leaving the armed glory days behind i am a friend of more peaceful ships.
i am looking for a traditional merchant steamer from the early times up
until the early sixties....
i'm not so fond of all those launches etc.
and - i'd find an ARTR of the TRADITION absolutely great. I'd buy...
working on the "full-size" side of our hobby i's like to remark that
e.g. tugboats are not that colourful. mostly deck/deck fittings and
inner side of the railings are one and the same colour. Same with merchant ships.
So, just to repeat my wishes/suggestion
1 ) ARTR of TRADITION - because that type of fishingboat is beautiful and not available anywhere else
2 ) ARTR of an old steamer like Melanie but - with some more realistic gear and bridge.
anyway, i could easily convert a Melanie to a "Knightley" though she's slightly bigger.
MY personal wish a model of the MARIE, the famous "holeship of Malindi" of WW-I .
( for the ones who dont know : she's been a german blockade-breaker in WW-I and brought
supplies and food to the German colony "Deutsch Ostafrika" . She arrived safely, but was
discovered during discharge in a hidden bight, shelled to a swiss-cheese by a British cruiser.
The crew managed to patch all underwater and above w-line holes of the almost completely
burnt-out ship by blocks of wood and concrete and she miraculously, and due to the absence of RADAR,
escaped and reached Batavia.)
