i’ve just seen another 1/144 C-5A Galaxy who sold out in Ebay in 123 dolars(not included shipping!) of Otaki when a week ago the same model of Revel sold out at 178 dolars!(again not included the shipping price) so i’m asking my self a model which many many ppl will to pay much more than i do, a model which isn’t exist for over than 2 decades, why nobody do NOTHING about it? i tryed to email Revell but there were no respond from there, what the fuck is goin’ on?? don’t they want to earm money? if we so badly want it and will to pay that much money, are the InSaNe??
do you know any chinees plastic model company who i can ofer them to make this model and more fraindly and open to costumers?
I think the thread of the title should be…“is there any sane model builder???” I mean it does take a degree of obsession to drop that kind of coin on a model. I agree though that the market is in need of some more heavy lifters…A survey in a recent FSM showed that lots of others want to see more C-5’s Some brands like A-Model and Anigrand have some interesting examples of big birds like the C-141 and C-17.
Ironicly the C-141 is in stock in more than 85 dolars! i have the C-17 which i baught in about 35 dolars a year ago and it’s owsome standing in my apartment, the C-17 it’s new aircraft so no wondere there’s many in stores, but the C-5 is the bigest cargo aircrft of the west countries, even it’s 30 years after… we got off the subject…
the subject is a fact- there C-5 aircraft which crazy ppl will and want to buy and there’s insane company who doesn’t care about this fact… so i’m asking again if there’s any chneese company which do you think is more flaxible to the costumers?
2 models sold in two weeks for ridiculously high prices does not equate to a jackpot for kit makers. It just means there are at least two folks out there willing to spend LOTS of money for what they want. My personal old kit I would love to see re issued from Revell is a 1/48 Apollo kit of the service module, command module, lunar module and the launch shroud housing around the lunar module. These have gone for astronomical prices (pun intended) on Ebay. I am just hoping Revell holds true to form and res issues the kit within the next few years.
2 models sold in two weeks for ridiculously high prices does not equate to a jackpot for kit makers. It just means there are at least two folks out there willing to spend LOTS of money for what they want.
is not true, it is 4 not two, the two you mantioned will to pay even more! cause when someone won a bit means the loser were willing to pay the price he lost when the winner even were willing to pay even more!..
I think I saw that Apollo kit in the LHS last weekend.
From what I understand, four companies used the same molds for the C-5A, Revell, Otaki, Testors, and…forgot the last one. I’ve been searching for one of these as well (as seen in my previous thread) and refuse to pay a high collector price when It’s gonna get built. I dropped almost 50 on the 1/144 An-124 kit, shouldn’t have to pay more for the C-5 in my opinion. Revell needs to step up, send a diver to the bottom of Tokyo Bay (or whereever the molds really are) and release this kit to us ASAP.
For our local model show/contest coming up in a few weeks, someone hit a big score at an estate sale and is supposed to bring them to sell. Hopefully he’ll have what I desire.
realy? if you find any C-5A in 50$ buy another for me and i can buy from you in 80s
the forth company is Nichimo i think… any way, it’s balony one big bulshit about the drown in the river and revell cannot any longer repoduce the C-5A?? what’s the big deal? today with the cleaver machines they can make a new one even better!! we’re not in the stone age which man didn’t know how to make a new plastic model?!^*&
There is a thread going at a model car forum, that some started and is contacting “Revellogram” about re-issuing these large scale trucks.
The prices for them on Ebay are all over the place! Recently there have been a lot of these trucks going up…maybe…just maybe the sellers know something that the general modeling public doesn’t???..Dumping what they have knowing a re-release may be around the corner??? I can only wish!
With all due respect guys, I don’t understand this sense of entitlement that some people hold - that the model companies “owe” modelers a certain kit. Model companies aren’t philanthropic organizations; they have to make a profit for their owners in order to stay in business.
If the original C-5 kit had been profitable, then they would have made a lot more of them and the tooling wouldn’t have bounced around from company to company. The fact that so few were actually manufactured is what’s establishing the current prices on the secondary market. It’s basic supply and demand.
Every modeling subject is going to have a group of passionate followers. But a handful of people of people willing to pay a couple hundred bucks for a rare kit on Ebay certainly doesn’t indicate overwhelming demand to me. If I were running a model company It certainly wouldn’t convince me to risk hundreds of thousands of dollars to tool up a new kit.
That’s a good guide as to what collectors are paying these days…
Oh, and if you want to sell kits to them, don’t even THINK you’ll be offered anwhere near what they charge for them… They’ll pay around 20% of what they retail for there…
umm… good site, the have for instance the C-5a in 1/72, but do you call 250$ as for builders? thouse prices are huge! i would prefare Ebay… besides they don’t have the C-5 at 1/144 that i’m looking for…
and whats the point to pay 180$ for a kit to put it on a bunker?? i don’t belive who payed 180$ for the C-5a isn’t planning to bilt the model nd just to leave it in the garage to sell it in the future?!
I gotta go get another cuppa and try to wake up I guess.
WUHH???
Ok, so prices on eBay get out of hand. Well, that’s capitalism mixed with ignorance and seasoned with greed. So… Sip. Ouch, hot.
To the best of my knowledge, kit manufacturers, at least the plastic ones, don’t sell on eBay. Sip.
Ok, so it is apparently a moral obligation of kit companies to rescue us from predatory collectors…Big sip, exhale.
Based on a random sample of what, 5 sales on eBay of a kit for $ 200 that they could sell for $ 50. Ok, so Revell goes and invests $ 500,000.00 on a new C-5, it even comes with a bonus bag of green army men, and after the first 40,000.00 units or so are sold, they break even, by which time Dragon or Trump has copped the design and is selling it too.
They’d be better off buying up every big GAM jet on eBay for the $ 10 K or so it would cost and giving them away as prizes in exchange for your email addie.
Maybe I don’t get it. Seems like half the time, sommun goes and buys a kit they’ve always wanted on eBay for the price of a night in Reno, Revell re-releases it the next day, and all they can do is whinge abt it.
No, I’m not in a cussy mood, I’m just having a real hard time getting the point and wanted to understand what I’m missing.
Came here to say this. You see the same thing in the auto world. People clamoring for Ford to basically just remake the old early Bronco, body-on-frame, solid axles, etc. But the business case has to be there.
Big planes strike me as a challenge from a business case standpoint. The cost of developing the kits and molds, larger boxes, higher shipping costs, and in the end I have to imagine they can’t pull down anything like the same demand as, say, P-51s, BF-109s, F-15s and other perennial favorites.
Frankly, I view the existence Revellogram’s big bomber kits with something close to awe. They’re big kits, and I’m sure more than a few people avoid them because they literally have nowhere to display them on the back end (that’s certainly my case). Big ships are different - they’re big, but only in one dimension. They may be 3 or 4 feet long, but only 10-12 inches wide. Whereas a big plane can be 3 feet by 3 feet.
I kinda can’t help but think this is the reason we haven’t seen any newly developed B-17s, B-24s, C-5s and such in a long time.
The fact that two buyers paid a high price for it does not guarantee that the third kit will get the same price, or even sell out at all. It has nothing to do with kit manufacturer’s choice of kit to produce. No doubt you didn’t get any reply from them. I don’t think 1:144 airplane kits are in much demand. For airplanes, I’d prefer 1:72 or bigger scale. I just got a Mil Mi-10K Soviet “Flying Crane” Helicopter 1:72 from Amodel for $57.30. The biggest aircraft they offer is probably Hughes H-4 Hercules 1:72
Timing is everything in the release of a new product or line of products. Yes, the C-5 kit probably wasn’t a stellar seller, but nether were many other kits released back in the day that now fetch big bucks. Interests change, that’s why people collect what they collect then discard them later.
Frankly, why would any company take on doing a new mold of the C-5? Its an aircraft that is rarely seen as its numbers decrease. The C-5M consists of four aircraft, three handbuilt and one full production one thus far. Trash haulers never got the priority many of us wished for in kit form. There was a spark a while back when the C-7 Caribou made its appearance, the C-130 is still popular as it serves in so many variants and countries. The C-27 Spartan is probably more popular in other parts of the world than here in the US. C-17s are easily recognized as kit with limited popularity, I don’t think its setting any sales records.
Even in 1:144 its a good sized model and requires a fair about of space to display. Which is why everyone is asking why is 1:32 so popular? Who has the space for such large models? The subjects being released are ones that most folks have seen frequently and commonly. C-5s just aren’t that well known as they only appear at a handful of airshows.
That C-5 kit wasn’t much either…just a solid fuselage, no opening doors! No flaps or moving surfaces. Just thick landing gear struts and dozens of wheels and tires with no detailing. Something like twenty pieces if I recall all with minimal detailing.
there’s one tiny thing you all forget, the Galaxy everybony know to pronounce, the C-17 verry few, like i’ve took photograph of the C-17 somebody told me- nice photo of the Galaxy… even the model ppl who doesnt understand about models think its galaxy… the galaxy its something we all remember by its size and name!! the C17… its only prety transportation aircraft, i also thing its the pretiest one, but galaxy its the bigest and more famus one even its oldy!!
My good buddy Airman Jim would strongly disagree. He flew on Globemaster II’s in Vietnam, and in the Tennessee ANG. Frankly, I’ll bet plenty that if you showed a photo of both to a current service member, they’d pick the G’Master out in a second.
The Revell C-17 kits are a dime a dozen here (well, 39.99) but never out of stock. I stumbled on the An-124 kit and since we’re going to build the 787 here they are stocking up on those as well. About the only 1/144 kits they sell. If I can find a C-5 kit one of these days in my range I’ll grab it but not a big deal to me. Just wanted to display next to the Ruslin.
I guess I’m lucky because I live in the approach to Charleston AFB so I get to see a lot of C-17’s, a few C-5’s and an occasional C-130 or P-3 come over daily. I’ll tell ya what, you have to be able to read lips when the C-5’s come in as they’re at about 2000 feet (or less), and working the throttles. The C-17’s usually pull back on the throttles right overhead making a nice woosh sound. Kind of like the sound the spaceships make in Independence Day when they come out of the clouds. The Boeing Dreamlifter came in yesterday, that’s a twice a day deal. A lot of commercial traffic as well since they share the runway with the airport. I need to set up a lwan chair one day with the camera and a big glass of iced tea, I’m sure I can fill several SD cards.
