Informal "Your Most Wanted Ship kit" Poll

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

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?

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!

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

Good Heavens !

 You remember the Inchiff Castle ? I thought no one knew about her . Tanker - Builder

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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. 

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.  

Styrene Great Lakes ships.

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.

More submarines with planes on the sail.

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

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

1. USCG National Security Cutter

2. USCG Hamilton Class Cutter

3. MEKO Frigate series

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

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

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.

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.

Bill

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.

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.

Bill Morrison

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.

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. 

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

Egad!

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.

P.S. Please forgive my old curmudgeonly professor's whining, but the word is spelled S O V E R E I G N . There! Now I've got that off my chest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Bill Morrison

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Bill Morrison

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.

EJ

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.

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

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.

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!)........

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?

Bill Morrison

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!"

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  

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...

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

A 1/350 WW2 Prinz Eugen!!!!

A 1/350 WW1 SMS Scharnhorst!!!!

A 1/350 WW1 HMS Lion!!!

A 1/350 WW1 SMS Derflinger!!!

   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 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.

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

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

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

1/72 US 78 Higgins PT Boat

1/72 RN Fairmile D "Dog Boat" 

My most wanted shp kit......

Italeri 1/35 German S-100 SchnellBoot

WHEN IT FINALLY COMES OUT!!!

Please! Please! Please! Please! 

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

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

What class was the Sea Tiger?

CB Alaska- 700 or 350 scale

LSM- 350 or 72 scale

AVP Barnegut- 350 or 72 scale

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.

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.

qmiester wrote:

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

Aurora makes one.

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

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!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

 Bill

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.

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 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)

How about some oldies?

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

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?

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:

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

Jorit 

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    

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

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).

 1/350 Kirov

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!!

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. 

1/350 Knox Class Frigate

1/350 Perry Class FFG (short hull)

EXCELLENT THREAD !!!

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?  )

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!  )

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.

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!).

Cheers from DownUnder,

Diego.

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)

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).

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.

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.

Semper Fi,

Chris

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.

Cheers,

Roger Pearson. Bendigo, Australia.

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

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.

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

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

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

" PERSEVERANCE "

P.S. My brother in law is in the navy , like he says " Let's talk about walking on bulkheads , during a typhoon ." By the way the washroom , is still a "head " , in his household .

1/350-IJN-Takeo or Myoko   Akagi    Tone 

1/350-Northampton   Tarawa  

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

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.

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)

reklein wrote:

Grem, I will help you do your murder for the Charles Morgan

 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.

Julian

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.... 

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.}

SteveH

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

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

1/350 LST in plastic

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

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.

In a second look, I saw that I rather acted without much thinking in my previous post 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 ). 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.

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 17^th century warships:

1610 Prince Royal   England

1628 Vasa (Wasa)   Sweden

1637 Sovereign of the Seas   England

Mid and late 17^th 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 19^th century warships:

1814 HMS Nelson   Britain

19^th 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

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!!!      Those cannon look awful dang small....

dhenning wrote:

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

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

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.

SteveH

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)!

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.

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

Julian

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!!!)

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.

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.

Dave 

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?

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)

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)

Julian

 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

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)

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