & cruisers)

More auxilliary ships including AF's, and others that lasted past WW2.

 

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Posted by searat12 on Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:22 PM
Seems to me there is a HUGE selection of 1/700's of every type!  Also, wasn't CV5 Yorktown a sistership of Enterprise?  Anyone know what the differences there are beween them, besides a paint job?
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Posted by Ponapeman on Friday, March 30, 2007 10:55 AM

CB Alaska- 700 or 350 scale

LSM- 350 or 72 scale

AVP Barnegut- 350 or 72 scale

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 30, 2007 2:02 PM
1/350 SMS Goeben and 1/350 KM Scharnhorst (WWII)
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Posted by ikar01 on Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:50 PM

What about a decent kit of the Enterprise as it looked during Vietnam?

 

What class was the Sea Tiger?

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 12:27 PM

 

 Does anyone knows if Trumpeter plans to produce the Kirov missile cruiser in 1/350 scale? When will happen ? 

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Posted by snapdragonxxx on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 4:13 PM

My most wanted shp kit......

 

Italeri 1/35 German S-100 SchnellBoot

WHEN IT FINALLY COMES OUT!!!

Please! Please! Please! Please!  Boohoo [BH]

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Posted by MBT70 on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 4:42 PM
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Posted by geek on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 11:24 PM

1/72 US 78 Higgins PT Boat

1/72 RN Fairmile D "Dog Boat" 

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Posted by seasick on Sunday, April 22, 2007 11:03 PM

Models:

1/700 USS Enterprise CVN-65 in post 1983 fit.

1/700 USNS Lewis and Clark. T-AKE-1 (I like auxilaries)

1/700 USS Long Beach conversion to post-1983 fit kit for the JAG 1/700 USS Long Beach.

1/700 USS Midway CV-41.

1/700 Charles De Gaulle CVN (in plastic)

1/700 HMS Ocean, current RN LHD.  She is a very good looking ship.

1/700 or 1/350 USCGS Mackinaw WAGB-30 Great Lakes Ice Breaker

 

 

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Posted by AJB93 on Saturday, May 19, 2007 1:50 AM
OK, for the last time, thank you, all suggestions will be compiled into a list.....sailing ships will NOT be included as they will be formed into a seperate poll. No more votes please, I'm finished!
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Posted by ps1scw on Sunday, February 3, 2008 10:05 AM

Maybe someday Dragon will come out with a 2 in 1 kit 1/350 for 1941 fitted:  Nevada / Oklahoma, Tennessee / California, Maryland / West Virginia.

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Posted by DURR on Sunday, February 3, 2008 10:57 AM

2 things i'd like to see

in 700th scale (due to space and wallet limits)

more of the pearl harbor ships

and heres a good one

those 3-1 type kits but in ships with 1 as built and parts for each refit

and it's not like it would be a great $$$ outlay by the kit companies because the refits would only amount to from 1/2 a sprue to maybe a sprue depending on the ship

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Posted by deattilio on Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:35 PM

I would have to put my votes in for a 1/700 BB 35 USS Texas circa 1945. Surprised theres not a kit considering shes still around to get accurate references, and doubly so since she is the last surviving dreadnought class battleship in the world.

I would also like to see (in 1/72, 1/48, or 1/35) the 50' workboat which is still in use in great numbers with the US Navy. Essentially an LCM with a solid bow, cargo hold and pilot house. You'll come across them at any Naval base as support vessels.

 

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Posted by rockythegoat on Monday, February 4, 2008 1:36 AM
1/700 HMS Hermes carrier, Falklands 

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Posted by starduster on Monday, February 4, 2008 2:12 PM

   My most wanted ship would be an affordable injection molded static kit of Disney's Harper Goff's the Nautilus, a model that every fan of this classic beauty can have and not spend a paycheck to have one, and in 1/92 or 1/48th scale for plenty of detail both inside if you want and out.

   And how about a 1/92nd scale model of the Surcouf, the French submarine which was lost in a collision with the SS Thompson Lykes and was sunk in 1942, another model that has never been available to modelers ( as far as I know ), and how about some of the first submarines even the Turtle all in injection molded plastic at 1/96th scale or even 1/72nd scale.   Karl M   

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Posted by results may vary on Monday, February 4, 2008 4:57 PM
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I like stuff BIG!  I have built the Snowberry in 1/72 but just think how cool it would be in 1/35?  I would really like to see the USS Ward in 1/72nd. Or for that matter any destroyer in 1/72nd. Any thing over 4 1/2 to 5 foot might be too big but wouldn't it be fun.  I like stuff WWII and older.  Four pipers are just cool.  New ships although cool to look at there is just no detail.  Just remember....
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Posted by searat12 on Monday, February 4, 2008 5:04 PM

A 1/350 WW2 Prinz Eugen!!!!

A 1/350 WW1 SMS Scharnhorst!!!!

A 1/350 WW1 HMS Lion!!!

A 1/350 WW1 SMS Derflinger!!!

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Posted by Steve H. on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 6:56 AM

Hmmmmm, , , , how about in 1/700 scale styrene;{all WWII, eccept as noted}

Maine{ACR-1, 1890's}

Oregon B{1890's}

Iowa Class B{1890's}

Michigan Class BB{1906}

Omaha Class CL

Salt Lake City class CA

Northampton Class CA

Astoria Class CA

Witchita CA

Brooklyn Class CL{all variations of pre-war CL's}

all remaining Pearl Harbor BB

Both WWI BB class's of Italy as in WWII

German "Panzerschiffs"{all 3}

Ad. Hipper CA

Prinz Eugen/Blucher CA

Scharnhorst/Gneisenau BC{thank you Janes fighting ships}

Royal Navy

Dreadnaught{1906} BB

Leander Class CL

Town & County Class CA{including "London" as "modified"}

Exeter CA

Perth CL

Belfast CL

plus all British Carriers

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Posted by searat12 on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:56 AM
 starduster wrote:

   My most wanted ship would be an affordable injection molded static kit of Disney's Harper Goff's the Nautilus, a model that every fan of this classic beauty can have and not spend a paycheck to have one, and in 1/92 or 1/48th scale for plenty of detail both inside if you want and out.

   And how about a 1/92nd scale model of the Surcouf, the French submarine which was lost in a collision with the SS Thompson Lykes and was sunk in 1942, another model that has never been available to modelers ( as far as I know ), and how about some of the first submarines even the Turtle all in injection molded plastic at 1/96th scale or even 1/72nd scale.   Karl M   

I don't know about the SS Thompson Lykes, but 'Surcouf' has been offerd by Heller in 1/400 scale for years...

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Posted by PhantomGhost on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2:44 PM
I'd like more Nelson era ships from Trafalgar such as the Spanish 4 deck Santissima Trinidad, The French flagship Bucentaure [in scale with each other], a new tool Ark Royal sailing ship [Admiral Howard] oh and a 1/144 scale USS Ohio submarine.   All injection plastic of course!
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Posted by modelbob on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 3:36 PM

Since we're all dreaming, I's love to see the following:

A 1/400 scale line of famous ocean liners like the QE1, QM1, Normandy, US, Rex, Liberte,

Aquatania, Mauretania, Constitution etc.

Also a good three island "tramp steamer" like the "Lakers" built on the great lakes

during and after WW I.

Does anyone remember the "Flying Enterprise". How about the Stockholm or Andrea Doria?

I'd love to see more commercial ships.   modelbob@hotmail.com  

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Posted by topher5001 on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:17 PM
A 1/350 Normandie & a 1/350 Ile De France (1927) would be awesome.
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Posted by constructor on Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:20 AM
My "wish for" list is practically out now as models in my favorite scale, 1/350. I used to wonder then when the manufacturers will come out with famous WW2 ships in 1/350 scale and Trumpeter answered my prayers. when I was a young modeller, (12 years old) there was a Revell model of an attack transport. That is my wish, a 350 scale attack transport just like what they used in the movie, 'Away all boats!"
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Posted by oboat on Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:31 AM
 How about a 1/72 Super "O" Boat (H.M.C.S/M Onondaga SS73), Or a 1/72 Upholder (VIctoria) Class SSK ( perhaps H.M.C.S/M Windsor SSK877). or any scale Modern Canadian Warship.
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Posted by bondoman on Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:49 AM
 constructor wrote:
My "wish for" list is practically out now as models in my favorite scale, 1/350. I used to wonder then when the manufacturers will come out with famous WW2 ships in 1/350 scale and Trumpeter answered my prayers. when I was a young modeller, (12 years old) there was a Revell model of an attack transport. That is my wish, a 350 scale attack transport just like what they used in the movie, 'Away all boats!"
It's available as the USS Montrose from Revell in a new box, it's based on a Victory ship, and is a little over 1/400 scale. I'm building mine as the original freighter, following Onyxmans lead, so if you want the boats and davits, let me know. IMHO they are clunky looking though....after "all these years".
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Posted by roowalker on Friday, February 22, 2008 4:56 PM
 I'm with searat....1:350 Sms Scharnhorst,SMS Derfflinger,HMS Tiger,Give some nice WWI classics a chance!!!                          Mike
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Posted by billydelawder on Friday, February 22, 2008 8:50 PM
I'd also love to see plastic kits of the Porter and Somers Class leaders, and the Farragut class DD's. You listening, Trumpeter or Dragon?
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Posted by constructor on Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:52 PM
Thanks for the info. I was thinking or actually directing this wish to Trumpeter who made the excellent "Jeremiah Brown". In 1/350 scale pleeeeze!
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Posted by warshipguy on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:50 AM

I agree with most of the listings. How about HMS Elephant, HMS Vanguard, HMS Bellerophon, HMS Bellona, HMS Captain, HMS Shannon, HMS Foudroyant, HMS Queen Charlotte (all of the Napoleanic Wars)? Someone also mentioned in an earlier posting that they would like to see Bucentaure and Santissima Trinidad; I second the motion! Are you listening Airfix/Hornby Hobbies?

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Posted by searat12 on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:30 AM

I'd like to see a manufacturer come out with the idea of 'twin kits,' i.e. two models in one package.  So many ships worked either together with another ship, or are famous for being antagonists that it makes sense to me to either release two kits ina single package, or two kits concurrently.  For instance, it seems ridiculous to me that there are so many kits of 'Bismack' out there, but it's companion ship, 'Prinz Eugen' is so rare (and usually in the 'wrong' scale too!).  If a company is going to release something like 'Kongo,' they should also release something like USS New Mexico.  This is particularly the case with ships of WW1.  ICM released three 'Koenig' class German battleships in 1/350 scale, but nobody has thought to produce a British ship in the same scale (HMS Lion, or HMS Iron Duke).  Very frustrating, and it seems so obvious as to beggar belief!  Just look how many 1/350 aircraft carriers have been released by Trumpeter in the last few years, but only now is there some indication that a Japanese carrier will hit the shelves ('Akagi' in Autumn 2008)!  And where are the Italian ships????

As for sailing models, well, we all just have to keep plugging away at the model companies in hopes they will produce something worthwhile one day.  Personally, I would think that a few large scale models of say, the schooner 'Bluenose' or maybe the schooner 'America' could be excellent subjects in 1/50 scale, if for no other reason than they could be converted to RC, as well as make impressive display models that many people would actually want in their living room (no matter how hard I try, my wife will never allow a 1/200 scale 'Yamato' in the living room!)........

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Posted by Project613 on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 12:30 PM
I get so discouraged by the modeling world of ship kits because its as if they make 200+ kits of the same old subjects over and over (examples:. Bismark, USS Arizona, Hood, VII C U boat, etc etc), yet some sobjects never get made. If its the early Cold War period, and especially of Soviet origin, you can almost forget about it being made. Here is a small list of my most wanted ship kits: Soviet Riga Class Frigate Project 50 in 1/350 scale Soviet Kronstadt Class subchaser Project 122bis in 1/350 Soviet Ognevoy Class Destroyer in about 1/400 scale or so Argentine Heavy Cruiser Almirante Brown in 1/700 Chinese Anshan Class Destroyer in 1/350 Soviet CL Krasnyi Krym in 1/600 or so Swedish Destroyer Oland in 1/400 Romanian Destroyer Marasti (D11) in 1/350
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Posted by Duke Maddog on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 12:38 PM

I would also love to see most of those in kit form too. My preference would be in 1/700 scale though; especially for the Cold War era Soviet warships. I have an extrensive collection of Soviet/Russian ships already in that scale and they would fit in nicely. I even have all four Kirov class ships built! Add to those (if they are not already mentioned) Kashin, Kara, and Kynda-class ships as well. The Argentine cruiser would also be a great subject to see.

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Posted by kpnuts on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:53 PM

I would love to see a 1/100 royal Sovriegn. Or a proper 1/100 1/96 cutty sark and thermopylea 

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Thursday, December 24, 2015 8:53 AM

Well , although it seems complete , there's no mention of Civilian ships ;

   So here's mine .S.S.Andrea Doria .

                           "" Christoforo Columbo

                            Matson's Lurline and Monterey

                           Moore-Mcormack's Brasil

Any of the Maersk Vessels and one or two Great Lakes tourist boats like the Canadiana

       I do have to add a military vessel because she was my home Before and After F.R.A.M. - The U.S.S.Ozbourn D.D.846 a  Gearing class ship  There are many others , But I definitely would like all of them in 1/350 and they can throw in the Normandy the Kaiser Wilhelm ( the Liner ) . any of the unsung Cunarders , States Lines ships  T.B.

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Posted by ejhammer on Thursday, December 24, 2015 10:45 AM

tankerbuilder

Well , although it seems complete , there's no mention of Civilian ships ;

   So here's mine

                            Matson's Lurline and Monterey

                          But I definitely would like all of them in 1/350

 

YES and Yes. My dad was on the first boatload of men from the 32nd Red Arrow Division sent to Australia then New Guina on theLurline. I'v got a few nice pics of her from his scrapbook.

 

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Posted by Drew Cook on Thursday, December 24, 2015 5:45 PM
1/72nd and 1/35th scale second-series (PTs 45-68) 77' Elco PT boats, with extra parts to customize them to gunboat versions.
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Posted by warshipguy on Friday, December 25, 2015 8:51 AM

I would still like to see the Napoleonic Wars ships I listed a few posts ago. I would also like to see a 1/350 USS Charles Adams class ship (preferably USS Benjamin Stoddert).  I also agree that we need more Soviet era ships, perhaps Kynda, Kresta, Kashin, Kara, or Moskva in 1/350 and in 1/700.  USS Bainbridge would make an excellent addition to the fine 1/700 USN Cold War ships by Dragon, as would other destroyer and frigate (DLG) classes of the period.

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Posted by templar1099 on Friday, December 25, 2015 9:36 AM

I'd like a reasonably priced Ironclad. Can't bite the bullet for one right now. Merry Christmas everyone.

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Friday, December 25, 2015 10:00 AM

yeah E.J.;

  There is never enough of any civilian ships from any era . The idea of these being ignored really torques me . There is always the gap between many .For instance where's all the 1/350 Victory ships ? Liberties we have .Where's the rest ?  T.B.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Friday, December 25, 2015 10:11 AM
I mentioned earlier in this thread,but I would love to see in 1/350 plastic some detailed German Commerce Raiders like Atlantis,Kormoron,Pinguin,Orion or the like.

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Posted by templar1099 on Friday, December 25, 2015 12:53 PM

uspsjuan
why hasen't anyone mentioned the USS Indianapolis ? you think with its history it would have already have made it in 1/350. i would get one.

   Trumpter CA-35 ?

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Posted by PFJN on Friday, December 25, 2015 1:18 PM

Hi,

I guess I'd probably be most interested in some reasonably priced plastic "Pre-Dreadnoought" and WWI era ships, in a reasonable sized scale.  (I know that there are resin ships out there but they all seem kind of expensive).

Other than that maybe some various merchant ships of just about any era.

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Posted by Koray on Friday, December 25, 2015 3:13 PM
USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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Posted by warshipguy on Saturday, December 26, 2015 9:02 AM

I believe that Merit has released a 1/350 USS Enterprise (CV-6) earlier this year. You should look into it.

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Posted by uspsjuan on Saturday, December 26, 2015 12:37 PM
I still would like to see any of the last few modern Nimitz class carriers in 1/200 scale. Very big ...yes I know, but I like to build big. yes, I do have the room to display it. I'm lucky enough to have an entire room in the house for my hobbies now that all but one of my kids ( out of 6 ) have left the nest. That and old eyes... hard to see those 1/700 parts. lol. Happy building
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Posted by jtilley on Sunday, December 27, 2015 3:43 PM

I won't bother to list sailing ships; that genre of plastic kit is just about extinct, and there's little point in pretending that it isn't. In terms of modern warships, I'd like to see some U.S. Navy auxiliaries of the WWII period. (We now have quite a few Japanese ones; why not some American ones?) I'd particularly welcome a Haskell-class attack transport, because my father served in one, but an attack cargo ship, a hospital ship, and a fleet oiler would also be most welcome.

And I'll second TB's plea for more merchant ships. My mouth waters at the thought of a shelf full of great ocean liners in 1/700. A manufacturer could get double duty out of the molds for quite a few merchantment that had wartime careers as Navy vessels - e.g., the Victory ship. And how about a Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth with optional parts for wartime armament, and a choice of wartime or peacetime color schemes?

And how about an old-fashioned tramp steamer? It would make a great companion to any WWII convoy escort. If I built one I'd name her the SS Inchcliffe Castle. (If you don't know why - well, whurra, whoosh, and even foosh to ye.)

One interesting thing about this old thread: the number of kits that were gleams in people's eyes eight or nine years ago, and are now on the market. There's certainly no shortage of Prinz Eugen kits, for instance.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that we're living in a golden age of modeling. I hope I don't live to see the end of it.

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Posted by kpnuts on Sunday, December 27, 2015 4:17 PM

Why? There are literally hundreds of sailing ships in wood so there is a market for them (and in general wooden kits are 2 or three times the price of plastic kits) I would happily pay 200 quid for a 1/100 royal Sovriegn by Heller. There is definitely a market for them, or why produce them in wood.

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Posted by steve5 on Sunday, December 27, 2015 4:40 PM

very well put kpnuts , we all live in hope of a soveriegn of the seas . I would definitely be at the head of the queue .from what I have read , they had the tooling just about done , so why not bring it out.

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Sunday, December 27, 2015 6:34 PM

I don't wish to start a debate here, so I'll just make a few observations and try to keep it neutral.

I have no access to the number of wooden ship kits sold every year. All I know is that personally I buy about 0.25 or so, yearly. And I do build them.

I probably buy about three or four plastic ship kits every year, and maybe one is a sailing ship.

As far as the subject matter, my plastic ship kits are top-down. In other words the more complex the better. The most recent plastic sailing ship I've bought is the Pourquois Pas? which is a fairly complex subject. A Fletcher, a couple of carriers and a Lindberg Q ship (two actually) round out the lot.

My wooden ship purchase this year was a Model Shipways Dapper Tom, and I was given a MS Virginia Privateer (Santa paid money). Both a little complicated, but both also very buildable.

So at least for consumer Morrison; there's no real overlap between wood and plastic kits. I could never imagine taking on a wood Constitution kit, as I would never get it built and the sheer tedium of making so many assemblies would wear me out. Likewise a plastic sloop or schooner, while it has some attraction, just begs to be built from wood, cordage, etc.

And I am going to guess with a pretty great deal of certainty that almost no big wood sailing ship kit, esp. from Europe, ever gets finished. I do read a fair number of wood model websites, something like a twenty gun frigate is about the upper limit .

I guess that my observation is the cost of kitting any plastic ship is pretty great, and needs a lot of units to sell. The first X number of thousand kits pay for the molds, the next for the box etc. So big complicated kits are a realistic choice. But how many of us ever will build more than one Royal Sovereign?

As for simple subjects, looking in the Privateer box, there's mostly the proverbial pile of strips of wood, some laser cut stuff and some Brittania castings. Nylon cordage (Ugghh!).

Not a very expensive product to produce, sold at a considerable sum retail (mine came from an estate sale), and probably profitable in small quantities. Yes Round 2 is selling those funny little plastic ships again, but they cost about 20-30 times what they did originally.

 

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Posted by jtilley on Sunday, December 27, 2015 6:51 PM

Nobody will be happier than I if the plastic sailing ship kit makes a comeback. But the economic forces on the plastic kit industry are such that I just don't think it's going to happen.

A plastic kit requires the manufacturer to make a far, far bigger investment than a wood kit does. It's interesting to follow the ModelExpo/Model Shipways website, which tells which Model Shipways kits are currently in stock. Apparently the company produces them in batches of six or eight - and those six or eight take weeks or months to sell out. The company can afford that, because the investment in basswood sheets and britannia metal castings (which don't require injection molding) is so much smaller than the expense of the injection molds required to make a plastic kit.

Another problem: a sailing ship model takes much longer to build than an aircraft, car, or tank. Some excellent work-in-progress threads about sailing ship models are running in this Forum - and they've been running literally for years. A plastic kit company can't make money off a modeler who buys a kit once every three years.

The plastic kit manufacturers don't let us see the actual data, but I have the impression that a plastic kit has to sell in the tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - before the company gets its investment back. If Calder/Jotika, Bluejacket, or Model Shipways turns over a few hundred, that's ok. Bluejacket produced its CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge in limited editions of 150 each. By selling the kits for over $700 apiece, the company will make money (though, I suspect, not a lot). No plastic kit company would even consider producing something that would only sell 150 copies.

I also have to say that I don't think styrene is even close to an ideal material for sailing ship kits. It's fine for hulls and certain fittings, but lousy for masts and yards - and certain other fittings. The injection-molding process can't produce a block or deadeye with a groove around it and a hole through it - without slide molding, which is very expensive. And plastic belaying pins are a sorry joke.

I've said for years that the ideal sailing ship kit would be a multi-media project. Plastic (or resin) for the hull, wood for the deck planking, metal or resin for the blocks and deadeyes, wood for the spars, etc.  I know of one manufacturer who's taken that approach. It's a Dutch firm called Artitec: http://www.artitec.nl/index.php/en/kits/category/h0-ships . Take a look at those seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch yachts. (Unfortunately I haven't found an American dealer who actually has them in stock - though several dealers list them.)

For a while Model Shipways sold a version of its nice little pilot boat Phantom with a resin hull. I bought one and thoroughly enjoyed building it. But by the time I was finished MS had taken it off the market; the version currently available has a machine-carved basswood hull.

And Cottage Industries Models makes a nice 1/96-scale American revenue cutter with a resin hull: http://cottageindustrymodels.com/?page_id=95 . I wouldn't mind having that one, but the price is a bit steep for me.

My cordial recommendation to anybody who wants to get into serious sailing ship modeling is to check out the wood kit scene. (But for heaven's sake avoid the HECEPOBs!) I just don't see the injection-molded plastic sailing ship kit making a comeback. But I hope I'm wrong.

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Sunday, December 27, 2015 7:06 PM

Blimey- this thread is so old that I'm actually several posts above, on this page, some years back, in a previous incarnation!

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, December 27, 2015 7:48 PM

Yup, a zombie thread. But with the interesting point mentioned earlier that many of the ship kits desired when this thread was new now exist in injection plastic. I would love to see a USS Nevada kit in her Pearl Harbor or Normandie fittings. Or perhaps one of the other slow battleship Pearl Harbor survivors in their Leyte Gulf Surigao Strait fittings. All in 1:350 injection plastic of course. 

 

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Posted by Project613 on Monday, December 28, 2015 8:26 AM

Its good to know there are some others out there that would kit the subjects I like.  The Kashin class would be a great choice.  I agree.  I was completely amazed that a 1/350 scale Soviet Project 613 Whiskey class submarine was made just last year.  That is exactly the kind of suject matter and era that seems to be completely skipped  in the modelling world.  I commend the Russian Model company MikroMir for that one.  Its about my favorite model I own nearly.

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Posted by warshipguy on Monday, December 28, 2015 8:31 AM

Gentlemen,

You certainly cannot blame me for listing my dream of having more sailing ships, especially from the Napoleonic Wars. One only has to consider the historic impact made by Britain's Royal Navy on not only Western civilization but on global civilization as well to justify my list.  One needs to worry if I were to delude myself into believing that my dream were to come true!

Now, to add to my list . . . USS Truxton, USS Knox, USS Leahy, USS Midway, USS Forrestal, etc.  The early Cold War era is sadly unrepresented in plastic ship modeling in either 1/1350 or 1/700.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Monday, December 28, 2015 4:01 PM

Maybe that same company MikroMir can do some of those Cold War-era Russian ships in 1/700 and 1/350 scale, like the Kashins, Karas, Kyndas and even a Grisha as well. One can only hope.

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Posted by warshipguy on Monday, December 28, 2015 9:12 PM

I agree.  In fact, I believe that I will write to them with that suggestion. I have most of their Soviet and American submarines. Positive action can cause hope to be realized.

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Posted by tigerman on Monday, December 28, 2015 9:38 PM

I would love a 1/350 Colorado class BB. I just got a book on US treaty heavy cruisers and would be interested one perhaps, but probably 1/700 due to shelf space.

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Posted by BashMonkey on Monday, December 28, 2015 9:51 PM

Wanted: A reasonable larger scale model of the Henri Grace Adieu, Henry VIII flagship.

 

Also same reasonable size model to the Santa Catarina de Monte Sinai, another early 16th century ship.

 

Reissue of the Imai Catalan ship, a model of a 15th century church votive ship model

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Posted by n9lge on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:17 PM

as for the new LCS's look for models of the USS Freedom LCS-1, two companies make them, I have both of them and am doing one as the USS Milwaukee, whose commissioning I attended with my wife, I also attendede the commissioning of the USS Freedom as both were held in Milwaukee Wi

 

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Posted by allan on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:30 PM

Id like to see, in 1/700 injection molded form:

 

1. USCG National Security Cutter

2. USCG Hamilton Class Cutter

3. MEKO Frigate series

 

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:59 PM

A Midway class either axial or angled deck, in 1/350.

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Posted by CapnMac82 on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 11:52 PM
Hmm. At least one of California\Virginia\Truxton\Texas line of CGN I'll second the large scale Fletcher, but in a square bridge west coast configuration, too. A Knox and a Forrest Sherman in large scale would not be bad. The early destroyers deserve a nod, as do the "letter" class US subs. We need Merchies--steal and sail; say an ore carrier, a coastal oiler, and, of course, a towboat and barge. Lumber schooners have been mentioned, our list ought have a collier and a Royal Mail packet--a hugely neglected class/style of sailing ship. A large scale water lighter/anchor hoy would be ideal. Randomly--USS Housatonic; a large scale Monitor, a USS Montaulk. Any of the ships from Lake Champlain; any from Mobile Bay..
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Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, February 11, 2016 12:21 AM

More submarines with planes on the sail.

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Posted by ships4ever on Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:27 PM

I'd like to see some neglected subjects get a chance at the big time. How about a 1/350 T-2 tanker to go with those 1/350 Liberty ships that are out there. For that matter, how about a 1/350 Victory ship? How about a 1/350 Queen Mary, as the box-scale Revell version is long in the tooth and deserves a serious upgrade. Since Merit and Trumpeter have been issuing 1/200 scale ships, how about a 1/200 Titanic? I think it would be a big hit! And just because any larger scale would likely be way too big, how about a 1/700 modern supertanker? A 1/350 scale USS Maine would also be greatly appreciated.

On the bench: 1/350 Trumpeter HMS Dreadnought; 1/350 Academy USS Reuben James FFG-57

 

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Posted by Hokey on Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:29 PM

Styrene Great Lakes ships.

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Posted by seasick on Thursday, February 11, 2016 9:49 PM

1/700 or 1/350 USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)

This is the largest USCG icebreaker in the great lakes. Its namestake (WAGB-83) is another possible kit. The Edmond Fitzgerald ore freighter has historical significance.  

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Posted by Hokey on Friday, February 12, 2016 6:57 AM

Agree! Saw it in Mackinaw last summer. Huge ferry ruuning from Ludington to Manitiwoc would also be cool. 

There are resin Edmonds available. I'm actually building 1/700 Fitz now. 

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Posted by deattilio on Friday, February 12, 2016 8:46 AM

There are several I would like to put together and add to my displays.  Couple are more boat than ship but it is a water dweller.

1/35 25' Boston Whaler (USN)

1/35 10-meter RHIB (USN)

1/200 Arkansas class monitor (USN)

 

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Trying to get my hobby stuff sorted - just moved and still unpacking.

 

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Posted by seastallion53 on Friday, February 12, 2016 6:10 PM

A Krivak class destroyer since they shadowed the USS EISENHOWER when i was onboard in 1980.

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Monday, February 15, 2016 11:36 AM

seastallion53

A Krivak class destroyer since they shadowed the USS EISENHOWER when i was onboard in 1980.

 

 

Are you wanting it in 1/350 scale? Because Pit Road did both the Krivak I and Krivak II in 1/700 scale. I have one of each built on my shelf. They may be still around on E-bay or other sites.

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Posted by Archangel Shooter on Monday, February 15, 2016 11:55 AM

I would like to see one of the USS Vestal in 1/350th and 1/200th scale. Can be used in a  Decmber 7th dio along side the USS Arizona.

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Posted by the Baron on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:14 PM

I just learned about Aoshima's 1/700 CV-7 kit the other week, and picked it up, so now, one of my Grail ship kits is accounted for.

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Monday, February 22, 2016 11:42 AM

Good Heavens !

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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Saturday, October 15, 2016 7:22 AM

A 1/72 Fletcher class would be cool.Even a DE in that scale would suffice!

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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Saturday, October 15, 2016 8:11 AM

Hmmm... and a 1/72 "La Combattante/TNC-45" patrol boat too! Could be the basis for lots of smaller navies' ships, including the Reshefs!Cool

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Posted by Duke Maddog on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 11:48 AM

Another model I'd like to see in 1/700 scale: Italian carrier Guiseppe Garibaldi. I'd also like to see their newest carrier also, the larger version of that ship; I forget the name. After all, the Guiseppe Garibaldi served in all the major conflicts recently: both Gulf Wars, Somalia, and Afghanistan. After all that service and activity; why do the model manufacturers ignore this ship?

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Posted by D. Lindsey on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 12:00 PM

A 1/350 or 1/200 Washington BB56 in  Nov. '42 fit.

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Posted by dpdelhoyo on Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:45 AM
Can i add another? A ww2 us frigate, can't remember class name, that was also used by the RN ("Colony" maybe?).
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