Originally Posted by
Diamondback
Jim, my understanding is ST would have to be a Special, and we've discussed it as such.
Bonhomme Richard was enough of a b**ch to do, even with close relatives... and as it is, all of them but BHR herself will be "kitbasher dreams" because you'll have to cut down the bulwarks, reduce the length of the quarterdeck and splice a quarterdeck-height extension into the mizzenmast. A job which I shall gladly sub-contract... :)
As for Trafalgar -
We really need:
--SP Montanes 80
--SP Santissima Trinidad 136
--assorted British and French brigs, cutters, schooners etc.
Those sculpts, and we have bare-minimum "representational" coverage.
I personally would be more comfortable if we added:
--One sculpt for British Second Rates
--At least one sculpt for British Large 74s/80s
--a new sculpt for the Spanish Rayos, preferably tooled as both 2-deck and 3-deck versions
And my own "minimum preference" would further add:
--a second Second Rate, one sculpt each "early" and "late"
--a British Middling 74, allocating the sculpts into the Slade/older forms on SGN104, Henslow's designs and contemporaries on either Large or Middling and the captured Courageux and her descendants the other
--a Spanish Ildefonso 74 (the existing sculpt is an "early" 74, this would be a "late")
--a second British 64 sculpt (one is coming in Wave 4, but we have a split between the French-derived Ardents like Agamemnon or a "traditional British" and I'd like a sculpt for each)
And then a metric sh*tload of reprints all around... by my count we have 24 reprints on existing sculpts plus 42 ships on new sculpts to complete the OrBat.