Airfix models have incredible detail and are often in the right scale. What if we were to get the components from small RC boats and fit them inside the Airfix model? With some modifications, such small models could create some interesting battles, plus, it would be one heck of alot cheaper and easier to get into.
Warships - Ships I don't see anything on this page that is the right scale? Our ships aren't disgustingly cheap to build, but cost very little in upkeep. Generally speaking, plastic kits simply won't handle combat and survive
I'm talking about airfix vs airfix. It's would have to be a whole different class. And when a hull is destroyed, it can simply be replaced by a new model. I would recommend 1:600 scale.
yeah, that's a showstopper. Even a 1/350 hull would not be possible short of massive maker talent and a full shop. Even then, it'd be really really hard. And it's not good to start a format predicated on only recruiting people with massive maker skill, since they tend to be few and far between. And for what my current plastic model project (1/350 DKM Prinz Eugen) cost... I would never use it in a combat application. Additionally, I considered the idea of using IR gear like the 1/16 scale tanks... the tiny scale model ships are so out of scale with the water that they'd be bobbing all over the place on even a relatively still lake.
That's a good point, although I think with a smaller ball bearing system and CO2 canisters, it could be done. And hey, the additional bobbing just simulates rough seas I guess.
... smaller? Things have to fit in still. Go look at a Uritski/Orfey build thread. Those are probably bigger than the ships youre thinking of.
Waltham, not a diss on you, but everybody who discovers this hobby has a radical idea to either add on to or change the hobby. Mine was subs & mines. After a bit of tinkering with hobby-legal boats, you realize why the rule sets and scales are the way they are (or in my idea's case, why very VERY few combat subs ever get on the water). Your idea at least has the merit of trying to save $$.