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1/600 HMS Dreadnought Campaign Steven S. Pietrobon 6 First Avenue Payneham South SA 5070 Australia 1/600 HMS Dreadnought Campaign Steven S. Pietrobon 6 First Avenue Payneham South SA 5070 Australia phone: +61 8 8332 0319 email: [email protected] Thursday, 19 August 2010 Airfix Customer Care Hornby Hobbies Ltd Westwood, Margate Kent, CT9 4JX United Kingdom Dear Airfix, In 2006 I started a campaign for Airfix to release a 1/600 scale kit of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all big gun battleship. When she was launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought eclipsed all previous battleships. Her all big gun armament of ten twelve inch guns, steam turbine power- plant and 21±knot maximum speed made all other battleships obsolete. She was so important, her name is synonymous with battleships of the WWI and WWII era. However, at the time of writing this letter, no plastic kit of HMS Dreadnought exists! I hope that this campaign will remedy this situation. When the old Airfix forum was closed down in April 2006, I had managed to gather 70 votes for a 1/600 HMS Dreadnought. I then started a new cam- paign at the Airfix Tribute Forum which I present today with 101 votes for a 1/600 HMS Dread- nought. Please find enclosed a 1/600 scale drawing of HMS Dreadnought and the votes and comments of the 101 forum members who voted. Reading the comments, you will see widespread support not only from ship modellers but also from non±ship modellers. The link to the campaign is http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/ftopic78±0.php The reason for requesting a scale of 1/600 for the kit is simple. To be in scale with the many other Airfix 1/600 ship kits. As shown by the enclosed drawing, the kit will not be too small or too large. Airfix reissued two 1/600 WWI battleships last year, HMS Warspite and HMS Iron Duke. A HMS Dreadnought in the same scale would be the perfect companion. If Airfix does decide to release a 1/600 HMS Dreadnought, the option of making the kit with both a full hull or waterline would be desirable by many modellers. Also, Airfix may wish to contact White Ensign Models http://www.whiteensignmodels.com who could prepare a photoetch set for advanced modellers. They have photoetch for nearly all of Airfix's 1/600 kits. Thankyou for considering this campaign. Yours sincerely, Steven S. Pietrobon, Ph.D. 1/600 HMS Dreadnought 2 1/600 HMS Dreadnought Campaign List of Votes and Comments 1) Steven Pietrobon (Mon 24 Apr 2006 4:07 am) As the old campaign on the defunct Airfix forums has been deleted, I'm continuing the campaign here. If you would like Airfix to release a 1/600 kit of the HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all big±gun battleship, post your support here! Since I can't verify the old Airfix names, please repost your vote. A model kit of this ship has never been done in plastic. Here are some sites on the HMS Dreadnought http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh±fornv/uk/uksh±d/drednt9.htm (see, even the US Navy thinks it is an important ship! This site gives a good summary of why she was so important, first all±big±gun ship with ten 12 inch guns, steam turbine powerplant and 21±knot maximum speed eclipsing all previous battleships.) http://www.royal±navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3514.html (Royal Navy also thinks she's important :±) http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/ (Computer model already available!) The ship is 160.6 m long and 25.0 m wide, so at 1/600 scale that would give a model 268 mm long and 42 mm wide. This is between the HMS Ajax and HMS Suffolk in Series 3, so the HMS Dreadnought would fit in nicely in that Series. The ship was built in 1906, so its 100th anniversary in 2006 would be a good time to release a kit. 2) BAC (Mon 24 Apr 2006 8:02 am) I'll have one! 3) Ratch (Mon 24 Apr 2006 5:29 pm) Stick my name on your list (again :±) 4) Warspite (Tue 25 Apr 2006 7:14 pm) I would like at least ten! 5) davecov (Tue 25 Apr 2006 7:33 pm) I would certainly like one at 1/600 scale. 6) stuzzar (Tue 25 Apr 2006 8:31 pm) I cannot remember if I put my name on the previous list so I may as well put it to this one. 7) Sailorman (Tue 25 Apr 2006 10:13 pm) Count me in for one!! 8) peebeep (Tue 25 Apr 2006 10:33 pm) I'm up for one. 9) DHDrover (Wed 26 Apr 2006 6:17 am) And it's one more from me. 10) Commodore Rob (Wed 26 Apr 2006 8:59 pm) sign me up again 11) Duck the H±bomber (Wed 26 Apr 2006 9:27 pm) I always liked the name dreadnaught. Count me in again. 12) chippy (Thu 27 Apr 2006 8:11 am) Count me in as well 3 13) Tombo1bo (Sat 13 May 2006 12:12 pm) Put me down for one. 14) Garry (Sat 27 May 2006 1:53 pm) I would've a couple. But if Airfix would not do a full kit why not do some weapons/fittings packs so that we could modify current Airfix kits. This way they could keep the 1/600 scale alive 15) hms belfast (Sun 18 Jun 2006 11:24 pm) count me in as well i,ll have a couple :±) 16) StarTux (Mon 19 Jun 2006 2:06 am) I voted on the old site, throw my vote in too here... 17) MadduckUK (Tue 20 Jun 2006 1:06 pm) id buy it! 18) nr61 (Fri 14 Jul 2006 2:16 pm) I've just bought my first ship model a 1/350 Russian protected cruiser but if a 1/600 Dred was to be available I would be sure to get one. Who could resist such a famous ship? 19) Flash Flash (Fri 14 Jul 2006 3:02 pm) Add me ! 20) spudman (Wed 26 Jul 2006 6:54 pm) You can put me down as well steve (if its not too late) 21) Little Kid Falky (Wed 26 Jul 2006 7:26 pm) I'm in. I don't build ships much but I'd find a time for this if it got released... 22) Challenger (Wed 26 Jul 2006 10:13 pm) ...and me! :±) 23) ejsnotgrass (Thu 16 Nov 2006 1:19 pm) Although not generally a ship modeller put my name down. 24) Brews (Fri 17 Nov 2006 9:02 am) well, I'm still in. 25) frogman (Fri 01 Dec 2006 10:23 am) Put me down as well. No hang on, don't put me down, well, you know what I meant... 26) Docgreen27 (Tue 05 Dec 2006 5:24 pm) Put my name down on that list asap.. I've always wondered why they never did one. Cheers 27) Owen (Wed 20 Dec 2006 11:53 pm) Presuming that the list of voters on the first page is up to date, I don't think I've put my name down. I swear I did, but if I have already, put me down again for the Dreadnought! 28) dutch_nzer (Thu 21 Dec 2006 11:21 pm) put me down to :±) 29) Graham Hall (Sun 25 Feb 2007 5:49 pm) OK, having just seen a programme about Jutland on Discovery Ill sign up for one of them thar ships. 4 30) Bigglesworth (Thu 01 Mar 2007 7:44 pm) Put me in too... 31) skipperjjt (Fri 02 Mar 2007 12:59 am) I'm not a ship builder except on odd occasions ,but you can have my vote steven 32) ricman (Wed 09 May 2007 10:56 pm) You can add my name to the list I would definitely have a couple. 33) shannonman (Tue 31 Jul 2007 6:18 pm) Count me in. :±) 34) Digs (Fri 03 Aug 2007 9:27 pm) I'd buy one for sure. 35) 299_paul (Thu 11 Oct 2007 11:29 am) Haven't built a ship yet but I have about a dozen in my stash, put me down for a vote to make it a bakers dozen!! 36) Hawk (Fri 12 Oct 2007 8:30 am) Im in !!! 37) Beaufighter (Fri 12 Oct 2007 9:56 am) I would be interested to understand the thinking behind the development process generally. The TSR2 seems to have been a fairly penny±ante project ± they made, what, 10,000 of them? As I have noted before that is not a lot of gross revenue to Airfix. If it sold for £17 that's £14.50 before the VAT and I would guess the retailers would pay not more than a tenner. So assuming Airfix wanted a modest 10% return on effort then they had £90,000 to spend on researching, designing, and tooling the kit, then creating decals and instructions for it, and finally producing, packaging and distributing 10,000 of them. That's ignoring any contribution to overhead costs it was ex- pected to make. So I'd be surprised if 100 signatures would convince them (which hasn't stopped me adding my vote!) The product development challenge must be to work out what will sell from the pool of potential subjects that either has not yet been done, or has been done but badly, or has been done but at prohibitive cost. 38) feanor (Fri 12 Oct 2007 3:37 pm) In light of Ratch's comment, Consider me signed up too.
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