Your most wanted ship Kit...

[DreamKnight]

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.

 

[the Baron]

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.

 

[DreamKnight]

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.

 

[the Baron]

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.

 

[Dano1945]

The U.S.S. Constitution with real cloth sails!

 

[Chas]

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.

 

[Bullet21]

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.

 

[Robbo]

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

 

[TRM]

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

 

[schweinhund227]

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

 

[fumblethumbs]

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.

 

[noc5659]

I would like to see a 1/700 scale USS Ohio class submarine.

 

[Chiefpettyofficer]

Yeahhh! I saw it!! the 1/200 scale USS Arizona!!!! What a Ship!! What a size!!!

 

[Carsenault]

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.

 

[Bugatti Fan]

I would like to see an accurate plastic kit of the CSS Alabama in 1/192nd scale.
Half the size of the old inaccurate 1/96th scale Revell kit.

 

[the Baron]

USS Ranger (CV-4) in 1/700 injection-molded styrene. Trumpeter has a kit in 1/350, but my scale is 1/700.
I waited for years for the USS Wasp (CV-7) in 1/700, injection-molded, and eventually, Aoshima brought one out. So, this may happen, too, someday.
I know there are resin kits of these ships in my scale, but I don't want to screw around with resin kits. And they are relatively expensive, and out of print.

A followup: I just saw that this is a zombie thread. I gave this same answer 14 years ago. Sorry for the duplication!

I wonder whatever happened to the OP, DreamKnight. He was last active in 2015.

 

[TimM63]

I already have the one I want in my stash. Tamiya 1/350 USS Missouri BB-63