HPH Models 1/32 P-51H Mustang (group buy possible)

[wunwinglow]

There is a very simple solution to all this. If you think it is going to be a sure-fire winner, raise the finances, get the kit into production, and laugh all the way to the bank!!

 

There is another solution, if that one doesn't appeal. Convert or scratchbuild it yourself.   

 

Either way, you get the model you always wanted, and a great sense of achievement. What more could you ask?!

 

Tim

[quang]

15 minutes ago, wunwinglow said:

There is a very simple solution to all this. If you think it is going to be a sure-fire winner, raise the finances, get the kit into production, and laugh all the way to the bank!!

 

 That's just what Peter Jackson did.

 

17 minutes ago, wunwinglow said:

There is another solution, if that one doesn't appeal. Convert or scratchbuild it yourself.   

 

That's just what I would do.

[Tony T]

On 8 August 2018 at 4:51 PM, Radub said:

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Manufacturers get bombarded with demands for unsaleable kits whose only "feature" is that "it was never kitted before". Maybe there is a reason why such kits were never issued before. 
Kits need to sell in order to amortise costs...

Radu 

 

And that's the reason we get so many models of national socialist hardware. 

Which doesn't say a lot of nice things about our society.

I don't blame the manufacturers; they are responding to demand. But why is that demand there? Why don't people prefer to build something relatively peaceful or peacetime like a 1/32 P-51H or 1/72 DC-8? 

 

Or, perhaps, it really is a sellers' market. The sheer quantity of 1/35 armour kits still being produced, seventy years after that terrible war ended, is quite shocking. I would not buy them for my children if they were still young. They could have a fire engine or building machinery instead - if you could find many of those.

 

Tony 

 

 

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Edited August 13, 2018 by Tony T
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[MikeMaben]

9 hours ago, Tony T said:

And that's the reason we get so many models of national socialist hardware. 

Which doesn't say a lot of nice things about our society.

 

                

 

 

[LSP_Ray]

13 hours ago, wunwinglow said:

There is a very simple solution to all this. If you think it is going to be a sure-fire winner, raise the finances, get the kit into production, and laugh all the way to the bank!!

 

There is another solution, if that one doesn't appeal. Convert or scratchbuild it yourself.   

 

Either way, you get the model you always wanted, and a great sense of achievement. What more could you ask?!

 

Tim

Third solution: Find a Jerry Rutman kit!

[AresShrike]

Find a Jerry Rutman kit!

Believe me brother, I've been looking!

 

I guess I'll just have to go the Hasegawa/Revell crossbreed route.

I'm sure it IS, just a matter of time, but, it HAS been over 70 years now, and I'm "getting up there" in age, so I'd really like to see a really excellent 51B/C kit, sooner than later, before I finally keel over.

 

 

[KUROK]

Ah just grab a P-51D.  It's a better looking plane than the "H" anyway.

[Tony T]

23 hours ago, MikeMaben said:

 

                

 

 

 

Sorry for the confusion. He looks how I feel. Just got a bit depressed looking at all the new Chinese kits of Wehrmacht armour and realising it's the same old subjects. Had hoped we'd all be a bit tired of Panzers after fifty years. 

 

But then there's a whole generation who have yet to rediscover 54mm Waterloo figures, horses and cannons. Or, more likely, 1/16th scale now.

 

Happy modelling

 

Tony