2008 Announcements From Various Manufacturers

[JC Carbonel]

Modelstories 2008 announcements

JCC

[Radish]

Thanks for those inputs!!

SR53 indeed    

Also...was I correct in spotting some small (1/72nd?) Star Wars kits in a corner of the Revell stand? Pocket sized?  

[kitbasher]

Nice Mr Airfix said the Pucara in the Falklands set was from MPM (all injected - no brass or resin).  He hinted that each of that set's kits might be released individualy at some point next year.  Mmm.  So why bother with a box set?  Only wa to flog tired old A-4 and PM Mirage?
SR53 WOW - major whiff material if the Modelstories report is true.
More Airfix stuff set to be announced at Toy Fair 08, he said.  I hope it's NOT the Spit IX, Me 262, Zero and all the other geriatrics that really should be allowed to R.I.P.
A new 1/72 Lightning F.2A/F.6 would be nice, as would a new B.2/B.6 1/72 Canberra (scale down the 1/48 beasts?), a decent Jet provost T.3/T.4 and a Supermarine Swift FR.5.
   

[AeroplaneDriver]

I like the look of the AM Predator and the Airfix SR53.

[LemonJello]

I could go for one of those Predators in 1/48.

Was that really a 1/48 Jolly Green kit?  I've seen that one advertised as Pre-Order at GreatModels, but others that I've mentioned it to say that its a typo and that the kit is the old 1/72 re-popped.  Anybody have a confirmation one way or the other?

I'd love to get a Jolly Green in 1/48 to go with my Skyraider as a Sandy CSAR package.

[The Rat]

SR53!!!

Last time it was readily available the after-market biz was almost non-existant, so now we might expect a good selection of stuff to stuff in it. I might even break down and splurge for something meself.  

That new Canberra B.2 is most welcome too, especially if it's at a good price. I have a cunning plan...  :ar:  

[elmayerle]

Hmm, lots of interesting material there.  I'll admit to being tempted by that Nike-Hercules as I'm really tempted to try and do the Nike-Phoenix upgrade that a combined MDC and Hughes Missiles team was trying to sell.  I suspect it'd make an interesting model.

[P1127]

The AM Predator is 1/72 (it's a bigger aircraft than most poeple think)

[Joe C-P]

A Matilda Hedgehog?

The TARDIS!

The Moebius models really tug at my wallet.  

JoeP

[Daryl J.]

The RoG Lanc looks really good, better than the Hasegawa IMHO.

It'll be another great year methinks.


Daryl J.

[JC Carbonel]

The SR 53 is just a rumor . Has anyone talked with Trefor about it ?

The Pucara should be MPM, I confirm that from Czech sources

The Jolly Green Giant and Seaking are listed as 1/48 in the Lindberg catalogue. Most of the people I talked to assume this is a printing error as Lindberg has both kits as classics from the early seventies in 1/72
I have no specifics on the Predator. I was just told that "all" AM kits were 1/48

JCC

[jcf]

Aren't Lindberg supposedly doing the Japanese I-400 class boats in 72nd or am I imagining it? 

I-20 with HA-20 two-man sub and I-53 with Kaitens.



Still pretty big subs in 1/72: I-20 (Type C1) 358.5' LOA; I-53 (Type C3) 356.5' LOA.
I-53 was originally set up to carry four Kaiten, this was quickly increased to six.

Jon