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Dear Friends;

I would like to thank all forum members for your kind words and sincere approach. I will be happy to share any progress we achieve in our projects. Most of our projects are within your interested scale range. Thus, I believe I will be more active in your forum from now on :rolleyes: 

 

Regards,

Baris

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Dear Friends;

I would like to thank all forum members for your kind words and sincere approach. I will be happy to share any progress we achieve in our projects. Most of our projects are within your interested scale range. Thus, I believe I will be more active in your forum from now on :rolleyes:

 

Regards,

Baris

TANMODEL

 

Has any decision been made as to what versions of the F-111 you will produce?  I'll certainly purchase a couple of them regardless of the cost and I want to welcome you to our very friendly forums!

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Has this company produced any 32nd scale kits before? Never heard of them.

Chuck

 

 

Until the buzz started on LSP (Its the only forum I really go to) I had not heard of Tan before either.

 

Baris,

Would it be possible for you to share some of your work with us?

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What's your mark preference ? I'm assuming the era before the digital-updates of the 1990s (AMP, AUP and Pacer Strike, which were all unique and relatively short-lived)...

 

...Allowing for the fact that the F-111A/C/E shared common fuselages, the E having different inlets, the C longer wings and diff wheel hubs, I'd say an F-111A/E joint boxing would make the most sense. This could grow into an F/RF-111C and EF-111A later relatively easily.

 

...Or the F-111D/F ? Different cockpits and engine nozzles, and the later Pave Tack cradle & pod on the F. This would effectively mean an F-111F-only boxing for a Libya 86 or Desert Storm 92 strike jet, and again might be a logical outgrowth from an initial A/E boxing ?

 

I would submit that the F-111B was constantly changing, making only 2-3 prototypes doable from any one boxing. Far too esoteric.

 

The FB-111A/F-111G joint boxing would make more sense later on, after wings and wheels had been done already for an F-111C. Even then, a different nose barrel, tail hour glass, pylons and brand new stores would be required.

 

What do you think (intelligent responses preferred) ?

 

Tony

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What's your mark preference ? I'm assuming the era before the digital-updates of the 1990s (AMP, AUP and Pacer Strike, which were all unique and relatively short-lived)...

 

...Allowing for the fact that the F-111A/C/E shared common fuselages, the E having different inlets, the C longer wings and diff wheel hubs, I'd say an F-111A/E joint boxing would make the most sense. This could grow into an F/RF-111C and EF-111A later relatively easily.

 

...Or the F-111D/F ? Different cockpits and engine nozzles, and the later Pave Tack cradle & pod on the F. This would effectively mean an F-111F-only boxing for a Libya 86 or Desert Storm 92 strike jet, and again might be a logical outgrowth from an initial A/E boxing ?

 

I would submit that the F-111B was constantly changing, making only 2-3 prototypes doable from any one boxing. Far too esoteric.

 

The FB-111A/F-111G joint boxing would make more sense later on, after wings and wheels had been done already for an F-111C. Even then, a different nose barrel, tail hour glass, pylons and brand new stores would be required.

 

What do you think (intelligent responses preferred) ?

 

Tony

 

Makes perfect sense to me and the best way to extract multiple releases out of one kit.

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The Raven was built from the A. If the "speed bumps" (the fuselage fairings near the horizontal tail) and lower fuselage housing the weapons bay was modular surely the EF-111A would be a relatively simple growth from the baseline A/E ?

 

The FB-111A / F-111G would require a unique nose barrel, pylons, weapons, hour glass fuel dump, and that's even *after* F-111C longer span wings and heavier duty MLG wheels and a generic F-111F MK.IIB cockpit had been made.

The F/RF-111C would have a bigger following ?

 

Regardless, I feel the main things to avoid are the nose avionics bays. Focus needs to be on the intakes, cockpit, weapons bay and LG wells.

Or do you differ on that ?

 

Tony

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Some very interesting future projects - especially the F-5 family and the F-111 surely are excellent additions for us 1/32nd scale geeks.

 

Regarding the Phantom family - and I really don't want to be harsh or offensive here - I personally think it's a total waste of resources. There simply is no 'need' for a new 1/32nd scale Phantom as the existing kits are pretty good (Tamiya) or pretty cheap (and quite good - Revell) and all of them are easily available. Why not scaling up your RF-84 first? Well, as a model company, you probably have a marketing department which has thought about which kits to release. I hope you prove I am wrong - I wish you all the best! :)

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Some very interesting future projects - especially the F-5 family and the F-111 surely are excellent additions for us 1/32nd scale geeks.

 

Regarding the Phantom family - and I really don't want to be harsh or offensive here - I personally think it's a total waste of resources. There simply is no 'need' for a new 1/32nd scale Phantom as the existing kits are pretty good (Tamiya) or pretty cheap (and quite good - Revell) and all of them are easily available. Why not scaling up your RF-84 first? Well, as a model company, you probably have a marketing department which has thought about which kits to release. I hope you prove I am wrong - I wish you all the best! :)

 

 

All of the new releases do look very nice!    However, and no offense intended here,  but I tend to agree with Starfighter on the point of the normal F-4. Besides the exhausts, the raised BDR panels, and the intakes and rubber tires, the Tamiya kit builds REALLY nice, and Im not sure how much a new F-4 C/D/E/J would really be needed.

 

 

NOW that being said, I can see a new tool full kit GR.1 Spay F-4 selling like HOTCAKES!      My personal opinion (likely worthless as I am NO businessman) is that if the expense to produce a new F-4 kit from step 0 is equal, or even REMOTELY close, in expenditure to produce a F-4D/E/J as it might be to produce a GR.1, any effort and/or expense sunk into R&D for a new Phantom kit would be MUCH MUCH better served spent on a GR.1.................................

 

 

Seems SO many people want a Brit Phantom, but its SO cost prohibitive, that no company seems to be able to put a conversion out for a current F-4 kit .............and so far none of the large main stream manufacturers seem willing to put out a full kit.

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