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What kit(s) would you like to see made in 1/350? PICK 2
HMS Renown (rebuilt)
Revenge Class Battleship
County Class Cruiser
Nelson Class Battleship
Rebuilt Big 5
USN Cage Mast BB (WWI)
Pre War Big 5
Cleveland Class Cruiser
Alaska Class Battlecruiser
Leipzig Class Cruiser
KUK Viribus Unitus
Conte di Cavour / Andrea Doria Class BB
Admiral Scheer / Lutzow
Leander Class light cruiser
Portland Class cruiser
Retooled Iowa Class (WWII/Modern)
Angled Deck Essex / Midway class
Illustrious Class (WWII)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:55 pm 
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The absence of an Ark Royal kit is as perplexing as the lack of a good Yorktown class kit.

I'd also like to see a Sendai class CL. Maybe all the three funnel versions are a prelude to the larger ones . . . I hope.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:24 am 
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Well,

most wanted kits includes of course re-tooled or better made kits of ships. But there are ships who are still not existing at all as 1/350 kit - see Rodney / Nelson - I prefer more these missing kits ... and in matter of Nelson class too, because my main area is Royal Navy. ;-)

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Greetings all.

I would like to see IJN Kaga and IJN Hiei.
I think a late war DKM Scheer would be good too.....


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I am still down for a Baltimore-class or Des Moines-class CA. That would be an awesome build!

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:44 am 
I vote CV-6, as commissioned USS Midway CV-41, Andrea Doria(the passenger liner) all in 1:350 scale.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:16 am 
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Nelson Class (already made a thread about 1/350 HMS Rodney) and the Alaska Class Battlecruisers.


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My votes went for Nelson and Renown, but....

Baltimore class.. beautiful ships.. Springfield too

Also I really would love a Sumner and Clemson/Wickes class. You can get so many varieties of Benson/Gearing or Fletcher but no Sumner (at least there's some nice Gleaves) or Clemson/Wickes (which I love partially because I went to Clemson, and partly due to the huge variety of configurations).

And let's not forget subs.. A nice Balao would be sweet!



Also surprised there's no Duke of York from Tamiya. I guess they don't want a third in the same class, but I figure DOY would be more popular than POW based on it's history.


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I figure DOY would be more popular than POW based on it's history.


Noop,

it's not a ship's success that makes it famous, it's the drama. :big_grin: So PoW is much more dramatic than DoY, apparently. If Scharnhorst had seen chance to sink DoY instead, the story would surely have been different. :eyebrows:

Similarly: Titanic is much, much more dramatic than Normandie, or QM, or United States. That's why we have tons of Titanic kits, and not a single one of Normandie (for example), and very minimalistic ones of the other two.

So that answers also why we only have a Scharnhorst kit in 1:350, not a Gneisenau. And as the ocasion went by largely unnoticed in 1943 (it was Christmas, you know :lol_4: ) we have gotten that Scharhorst kit only recently.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:07 pm 
Bill545 wrote:
My votes went for Nelson and Renown, but....

Baltimore class.. beautiful ships.. Springfield too

Also I really would love a Sumner and Clemson/Wickes class. You can get so many varieties of Benson/Gearing or Fletcher but no Sumner (at least there's some nice Gleaves) or Clemson/Wickes (which I love partially because I went to Clemson, and partly due to the huge variety of configurations).

And let's not forget subs.. A nice Balao would be sweet!



Also surprised there's no Duke of York from Tamiya. I guess they don't want a third in the same class, but I figure DOY would be more popular than POW based on it's history.


Well, you can build any one of the five King George V class battleships (KGV; POW; DOY; Anson or Howe) at any point in their careers from the two kits currently available from Tamiya: HMS King George V for a later fit; or HMS Prince of Wales for an earlier fit, with the right Photo Etch Set and some after market bits n bobs. So, I cannot see them releasing one packaged as DOY.

Currently in my stash I have the POW kit awaiting conversion to KGV is she was during the Bismarck Episode. I have the PE from WEM, along with some resin UP launchers from WEM, and with a little scratch building of their shields you have a KGV! The same could work equally well for DOY!


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of the ones listed...I would like Wyoming, but next (#2) is actually HMS Agincourt, or IJN Satsuma (preferably in original DN design with single 12" wing turrets)


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Alaska and Revenge for sure!


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My votes go to County class cruiser and Leander light cruiser, preferly the modified version... (Yes, I have a thing for RAN ships...)

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ThomasBorg wrote:
My votes go to County class cruiser and Leander light cruiser, preferly the modified version... (Yes, I have a thing for RAN ships...)

I had a 600 scale Ajax as a kid (still have it somewhere) made the 4" sec. & TTs pivot.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:57 pm 
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I vote CV-6

+1. My favorite ship. Also SS Normandie, Queen Elizabeth, both are as of 1930s-1940s.


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Although I usually prefer building 1/700 waterline kits from the Second World War, for 1/350 scale, I would prefer more modern ships, which were not among the choices in the online poll above.

This would include:

1.) the US Coast Guard's Hamilton class cutters- with mods to depict the class members which were sold off and re-rated as frigates by the navies of the Philippines, Bangladesh and Nigeria.

2.) The Canadian Coast Guard's icebreakers CGS Hudson and the CGS Amundsen.

Other kits I might also want in 1/350 would be from World War I, namely:

3.) The battleship HMS Iron Duke

4.) The battleship HMS Canada/Chile's Almirante Latorre.

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My vote is for Illustrious or county class. It is about time we saw an RN carrier. Another cruiser wouldn't hurt either. Its great to see so many options for WWII, I would love to see some other eras represented, maybe an Iron Duke, or even an Olympia. I'd love to see some more support and assault craft represented - lets see an LST


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How about a 1/350 (Plastic) Atlanta class light cruiser , better yet, the USS Juneau (CL-52).


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wallyball wrote:
How about a 1/350 (Plastic) Atlanta class light cruiser , better yet, the USS Juneau (CL-52).


If you look at the Dragon/DML 2013-2014 catalogue you will find a USS Atlanta model offered in the 1/350 section.

Item number 1039.

When I mean the Dragon catalogue, please don't confuse this with the CyberHobby model spinoff catalogue that features Dragon kits.

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Hey CCGSailor,
Thanks for reply, however, I just searched every possible (I think) Dragon website and couldn't find anything regarding a 1/350 Atlanta Cruiser. What am I missing?


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