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Model Forum / General / Models / March 2006What new _ACCESSORIES_ do we need for modelling now?
Here's a thread, different from the old rag one about"What New KitsDo We Want." What new ACCESSORIES do we need to help us work on our hobby better? I'll throw my hat in the ring and say I want more D$MNED 1/72 scale aircraft weapons! Not just the tired old stuff from Hasegawa. Or the tired NEW stuff from them either. I want to see 50's and 60's era missiles! I want redtops and Firestreaks for all of my Brit aircraft. I want to have Genies without buying a danged Revell F-101 to get them. I _REALLY_ want a set of Falcons that are nuke capable! You'd think that with the Swedes and Swiss both using the Conventional warhead on the same Falcon body we might see them from Italeri or AMT or something. But _NO_! I'd like to see some of the new Chinese weapons, and a few of the newer Russian weapons as well. And would someone PLEASE make Durandals in massive quanti- ties! Would someone ALSO please make some weap- on sets with Brit, French, and other countries conven- tional dumb bombs. Every time I want to arm up a kit with something that didn't come in the kit I end up rob- ing another. It's bloody damned frustrating. And while we're at it, could someone just make spare rim/tire combinations for kits? Howzabout making two or three spare roadwheels for all your armour kits? I'd like to throw the odd spare roadwheel on the 1/72 scale Sherman but that means I'd have to have TWO stinkin' kits to do it. What's everyone else want? -andy > Here's a thread, different from the old rag one about"What > New KitsDo We Want." What new ACCESSORIES do > we need to help us work on our hobby better? [snipped] Since moving I want a new garden shed with electrics to continue with vacuum forming replacement clear turrets that I had great success with at my old place. The downside at first is that one has to build the best Fraser Nash turret 'ironmongery' one can! The results are worth it though. Richard. >> Here's a thread, different from the old rag one about"What >> New KitsDo We Want." What new ACCESSORIES do [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Richard. are you making the big egg ones? the early lanc and sunderland? was that the fn50? what scale? wanna sell a dozen in 48? >>>Here's a thread, different from the old rag one about"What >>>New KitsDo We Want." What new ACCESSORIES do [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > sunderland? was that the fn50? what scale? > wanna sell a dozen in 48? Funnily enough I did a first test on the Airfix Lanc' one as I had use of a library copy of The Lancaster Flight Manual or whatever the collection of official 'white papers' were called. For the cockpit, with the extra clarity I was able to (or had to) put in the map table, engineers flight panel and well, every damned bit of work including the hand rail down to front section also suitably populated. This is what I mean by the 'down side' but in some ways is good fun if you like research and spending lots of time on miniscule workmanship and when your turret and its innards looks something damned near like the photo then it's really pleasing! I need to get that shed built first though. Richard. > Here's a thread, different from the old rag one about"What > New KitsDo We Want." What new ACCESSORIES do [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > -andy How about a set of various Wright and Pratt & Whitney radial engines in both 1/72nd and 1/48th scales? Sort of like what AeroClub has done...but in plastic, and in multi-version sets. (You could get a *lot* of engines on a couple of sprues...) Go ahead and include various propellers, as well.  SignatureGreg Heilers Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 10.2 (2.6.13) AUS ..... He gets it from your side of the family, you know. No monsters on my side. -- Homer Simpson Treehouse of Horror II A bottomless bank account. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. > A bottomless bank account. > > Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. Well said, Sir! Bill Shuey > A bottomless bank account. Time. Cheers, Gary B-) Signature______________________________________________________________________________ Armful of chairs: Something some people would not know whether you were up them with or not - Barry Humphries > Here's a thread, different from the old rag one about"What > New KitsDo We Want." What new ACCESSORIES do [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > -andy I go along with your list and will add more 1/72 bombs for Brittish WWII aircraft, including the GP (General Purpose), SAP (Semi Armour Peircing), AP (Armour Pearcing) and the Small Bomb carriers used for carrying the Incenduries used late in the war and how about some air dropped mines too? Gondor >I go along with your list and will add more 1/72 bombs for Brittish WWII >aircraft, including the GP (General Purpose), SAP (Semi Armour Peircing), AP >(Armour Pearcing) and the Small Bomb carriers used for carrying the >Incenduries used late in the war and how about some air dropped mines too? > >Gondor Pavla released a decent set of RAF ordnance -alas, no SBC's though Storage Space.......Better selection of display cases....... Airfield ground vehicles, equipment and figures. I know what's out there, but a lot of the older stuff is 1/76 and done in resin or cast metal, a medium that not all modelers are willing to work with. Academy is doing great with their latest releases, especially the WC-54 Ambulance (Woo Hoo!!!). More bomb trollies and loaders, more fuel trucks (maybe a brief pause from Eastern Europe as we can now fuel every 1/72 Sovet aircraft with their very own fuel truck without ever duplicating a truck!). How about some Japanese stuff? A fuel truck and starter truck from Hasegawa thirty years ago is a nice start. How about some Japanese WWII airfield equipment, some soft skinned stuff. How about airfield airliner service vehicles from every/any era? Civilian cars, any era? tOM I was contemplating a project...building a Doyusha 1/24th Capri as my father's car from thirty years ago. At first, I thought my biggest problem was finding the kit. Well, Rainbow 10 has it in stock. So my next problem? Making it as the _American_ version. For that, I'd need: * proper interior tub, with left-hand driver's side configuration. If I do the tub, I'll need seats and other interior detail parts too * proper wheels and tires * quad round headlamps and bezels to replace Euro-type rectangular ones * front bumper with the bumper guards closer together * bulged hood, with CAPRI lettering instead of FORD * CAPRI lettering for rear deck I hear this kit has no engine compartment either, but I'm not particularly interested. If I could get it, and the 2.6L V6 engine too, it would be nice tho'. A can of British Green paint, some to-scale 1977 Pennsylvania license plates, and a display case...and it all adds up to probably more than the kit deserves to get! Then again, I'd probably just buy the darned thing and build it stock. Improvise what changes I can and do without those I can't make myself. BTW, one of my pet peeves about Wal*Mart (besides their usual evil labor practices and destructive inventory acquisition practices and reliance on foreign sources for products) was their perpetual failure to stock adequate paints for the military models they sell. I mean, you can buy a B-17 or an Apache helicopter and there'd be no olive drab or khaki spray paint. I even suggested, as a protest, hot-rodding military models and finishing them in outlandish candy-apple paint schemes. However, this has since ceased to be a problem with three new hobby stores in my area carrying much better stocks of paint. 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