Fred Jack

There is a Do-17 that was recently raised from the English Channel that was externally in good shape. You can see it on YouTube.

As far as I’m concerned, they pretty much put a Do-17 conopy to make the Ju88, they might have done that inside also, we don’t know, but I’d be happy to see a Do17 with a Ju88 interior. To me it’s the exterior that counts, as long as there is some kind of interior although I can remember being happy when Models only had a seat, stick and a plain instrument decal. Some even had only a pilot’s shoulder and head. It was the outside that mattered. I still keep my models closed up. You don’t see althat much through a closed canopy..

Of course it’s taken forever to see a C-47 or a B-24.

So you feel better So you feel better, one is on its way, just don’t know from where, or when. Maybe from this posting, some company will realize it, especially since they brought one up from the channel. Someone did say once that there were none in existence but WnWs is producing WW1 bombers for which none exists today.

We’ve seen them in 1/72, anyone think it possible to see one in 1/32?

So obviously you haven’t.

I don’t have the kit, but has anyone tried Future Floor wax?

I saw one in German markings at the Musee de Militaire in Brussels. I was surprised at how small it wasA model in 1/32 won’t take up very much room.

Use superglue gas to frost all the windows and state that it’s early morning due, so you don’t have to super detail the interior.

The problem is that Wikipedia isn’t a very reliable source, since anyone can contribute to it.

It is listed in the catalog of engines released by Engines and Things. They state the 57 as being used for both the 47M and the prototype N. Right now I’m about 500 miles from my reference library, so I went on line.

It’s not that much bigger than a F-105 , yet the 105 was a good seller.

Also look how obscure the HP O-100 and the HP O-400 are and how big, but they are in development. I remember complaining about a 240 Howitzer never being released in large scale and everyone saying it was too large yet TWO companies released a much larger WW2 German Rail Gun. Funny how no one puts any stops at producing anything NAZI, but when it comes to equipment US soldiers used and died on in WW2, oh its too big.

The only 107 I ever saw was my 1/72 scale one I had in the sixties.

You are absolutely correct, but I still remember it as being the most common jet in the sky, but guys like me are a dying breed, and if it hadn’t been for modern eye surgery, there probably be none of us left building any models. Just like I see less and less of us marching in Veterans’ Day Parades.

One company has released a 1/32 DC3, and another is releasing a C-47, but we now have much larger B-17s Lancaster’s, and Liberators, so why not a 101?

When I was a teen I the ‘60s, I saw an A-26 parked with a B-25J at the Detroit City Airport. Talk about cool. The A-26 model may not be perfect, but how many of us are going to be able to tell. It was not all that common of an airplane, even in 72 and 48th scale, so I just might have to have a Havoc with a Mitchell.

What makes even less sense and also decades too late are 1/24th cars, trucks, and tanks and 1/25th cars, trucks and tanks.

Yup! That question is many decades too late.

The name of Quarter Scale for 1/48, has been used since Aurora Models came up with it in the 1950s, long before RC, when the only flying models were U control, in which 1/4 size airplanes would have been too large. Back then the only RC Models were being used by the military for target practice.and we have been using quarter scale for 1/48 ever since and decades before 1/4th scale RC, which has never been called quarter scale. Technically you are right, but with 1/32 bing used for planes and 1/35 being used for vehicles and helicopters, who says modeling is logical?

Plus Models in Japan have a 1/35 M60, and ET Models makes a 1/35 Detail Set for the M60 in 1/35.

You didn’t mention the XP-47N, which did use the same engine as the P-47M. The three engines installed into the production P-47N were the 47, not 57 as used in the M, 73, and 77. I did forget the 81.

The P-47N used the R-2800-47, 73, or 77. The 47M used the R-2800-57 engine, as mentioned by Juggernut, however, so did the XP-47N. Most people alive could not tell the R-2800 engines apart, you’d be safe using anyone, besides, the mechanics probably replaced bad engines with anything they could get their grimy paws on. But if you are picky, you might check out Engines and Things. They make great resin engines in 1/72, 1/48, and 1/32.

AMS Resin makes a central pylon with a SUU Gun Pod.