Hey all, I am running an informal poll on my site. Now that the Trumpy hood is out, what is your most wanted ship kit? Here is the current list:
USN Subjects:
1/350 SCB 125 Essex (2)
1/350 Florida
1/72 Sumner 50s
1/72 Gearing 1950s
1/350 USS Forrestal
1/350 Bogue class w/ RN options (3)
1/350 BB 11
1/200 USS Fletcher
1/72 Wickes Clemson class
1/350 Tarawa class (4)
1/350 Wasp class
1/250 Essex SCB 27
1/350 USS Charleston 1980s
1/350 USS Canopus AS 34
1/144 Bogue class
1/700 Essex angle deck (2)
1/72 & 1/48 80 ft Elco PT boats
1/350 USS Neosho 1941 fit
1/350 Tennesee 1944 (2)
1/700 USS Maryland
1/700 USS Tennesee
1/350 USS Lousville
1/350 USS Sicily WWII
1/200 Tanker
1/600 Comfort w/ Mercy Options
Royal Navy Subjects:
1/350 HMS Invincible 1916
1/350 Lion (3)
1/350 Iron Duke (3)
1/35 Vosper MTB
1/350 Neptune
1/350 King George V
1/350 Orion
1/350 Queen Elizabeth 1920s/30s (4)
1/350 HMS Invincible 1980s
1/350 Tribal class (2)
1/350 Hood 1930s
1/200 Hood
1/350 Tiger 1920s (6)
1/350 Royal Oak as sunk
1/350 Belfast
1/350 Amazon class falklands (2)
1/350 Bristol late 1980s (2)
1/350 Leander with Ikara/Seawolf options (2)
1/700 HMS Q-class (2)
1/350 E-class
1/350 Renown (6) w/ options for other ships in class
1/350 Courageous (3) w/ Glorious options
1/700 Majestic class
1/350 & 1/700 A-I class
1/350 & 1/700 Q-Z class
1/350 HMS Warspite 1940s (8)
1/350 HMS Vanguard (2)
Japanese Subjects:
1/350 Fuso (2)
1/350 Shokaku (3)
1/350 Akagi (5)
1/350 Kongo Optional fit
1/350 Nagato
1/350 Mogami
1/600 Akagi
German Navy:
1/350 Scharnhorst WWII w/ options for Gneisenau (2)
1/350 Derfflinger (3)
1/350 Prinz Eugen (4) w/ options for other ships in class)
1/350 SMS Blucher Dogger Bank
1/350 Scharnhorst WW1
1/350 New SMS Emden WW1
1/350 Graf Spee
1/700 Z-class
Post here or send an e-mail to warshipsinscale@yahoo.com Please include the name, fit, and scale of the ship you want. I look forward to hearing from you!
all my choices would be in 1/600-1/700 scale and all in plastic
#1 i would like to see more support ships, tenders,tankers,libertys etc…
#2 it seems to me that some of the best choices of ships are in (dreaded) resin i would like to see some of them in plastic
and something very unusual a battleship or an a/c carrier made like some of those sub models with the clear 1/2 so All the great details can be seen (engines, the diff levels inside a 15" gun turret etc…) a super detailing nut could have a field day on that too
I would love a 1/72 Vietnam era River Monitor to go with the Tamiya Pibber. (and yes I know there is a resin version but I would prefer a plastic version)
i would like to see more 1/600 scale any thing the difference between this and 700 is
not significant for space (storage) ranging from 1/2" to 3 1/4" depending on the ship
but the lousy 1mm or 2mm difference when working on the parts (especially for us older folk) really does make a difference on the hands and eyes (read arthiritis and coke bottle eye glasses)
I want an re-release of the 1/700 HMS Rodney. I know Tamiya released one, but I can’t find it anywhere. I would also like to see the US Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship released. The firsst one is being built not to far from me, so I’d love to have one on my shelf.
1/144 or 1/72 U-869. This is a type IX C 40 U-Boat. This is the subject of the book “The Shadow Divers” and the PBS show “Hitler’s Lost U-Boat”. For that matter any type IX boat would be a good subject to compliment the 1/72 Type VII C.
1/35 PT-59 which is a 77’ Elco and Kennedy’s last boat. It’s a very interesting subject.
1/35 PT-103 class boat.
1/35 Vosper Boat. See Al Ross for best subject piece.
1/72 Balao class late war fleet boat to compliment the Gato Revell put out.
In my opinion the biggest yawning gap in the currently-available range of plastic warship kits is World War I and the period leading up to it. How about a British capital ship or two (say, the Warspite and the Lion) to balance those nice German battlecruisers from ICM? Better yet - how about H.M.S. Dreadnought - arguably one of the most important warships ever built? And now that we have some coverage (not much, but of pretty high quality) of the Russo-Japanese War, how about something from the Spanish-American War? A genuine, scale plastic kit for the U.S.S. Maine, and an up-to-date one for the Olympia, would be terrific. And, as long as I’m indulging in totally unrealistic dreams, how about a Spanish ship or two to go along with them?
I’ll take any of the above in any scale - though 1/350 would be especially nice.
I’d like to see: a pilot schooner, other than phantom in plastic, 1/72, 1/87, or 1/96. Any one of the three or four masted coasters from the east coast. Any one of the lumber schooners (sail) from the Pacific Northwest. At least two clippers, that have never been done before. How about a 1/96 Hudson River Sloop, or a 1/48 model of the Rebecca t. Ruark one of the few Chessapeake Bay Skipjacks with round bilges instead of the familiar deadrise.
I assumed we were only talking about steel warships. If we enter the realm of sailing ships, I don’t know where to start. Let’s see…a big (say, 1/96 scale) American clipper ship; a seventeenth-century British warship (H.M.S. Prince, for instance); an American whaler; any American sailing warship other than the Constitution (one of the frigates from the American Revolution, for instance); a few nineteenth-century river steamboats…I could go on and on. I also wouldn’t mind seeing some of the old classic sailing ships get reissued. I’d be particularly happy to see the Revell Flying Cloud, yacht America, Charles W. Morgan, Golden Hind, Mayflower, and Viking ship again. And any Imai sailing ship reissue gets my whole-hearted approval.
Rocky - it doesn’t get much publicity in the U.S., but there’s an excellent line of 1/700 sailing warships in cast white metal from a British company called Skytrex. I only have one of them (H.M.S. Victory), but if the others are done to the same standard the whole range is worthy of serious attention. The detail is excellent, and the overall shapes look just right. Go to www.skytrex.com, then click on “ships,” then on “Meridian Trafalgar Series.”
I would love to see a 1/35 scale kit of the USS Alacrity, MSO 520, a wooden-hulled ocean-going minesweeper on which I served. Built in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., around 1953.
1/72 or 1/96 Point Class Coast Guard Cutters (WPB- 82’) with options for configuration for Vietnam service or Drug Bustin’!
1/35 is too big for me for PT boats, so how about a 1/72 early Elco 77 footer (the early PTs that evacuated MacArthur) or a 1/72 Higgins PT boat?
A 1/72 LCAC would be cool too!!!
Prefer injection molded plastic to resin. Still have the 1/96 early Elco PT that I bought at Dallas at the Nationals. Afraid to touch it after laying out that much money (for me at least)!