Informal "Your Most Wanted Ship kit" Poll

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.