Your most wanted ship Kit...

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

I have a bunch on my wishlist. Mostly from my youth years - the old Revell kits. Here's a shortlist:

USS Lexington
USS Enterprise
USS Hornet
USS Wasp
USS Ticonderoga
USS Oriskany
USS Boston Light Cruiser - found one at a local antique store. may grab it next week
USS Intrepid
USS Forrestal
USS Saratoga
Bismarck
Tirpitz

 

[Down Time]

Franklin is on its way.......

 

[Bugatti Fan]

Thread revivals are generally because a subject or heading catches the eye first.
Date they were last used becomes secondary until some one else notices.

 

[Bendinggrass]

I would love to see a particular new kit:

The Queen Mary, from perhaps 1958, in 1/350. Just a beautiful ship, and never kitted.

 

[wjbrandel]

I remember a kit I started when I was about 9 or 10, it was the tirpitz with the option to make it as a rc ship.
I got it about half way together and then we moved and it got lost in the move.

I would love to get that kit again, but I don't remember the scale or the manufacturer. I do remember that it was a new kit in 1982 when I got it.

 

[Down Time]

I remember a kit I started when I was about 9 or 10, it was the tirpitz with the option to make it as a rc ship.
I got it about half way together and then we moved and it got lost in the move.

I would love to get that kit again, but I don't remember the scale or the manufacturer. I do remember that it was a new kit in 1982 when I got it.

Look up Heritage Hobbies, Wilton Connecticut. I think I saw one there or Bismarck.

 

[Bugatti Fan]

Bendinggrass mentioned the old Queen Mary in 1/350th. I think that maybe Revell or Airfix might have done a kit of her in a smaller scale.

The French inter wars transatlantic liner Normandie (nick named The Ship Of Light) was a lovely looking ship that would be nice to see in 1/350th also. The ship had beautiful lines and it met its tragic end due to a fire and it capsized in New York harbour.
Come on Heller! What are you waiting for? It is a French ship after all.

 

[Bendinggrass]

I remember a kit I started when I was about 9 or 10, it was the tirpitz with the option to make it as a rc ship.
I got it about half way together and then we moved and it got lost in the move.

I would love to get that kit again, but I don't remember the scale or the manufacturer. I do remember that it was a new kit in 1982 when I got it.

I think that might be the old Lindberg kit.

 

[Bendinggrass]

I have a bunch on my wishlist. Mostly from my youth years - the old Revell kits. Here's a shortlist:

USS Lexington
USS Enterprise
USS Hornet
USS Wasp
USS Ticonderoga
USS Oriskany
USS Boston Light Cruiser - found one at a local antique store. may grab it next week
USS Intrepid
USS Forrestal
USS Saratoga
Bismarck
Tirpitz

Ohhh... I would love a new kit of the early Forrestal class in 1/350..... such a great class, the first of the super-carriers, and still neglected in 1/350. Years ago, I build an Aurora kit of the USS Independence, I believe it was.

 

[the Baron]

Still watching for a 1/700 injection-molded Ranger, CV-4. I think the most likely source will be Trumpter, scaling down its 1/350 scale kit.

 

[wjbrandel]

Look up Heritage Hobbies, Wilton Connecticut. I think I saw one there or Bismarck.

I'll check them out. Thanks

 

[Jakko]

I would like an LCT (4) in 1:35 scale (I know Accurate Armour made one, but it's been out of production for years, and the company is soon to be no more too.) Somewhere to put it when built would help, too, though.

 

[kwc271]

I have the CV-18 Wasp kit myself. It is a pretty nice kit, but it is an old one. I wanted it because my Dad served on that ship.

 

[RocketRanger]

I'm hoping that Atlantis Models releases the old Aurora PGH-2 Tucumcari Hydrofoil gunboat.
This was a very detailed and complex kit by Aurora standards in the fairly large scale for a ship (boat?) of 1/84 according to Scalemates.
I built one in the early '70s and fondly remember it as a really cool model!
It had moveable, retractable hydrofoil wings, a rotating deck gun and crew figures.
This was one of those 1960s futuristic vehicles at the cutting edge of naval architecture and aerotechnology from Boeing.
Tucumcari was also deployed to South Vietnam for short time during the war.
Atlantis Models if you have this mold and are reading this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumcari

 

[Edbert]

Okay cool, I'm not replying to a 2010 thread directly.

I've not built a ship or a boat since I butchered the Bismarck around the mid '70s. But I'm getting the feeling for it. Saw some great models at the show yesterday, fella that made this said there were over 1,000 PE parts alone on this. I keep saying that high part-count doesn't scare me, but that did!




I'm thinking 1:200 would be cool and easier on my old eyes, maybe a destroyer so the finished product is not huge. But all the DDs I'd like are old-school and seems most new kits are modern missile carrier types which do not excite me.

 

[urumomo]

Okay cool, I'm not replying to a 2010 thread directly.

I've not built a ship or a boat since I butchered the Bismarck around the mid '70s. But I'm getting the feeling for it. Saw some great models at the show yesterday, fella that made this said there were over 1,000 PE parts alone on this. I keep saying that high part-count doesn't scare me, but that did!

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I'm thinking 1:200 would be cool and easier on my old eyes, maybe a destroyer so the finished product is not huge. But all the DDs I'd like are old-school and seems most new kits are modern missile carrier types which do not excite me.

https://www.scalehobbyist.com/catag...1&ppp=48&sb=stocknumber_a&so=d&era=0,6&sc=144

 

[domer94]

I would love to see a particular new kit:

The Queen Mary, from perhaps 1958, in 1/350. Just a beautiful ship, and never kitted.

ill see your 1/350 and raise you a 1/200 QM1 or big U....

 

[Edbert]

That DD is on my wishlist with a few vendors, I (honestly) feel it might be above my skill level.

So I decided to break my ship-building cherry, so to speak, on a different ship. The BB35 from Trumpeter, I think it is 1/350, but the part count and PE should determine if I am ready or able to tackle this D170.

 

[kagnew]

I would like to see a 1/350 or 1/200 Baltimore class heavy cruiser in a injection plastic kit

 

[OldManModeler]

Modern: 1/35th US Marine LCAC. No body makes this to my knowledge. Scratch build maybe.
Tamiya's 1/35th Pibber for an 'Apocalypse Now" diorama.

WWII: 1/35 or 1/16 US Marine LVT. Italeri has them in 1/35th, I think, but reviews are not very good.
1/72 U Boat. Revell has them.

1700's: Any Pirate ship longer than 2 feet assembled. I am thinking 1/72nd scale.

Edit: I forgot to add a dream build fantasy kit: Actually #1 on my list of 'ships': Aliens Dropship. Once a kit in 1/72nd by Halcyon.