Used to have a great unbuilt collection of these, got lost over the years in a divorce! Are these WWI battleships and battle cruisers still being made? I remember the Iron Duke and perhaps a few others. Thanks,
The only WW I battleship Airfix ever made was HMS Iron Duke, as the rest were mostly WW II and related to the sinking of the Bismarck (e.g. HMS Hood, HMS Nelson, HMS Repulse, HMS Ark Royal, etc.) but all were
1/600 and as such out of the loop in today's 1/350-1/700-1/720 world.Nevertheless they do get repopped - I think I recently saw four old WW II 1/600 destroyers in one box as a new set.
Cookie Sewell
PS love the screen name -- only guy I ever saw try and make "With Six You Get Egg Roll" into a 'scary movie, keeds!'
I think so.
Periodically reissued. Lately in multi-packs ie the four destroyers.
I have most of them.
British: Iron Duke, Warspite, Hood (= 1930's version NOT 1941) Repulse, King George V, Nelson, Ark Royal, Suffolk, Belfast, Edinburgh, Ajax, Hotspur, Cossack, Campbeltown (?) WW1 destroyer = 4 stacker
German: Bismarck (prefer Revell's = same scale) Scharnhorst early war before adding clipper bow, Graf Spee, Narvik Class German Destroyer
Cheers from Peter
snipped-for-privacy@aol.com said the following on 16/08/06 23:04:
Try here [shop->warships];
"Narvik Class Destroyer, HMS Hotspur, HMS Cossack, HMS Campbeltown"
Richard.
I have long thought that it is a shame so few models of WW1 warships exist. Especially HMS Dreadnaught. Here is one of the real historic ships- one that gave it's name to the whole class of modern battleships. I can not remember every seeing a model of the Dreadnaught. Was there one? I'd like to also build one of the British fast battlecruisers.
I am about to start on the Emden, so at least I will have ONE WW1 warship :-)
I have long thought that it is a shame so few models of WW1 warships exist. Especially HMS Dreadnaught. Here is one of the real historic ships- one that gave it's name to the whole class of modern battleships. I can not remember every seeing a model of the Dreadnaught. Was there one? I'd like to also build one of the British fast battlecruisers.
I am about to start on the Emden, so at least I will have ONE WW1 warship :-)
I have long thought that it is a shame so few models of WW1 warships exist. Especially HMS Dreadnaught. Here is one of the real historic ships- one that gave it's name to the whole class of modern battleships. I can not remember every seeing a model of the Dreadnaught. Was there one? I'd like to also build one of the British fast battlecruisers.
I am about to start on the Emden, so at least I will have ONE WW1 warship :-)
Don,
I realize paper (card stock) models aren't everybody's cup of tea, but there's a nice 1/700 paper model of HMS Dreadnought here:
Regards, Ralph
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