Violator1991

Without making a wild guess of its price above and beyond the atmosphere, I'd certainly like to have it but still prefer a 1/32 MiG-25 Foxbat before that one.

It does indeed. Not my area of deep interest, though. Having said that I am still resisting not to be induced by the great box art

I certainly would but I know it'll only make by far the top of a futile wishlist

Ok, shall we just return to all our busy work and enjoy our modeling concept whichever way we so desire??

No, of course not. Everyone may certainly have an opinion on anything and the liberty to pronounce it. What does not look fine to be working is placing an adverse comment about a kit on a modeling forum without building it, buddy!

Oh no... "Haters" and "naysayers" here again to make waves. "...my friend's friend has telescopic eyes and he says he sees down to micronic layer lines!" types... or those who judge a kit barely on a few parts the x20 magnified macro photos of which are taken just to illustrate what a badass modeler he is... Both of whom on the other hand just blind to see that these guys now seem to produce even more kits as their new announced Viggen is about 1.000 copies due to high demand ... and I certainly won't complain because a kit maker is making more kits. A pity for those whose dreams of tripling their money by selling on ebay have been shattered. Why don't you guys just skip the subject if it is not of any interest to you? Unless of course you're biased and your motives are somehow non-modeling related. If you have not ever experienced building a 3D printed kit or Jetmads kit in this case, why do you feel obliged to make adverse comments? If you ever had the pleasure of building one -or more than one as in my case- just feed in your constructive critique either here on the forum or directly to Jetmads themselves, which by experience I know they respond positively and seem to be ready to discuss any area of improvement. Not my area of interest but I have a few Lukgraph kits due to historical and family stuff. In addition to standard IM kits available on the market I generally buy HpH and Jetmads kits. Each have their ups and downs. None are entirely excellent or flawless, like almost other kits. I hope many other similar producers emerge and make such kits consistently. More kits mean better quality and prices. But Jetmads and Lukegraph are very well improving as far as I see. 3D printing technology is fast running, so a kit produced with the machines of even a couple of years ago may now easily seem obsolete or raw. And if you are wondering if Lukegraph too has any print lines with their recent releases, just zoom in 20 times as some do it with Jetmads kits and see... which is damn normal and indeed inevitable due the characteristics of the contemporary 3D technology. I recently received the Jetmads Neptune and was simply blown away both by impeccable details and print quality. I will certainly continue to buy Jetmads kits, more Lukegraph kits if they ever step in the jet realm or kits from any possible future unknown producer. I'll continue to enjoy their kits on my shelf or stash while naysayers will talk... talk... just talk...

It is not onto me of course to make recommendations to the manufacturer here, but if I may put my two cents as a consumer I would suggest spreading the tooling cost over a few years instead of trying to make a return of investment with the first shot. Forget about the USAF ones, even the Navy F-4s alone have abundence of variants with zillion of marking options to maintain a product range maybe at least for two decades. This is an injection mould kit, isn't it? There is no way of knowing the tooling material quality and endurance but I'm assuming this is not a short run kit so maybe they reconsider their pricing policy to make everyone happier.

Noooooooowwwaaaaayyyyyyyyyy But wait!! How many thousand Euros will that be?????? Considering their engine models alone cost as much as or sometimes more than a plastic kit in 1/32? That thing is about 23m in real life so it won't be less than 70cm in length so I'm afraid to make a price guess! Exciting news anyway, let's wait and see...

It's probably because the level of detail and engineering on this kit is a striking one when you see it in flesh and I think it stirred up a wave of joy after all the prolonged anticipation. That is what it did to me, at least.

My 1/48 P2V-7 Neptune kits arrived a few weeks ago. Awesome kits!! Lots of parts with ultimate detail and exquisite 3D printing. I emailed and thanked the guys for their fabulous work and making kits no one else does. One of the few propellers I have always wanted, but hey, it has jet engines too so I'm inclined to call it as a jet

Am I wrong to recall that it was initially rumoured to be around €200?? I'm mostly a jet guy and this is one of the few props I always wanted to have, however €300 sounds a bit steep for a kit that is barely 30cm in length. I need to reconsider

I'd be happier if this mysterious Canadian designer would give us a CF-100 Canuck... But hey, Tutor is fine too. After all it's another 1/32 jet hopefully coming our way and I'm crossing fingers for the Canuck as well.

200€ just sounds about right.

Good job going on here! X-3 is one of my favourite X planes so I'm loooking forward to see how this build progresses. By the way, you might have wasted you time re-designing stuff. If you need a replacement part already as in pictures, why don't you just ask Jetmads to replace the troubled parts too? During the 1/48 Neptune project updates they had mentioned that they are printing some parts again with their new machines and they are always great in customer service, so maybe they could re-print and replace these X-3 parts for you too.

Didn't know about that! Interesting concept... I'd go for all and any of the lifting bodies.

Cool model, very well produced as far as I see. I'm absolutely less than a level-zero expert in WWI planes but the work looks fantstic. Lucky for me that it is not within my area of interest which saves me 1.000 € as I would have to buy two copies otherwise

Looking forward to your Harriers! Thanks for kindly and frankly telling us what's going on!!

I didn't mean them in particular by no-name. Nice that they've been around for some time, which on the other hand makes thing worse if their kit features such inaccuracies but is tagged with 350 Euros. I have no idea how they are doing with car kits so I'm unable to comment on that product range but maybe they should stick to Jaguars on four wheels only and leave the Jaguars with wings to others more competent in that area.

I would be more than happy if that is the case, which surely does not require being so mysterious and silent in the meantime.

I'm a huge supporter of any enterprise bringing us modelers the kits we so much long for, but there's no chance I'll pay a dime -let alone 350 Euros- for a kit with such poor design with unmistakable inaccuracy. I am glad the 3D stuff widens the horizon and we will probably see many kits available in future as it seems many people will plunge into such production. The problem is, many people will try to do it and not all will be successful. Most will fail to produce accurate shapes and many will fail to even deliver, both of which is an equally deep concern for me as a modeler. Having lost quite some bucks on the Scaleworx guy and his Mirage F.1, I have my serious reserves before I decide to buy a kit from a no-name somebody again, still of course only on the ultimate condition that the design must be specifically created for modeling featuring a well research and the kit (?) is not a 3D printed version of a poorly designed 3D model that probably was created for games and aircraft simulations in the first place.

I'd love a 1/32 Rafale, more than one actually. I surely am aware of and do not fail to appreciate the hard work needed to produce these kits, but 350 Euros still sounds a bit... steep!

Splendid! I could even go with the 3D printed version, looks so cool! Looking forward to its release!

Interesting Chris, thank for the info, I didn't know that. By my humble CAD and tooling experience I can tell 25k is a serious figure which should have helped them make a good profit because the general assumption is that it takes about 5 thousand kits to make a return of tooling investment. I'm even more curious now, why do they (or anybody else) not produce such kits anymore if that can be a moneymaker? Then I'm thinking of design process. Maybe they design two or three other kits in 1:48 instead of one in 1:32 at the same required time and make more money. Or maybe another issue is the logistics... cost of transporting larger boxes etc... or maybe another issue only a manufacturer would know.

Such a hefty price tag for what ifs

I'm beginning to believe jet modelers make the real minority, at least when it comes to 1:32 scale. The number of potential buyers apparently seem not to justify such investment for the manufacturers. With low sale figures, any manufacturer -if they are brave or crazy enough to make the investment- need to keep their price tags up in order to have their return asap, which eventually leads to even less buyers and then we have a vicious circle where no manufacturer puts their money in big scale kits game. I cannot think of any other possible reason as to why at least two dozen kits of jet aircraft I'm sure many here would buy in a heartbeat are not produced by anyone and you already can guess the list, including many magnificent aircraft like the Prowler, Rafale, Flagon etc etc etc...