Hi
To that I would add similar in 1/700 scale list. BUT , , I’d also add U.S.S.'s Chicago,Northampton,Vincennes,Quincy,{all circa Aug '42}. And the British Q.E. class fast battleships, and the American New Mexico’s.
SteveH
In 1/350 … SMS Von der Tann or Seydlitz in plastic. In 1/200 … Kirov/Frunze in plastic.
I know, I know, it will be big, but, a 1/35 LCAC!! Yes
Thanks for the heads up on Skytrex! Pretty nice kits that I just may have to bite on. Guess I’m going to have to have a 20x loupe superglued to my eye!!! [8D] Those cannon look awful dang small…[BH]
Well, this is my list. It grew quite large after thinking about it and some of the ships are maybe a little strange but it is a wish list, right!?
If only one of them would be released I would be quite happy.
Early 17th century warships:
1610 Prince Royal England
1628 Vasa (Wasa) Sweden
1637 Sovereign of the Seas England
Mid and late 17th century warships:
1655 Eendracht (Concord) Holland
1655 Royal Charles (launched Naseby) England
1664 Hollandia Holland
1665 Zeven Provinciën (Seven Provinces) Holland
1669 St. Michael England
1670 Prince England
1692 Louis Quinze France
Royal yachts:
1749 Royal Caroline Britain
1778 Amphion Sweden
1896 Standart Russia
1901 Victoria & Albert III Britain
Early 19th century warships:
1814 HMS Nelson Britain
19th century oceanliners:
1855 Persia Britain
1888 City of Paris II Britain
1892 Campania or Lucania Britain
The first ironclads:
1859 La Gloire France
1860 HMS Warrior Britain
In a second look, I saw that I rather acted without much thinking in my previous post [:)] so I renew my choices.
Just like Professor Tilley, I think that there are not enough sailing ships around for age of sail enthousiasts. But considering those excellent kits by Pyro/Lindberg, Revell, Imai, Airfix and Heller; I think their reissues would be just fine. I’d only like to have an accurate model of a Greek Trireme (preferably that of Olympias itself) in 1/144 and a 38 gun Sané designed frigate in that same scale. Just like Heller’s Superbe (a Sané 74), a 38 can be built into dearth of individual ships with a little craftsmanship.
As there are two excellent pre-dreadnoughts in the shape of “english looking” Hasegawa Mikasa and “french looking” Zvezda Borodino/Orel; I drop out my wish for Tsesarevich. However, except for one or two USS Monitor kits, there virtually are not any plastic models from the age of Ironclads. My suggestion to plug this hole is the Chinese barbette ship Ting Yuen in 1/350 scale. An almost incredible thing happened in shape of a 1/1 floating replica Ting Yuen recently, and she was also a historically significant ship for her role in the battle of Yalu.
As Professor Tilley said, warships of the first world war are nearly non-existent in plastic model range. This is especially true for dreadnoughts. Except for ICM’s König class, there are not any WW1 dreadnoughts in styrene. I think a Moltke/Goeben would be magnificent to accompany them and a Queen Elizabeth class with an accompanying “Splendid Cat” would be equally fine for RN fans.(Though the only one that I would buy is naturally the Goeben [:)]). A world war I U-boat, preferably of UB-III class is equally important to represent the post-jutland German arm of decision.
The armored cruiser, a naval platform which influenced warship design so much and served in every fleet action of importance before and during WWI is totally lacking in styrene. My candidate to fill this niche is the versatile Guiseppe Garibaldi class. They were truly “best seller” weapons and were present both in battle of Santiago, Tsushima and Turco-Italian War of 1911-12 as first line warships.
As a final remark, the torpedo boat and the early destroyer, platforms which created a so deep effect in naval strategy and construction both as a result of theory and experience are nonexistent. My candidate for this class is the british “30 knotter” type TBD. With turtleback stem, low freeboard, multiple funnels and historical role (russo-japanese war), they epitomise 19th century underwater warfare.
So to sum up, I’d wish:
for “Wood and Cloth era”
1/144 Accurate Greek Trireme
1/144 38 gun Sané frigate
for “Ironclad age”
1/350 Ting Yuen barbette ship
1/350 Garibaldi class armored cruiser with multiple fit choice for different navies.
1/200 scale “30 knotter” British TBD
for “dreadnought age”
Moltke/Goeben, multiple fit Queen Elizabeth class, Lion class; all in 1/350
1/144 World War I U-boat, preferably a UB-III class.
I agree on the “Pearl Harbor” battleships and any capital Japanese ship not already done to death like the Yamato. But, how about the USS Langley, CV1 ??
why hasen’t anyone mentioned the USS Indianapolis ? you think with its history it would have already have made it in 1/350. i would get one.
I would like to see a 1/700 scale USS Houston (CA-30) and the USS Langley (CV-1). I know there is a resin kit of the USS Houston, but it’s very expensive and beyond my modelling budget.
A 1/350 scale kit of the USS OKLAHOMA CITY CLG-5 . Not a very popular subject i know , but i served on her .
SHL
1/72 San Pablo from the film “Sand Pebbles” in plastic
1/350 LST in plastic
Here’s one I know anyone would like, even though it’s always been considered a white elephant. How about the Alaska Class Battlecruisers of WW II in 1/350 and plastic? Despite their obsolescence before they were even launched and their limited service life, they are still absolutley gorgeous warships with very fine lines from stem to stern. And some of the cammie schemes they wore make for outrageously cool builds.
i just finished reading a book on the uss enterprise ( WW2) and they mentioned the Alaska and another “battlecruiser”. I thought it was a typo. I didn’t realize we had any battlecruisers.
Grem, I will help you do your murder for the Charles Morgan[}:)]
Hi
The “Alaska Class” were considered{and classed as} “Large Cruisers” and designated by the letters “CB”. 6 were autherized, but only 2, Alaska and Hawaii were completed. They carried 9-12"/50cal.,12 5"/38cal., 56-40mm,and 34-20mm. displaced 31,500 T, LOA 808 3/8ft. long,90-9 3/8 beam, draft 49.6 ft. SHP{trial}173,808 hp., speed{trial}32.72 kts. Like the German “Pocketbattleships”, they were designed to out shoot anything they could not out run. This info from page 483 of the book "U.S. Cruisers, An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman. If only they had been alotted in 1935, not 1940. Guadalcanal would have been a really different story, as mentiontioned above, our Navy classified them as “Large Cruisers”. However, in Janes Fighting Ships, the Brits called them for what they were, , ,Battlecruisers!{from the 1st mention of them{about 1942}, until they were “mothballed”{mid to late '50’s.}
SteveH
P.S. They had a profile that was more like a typical American battleship at that time.
I’d love to see the following in 1/600 or 1/700 scale, preferably 1/600:
Modern Italian Carrier Guisseppe Garibaldi
Modern Italian Helicopter carrier Vittorio Venetto
Modern French Carriers Foch, Clemenceau, and Charles de Gaulle
Any modern French and Italian cruisers and destroyers
Any/all WWII Italian and French Battleships
Russian Kresta, Kashin, Kara and Kynda class ships from the 1970’s
Russian Ivan Rogov amphibious assault ship.
Russian Sverdlov class gun cruisers circa 1960-70’s
British Courageous, Majestic, and Formidible class carriers, with options to build as RAN, and RCN
British HMS Hermes from the Falklands War.
These are all ones I’ve been wanting to build in plastic forever. Can’t afford all those expensive resin kits. Maybe someday…
Just check this link out: http://gallery.drydockmodels.com/album311 . Now there is no way I will be able anything in wood to rival this gentlemans work. A 1/96th scale plastic model of the Morgan would be a fascinating build IMHO.
Julian [wow]
This is what I posted on a similar thread on Modelwarships.com:
- WW2 destroyers and smaller warships in 1/200 or 1/144
- Any pre-dreadnoughts (or destroyers, cruisers, monitors etc. from the same period) in 1/250, 1/200, 1/144 or similar
- More WW2 (or post-war) torpedo boats and small craft in 1/72 - Fairmile MTB/MGB, armed trawlers, earlier Schellboot types, USN sub chasers, Soviet torpedo boats, etc…
- More WW1 ships in 1/350 (especially a RN BB)
- More WW2 destroyers in 1/350 (again, particularly RN)
- A WW2 cruiser, of any navy, in 1/350
- A RN or IJN aircraft carrier in 1/350
This is a relatively “realistic” wish list, however - only subjects which would have a good chance of selling, to ship modellers at least if not the general public, if produced as injection-moulded plastic kits. All of these subjects I would buy, other than possibly the BBs and CVs which would be out of my budget.
For a “pie in the sky” list, however, I’d like to see a kit of HMS Warrior (1860) in 1/200 scale or larger, and anything from the following list: 19th century pre-dreadnoughts and similar ships (monitors, turret ships, armoured cruisers, gunboats, etc.) in anything from 1/96 to 1/350, Civil War Union and Confederate ironclads and other ships (to be fair, many of these are available as resin kits, in 1/96 and 1/192 - though these are hard to obtain in the UK and a bit out of my price range) and some smaller warships from WW2 and WW1 (i.e corvette size or smaller) in 1/72, 1/96 or 1/144.
1/144 or 1/150 might be the best scale for a HMS Warrior kit, as this would produce a model about 3’ long, the same as the large Revell sailing ships.
If nothing else, I’d like to see some of the interesting and unique old kits from Lindberg, Pyro, Aurora, Revell etc. (both sail and powered ships) reissued. It looks like this will be the case with Lindberg kits at least, as Hawk are reissuing most of them this year. (No idea whether they’ll be available in Europe and the UK though)
I’m surprised no one has mentioned what I always thought was the biggest hole in Revell’s 1/96 scale series of ships: A Royal Navy 38 gun Frigate, from the early 1800s.
Other injected plastic kits on my wish list:
1/350 scale CVE (USN or RN)
1/144 scale CVE (about 3 feet LOA)
More 1/72 and 1/35 scale WW2 amphibs, to go with the fine armor kits in those scales.
US Revenue Cutter BEAR in 1/96.
USCGC Eagle in 1/96.
1/350-IJN-Takeo or Myoko Akagi Tone
1/350-Northampton Tarawa
1/350-Graf Spee U-Boat Type IXB Atlantis