Underrated and underappreciated models. What would you like to see more of?

In all the time I’ve been modeling, there’s been various modeling subjects that I’ve often felt were underrated and/or underappreciated.
Stuff that almost never gets built or seen at contests, in modeling magazines, in website photo galleries, talked about on message forums, etc.

Things like, but not limited to:

  1. American west figures, dioramas, etc. depicting life in the mid to late 1800’s. Cowboys, Indians, Wyatt Earp, Stagecoaches, etc.
  2. Civilian passenger liners and cruise ships, yachts, oil tankers, freighters, etc.
  3. Railroad type models. Locomotives, dioramas, etc.

What other types of models or catagories of models would you be more curious to see of at contests, in magazines, on websites, etc.?

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Farm implements! The wide variety of tractors, balers, mowers, cultivators, harrows — you name it — of the golden age of the family farm from pre-WWII through the 70’s, seems totally unrepresented in the scale modeling world. Die cast replicas, sure… but I want to build them, and weather them up to look like the ones my grandpas had when I was a kid.

Or like this one I just got for moving logs at my up-north place. It’s a 1967 International 424 utility.

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Emergency vehicles - I’d like to see a brush rig.

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How about a Streetcar named Desire? Well, more exactly a Cable Car named Powell & Mason. Hawk kit from 1957 I build last year.

I would love to see large scale Airline kits.