Sailorman Posted December 14, 2016 Posted December 14, 2016 There is an interesting post asking where all the ships have gone. I'm curious...... how many of you have actually:a) bought the whole Airfix 1:600 range? andb) have actually built all 38 of them?I've bought the lot but have only built 20 of them ..........I keep hoping for more releases precisely because there are no others in the range for me to buy!
Ratch Posted December 15, 2016 Posted December 15, 2016 Built 23 some twiceBismarck 1962Graf Spee 1971HMS Ajax 1965HMS Ark Royal 1966HMSBelfast 1973HMS Campbeltown 1961HMS Cossack 1960HMS Hood 1960HMS Hotspur 1964HMS Iron Duke 1970HMS King George V 1981HMS Manxman 1972HMS Nelson 1961HMS Repulse 1982HMS Suffolk 1964HMS Victorious 1960HMS Warspite 1963Narvik Class Destroyer 1975Prinz Eugen 1975RMS Mauretania 1964RMS Queen Elizabeth 1962Scharnhorst 1964Tirpitz 1968 Never had 14MV Free Enterprise II 1967Moskva 1973Queen Mary 2 2004HMS Leander 1970USS Forrestal 1978HMS Tiger 1960HMS Amazon 1972HMS Daring 1961HMS Devonshire 1963Rommel 1971SS Canberra 1961SS France 1963HMS Fearless 1968RMS Queen Elizabeth II 1969
Sailorman Posted December 15, 2016 Author Posted December 15, 2016 Coincidence..... Ratch we've built exactly the same number.... But different ships!
ironsides Posted December 15, 2016 Posted December 15, 2016 Mostly as a lad I built about 16 (that I recall) of the Range some multiple times with only the Canberra for civil ships, the only one I own now is Hms Iron Duke, I'm not desperatly keen on 1/350 for large ships and find 1/700 on the small side for display models, mostly my fleets have been for Naval Wargames so these have revolved around much smaller scales 1/3000 (mostly iron clad era), 1/2000(scratch built ironclad era) occasionally 1/1200 and of course the Airfix small scale sailing ships in quite some quantity....
William Morrison Posted December 16, 2016 Posted December 16, 2016 The only ones that I haven't built since I began building at age 6 in 1960 are the Bismarck and the Tirpitz. There are so many better models of them out there of these ships. And, I am rebuilding this range now that my skills are so much better. I will still ignore Bismarck and Tirpitz.Bill
Dad Paul B Posted December 16, 2016 Posted December 16, 2016 I built Graf Spee, Ark Royal and Fearless from the Airfix range plus a few Novo Frigates. There is a beautiful Fearless build on this forum (quite recent) which made me quite nostalgic - she would make a great 1/350 subject and I would love to do a carrier from the Golden Age (1960s for me) so would be tempted by Victorious is she was rereleased but a 1/350 Eagle/Ark or Centaur class (with options up to the ski-jumped Hermes/Viraat would be good).
Howard Wright1707820367 Posted December 16, 2016 Posted December 16, 2016 I have or have had them all with the exception of the Southern Cross.I've built:Bismarck 1962Graf Spee 1971HMS Ajax 1965HMS Ark Royal 1966HMS Campbeltown 1961HMS Cossack 1960HMS Hood 1960HMS Hotspur 1964HMS Iron Duke 1970HMS Manxman 1972HMS Nelson 1961HMS Suffolk 1964HMS Victorious 1960HMS Warspite 1963RMS Queen Elizabeth 1962Scharnhorst 1964Tirpitz 1968HMS Fearless 1968USS Forrestal 1978HMS Tiger 1960HMS Amazon 1972HMS Daring 1961HMS Devonshire 1963Rommel 1971HMS Leander 1970Moskva 1973Apologies to Ratch who did the heavy lifting on the names. 😆 Howard
Kenneth ONeill Posted December 19, 2016 Posted December 19, 2016 I've never built the Mauritanea, QM2 (should be QM3 because the only reason Cunard got to use "Queen Mary" was that the Caledonian Steam Packet Company agreed to rename the TS Queen Mary as "TS Queen Mary II") or Forrestal.
Sailorman Posted December 19, 2016 Author Posted December 19, 2016 Somewhere I read that when the chairman of Cunard was speaking to the King George V he told him Cunard would be naming the new ship after England's greatest queen ...... (meaning Qeen Elizabeth the first). King George thought they meant his wife - Queen Mary ....... none of the Board members had the heart to explain this to the King .......and that is how that ship became the Queen Mary and the later ship the Queen Elizabeth.Has anyone else come across this anecdote anywhere?
Kenneth ONeill Posted December 20, 2016 Posted December 20, 2016 @patrick Camilleri - That may be correct, or the chairman may have meant Queen Victoria. Either way, the gist of the story is well enough known here on Clydeside, and as I say Cunard had to get the agreement of the CSPC before they could name their liner the "RMS Queen Mary".
Sailorman Posted December 20, 2016 Author Posted December 20, 2016 @patrick Camilleri - That may be correct, or the chairman may have meant Queen Victoria. Either way, the gist of the story is well enough known here on Clydeside, and as I say Cunard had to get the agreement of the CSPC before they could name their liner the "RMS Queen Mary".Yes, I had heard that they needed to change the name of the steamer to free up the name. The story behind the story!
Simon Norton1707820138 Posted December 31, 2016 Posted December 31, 2016 Here's my list. I've built 16 mostly in the 1970'sHMS Fearless (3rd kit I ever built)BismarckHMS AjaxHMS Ark RoyalHMS Belfast (twice)HMS CossackNarvik Class DestroyerPrinz Eugen HMS Leander (bought in Portsmouth with HMS Devonshire in 1977 at Spithead review for the Silver Jubilee)HMS Devonshire RMS Queen Elizabeth II Recent buildsHMS Nelson (converted to HMS Rodney)HMS Iron DukeHMS VictoriousHMS Warspite (converted to 1916 configuration)HMS King George V I also have in the StashHMS HoodHMS RepulseMoskva USS ForrestalBismarckHMS BelfastHMS VictoriousHMS Fearless I also built all the 1:1200 ships including a conversion of Bismarck into Tirpitz.
Paul Astle Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 not the civilian ships that are harder to find but the warships, yup, though i think they did a Kiev soviet battle cruiser in the mid 70's a missed. otherwise i am at the point of building the class so 2 repulses, 5 Warspite (Queen elizabeth class) 5 Prince of wales (KGV) etc
Kenneth ONeill Posted January 12, 2017 Posted January 12, 2017 not the civilian ships that are harder to find but the warships, yup, though i think they did a Kiev soviet battle cruiser in the mid 70's a missed. otherwise i am at the point of building the class so 2 repulses, 5 Warspite (Queen elizabeth class) 5 Prince of wales (KGV) etcThey did; my kit was boxed as "Russian Moskva" (Moscow).
Russ1707821018 Posted January 12, 2017 Posted January 12, 2017 I currently own at least one unbuilt copy of every 1/600 ship except the fabled and elusive Southern Cross and the Tirpitz. The bolded items are the ones I've builtSouthern Cross 1955Bismarck 1962Graf Spee 1971HMS Ajax 1965HMS Ark Royal 1966HMS Belfast 1973HMS Campbeltown 1961HMS Cossack 1960HMS Hood 1960HMS Hotspur 1964HMS Iron Duke 1970HMS King George V 1981HMS Manxman 1972HMS Nelson 1961HMS Repulse 1982HMS Suffolk 1964HMS Victorious 1960HMS Warspite 1963Narvik Class Destroyer 1975Prinz Eugen 1975RMS Mauretania 1964RMS Queen Elizabeth 1962Scharnhorst 1964Tirpitz 1968MV Free Enterprise II 1967Moskva 1973Queen Mary 2 2004HMS Leander 1970USS Forrestal 1978HMS Tiger 1960HMS Amazon 1972HMS Daring 1961HMS Devonshire 1963Rommel 1971SS Canberra 1961SS France 1963HMS Fearless 1968RMS Queen Elizabeth II 1969
Sailorman Posted January 13, 2017 Author Posted January 13, 2017 The Southern Cross wasn't to 1:600. Hence even if you found an example it wouldn't sit happily next to the 1:600 ships. Anyway the last example I saw on ebay was priced at 1,000 pounds. ......so even if I ever find one couldn't afford to build it!Still looking for plans of that ship to build a 1:600 model of her.
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