Confusionreigns178 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 On 1/4/2024 at 10:02 PM, RaceFuel said: Trumpeter sometimes will publish things in their catalogues as a means of scaring off competition. Not too sure about this one..... In recent memory, how many companies have marketed 1/32 AH-64 Apaches (or a few other subjects, for that matter)? I get the feeling the makers go for new kits 'cos they think there will be a healthy market for their products. Not too sure how much of an eye they keep on the competition. Cheers. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violator1991 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 That is good news! That is SOME fresh news at least in the realm of 1/32 scale after a long while. I hope it turns out to be true. I'll buy it no doubt but would rather have the ES-3A Shadow. RicardoD, Stefano and Dragon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Agree with the ES-3A. Violator1991 and scvrobeson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim61 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 6 hours ago, nmayhew said: I have very low hopes for the accuracy of either of those two Actually the resin printed Seaking is looking really good and he already has 48 scale parts for sale. The guy is a Seaking freak so from what I have seen it looks really nice. Check his site out on facebook. The stuff looks nice: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554900021700 zerosystem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zola25 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 (edited) 7 hours ago, Violator1991 said: That is good news! That is SOME fresh news at least in the realm of 1/32 scale after a long while. I hope it turns out to be true. I'll buy it no doubt but would rather have the ES-3A Shadow. The last couple of years they have actually released most of what they have announced in their catalogue.. not all yet admitted, but enough to make me think it's going to happen.. I hope But they should be commended If they do. It's not exactly a "sexy" aircraft and likely no model cash cow. They are brave for doing it and I will get one for sure. Edited January 6 by Zola25 Violator1991 and Learstang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 By the way does anyone have seen the list of other Trumpeter & Hobbyboss kits? It looks we just got one or two pages of the new catalogue. RNoAF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNoAF Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Cant wait for this one. One of the most beautiful Navy ac. ever. firefly7 and Stefano 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony T Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 1 hour ago, thierry laurent said: By the way does anyone have seen the list of other Trumpeter & Hobbyboss kits? It looks we just got one or two pages of the new catalogue. A couple of Wurger A-somethings in 1:32. 2 hours ago, Zola25 said: The last couple of years they have actually released most of what they have announced in their catalogue.. not all yet admitted, but enough to make me think it's going to happen.. I hope But they should be commended If they do. It's not exactly a "sexy" aircraft and likely no model cash cow. They are brave for doing it and I will get one for sure. Agree. But the Hoover was an important aircraft in its day and I can't wait to get one, to backdate to an S-3A. Will be a super addition to the existing USN carrier jet line-up. I'm just secretly hoping Trumpy will follow-up the 72 & 32 double bill by adding an EA-6B Prowler next time. Also very eagerly waiting to see what ResKit do with the Trumpy A-7 canopy: when they fix that, I'm buying the whole upgrade bundle. With resin and 3D kits now costing between a quarter and a third of a Grand, I no longer consider a £130 kit with £170 worth of fixes or upgrades especially expensive. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 A view of the size of the S-3 compared to other naval aircraft: Jari Dragon, Learstang, Out2gtcha and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 (edited) It's smaller than I realised. It looks a lot smaller than the F-14, but then the Turkey was the size of a WWII heavy bomber!* Regards, Jason *It was more than 62 feet long, and fully loaded weighed as much as a loaded B-17G! Edited January 6 by Learstang Additional comments added. scvrobeson and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 size wise looks close to an a6 on that pic CRAZY IVAN5 and Learstang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zola25 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Neo said: size wise looks close to an a6 on that pic In 1/32 the S-3B Viking is 50,8 cm long 65,4 cm wide (28,1 cm wings folded) 21,7 cm tall (15,6 cm tail folded) The A-6E is 53 cm long and 50 cm wide ( wings unfolded) in 1/32 ..if you don't work in the metric system, we'll, it's about time /Niels Edited January 6 by Zola25 scvrobeson, CRAZY IVAN5, Lee White and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 (edited) 3 hours ago, Zola25 said: In 1/32 the S-3B Viking is 50,8 cm long 65,4 cm wide (28,1 cm wings folded) 21,7 cm tall (15,6 cm tail folded) The A-6E is 53 cm long and 50 cm wide ( wings unfolded) in 1/32 ..if you don't work in the metric system, we'll, it's about time /Niels Wait what, s3 folded 65.4cm and a6 UN folded is 50cm are you sure? That sounds like a major difference Edited January 7 by Neo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 5 hours ago, Zola25 said: ..if you don't work in the metric system, we'll, it's about time We don't in the US, but if I'm honest, I wish they would just quit messing about and make the metric system mandatory so we could get in step with the rest of the whole world! Lee White, Shoggz, CRAZY IVAN5 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Then I'd have to learn it! CRAZY IVAN5 and Learstang 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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