Why aren’t there any models of these???
[dto:]
in 1/350 injection molded… long overdue…
Very overlooked. Take the Sheffield, Jamaica, Exeter as examples. Always liked the looks of them.
Dont forget the 6" cruisers… HMS Ajax from River Plate to Normandy… a hard record to beat…
Please Airfix??? [;)]
[dto:] what he said
Ron
…refer to the
Allure of a Battleship Loser ?
thread for possible reasons…
We want British cruisers and we want them now…
Admiral Jackie Fisher wanted Battle cruisers…
Closest I can find is below but its a bit on the high side for the price. Looks like a gap in the market for one of the bigger manufacturers
http://www.freetimehobbies.com/cms4230.aspx
P mitch
harumph! harumph!
Ajax would be my pick…[Y]
…you mean like the…
HMS Indestructable
HMS Indestructable II
HMS Indestructable III
HMS Indestructable IV
HMS Indestructable V
etc…etc…etc
…well you get the picture…
HMS Manchester.
There are models of British cruisers: in 1/700 you can get Exeter from Niko, Kent, Curlew, Delhi, Columbo, Arethusa and Galatea from H-P Models and Scylla from WSW. You can find more from White Ensign Models as well. WS
I too would like someone to bring out a 1/350th scale, injection molded British WW II cruiser. I’ve had this need ever since I read Alistair MacLean’s “HMS Ulysses” many years ago. It was the first book he wrote (1955) and is the story of British light cruiser similar to the Dido class pulling escort duty on the Murmansk run. Since MacLean served on a light cruiser during WW II he had first hand knowledge of what he was writing about. I consider it the best book he wrote. I’ve always said if I was ever stranded in a tropical area without air conditioning I would want “HMS Ulysses” to read. MacLean’s writing of the extreme cold the crew of the Ulysses endured drops the temp a good 25-30 degrees and makes you shiver. If you’ve never read “HMS Ulysses” and are into WW II naval novels, I would recommend it highly.
I read that book some years ago.[dto:] It definitely drips with authenticity
We need 'em in injection molded plastic…
You don’t NEED them, you WANT them.
The convergence in pricing which has brought the cost of plastic models closer and closer to resin certainly can’t be as much of a minus any more. I just can’t see the point about moaning about a lack of subject matter simply because it isn’t in the medium that you prefer. How many of them are you going to build?
Right now we, as modelers, are swamped with choices. It would take all of us a couple of hundred years each to build all the ship models available on the market today.
Expand your horizons and work in resin and metal (Skytrex kits).
Yes we do have more choices than we can realisticly build in the remainder of our natural lives. But when it comes to kits that are affordable for the average US model buyer/builder, that field narrows considerably. I listen to it at club meetings I attend and most are in a similar predicament. It is hard to justify spending $100 - $300 on a single kit with a family to support and bills needing to be payed. No matter how many hours of enjoyment I will get out of a particular build (which in my case is a LOT as I tend to build very slowly these days). Injection molded kits from the main companies tend to be significantly less costly than their resin counterparts.
DITTO to the above, and I tend to find injection-molded kits much more detailed these days and easier to build than resin ones (wasn’t always like that)…And besides, I haven’t been able to find a single example of the kits you listed from a mainstream supplier—or non-mainstream for that matter…