The only wish I have is a new Iowa class battleship. The Tamiya USS Missouri was ok but technology has overtaken it and a more accurate version is my only wish. Other wishes has been granted thanks to Trumpeter and Hasegawa.
no but id love a hermes my father in law was on her in the late 70s
Hi all,
In my opinion the Kaiserliche marine and the Kriegsmarine produced the best looking battleships, battle cruisers and cruisers ever. So my list for new 1:350 kits is:
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SMS Von der Tann
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SMS Seydlitz
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SMS Moltke
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SMS Lützow
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SMS Derfflinger
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SMS Baden
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DKM Scharhorst / Gneisenau
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DKM Graf Spee
And any British ship that fought at Jutland too.
Regards,
Nelson
i beleive trumpeter are gonna be doin a scharnhorst along with repulse but i dont know when
I would ask for some Soviet Cold War-era subjects, but seeing that Trumpeter’s just released a Kirov makes that request seem purely greedy.
So, how about a Vitenam-era Essex class carrier? Say the Oriskany, BonHomme Richard or Intrepid?
And well,I’ll second the call for a Forrestal or at least a Kitty Hawk/Constellation as well.
I would like to see some WWII British Carriers like the Ark Royal or Eagle.
Remember the old Pine Island sea plane tender? It would be cool in 350 with new tech as well.
Maybe then something diff like an Italian Battleship Like the Roma or something.
The last time I was on Hermes was when I was about eighteen months old in 1959. It was on an open day for the families of the workers who built her and my dad took me; or so I’m told. I, obviously, don’t remember any of it.
hedve been about the same age lol
As for me any Baltimore heavy class cruiser and one battleship the Texas.Digger
Might be nice to see an HMS Malaya as well, since these QE’s and the R battleships did so much in the Med…
Excellent, but I’d rather see Revell of Germany doing this. Their new Bismarck is first class ! Trupeter sometimes makes silly mistakes.
Regards,
Nelson
Not sure about the DKM Scharnhorst, but I know Trumpeter is releasing a DKM Prinz Eugen that is getting rave reviews, and come to think of it, most model manufacturers make mistakes at some time or another (not an excuse, just a reality!)… I know Trumpeter has held up the release of HMS Repulse in order to sort out a bunch of flaws, Hasegawa screwed up it’s ‘Nagato’ something awful with heavily molded CAD lines all over the hull, Fujimi’s ‘Kongo’ and ‘Haruna’ has the wrong shape hull embrasures for the secondary armament, and Aoshima put huge ridges on the turrets of their ‘Takao’ class cruisers… And that was just in the last year!
I kinda like the 1/72 scale offerings, and they’re not perfect. But still seem to have fewer errors than the others.
gary
The main prblem with Trumpeter is their inconsistency. Maybe this is related to the level of information available to the Chinese toolmakers. Each new release is a Pandora box, we can never be sure what we will find inside. It can be either an outstanding model like their Hood or, in aviation, the 1/32 Me 262, or the model has shape errors that are difficult to fix, one side of the hull is bigger than the other, etc. I’ve never heard Revell of Germany has made serious shape errors on their most recent kits. Even the Bismarck I mentioned before has some small detail errors, but nothing difficult to fix.
Regards,
Nelson
I would like to see more pre-dreadnought plastic, mainly U.S. battleships and cruisers, also late 19th century coastal monitors(probably a little too esoteric for most mfgrs.) How about R/RG doing a new PT boat in 1/72 with the same quality as the S-100’s?. There is a serious lack of Coast Guard ships as well, or how about late 19th/early 20th century subs? I know some of the aforementioned are addressed in resin, but I along with many others, I’m sure, can’t afford to buy resin all the time.
Jim
I’m very fond of pre-dreadnoughts myself, and a few come immediately to mind that I would love to see in 1/350 scale styrene:
Russian ‘Peresviet’ battleship
Russian ‘Gromoboi’ Armored cruiser
Russian ‘Askold’ Light cruiser
Japanese Tokiwa Armored cruiser
Japanese ‘Hatsuse’ battleship
HMS Canopus battleship
HMS Good Hope Armored cruiser
USS Brooklyn ACR 3 (my favorite predreadnought!)
USS Charleston C 22
USS Pennsylvania ACR 4
USS Tennessee ACR 10
German SMS Yorck Armored cruiser
German SMS Blucher Armored cruiser
Definately we would like to see these ships in 1/350 injection moulded kits:
HMS Daring Type-45 Destroyer (Trumpeter I know you can do it well and the people you send to research the ship can do spy work for the Peoples Liberation Army Navy.) Even better in 1/200
HMS Hermes with an option to make it as the INS Viraat (Again a Trumpeter profit maker, maybe a million potential customers in India alone.)
HMS Astute SSN, A very exciting ship. Even better in 1/144
HMS Incomparable, A mighty ship that never was and would make a 1/350 scale battleship model that was 87cm long and beautiful in mystery since it was designed in 1915 but never ordered (a lot bigger then any 1/350 Yamato, Bismarck, Iowa or Hood)
I would like to see the current HMS Invincible (glad to hear of the Airfix announcement).
HMS Dreadnought (the origin of the species)
USS Bogue (in a kit that is less than $200.00)
Anything from the great white fleet
USS Olympia in a new tooling
HMS Nelson/Rodney
USS Montana (BB 65)
Any us destroyer from the early cold war era such as FRAM’ed WWII DD’s or anything from the 1950’s-60’s
especially with the DASH system
IJN Fuso
IJN Kaga
Cleveland Class CL
Idependence Class CVL
Rudderow Class DE
RN WWII Carriers
Vietnam Era Essex
Excellent choices Chris, but Trumpeter is not the one to do it. Dragon would be the first choice, with Tamiya right behind.