it's that time of the year

OK it’s time for my now annual begging for some new stuff to light up my now foggy eyes. I’m not asking for reissues this time around but simply pick up a few ideas here and retool (all in 1/48th scale by the way)

  1. Beechcraft Staggerwing with military decales

  2. A Hudson nd a Ventura would make me do handstands in the snow (and we got plenty)

  3. It’s time for an all new A26 Invader series with a B26K option (I mean it’s been about thirty years now!)

  4. And no one can beg for an A26 without begging for a new A20 series as well!

  5. OK, Hasegawa it’s time to give us the high quality long sought after P63 with Russiam markings

  6. Anybody here like to have a new and retooled tigercat with folding wings? I would!

  7. what about a Korean War Skynight night fighter?

  8. would any of us want a new Neptune? I could easilly be persuaded

  9. OK, I’m gonna pass this ball to Tamiya and beg for a new high teck OV10 series

  10. This is a must for all us FW nuts! I want a 1/48th scale FW190C that is of Tamiya quality

!@#$%^&

this is for all us folks that have too much time on our hands!! I have the feeling that a very high tech A37 and also a OV10A/D would certainly please a few folks around here as well being as Santa didn’t put these kits under the tree this year!

gary

NUMBER ONE on my list is an A-12, original version of the Blackbird so that we don’t have to butcher an SR-71.

  1. How about a T-37 TWEET that is not just an A-37 with a white paint job. Including decal options for the long time all white version or the newer blue and white would be icing on the cake. 1/72 and 1/48 scale.

  2. Along the same line, a T-38 Talon that is not just an F-5B with white paint. Again, decals for the all white and blue/white. Both 1/72 and 1/48 scale.

Darwin, O.F. [aln]

I’m with Darwin. 1/48th A-12.
I’ll also throw in a NEW TOOL 1/48th SR-71.

I’d love to have a Tigercat with folding wings but I don’t need a whole new kit, just the wingfolds.
I’d take a new tool -3N though, with a correct nose and folding wings. I got outbid last week on a CE nose.

OK Gary now you’ve done it. So here goes.

ALL 48th SCALE

WWII

He115

Fw189

Me210

Ju388

Ju86

Bv138

Do24 not that Fonderie thing

Do18

Do215

Do217 Night fighter

Ki-48 LILY

Ki-49 HELEN

Ki-21 SALLY

Ki-67 PEGGY

P1Y FRANCES

G3M NELL

Q1W LORNA

Ki-102 RANDY

E13A JAKE

E16A PAUL

A5M CLAUDE

Ki-15 BABS

Ki-30 ANN

Ki-36 IDA

Whitley

Albemarle

Manchester

Lancaster NEW TOOL

Beaufort

Firefly

Tempest

Stirling

P-63

B-17 NEW TOOL

B-29 NEW TOOL

B-24 NEW TOOL

PB4Y

PB2Y

C-46

SB2C NEW TOOL

A-20 Family

A-26 Family I like the Revell but c’mon raised lines

TBD its been 40 years since Monogram did one

Hudson Ventura Harpoon Family

B-26 again how many years since Monogram did this???

PBM goota have this to go with the PBY

B-25H/J NEW TOOL

P-61 NEW TOOL

F4U-4 the only model that does not have a decent kit of.

Told ya that you opened a can of worms. I’ll wait til the next post to do the postwar stuff

Many years ago Testors made a 1/48 model of the YF-12 before they brought out the SR-71. Is the YF-12 and the A-12 the same airplane?

POSTWAR

French they didn’t have great prop planes but the jets were nice

Ouragon

Mystere II

Mystere IV

Super Mystere

Super Etendard

Mirage 2000

Mirage F.1

Swedish

J-21A

J-21R

J-29 Tunnan

J-32 Lansen

J-37 Viggen

British

Swift

Brigand

Firebrand

Scimitar

Strikemaster

Gnat

Lincoln

Shackleton

Vulcan

Victor

Valiant

USSR

Beagle

Badger

Fiddler

Firebar

Flashlight

Fitter

Fishpot

Fencer OK I know Trumpeter is coming out with one but $150 for 48th scale

Frogfoot NEW TOOL

Flogger -23 and -27

Foxbat

Foxhound

Forger

USA

Banshee

OV-10

Mauler

early Skyraiders

re-tool F-4B/N

F-16XL

SR-71/A-12

U-2/TR-1

A-3

B-66

B-58 NEW TOOL

B-47 I can dream can’t I

F-101

F-102

F-106

F-89

F-80

F-94

F-82

A-6 EA-6B NEW TOOL

A-37/T-37

F-5

T-38

T-45

AJ-2

AF

P2V

P4M

P5M

OK that’s enough. This list doesn’t even include the ones that didn’t make it. ie YF-23, F-17, F-20,

F5D, etc…

Oh and the really big ones that would be HUGE in 48th scale.

Frankly, I wish they’d blow off all the whiz-bangs and just put out half-decent, affordable kits in 12-25.00 price range for 1/48th… If some folks want all the PE and resin parts, let 'em buy after-market sets either from the manufacturer or from the other sources that specialize in that arena… I’d buy three or four each 1/48th Zero, Spitfire, FW-190, etc. kits for say, 20.00 each and a few twin-engined ones as well for say, 30-35.00 over a two-year period, but I’ll never buy ONE 60-100.00 1/48th kit (Hear me , Trumpeter?)…

Oh well, my pleas fall upon deaf ears these days… It seems no one wants to dig through the parts bin or put knife to plastic sheet anymore in order to create the “ultimate” model… The demise of the Creative Gizmologist is fast approaching… Thankfully, Revell is pulling their collective heads out of their 4th points-of-contact and putting the classics back into circulation and Ebay is alive & well…

Sorry, I went to post this and some how lost it, wrote a new one and posted that, then the first post showed up as well. Had to delete the first. Anyways see below.

Ok this is very simple…A new tooled B-17F in 48th scale!!!

Or at the very least an aftermarket nose converasion kit for at least one or two differant F model noses that NOT already found on the revell F kit. And I would say these conversion kits should be for the monogram B-17G kit as it is a far superior kit…overall!

Highest on my list would be a high quality, new tool P-80 in 148.

Regards, Rick

A B-32 Dominator!!! I know it is a very obscure bomber, but it did see service at least!!! I do see that Airfix are releasing a limited 1/72 Vickers Valiant later this year.[:)]

I’ll second the motion for the 1/48 Ventura (besides that awful FM kit!!!), a 1/48 A-12, and the 1/48 F4U-4. Also, I would love to see a 1/48 beech King Air and a 1/32 F-16D.

I’d like to see a Texan II trainer in any scale!

Frank, I knew you would sniff out the Corsair in my long list[:P]