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Which of the following ships would you most like to see produced in 1/350 Plastic.
RN County Class Cruiser 13%  13%  [ 259 ]
DKM Prinz Eugen (or Hipper) 4%  4%  [ 78 ]
Angled deck Essex class (SCB-125) 8%  8%  [ 168 ]
DKM Scharnhorst 5%  5%  [ 96 ]
HMS Warspite 15%  15%  [ 297 ]
USS Long Beach CGN 7%  7%  [ 133 ]
DKM Graf Spee 2%  2%  [ 45 ]
Big 5 Battleship rebuilt (Tennessee -Maryland) 10%  10%  [ 195 ]
Big 5 Battleship Pearl Harbor (Tennessee -Maryland) 7%  7%  [ 140 ]
Royal Navy WW2 Destroyer 6%  6%  [ 123 ]
US CVE Escort Carrier 4%  4%  [ 76 ]
HMS Ark Royal Carrier 11%  11%  [ 219 ]
USS Midway (modernized) 8%  8%  [ 151 ]
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2011 6:31 pm 
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K.u.K. Viribus Unitis /Tegetthof
K.u.K. Admiral Spaun
K.u.K. Zenta etc...

Seamen on these ships were from more then 7 nowadays countries:-)

ORP Orzel pre WW2
ORP Burza/Wicher
ORP Blyskawica/Grom

WW2 light and heavy cruisers + destroyers.

And othere pre WW1 ships.
Russo x Japanese 1905 war ships, Soviet x Finnish 1940 war ships.


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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2011 6:43 pm 
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When I voted for a CVE my thoughts are of the USS Commencement Bay CVE-105 class.

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PostPosted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:16 am 
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I'll vote for an SCB 125 Essex or a Midway. About time we had one!!!!


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I'll vote for the ESSEX class angled deck SCB 125.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:00 pm 
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It isn't on the list of options, but it gives me an opportunity to pose one of those questions that nag me. One of the ships that seems, year after year, to top the list of the "most wanted" ship models in any scale (how about a 1/200 on this one!) is the U.S.S. Enterprise CV-6. This is perhaps the most iconic warship of World War II, certainly the most iconic U.S. warship of that time. We have kits of Hornet, Lexington and Saratoga, but no Enterprise. Also, she was the only ship of her class to see service from Pearl Harbor to the surrender of the Empire of Japan. Does anybody have any thoughts on why somebody, Trumpeter perhaps, or Tamiya, does not seem to be interested in what I suspect, if it is a decent kit, would fly off the shelves were it released?

Like to see what everybody thinks.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:30 pm 
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Because Trumpeter messed up their Hornet, so their sales were not stellar, and other manufacturers attributed this poor sales due to the lack of interest in the class of the vessel, rather than on Trumpeter's mistake.

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The first Battlecruiser HMS Invincible, as built, to go with my Dreadnought when I get it! Then I really will be happy, although I really will be short on space :Mad_6:

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:27 pm 
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Manteuffel wrote:
K.u.K. Viribus Unitis /Tegetthof
K.u.K. Admiral Spaun
K.u.K. Zenta etc...

We can only dream for those, sadly.

As for me, I want HMS Nelson class, IJN Hiei, IJN Hyuga(all gun) and IJN Amagi !


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:58 pm 
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Hi!

Why the moderators did not include any Soviet Union Navy of WWII in their list?
After all, the country has won the war.

And its important to note that NONE of WWII Soviet navy ships was ever represented by any manufacturer in a decent scale.
And we are not talking of insignificant subjects but some of 24.800 tone displacement.
My vote goes for battleships:
"Marat",
"Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya",
"Sevastopol".
cruisers
"Profintern",
"Chervona Ukraina",
Russian Imperial Navy battleships "Imperatritsa Yekaterina" ,
"Imperatritsa Mariya",
"Volya".
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:34 pm 
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Timmy C wrote:
Because Trumpeter messed up their Hornet, so their sales were not stellar, and other manufacturers attributed this poor sales due to the lack of interest in the class of the vessel, rather than on Trumpeter's mistake.


I'm not buying "lack of interest". As nearly as I can tell, among 1/350 ship builders, at least in the U.S., CV-6 is something like the Holy Grail. There may be limited interest in the rest of the world, but I can't believe that there isn't sufficient "interest" in a 1/350 injection kit of the most decorated U.S.N. ship of World War 2 to justify production. If there is enough interest to support a new tool release of Gambier Bay or Independence, I'm sure the interest in CV-6 is there.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:29 am 
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If you insist to call USS Enterprise by the hull classification code there is never gonna be a 1/350 or 1/700 USS Enterprise in the market.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:47 am 
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Atma, nobody is suggesting it be marketed as "CV-6". But on this board it is not uncommon for ships to be referred to by their hull numbers, since in many cases different ships have had the same name. For instance, both CV-6 and CVN-65 have been named "Enterprise". There have been two different World War II destroyers with the name "Laffey". This is simply board shorthand to reduce confusion.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:17 pm 
I'm tired of boring WWII ships, it's time to get on with the Cold War like:

Nimitz 2000's
Forrestal 1990's
Kittyhawk 2004
JFK 2004
Iowa 1990's
Leahy 1980's
BainBridge 1990's
Virginia 1980's-90's
Spruance
Kidd
Arleigh Burke 2000's
LA
Virginia
Seawolf
Ohio
Perry
ashville
Sacramento
Etc...... We need to act fast as these ships are starting to disappear


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Mike G wrote:
I'm tired of boring WWII ships, it's time to get on with the Cold War like:

Nimitz 2000's
Forrestal 1990's
Kittyhawk 2004
JFK 2004
Leahy 1980's
BainBridge 1990's
Virginia 1980's-90's
LA
Ohio
ashville
Sacramento
Etc...... We need to act fast as these ships are starting to disappear

There, I shortened the list for you - the ones I removed are already available in 1/350 plastic ;)

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:26 am 
Just joined, hello all! :-)

My main interest is warships pre 1920.

The kits I would like to see in 1/350 plastic are vessels which showed the transit from sail to steam, vessels from all nations. Those launched in the 1860's to 1870's...plenty of subjects, some strange ones too.

I suppose they are very niche...but we can dream. Although some pre-dreadnoughts are making it to plastic...More please!

Oh yeah, one vessel I wish somebody would do , is the Torpedo ram POLYPHEMUS . A very unusual vessel. Again very niche..vurtually unknown to the wider world.

Such is life :-)

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Mike G wrote:
I'm tired of boring WWII ships, it's time to get on with the Cold War like:

Forrestal 1990's
Kittyhawk 2004
JFK 2004
BainBridge 1990's
Virginia 1980's-90's

Etc...... We need to act fast as these ships are starting to disappear


And maybe a few Russians
Kresta 2
Kara
Kashin
Kynda

and maybe the Neustrashimyy (I know it's not really a cold warship era but well hey nice ship anyway.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:59 am 
The "County"Class is in effect at least two sub classes.Ideally a Norfolk circa 1941 as she appeared during the hunt for Bismark or in 1943 as dipicted on the hunt for Scharnhorst.Carrer wise one of the most active of the Class.
Alternativey, how about a Cornwall at the time of her demise to the Japanese.
Moving away from the beloved Counties, howabout an Exeter,Battle of the River Plate era!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:20 am 
Quite simply,does anyone recall the old 50's movie of one of the most couragious incidents,post WW11, The Yagtze incident.How about an HMS Amethyst in 1/350th or better still even larger to 1/72nd as per the excellent Flower Class Corvette


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How about a modern AO, AOE, AE? There are no replenishment ships out there in 1/350


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:55 pm 
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Rhynoman wrote:
How about a modern AO, AOE, AE? There are no replenishment ships out there in 1/350

This.

Also, what about a 1/350 Alska (CB-1), or Des Moines (CA-134)?


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