| Spend an hour or so looking over your site last night.
Never realized how "big" this segment of ship collecting is. Over 860 British Registry alone.
Great site.
Are any manufacturers considering Canadian warships? |
Over the years there have been at least 50,000 different models released in either 1/1250 or 1/1200 scale. It is indeed a big hobby and despite that there are still lots of subjects out that still be done.
For the modern Canadian Navy there are some very old models of ships like Huron 1972, St. Laurent 1956, and Alconquin 1973. These are all well behind current standards of quality. A guy in the UK sent me a couple of prototype resin castings of a Canadian destroyer this year but they were fairly crude as well.
Argos had announced plans to do one or two of the current Canadian warships but that was two years ago and now the models have disappeared from their lists. So I wouldn't count on them appearing any time soon. Too bad because the Argos models would have been quite nice and their announcement basically scared everyone else out of the field.
Not exactly warships but a small one man part time producer called Dedo has done some nice Canadian Coast Guard ships. Here is the Martha L Black:
Problem is the Dedo models are almost all out of production and the man behind them has said he won't do any more for several years. So they are hard to come by too.
Would be nice if someone did some of the modern Canadian ships!
If you move back into the Second World War period the Canadian ships tend to get grouped in with the Royal Navy. So you do have HMS Uganda which transfered to Canadian control in 1944. There is a nice Neptun model of her:
There are also wartime models of the destroyers Saquenay and Skeena, two A class destroyers, the St.Laurent and Fraser of the C class, Chaudiere of the H class, and Annapolis and St. Claire of the US Clemson class transfered to the UK. All of these were produced by Argonaut and can be found second hand.
Neptun makes Snowberry a Canadian crewed corvette:
World War Two is much better represented but that is true of most navies in this hobby.