Hi everybody -

I came over from the aircraft section and have a question. Where are all the World War 1 Battleships? I just read an excellent book entitled "The Great Dreadnought" by Richard Hough and thought I'd like to have a model of that ship. 14, 12 inch guns! I've been studying Jutland and would like to have some of those ships but can't find any. It surprises me that I can't find a kit of HMS Dreadnought.

Appreciate any comments. Thanks

Ahoy, Steve, and
Welcome to Model Shipwrights Mate!

Funny you should ask this question, and I think that you will find some answers here .

Check it out, Steve!
~Gunny

Hi Steve

I'll give my Welcome to Modelshipwrights
You have placed a very interesting question regarding WWI waships...

In plastic form there are a few modesl, from Revell to Zvezda, ICM, Heller and some more "obscure" Russian Manufacturers... scales are different among them 1/200 to 1/500!!!

You can find the majority of WWI Battleships in Resin Manufacturers like Kombrig (excellent) and HP Models (from Germany).

The catch here is the price of them - a "little" on heavy side

Hope I was able to enlighten your doubts a little

Skipper

Mark, Rui, thank you sincerly, gentlemen. I have never built a ship model, but have built airplanes all my life(well, from age 12 or so, anyway) and, thanks to you guys, I will will seek these out. I'm especially fond of HMS Agincourt.

Combrig makes a wonderful resin model of the 'Gin Palace' in 700 scale. Here's a link for your viewing pleasure....

http://www.steelnavy.com/CombrigAgincourt.htm

Frank

There are several companies that do extensive World War 1 ships. They are 1 / 1200 scale and made of metal. The only one that comes to mind is ALNAVCO. If you look that up, (just add a .com) it will have links to other companies featuring similar scale ships. Neptune comes to mind as well. They are not cheap and of course the detailing at that size is not exquisite, but they are out there.

Ok, Steve, you just pushed the buttons on the "way back" machine. :-) I remember well my misspent youth crawing around on the floor playing naval war games with ALNAVCO 1/1200 metal ships. The pride of my fleet of course was the HMS Hood, at about 9 inches long. The guy who had the most ships had just about every American and Japanese ship made, at least one of every class anyway. He also had a tendancy to "bend" the rules when it suited him.

Perhaps like many of us, I learned to love this hobby from my father. Among one of his earliest interests was making 1/1200 warships. From balsa wood. During the late 1930's when he was a boy, there were lots of plans available for all sorts of ships in this scale, and it was a relatively inexpensive hobby. All you really needed was the wood, a good knife, a couple of pins/wire for masts and guns, and a bit of paint. I still have a lot of the ones he did both in the 30s, as well as quite a few he made through into the 1960s.

Tom