haneto Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Hi guys! Being silent for quite a while here after marriage and now it's time to start a new topic. And this is what we have been busy with since early this year, as many of you may have informed, a totally new tooled Fulcrum kit. It's the longest and most complicated project for the maker, and all staff have made so much for it. They all deserve the highest respect, as far as I know. It was me, who suggested this project to the CEO of GWH, and after a long time researching/drawing/tons of correction, finally it has turn out a real touchable kit from just computer graphics, thanks to the hightech molding skills nowadays. And I'd especially sincerely appreciate my Russian friend, Mr. Alexander Drannikov a.k.a. "Skylark" for his great help during kit development. Thank you so much, Alex. It cannot be so close to good without your strict check again and again. No more trust to CAD files after being some hard long waiting by some teaser company? Me too! :woot.gif: So let me show you some pictures of the very FIRST test shot of the kit. And please remember, these are only test shot sprues and more adjustment and details will be added in the next days. So if there're gaps or short injection on the parts, don't get too serious. They'll all be fixed when arriving in your hands. Just like most serious modellers, the accuracy is alaways the most important to a model kit. And that's also what we have made biggest effort during development. Yes, it's far from perfect, but at least to me, it looks like a Fulcrum enough, isn't it? Here I give you some outline shots of the assembled kit. Close shots of the front fuselage. To me, the nose area is the "face" of an aircraft and windshield/canopy is the "eyes" of it. So they are so important that if those things got ruined, the whole model is meaningless indeed. Check out our Fulcrum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fu_manchu Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Wow, looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsPhil Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Awesome! I want several! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim T Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Now that looks brilliant! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfpack Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 About time we had a decent kit of this 'Knife fighter'. W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raguk Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Wake up! wake up! I'm dreaming!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 However I have the Academy kit and a ton of resin corrections, so I may have to pass on this one, sadly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Looks promising. I sold my 1/32 off and have been waiting for a 1/48 'proper' replacement. Any ideas on decal options and costs yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caughtinthemiddle Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 It won't be cheap - see HLJ However, if you count the cost of Academy kit and all aftermarket stuff it needs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fu_manchu Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Hmm that certainly takes it off my impulse buy radar. I will still look to get one, but I will definitely be waiting for the reviews first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Can I just second the "awesome" comments above? Looks very nice, and we know that GWH's toolings are well detailed, so I'm going to join in with the hand-rubbing in anticipation of its release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrido109 Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 For me it's not a matter of 'if', but rather of 'how many'...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurent Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 (edited) 1/48 isn't my scale but I'll buy and (hopefully) build the kit anyway. What we should have is a MiG-29 model kit: "model" in bold letters because it will an accurate in shape representation of the MiG-29, "kit" in bold letters because it will be a detailed, easy enough to assemble and clean kit (regular panel lines, no flash, not too much missplaced ejector pin marks, etc). This kind of kit is pretty rare especially for modern Soviet aircrafts. We have plenty of "model kits" ("expensive toys"... nicely engineered kits which have shape problems that are often difficult to fix; Trumpeter, Hobby Boss, Academy and Eduard when they rebox old kits and provide detail sets but no correction set), some "model kits" (old Amodel kits, old tool High Planes kits) and some "model kits" (Starfix, PM, in other words, crap). The GWH kit will not be 100% perfect (the fact that the CAD designer didn't know much about aircrafts didn't help) but I'm sure that haneto will have done the best he could to be close to perfection. Edited September 28, 2012 by Laurent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charley420 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Two of these were eagerly awaiting at the postoffice for me today when i got home from the states. Its looks as good in the plastic as it does in the photos, and theres a lovely mig 29 print in the box ala eduard mig 21s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrido109 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Mine is in the mail. Couple of days to go. Edited December 10, 2012 by horrido109 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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