Global Scale Modeller

Does anyone get frustrated by the almost complete lack of ocean liner kits, except for the Titanic? Aside from aircraft, I would like to build some old ocean liners but there are only a very few out there. I particularly like the old 4 stackers like the Mauretania, Lusitania etc but Airfix's Mauretania has been out of production for ages. They also make a Queen Elizabeth I it seems.

And Revell also make an Olympic, a Queen Mary and a Queen Mary 2 but none are the same scale, which is also irritating. Apparently the Olympic is identical to the Titanic except for her promenade being open the length of the ship, unlike Titanic's; smaller details (like the hull being slightly shorter) were omitted obivously due to costs.

Only one Airfix Mauretania is available on ebay at the moment, but I really can't afford it now. But here it is for anyone interested:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Airfix-RMS-Maur ... 338a0f9977

Obviously passenger liners arent produced because of the lack of a market for them versus the huge cost of tooling a kit. But I have often wondered why maritime modellers dont seem to go for ocean liners.

Because they don't have guns probably! lol.

Not a subject I am interested in. Revell do a range of Nordic cruise ships (can't mind their names). But they are modern ones.

Yeah now you've brought it up it is a sparse section of the hobby, I guess the problem is that liners have obvious company logos and thus royalties whereas a naval ship is just blank. It would be great to see all the classic liners especially the German and French ones when the competition was at it's peak. For me the modern ones are too top heavy and look like floating flats so wouldn't interest me.

DC87 wrote:Yeah now you've brought it up it is a sparse section of the hobby, I guess the problem is that liners have obvious company logos and thus royalties whereas a naval ship is just blank. It would be great to see all the classic liners especially the German and French ones when the competition was at it's peak. For me the modern ones are too top heavy and look like floating flats so wouldn't interest me.

You might be right about the logos, especially with the modern ones. I also think itd be fantastic to see tools of all the early 20th century liners. I'd build them. I agree about the modern cruise ships too - theyre ugly

Gav0909 wrote:Because they don't have guns probably! lol.

Not a subject I am interested in. Revell do a range of Nordic cruise ships (can't mind their names). But they are modern ones.

lol, oh well. Pretty sure I came across those Nordic ships on the Revell website, but as DC says, they look like floating condos. I like my ships with numerous funnels and vents sticking up

Airfix are supposedly re releasing the RMS Mauritania this year !!

Norman wrote:Airfix are supposedly re releasing the RMS Mauritania this year !!

That, Norman, would be the bees knees!