will they ever make these kits?

Will they ever make them ... the answer is simple: only and as far as they can make some money with it. So: if everybody in this world would be a hobby modeller, we would have any model available that one could think of :) ...

(And we woud not suffer any wars and we would all be friends :)

would be nice, but I don´t see it.

Unfortunately especially in my favorite section: classic sail ships. Watch the airfix page, and see most of the Classic Series kits are gone. Same goes for the big Revell sailships and some Heller kits as well. Why ? well, seems that nobody enjoys sail ships as I do ... so the market is too small.

Maybe once we see a revival ... I hope :)

just my 2c Jan

While I wouldn't hold my breath we are seeing kits we never thought we'd see hit the market. I work at the other scale end, 1/72, and years ago I never would have thought we'd see so much small scale armor coming out. For decades all we had were the old Airfix kits. Now there's a wealth of choices and subjects. No one would have thought there would be an exquisite series of M10 tank destroyers, for instance. And now there's a sudden burst of interest in 1/72 scale boats, the Revell U Boat being on the most obvious example. To paraphrase Jagger and Richards, you don't always get the kits you want, but you just might find you get what you need.

Mark Levine

Right on, Mark.

If you stick with 1/72 scale you'll never go begging.

Current aircraft count from ESM 72 database: 12,838. That's only original molds in injection molded, cast resin, vacuform, etc.

Vehicles: 3,790. This is the fastest growing field with tons of new kits out every year. List includes 1/76 scale.

There are thousands of other subjects from Missiles to Figures.

One other thing about wanting a specific kit: Buy and build the existing vacuform kit and you may guarentee immediate release of an injection molded example. Just ask those who have the Aviation Usk B-32. Special Hobby has just announced release of an injection molded B-32.

Happy modeling,

Tom

I wouldn't put hope for injection molded, non-limited-run versions of those in 1/32. Maybe as a vac-form, though - otherwise, you're looking at a lot of plastic. OTOH, if you don't mind working with balsa, you may have more options...

I'd love to see a Bonanza (V-tail, of course) in 1/32. As for the Goose, I could have sworn I'd seen one - perhaps Classic Airframes, pretty sure it was one of the limited run mfgrs.

in article snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, EGMcCann at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote on 6/18/04 2:07 PM:

You may have been thinking of the Sword kit in 1/72. It's very nice and not a bad size for the not so little amphib.

MB

EGMcCann wrote, among other things:

ITC Model Craft produced a rather decent injection-molded V-tail Bonanza kit (catalog no. 3656.6-298) in 1/32 scale many years ago. Unfortunately, it's now worth at least US$100 and *very* hard to find.

Charles Metz

in article snipped-for-privacy@uchicago.edu, Charles Metz at snipped-for-privacy@uchicago.edu wrote on 6/18/04 5:38 PM:

I should have mentioned that Czech Model has a 1/48 scale Goose advertised in the latest SMO suplement for $45 or so. I've seen the kit and in the box it looks promising.

MB

Ahh, good... and in the One True Scale, too. :D

Not likely, but I would jump at both of these, particularry the 1/48 B 47 !!!!!

I'm still waiting for a 1/48 A 3J Savage, or an RA 5 Viggie :)

BTW any new news of the new 1/48 P 61 ???

"Only a Gentleman can insult me, and a true Gentleman never will..."

Had it worn black crosses it would have made the cut. I'm not being cynical just observant.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Context is everything. If it had worn black crosses, it should have made the cut, because it would have been the second-most-built Axis heavy bomber at 114 units. The He 177/274/277 may have topped a thousand, but there were less than seventy Ju 290, the Fw 200 wasn't a heavy bomber at all, and nothing else even got close to service. Japan built about six HB total, and the Italians managed less than a hundred P.108, even counting the one with the artillery piece in the nose and the cargo and transport variants. Furthermore, despite its mediocre service reliability, the B-32 still would have been better than anything the Axis fielded as a HB.

Compared with the B-24, the B-17, the B-29, the Lancaster, the Stirling and the Halifax, B-32 production and service was barely a whisper by Allied standards. We're lucky to have onekit in 1/72 and a second on the way. I'm still waiting for a Vickers Windsor (or a B-23, but that's another wish list).

Mark Schynert

... Rather wish Accurate would tackle that, m'self...

Agreed. With the flurry of Luft '46 over the past ten years or so, I'm surprised that no one has come out with American, British, Japanese or Soviet counterparts. Anyone for a Lockheed Project 3? (design canard forerunner to the P-80)

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Why does it need to be re-issued? I see it all the time at swap meets; I probably have an extra one if you're looking to buy. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap)

Italeri has the molds and intends to reissue Havocs and Bostons regularly.

Stephen Bierce