Hi everyone, I’m wondering what’s on your aircraft never been made or out of production wishlist?
I’m starting an injection molding business and am just about ready to do an inital run of my first aircraft, a Pietenpol Air Camper. I’ll post up details on where to get it when it’s available.
I’m looking at what I can do next and am looking for something that either hasn’t been done before or something that is no longer available that could use a new modern production kit. So I figured what better place to find out than here. Bring what everyone wants to life.
Leave a reply and let me know what’s your must have kits that either aren’t made or aren’t in production/hard to find/old bad kits and I’ll add it to the list.
If one seems doable and gets a lot of comments asking for it I’ll make a design for it and it’ll go off to be milled and molded.
Would love to see a Beech Stagerwing in either 1/32 or 1/24, but don’t know how much call there would be. Also Cessnas is 1/32, either singles or twins.
A 1/24 Phantom would be a beauty, either F-4E or RF-4C. Lot of potential for super detailing, but would be a monster consideringthe 1/32’s out are around 24" overall length.
hasegawa did a 48th kit. I have been looking for years and never found a kit or conversion in 72nd. When FSM used to put out the survey for kits we wanted, that was always at the top of my list.
Because of space limitations, I do mostly 1/48 scale single engine fighters. So far the only deviation from that has been the 1/72 scale Monogram F/P-82 Twin Mustang. I’d really like to see a decent early Twin Mustang in 1/48 scale. And since my dad was an AAC flight instructor, I’d like to see more trainers in 1/48 scale. Yeah, there are the Revell PT-17 Stearman and the Monogram T-6 in 1/48 scale, but what about the PT-19, the BT-13/15 and a Kinner powered PT-22. So there ya go. That’s what I’d like to see if’n I had my druthers.
Nice list, I know there has been a 1/48 Cornell, the Canadian RCAF version of the PT-19. Not sure how available it is, but I’m sure a new kit would be nice. There is a flying example at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum so it’d be fun to do variants in US and RCAF markings. PT-22 would be neat as well. I like the trainers idea. http://www.warplane.com/aircraft/collection/details.aspx?aircraftId=17
I work in 1/48 scale, so my list would be Bristol/DAP Beaufort, Martin Baltimore (a good one!), Vultee Vengeance, AW Albemarle, and how about a Curtis Commando?
I have not seen that but but have seen anotehr one, i am thinking thats the way i will have to go. The surgery is simple enough, its cut straight along the kink in the wing. Its just adding the detail for the wing fold.
I’d love to see a new tooling of a 1/72 B52 bomber. Revell and Academy both had kits in the past but neither one was a really great kit. It’s a pipe dream but it’s what I’d like to see. Even a 1/72 B1 Bomber would be great to see retooled.
There is a very nice Staggerwing by Roden in 1:48. I think a good 1:32 would be a good seller. There is a 1:32 L-19 which could probably be built as a civil plane. The Cessna that is really needed is the 190/95, and 1:32 would indeed be a great scale for that. The latest (new mold) 1:48 kits from Minicraft are very nice, 150 and 172, though they are tail heavy and require a lot of nose weight to sit on nose gear.
