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On 12/21/2022 at 4:54 PM, LSP_Ray said:
Yup. Will look cool parked next to the Me-262 and LEM's Nikka.
This.
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I've read that this might be because third parties are doing the initial research and CAD design and then selling these to the various manufacturers so there's not R&D tie required before the sprue design. So one company buys the files, announces it, and then any other company could think "me too!" and buy the files and go right into sprue design.
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5 hours ago, dennismcc said:
The only reason I bought the HK kit was on the promise of an F3 conversion from Fisher as I am only interested in WW2 subjects, so as you say it is frustrating not to be able to build a kit of the only allied WW2 jet to see active service no matter how limited this was.
Cheers
Dennis
Same here, which is why the kit sits in my basement, still unbuilt.
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This looks really nice! And after everything your country has been suffering I'm glad that you're OK and you've been able to resume your work. I have several of your kits and they are quite well done. I have a soft spots for these WW2 jets so I keep buying his kits. . .
I'm still crossing my fingers for the Ki-201 someday, I happily sent the $25 "donation for a new model" so I really want the bloody thing. . .
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10 hours ago, thierry laurent said:
An easy way to earn money would be the release of other versions of the Meteor. Releasing a F8 would just ask for an additional single sprue and they could sell tons of them if Australian planes in Korea and Israeli arframes were included. And I'm not even considering the other marks such as the two-seaters!
I do not understand why they did not do that for the Meteor whereas they released several versions of the B-25, B-17, DO-335,... ?!?
Weird!
Agreed. I also am a little surprised they never did the work to make a Mk.1 or Mk.3. There would be a lot of changes but it was the only Allied jet to see combat (albeit against V-1's) in WW2.
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I hope this post is OK but I wanted to put out there that Inside the Armor is having a book sale and their scratchbuilding books in particular are outstanding, especially the aircraft one. I tend to like instructional reference and still have and refer to my copies of John Alcorn's books but these are at least as good and frankly better in my opinion. Just an FYI for the group from someone who bought them and uses them a lot. The Perfect Pits one is right up our alley!
- Phartycr0c, Youngtiger1 and LSP_K2
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This is an odd one but for anyone who has built it, can you build it without installing the engine? I want to steal the engine for an A7 Reppu scratchbuild but I'd rather not find out that now then donor kit can't be built. Would anyone know the answer?
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The only thing that sucks about this kit (besides the wallet hit) is that I now have to get off my butt and backdate the 1/32 P-80c back to an -A to put with it.
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This makes me very happy as I have wanted to have an injection Yak-9 for a looooong time. I held off on the resin one because I really want the -9U model so hopefully we get one of those.
- esarmstrong and Martinnfb
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On 9/20/2021 at 1:32 PM, LSP_K2 said:
Along with a revamped Ki-43 Oscar.
Oh don't get me started on that! I need an early Ki-42 to go with my Tamiya A6M
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18 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said:
I'd say that's a fair summary of what they're aiming for. Though to be honest, I feel that Hasegawa kits are overpriced for what you get in the box these days.
Kev
I would agree, though some of that might be my frustration that they never gave me a Ki-100.
I would also suggest that I'd be very surprised if they go the WW1 route. I think that there was less of a pent up demand than they were just such good kits that people bought them for the sake of building them. Especially when you got a superb easy to display model with outstanding instructions for $69 and free shipping. That's why i started buying them even though I had very little interest in WW1 planes as far as building any went. Have them do a P-51B/C, BF-109E, Ki-43, (I'd say A6M but Tamiya covered that too well) etc and they would be printing money. They already had a company close out from under them because of tackling esoteric subjects at the expense of demanded subjects (supposedly at least) and there are so many WW2 fighters alone that have good kits but nothing great. A WNW level kit of almost any popular subject not kitted by Tamiya in the past 10 years would be the best example of any of them on the market.
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Cool, now have them do their A-5 please!
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15 hours ago, Pup7309 said:
+1 ki 100
If it helps, I just bought my second Alley Cat Ki-100 conversion kit and Hasegawa Ki-61 donor kit so I've done my part to ensure someone makes an injection molded version. . .
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Random thought that I had was if they are former WNW and if part of what led to WNW demise (rumor speculation etc!) was they went for the oddball kits instead of Spads for instance might that make them more likely to focus on bringing that level of engineering to fairly mainstream subjects? They've already gone through the suck of having their company fall apart under them, I would imagine that will have an effect on how they position their new company.
- Gazzas, Archimedes, Paul in Napier and 1 other
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Got it and spent last night reading it. It is really excellent as expected and makes me dream of one for the Revell Me-262. One thing that I really appreciated are the little points about a tank that won't be seen in the cockpit or the join IRL of the cowling to the fuselage. It really feels like a guide and mentoring on building the kit versus a simple play by play of the build experience that one often gets on these types of guides/articles.
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I confess I've always liked this ungainly looking beast. If there was a kit I'd end up buying the bloody thing.
- Derek B and D.B. Andrus
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The May 1999 issue of Scale Aviation Modeler also has a good article with a few pages of color profiles and some drawings.
If model possible in 3D printed version what 1/32 aircraft do you like to buy ?? Give the type of aircraft which have not been released in this scale before by any brand?
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Honestly, there's not a lot from my wishlist that haven't been done or have been announced. The three that I would buy in any format (maybe not vaccuform) are the A7M Reppu, XP-55 Ascender, and Ki-201 Karyu.