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T16S · Posted: Sat 02 May 2009 23:00 pm Post subject:

Steve - a couple of questions- first have you got a model of Dreadnought?
Second- if not why not ask a certain Frenchman to build one for you? I have no doubt he would be only too pleased to do so. I would volunteer but he is so much better at building ship models than I am.
cheers Stu.
ps It must be 1:600 of course! Boat

Of course I know I'm being

pps You've already had my vote.

orionv · Posted: Mon 04 May 2009 17:28 pm Post subject:

Steven Pietrobon · Posted: Tue 05 May 2009 07:31 am Post subject:

>a couple of questions- first have you got a model of Dreadnought?

No.

>if not why not ask a certain Frenchman to build one for you?

I'm not after an already built model, but a 1/600 kit with a full hull option. I'm not sure if OrionV has done any resin kits before.
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T16S · Posted: Tue 05 May 2009 22:44 pm Post subject:

Steve- you must know that i was joking of course- just to pull your leg. Yet to advance your campaign (for which I have great admiration- keep it up I say) wouldn't it be nice to present Airfix with a model of what a 1:600 Dreadnought made by them would actually look like?
Just a thought- I'm tempted to try and start one myself but Remi would do it much better!
cheers Stu- please forgive my lack of gravity!

Steven Pietrobon · Posted: Wed 06 May 2009 01:26 am Post subject:

I have actually thought about getting a 1/600 resin HMS Dreadnought kit made up. Thoughts including contracting Combrig for a scaled up master of their 1/700 resin kit (I'm not sure if I can trust the Russians though) or perhaps contracting OzMods here in Australia to make a master (they have done 1/600 resin waterline kits).
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Buzzard · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

but it would be new, AND it would be Airfix.
Cheers,
Daryl.

Arpie · Posted: Fri 28 Aug 2009 20:31 pm Post subject:

Hey all

Would definatly like to see one of these. I'm primeraly a a/c modeller but a model of the Dreadnought would shoot straight to the top of my list. Must say I assumed that a model of such an important ship would already have been produced

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matchstick · White Star Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 53

I'm up for getting a dreadnought if they make one and i hope they do.

just gotta build my stash first so i have somewhere to store it after the purchase/during building.

problem is my stash is expanding not shrinking

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Steven Pietrobon · Posted: Mon 31 Aug 2009 09:21 am Post subject:

Thanks for your votes Arpie and matchstick. Now up to 76 votes.
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Beaufighter · Posted: Mon 31 Aug 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

I've only just noticed in the 2009 catalogue that there's a new Titanic coming...and it's 1/700.
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Steven Pietrobon · Posted: Tue 01 Sep 2009 04:56 am Post subject:

Yes, I was most annoyed at that, considering Airfix could have got the much the much better 1/600 kit from Academy. The 1/700 kit is also from Academy.
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mrdj · Joined: 01 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

I'd be up for one if it would keep the 1/600 line open. Is there any data on how well the re-released ships are doing? That may be the information most relavent to the future of the scale.

DJM

Ratch · Posted: Sun 13 Sep 2009 10:01 am Post subject:

The re-release of the ships is still on schedule

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Steven Pietrobon · Posted: Wed 16 Sep 2009 05:05 am Post subject:

Thanks for your vote mrdj. Considering that the Airfix 1/600 ships have remained in the catalogue quite a while, this has to mean they sell consistently well. If the kits were not popular, they would disappear quite quickly, as happens to quite a few other subjects.
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Beaufighter · Posted: Wed 16 Sep 2009 09:36 am Post subject:

I like the size and heft of a 1/600 kit more than 1/700. They just aren't quite big enough.
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Steven Pietrobon · Posted: Thu 17 Sep 2009 07:18 am Post subject:

Yes, I definitely agree with that. I'm currently building the Revell 1/720 Prinz Eugen, and its quite small compared to the 1/600 kit. The Revell kit is about as long as Airfix 1/600 HMS Ajax. Below is a photo comparison of the Airfix and Revell Prinz Eugen hulls.

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Dar · Posted: Sat 24 Oct 2009 22:05 pm Post subject:

Gents, has anyone got more info about this?
http://members.boardhost.com/Warship/msg/1256410852.html
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Ratch · Posted: Sun 25 Oct 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

At the moment this is no more than speculation, so falls under this part of the Site Rules

Ray Scofield · Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 7 Location: Forest of Dean

Hello, I have e-mailed Airfix today about Dreadnought and given what I feel are cogent reasons for them doing the kit for us, not least of which are that other manufacturers are producing WW1 kits of their home countries, but Britain really has not got a plastic kit manufacturer doing the same. I believe (but may be wrong) that the kits airfix have done of WW1 ships were later year modifications. You never know. It is a long shot, but you never know do you?
By the way, has anyone noticed that the 'Box Art' on the first post has been appearing on other forums ?
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Beaufighter · Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009 13:18 pm Post subject:

In theory there are - or have been - four kits in the 1/600 range which could be backdated to WW1. Likewise, one could in theory make a WW2 Victorious from the 1960s version.

In all cases, though, the work involved goes far beyond incremental sprues, and requires significant scratchbuilding and hull reprofiling (eg in the case of Warspite and Victorious; the latter's hull was IIRC about 50 feet longer and quite a bit wider at the end of her life than at the beginning).

It's a pity that when the kits were designed, the possibility of adapting them into other subjects wasn't more widely accommodated. For example, by grouping vessel-specific parts onto their own sprue, a new subject could be tooled without retooling the whole kit.

Airfix did this with Bismarck / Tirpitz and of course they had previously altered some older moulds, such as the 1910 Model T, to make them into something else.

I like the recent expansions of the Churchill, Sherman and Matilda kits too.

I hope any future subjects we see from Airfix will allow for this...a Dreadnought whose screws, rudders, armament etc were on a separate sprue would be useful both to scratchbuilders and as repeatable parts for kits of ship descended from her.
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