Thomas V.

There ia a very indicative Bunny Fighter cartoon drawing on Eduard Facebook page showing what can only be interpreted as designer of the kit being chased by V.Sulc.....

There should be another question-why is Revell / has Worldwide sales network and sales without precedent / not capable of preforming product development in house. When you have million X currency Business why is there a problem of enlisting permament paid help to ensure product accuacy-quality. There was a designer recently that botched numerous kits-among those were Revells DH Mosquito, Halifax and Minicrafts Mariner, all because of outsourcing, had that person been supervised and scholled properly end products would most probably been different-all for a fraction of costs of lost sales.-Hint Eduard. As for Spitfire, I am still looking foreward to the kit, and was more than happy seeing riveting on the model, but as shown by others up to date quality is not there, to a collector / builder knowing that Tamiya Mk.I/II kit could be around the corner given already tooled parts, I am more than surprised to see such mistakes. I applaud Revell for numerous kits, and find them almost perfect / Ju 88-Ar 196-Hawk / and they show what can be done, hope that they will tweak the toolings to provide more accurate model .

The model is pantographed 1/32 kit, thus having all the inherent omissions of the former / eg. too long fuselage by 8-9mm., is wrongly riveted, has wrongly positioned service panels, slats are way, way too deep, gear struts are too long, tail wheel is too small etc...etc.../ As for reviews, majority of them dont have nor knowledge nor integrity to tell the truth about product especially when they are sponsored by manufacturers themselves, As for burned, they blatantly lied to their distributors/retailers that it will be a totally new kit without any connection to 1/32 model. When most big buyers/collectors saw lively arguments on Hyperscale they cancelled their orders leaving many retailers with stock they were unable to sell. In the end they/Eduard/ got burned because it should have sold in huge numbers due to popularity of the subject as well as technological leap over competition.

Highly anticipated release, although Zvezda did produce outstanding Friedrich, if accurate/ and Eduard got burned badly with Emil / this will become benchmark model family for decades.

Somehow I am glad to see Sword do them, I simply cannot stand Airfix surface treatment-panel lines are still way too deep. Hopefully they will include nice PE set.....

Great News, I built Special Hobby kit several years ago, and its a process that I do not want to repeat. I am more than glad that Italeri is revisiting its 1/72 helicopter bestsellers in larger scale.

All Italeri newish 1/48 kits with exception of CR.42 have number of omissions , in case of Stuka and Hurricane they are more detailed but when one looks into finesse, quality and accuracy they are not in the same class as already 20/17 years old Hasegawa kits. When they announced B-2 Stuka I sold my Hasegawa stash and regreted it, when they announced Hurricane was thankfully more careful and kept HAS kits. Will definitely wait until there is more info, but given their track record I am more than doubtful that they will surpass Hasegawa....

It will be very interesting to see how Eduard will tackle fuselage and different details on the wing, I cannot see them making resin fuselage plug, but on the other hand I hope, but doubt they tooled another fuselage. Hope they will include civilian shemes from the late fifties-sixties.

Very simple-information, until Internet proliferation people would buy more or less everything, that situation remained until 7-8 years ago when mainly forums become great source of more or less objective info to anyone with even a fraction of analytical mind whishing to know what is she/he buying. I closed my shop two years, even than it was normal occurance of people googling possible purchase subject, and than deciding upon what they found out. In our micro perspective its more than great for buyer

It has been asked more than once but to no avail....I am getting a bit tired of current MPM policy of not telling anything,,especially as some of their products should have been on the market already for months but are still not released...eg.Cobra. If they are trying to produce better quality kit, more than fine with me, they should take all the time to get it right. There is no reason why at least preliminary dates are not supplied, would be fair to buyers. Situation like last August/September when they released He 115/two G.50/two Cant Libeccios/Mk,IV/V Firefly+MS.406+Vincent is good example what should be avoided, we saw these kits being constantly postponed for months than being released in a very short timeframe. MPM Newsletter being worthless as cited dates are almost never true.

Unfortunately very true, but extremely dumb and shortsighted policy, RC and Plastic Kits are not in mutual competition, on the contrary . RoG is my favourite brand, I started my hobby business with them, from 2000-2008 they truely had best selection of kits for fair price. What amazes me that Company that still has best retail network in the world is of lately not able to have any continuity/consistency especially quality-accuracy wise . Dumping of Korean toolings for ones of lesser quality, Outsourcing CAD to cheap but dubious non quality enterprises, Paying huge sums for Star Wars/Trek Rights, than producing very poor Chinese toolings at the same time when eg.Hasbro,and others produce very good diecast replicas of the same subjects for app.same price. Big omissions accuracy wise Halifax-He 219-, kits that should have generated big sums-are not. I am just waiting for someone to tell me me that 90 percent of buyers do not care etc.., yes that was true before Internet Age, but today when even kids have smartphones with wi-fi that is not true. Other fact is that big perecentage of revenue comes from "hamsters" like many of us that buy large numbers of same boxing. and accuracy is not something taken lightly by our bunch. My fear is that Revell is slowely going Italeri way...although new Tornado/Gripen tools are proof of things still being done rightly.

Autumn-winter announcements do not include new toolings, usually re-releases from Revell Co.,or cooperation ones. None the less I am glad to see both Hunter and Bv222 released. At the same time why is Revell not listening to its distributors for permanent presence of Hunter/MiG-21F-13,CL-601/4+Sabre Dog in their catalogue eludes me.... Dutch Apache will be an interesting release-hopefully Hasegawa. Happy New Year Tom

:thumbsdown:From my perspective as a longtime buyer/retailer of their products this is the most dissapointing Revell release list in more than a decade, if not longer. Except Corsair not a single newly tooled aircraft kit except those already announced in 1/48/32. Not a single new aircraft in 1/32. Not a single multi engined new aircraft in 1/72 Not a single new or re-release of quality tooling in 1/48 eg.SB2C-4 or long missing Me 410 except Catalina, I look foreward to the Tornado, Spitfire and Gripen, but expected at least two new aircraft toolings

Hi Petr, when can we expect Cobras/Vampires to hit the market.....and does it mean all that your new toolings will all be in mainstream technology.. Regards Tom

I understand that some people like more detailed kits, but after buying ZM kit and comparing it with Hasegawa, I truely cannot understand ZM reasoning. Hasegawa is simply a finer model kit, it has sharper and finer details, and its way cheaper than ZM. For wanted/and payed sum I expected fully riveted model, and more detail in places where one can see them like wheel wells, struts and cockpit. Before anyone buys one on impulse, like I did, triple check before making your mind.

Started it, not as bad as their Br.20 and He 177 , but not much better..Pay special attention to float alignement. Sincerely hope this in among the last short run kits from MPM Group, they produce some truely nice subjects, but they really need to use modern production techniques. Each and every time I build one I need years before tackling another. Their upcoming Viggen is produced using CAD, so hopefully it will become a norm.

Firstly I would buy pretty much everything Airfix decides to release if it would entail finer panel lines, sharp they already are, but way too deep for my taste. those found on Sea Vixen should be fine. Taking before mentioned into account, and need for many short run kits to be upgraded to full mainstream toolings, my list would be following. 1. Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 2. Blackburn Buccaneer S.2+major subtypes. 3. DH. Sea Vixen FAW.1 4. Bristol Blenheim Mk.I / I.F 5. Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV / IV.F 6. Westland Whirlwind Mk.I 7. Junkers Ju 87A 8. Westland Lysander Mk.I / III 9. North American F-86A 10. North American F-86E 11. Canadair Sabre Mk.4 12. DH 82/82A Tiger Moth 13. DH.88 Comet 14. SAAB J-29A / A Late / B 15. SAAB J-29F 16. BAC Jet Provost T.3 17. BAC Jet Provost T.4 / 5 18. Supermarine Seagull/Walrus 19. Hawker Hurricane Mk.I Fabric Wing, rest of Hurricane Family inc.Sea Hurricane-Hurricat w/part of catapult. 20. Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV RP 21. Vickers Supermarine Type 300 P.S. And Beaufighter of course, especially Mk.I