Informal "Your Most Wanted Ship kit" Poll

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

1/350 LST in plastic

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.

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.... 

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

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)

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.

1/350-IJN-Takeo or Myoko   Akagi    Tone 

1/350-Northampton   Tarawa  

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

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 .

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.