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Offline DreamKnight

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Your most wanted ship Kit...
« on: Thu Jul, 22, 2010, 04:30:PM »
Which ship model kit that's currently on your most wanted list? It can be currently out on the market or announced as a feature release.
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #1 on: Mon Jul, 26, 2010, 05:59:PM »
USS Wasp (CV-7) and USS Ranger (CV-4), in 1/700, injection-molded styrene.

There are kits of these subjects, in resin, from Corsair Armada, but they're currently out of print again (they had been re-issued briefy a couple of years ago).  The resin kits are very nice, but almost impossible to find.

With those two, I could model the first 9 US carriers, from the Langley to the Essex.
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #2 on: Mon Jul, 26, 2010, 07:11:PM »
They have released a new USS WASP LHD-1 but that's not the CV-7.  Raving reviews about the LHD-1 though.

Mine would be that or the USS Enterprise 1/350 by Tamiya. :)
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #3 on: Thu Jul, 29, 2010, 01:00:AM »
Yes, as far as I know, Corsair Armada is the only maker ever to have modeled CV-7.  Revell, of course, had a kit of her Essex-class successor, CV-18, as the Mercury or Gemini recovery ship, but not the earlier Wasp.  That may have be the same mold as their kits of the Intrepid and the Franklin, too.

I think Revell also did the later Ranger from the Forrestal class, too, but again, I don't think anyone else but CA has ever kitted CV-4.  I forget who has the Langley kit, but I've seen it on some dealers' tables at recent shows.
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #4 on: Thu Jul, 29, 2010, 02:12:AM »
The U.S.S. Constitution with real cloth sails!

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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #5 on: Sat Aug, 07, 2010, 05:22:PM »
Always wanted to make the old Airfix sea rescue boat... nice and easy, no rigging! Perhaps a Battle of Britain diorama. I'd make a model of the aircraft shot down in the channel by my great uncle Cecil.

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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #6 on: Sat Sep, 11, 2010, 07:44:PM »
I don't see any blips on the radar for them YET, but I would like to see kits of the boats from Discovery channels "Deadliest Catch" series.
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #7 on: Mon Mar, 21, 2011, 09:40:PM »
Anything that floats (well, the real one does)

Just getting my sea legs wet so I just need boats to build for experience. First tiny 1/600 I know I can already improve on

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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #8 on: Tue Mar, 22, 2011, 03:04:AM »
Wooden?......Trekh Ierarkhov!  66 gun Russian Frigate (not a kit, would have to do it off plans, but they are out there)

Plastic?....1/350 Ticonderoga class Aircraft Carrier.  Would like to make it to 1960's conversion of the USS Randolph (my Dad's ship)

Civil War Monitor

Comfortablynumb's  1/350 Yamato, after seeing that build, crap,  I would love to have that.

And of course, The new Uss Arizona from Trumpeter with all the bells and whistles.

These are just the top 5
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #9 on: Thu Jun, 09, 2011, 03:18:PM »
I know its not a SHIP per say !!!

but I always wanted to get my hands on one of those....

Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV)   those mean looking Hovercrafts used in Vietnam !

so COOL looking....   they only one I saw made in model was a Scratch-build !!!

oh....  I so..... want one !!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PACV_cruising_full_speed.jpg/300px-PACV_cruising_full_speed.jpg


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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #10 on: Sat Jun, 11, 2011, 02:42:AM »
i would like to do a 1/400 Titanic to the 9's, (like the stickyones).  Also, I would like to try the Revell container ship.
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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #11 on: Sun Jun, 12, 2011, 11:34:PM »
I would like to see a 1/700 scale USS Ohio class submarine.

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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #12 on: Mon Jul, 11, 2011, 01:07:PM »
Yeahhh! I saw it!! the 1/200 scale USS Arizona!!!! What a Ship!! What a size!!!

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Re: Your most wanted ship Kit...
« Reply #13 on: Mon Jul, 11, 2011, 01:46:PM »
Already have my most wanted wooden ship kit in the stash, the Model Shipways 1/65 scale Bluenose. In plastic, I would love to have one of the revell Germany 1/72 class 7 Uboats or USN Gato Class subs.