1/350 ship kits we'd all like to see!

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I think it may be time to prod the model companies again, and it seems this forum may actually work at doing so! Perhaps it was just coincidence, but the results from the last time around were a USS San Francisco, HMS Repulse, IJN Kongo, and now I hear a 1/350 IJN Akagi is now in the works too! So let me kick this off with my suggestions, and please feel free to chime in with yours! Remember, 1/350 scale!

German CA ‘Prinz Eugen’

Japanese CL ‘Yahagi’

CL USS Brooklyn

BB USS New Mexico (modernized)

CA USS Northampton

Japanese CA ‘Mogami’ (with converted flight deck aft)

Japanese carrier ‘Ryujo’

Italian BB ‘Littorio’

French BC ‘Strasbourg’

BB HMS Warspite

And if they REALLY want to get bold, here are a few WW1 kits that would be very welcome!!

BC HMS Lion

German BC ‘Derfflinger’

BB HMS Queen Elizabeth

German AC ‘Scharnhorst’

And finally, my two FAVORITE pre-dreadnoughts,

AC USS Brooklyn

Russian BB ‘Oslyabia’

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|USS Nevada: Dec41 and June 44

IJN Hiryu

DKM Scharnhorst

Jean Bart

HMS Rodney

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Among others: An Alaska class cruiser.

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Battlecruiser SMS Goeben/Moltke

Russian WW1 destroyer Novik

IJN Hosho early aricraft carrier

CL USS Brooklyn

FFG MEKO class

[2c]

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Knox Class FF (USS Capodanno)

Perry Class FFG ((short hull) Antrim, Clark, Lewis B. Puller, George Philip)

Utah 1941

Nevada / Oklahoma 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Tennessee / California 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Maryland / W. Virginia 1941 (boxed as 2 in one kit, make either/or)

Graf Spee / Exeter / Ajax / Achilles

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I LIKE the idea of ‘two in one’ kits! So many times you have sisterships that are really close; how much effort would it be for the model company to put in a couple extra molds to give builders the option of either/or? Another option would be for the model companys (who already make all those PE ‘upgrades’) to make a separate set of molds that would either ‘back-date,’ or ‘modernize’ a ship that is otherwise presented as a single model kit. I think this could work really well for ships like ‘Nagato’ (which already has the bow piece as a separate molding), and perhaps some of those British capital ships that had such long careers (HMS Warspite, etc)…

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remember the MAINE…[swg]

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Kongo class

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Which Kongo? Both the modern Kongo and the IJN battleships have been announced and can be preordered.

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Old variety.

Who’s making it?

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I’d like to see the USS Cyclops (AC-4).

For those who don’t know about her The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace sometime after March 4, 1918 remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat. The ship’s fate is still a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. No wreckage of the vessel has ever been found.

Victim of the Bermuda Triangle? Mutiny? Or UBoat attack? No one knows. I hope I’m around to see this ship discovered

http://www.jobsinparadise.com/cyclops5.jpg

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Thanks for starting the thread…

Here’s another vote for the Prinz Eugen. It would be great of Revell Europe followed up their new 1/350 Bismarck with a companion Prinz Eugen!

Also, another vote for the following:

BC HMS Lion

German BC ‘Derfflinger’

BB HMS Queen Elizabeth

German AC ‘Scharnhorst’

I would like to add the pre-WWI USS Oregon and USS Texas.

Cheers, Rick

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For me:

HMS Warspite (preferably WW2 era, but WW1 would be OK with me)

Tribal Class Destroyer.

HMS Dreadnought

Any Royal Navy WW1 Battlecruiser.

Prinz Eugen

Type 42 Destroyer (preferably a Batch 1)

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Anything “Barrow built” would be fine with me.

Albion or Bulwark (the new LPDs)

Any of the Falklands vetereans; Invincible. Hermes and Sheffield.

From WW2; Illustrious, Ajax and Indomitable. Also; the armed merchantman Jervis Bay.

Although we will soon get a kit of the Kongo; this is the WW2 version. I wouldn’t mind seing an “as built” version with its three different shaped funnels.

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Can’t say it enough…SCB-27C or 125 Essex.

USS Midway/Coral Sea

Wasp class LHD

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I forgot to add the following to my earlier post:

T-2 tanker

Victory ship

Samuel B. Roberts

Gambier Bay

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Fujimi is coming out with a 1/350 Kongo (I already have mine pre-ordered!).

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Aoshima is the other company reported to be doing a 1/350 Kongo.

Trumpeteer is doing the modern Kongo.

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Nope, not Aoshima (who are busy cranking out all those lovely ‘Takao’ class cruisers), but Fujimi that is producing the new WW2 IJN 'Battlecruiser ‘Kongo.’ I have one pre-ordered from Free Time Hobbies (and here is the link: http://www.freetimehobbies.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=44631

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Actually both. Fujimi is the first out of the gate with preorders. It has been the subject of discussion in the ship modeling boards. Speculation is that they may do an earlier version of the BB.