 Yellow Admiral  | 29 Mar 2017 12:52 p.m. PST |
Switching from land battleships to oceanic ones…. Most of us who collect miniatures wind up with excesses and duplicates over time. Last year I decided to inventory my sprawling collection of 1/2400 WWII naval miniatures: 3x Bismarck
2x HMS Hood
5x Bretagne
4x Dunkerque That was really not as bad as I'd feared, considering most of my acquisitions were big cast-off collections purchased at flea markets. I was actually surprised to discover that I *only* had one Tirpitz, exactly the right number of KGVs, and no excesses of US or Japanese battleships. - Ix |
| Yellow Admiral | 29 Mar 2017 12:56 p.m. PST |
I also have a few excess cruisers here and there, but in general the smaller ship classes don't get overpopulated because they were larger and gamers don't buy as many of them (and thus, I don't acquire as many when buying their abandoned collections). - Ix |
| Rich Bliss | 29 Mar 2017 1:09 p.m. PST |
The last Bismarck I had was Sunday morning. It was delicious |
| David Manley | 29 Mar 2017 1:58 p.m. PST |
One in 1/3000, three in 1/1200 for some reason, one in 1/600 |
 Herkybird | 29 Mar 2017 2:51 p.m. PST |
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| Dave Jackson | 29 Mar 2017 3:30 p.m. PST |
One, and a Reichstag for him to speak in…… |
| 21eRegt | 29 Mar 2017 3:32 p.m. PST |
Two in 1/2400, two KGV, two Richelieu, and two Yamato. All done by "accident" when I got the lovely set of capital ships from Japan. I forget the brand. |
| Striker | 29 Mar 2017 4:18 p.m. PST |
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| Yellow Admiral | 29 Mar 2017 4:56 p.m. PST |
Wait… what? 1:1900? Is that scratch built? - Ix |
| goragrad | 29 Mar 2017 8:08 p.m. PST |
Don't have the database handy and the hips are on the other side of the Divide. With that, might be half a dozen. Ebay collections… |
 McKinstry  | 29 Mar 2017 8:29 p.m. PST |
2 in 1/4800
I think 3 or 4 in 1/6000 |
| gamershs | 29 Mar 2017 11:28 p.m. PST |
I started with 1/1200 ships and picked up the United States fleet. My friend got deeper into 1/1200 then I did and among the ships he purchased was the US Fleet. He died and I inherited his fleet so I have many duplicates. To go through just some of them:
in BBs 4 Washington, 8 Massachusetts, 5 Iowa
in CVs 6 Enterprise, 4 Lexington I had about 110 American ships and my friend had over 1200 in 1/1200. Due to the costs and size problems I went to 1/2400 ships when they started to come out so I have a sizable collection of those too. |
| taskforce58 | 30 Mar 2017 5:27 a.m. PST |
One each of Bismarck and Tirpitz in 1/6000, and two yet to be built plastic kits: a Revell 1/1200 Bismarck and a Dragon 1/700 Tirpitz. |
| Rod I Robertson | 30 Mar 2017 5:32 a.m. PST |
Zero. I used to have a huge 1/400 Heler kit but that was over forty years ago and it fell victim to being disposed of prior to a household move as it was in pretty poor condition at the time of its Gotterdammerung. Cheers and good gaming.
Rod Robertson. |
| Shagnasty | 30 Mar 2017 8:28 a.m. PST |
A couple in 1/4800 sets but they have not and never will be painted. |
| Pontius | 30 Mar 2017 9:18 a.m. PST |
Only the one, 1/3000 scale. On the other hand I do have more destroyers of 1934, 1934A and 1936 types than the Kriegsmarine ever did. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder | 30 Mar 2017 12:48 p.m. PST |
Does Furst Bismarck count? If so:
Bismarck & Tirpitz in 1/1200
Furst Bismarck in 1/1200 and 1/700 |
| John Treadaway | 31 Mar 2017 6:31 a.m. PST |
One in 1/1 scale in the secret underground wet dock I have at the end of my garden. I take it sailing during the foggy winter months when no one can see me. |
| Charlie 12 | 01 Apr 2017 1:39 p.m. PST |
Luckily, only 2 (Bismarck and Tirpitz in 1/6000). I do (for some unknown reason) have 4 Hoods (also in 1/6000). I guess I could do the "never built" 3 that got scrubbed. |
 Legion 4 | 02 Apr 2017 7:28 a.m. PST |
0 … that includes the Battleship and/or Otto von … |
| Tumbleweed | 10 Apr 2017 6:10 p.m. PST |
Some collectors like to paint their models as they looked at particular points in time, so they acquire multiple copies. For example, I have a 1/2400 CV Hornet with a deck-load of B-25 bombers, then I have another one as she appeared at Midway. |
| Bozkashi Jones | 14 Apr 2017 3:38 p.m. PST |
@ Pontius – before, or after Narvik ;-) I have one in 1:6,000 and 1 in 1:3000. The 1:3k is just in grey primer, the 1:6k in Baltic stripes – I know it had been painted over by the time of Rheinübung, but it's just such a lovely paint scheme! Nick |
| Legion 4 | 15 Apr 2017 3:25 p.m. PST |
Also Bismarck is a :
Berliner (pastry) or Bismark
Dutch baby pancake or Bismarck
Black Velvet (cocktail) or Bismarck, a beer mix
Who knew ?!?!?  |
