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  1. LN-KEH
    Brilliant, I can help with pictures of A1380 aka 131. https://www.flysam.no/utstillingen/flyene/royal-aircraft-factory-b-e-2e/
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    Airfix usually has one large kit among the releases. I like the idea of a Me 262 in 1:24 suggested by others. Airfix did the research for their 1:72 release and it is the right size for 1:24. The rest are my musings for possible 1:72 releases Airfix usually has a kit of a training aircraft among the releases We could be lucky and get both the T-6 and the modern Texan II. Airfix usually releases some new modifications of previous toolings Avro Manchester from the Lancaster, Seafire from the Spitfire Mk Vc, BE2e/f from the BE2c Airfix has released some Academy toolings with new decals - if it worked for AFVs, it should work for aircraft as well. F-35A, F-35B and B-29 Washington - no reason to make their own tools from scratch when they are available and only need an extra sprue or two with British weapons and equipment. Airfix usually has a new Spitfire kit among the releases. This year they could surprise us with a late Seafire like Kennets Seafire XVII available for LIDARing at Biggleswade. Airfix Classics Skyvan and Piper Cherokee would be nice to have another production run - and no competition from newer kits. Airfix usually releases some new British aircraft of late WW2 to 60ies. Hawker Sea Fury, Fairey Fulmar and Firefly have been overlooked so far. The Firefly can be released in multiple versions and markings, both British and foreign.
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    The only detail missing is a selection of pilot heads sculpted after pictures of the various pilots.
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    There is a Tu-2T on display at the Bulgarian Airforce Museum in Plovdiv. https://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/tu-2/misos/bulgaria/bulgaria.htm I have also visited the museum and should be able to dig out a walk-around series. Plovdiv is a nice city with a long history and a good model aircraft shop. I think there was a Tu-2T kit released by AML that was based on the ICM mouldings with additional resin parts and decals.
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    Unless they are re-releasing this oldie
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    In 1/72, that box will be the size of a small shed. Maybe a bit more likely is a boxed set with one each of the V-bombers and a bonus MiG-17 trying to intercept them. In recent years, Airfix has managed to produce something predictable and some complete surprises. I am sure there will be some releases with new parts and decals to make new variants. Lets hope the designers have had a good year working from home. And I have written in my wish list on Airfix Facebook page after the invite in the Advent Calendar.
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    Its the same impression I have from looking at the pictures like KEH_7639 in https://we.tl/t-CaIQhbtY6t But this is just the D-13, there could have been different tails on the other FW 190Ds. Lets look at the D-9 in the USAF Museum. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196261/focke-wulf-fw-190d-9/
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    Surviving FW 190Ds are rare, unlike the radial engined FW 190As which are well represented in European museums. I did get to see and photograph the only surviving FW 190D-13 in Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum which was founded by Paul Allen. A set of my FW 190D-13 photos can be downloaded - for personal use or for illustrating something in this thread only. If you want to publish them elsewhere, please get in touch with me first There are 40 large pictures making up a total of 325Mb, so I won`t recommend downloading to a mobile. Som pictures show other aircraft as well besides FW 190D-13 836017, I just left them in the set for no other reason that I could not be bothered to remove them... Download link for a week: https://wetransfer.com/downloads/682e5ccdca97d6780562a105878841cf20211222095703/788df21fbd2de55bdc1e41bb49028f3d20211222095954/93805c Consider it a slightly early Christmas present to the users of this forum.
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    The Zvezda Snap kits I have seen are a good basis for further detailing, and I am quite sure Russian makers of detail sets will help us on the way.
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    Airfix Christmas calendar surprise today: PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT! V-Force reunited… announcing the Handley Page Victor! All V-Bombers together in our range for the first time. More details to come… Source: https://uk.airfix.com/christmas/advent-calendar-2021
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    The Skua has been kitted by Special Hobby in 1/72 and 1/48 and has no French/Belgian/Romanian connection. I have more belief in Piotrs Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver suggestion - with its French connection.
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    The only wars after 1914 with more than 5 million casualties: WW1 Russian Civil War - took more than 5 million lives, lasted 4-5 years and interventions from other nations + fighting the new nations like Poland and the Baltic states. Chinese Civil War - only one nation, but many warlords China-Japan War 1937-45 - only two nations WW2 (Korean and Vietnam wars, my sources have less than 5 million casualties) So they could throw us a curve ball and refer to the Russian Civil War instead of the two World Wars.
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    A nice, stable aircraft with few vices and safe to fly as long as nobody were shooting at you. It is one of the few early aircraft I would be interested to go for a ride in - if I could squeeze into the rather narrow cockpit.
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    They were sold to Norway as BE2e - must have been hell of a salesman being able to sell BE2 aircraft in 1920 when so many better surplus aircraft were available from France and the UK. First mention I saw of them as BE2f, was when A1325 after purchase by Peter Jackson got dismantled for rebuild and to serve as a pattern for newbuilds. It had previously been gifted to a British museum for restoration there in Norwegian colours.
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    Revell has repackaged quite a few Zvezda kits with Luftwaffe markings - so there is hope.
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    Try going directly to the source https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105045&start=4515#p2462231 It works for me.
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    A BE2f is basically a BE2c fuselage modified to take BE2e wings - so a natural step on the way for LukGraph. Both the original that did end up flying in NZ and the static one here in Oslo are BE2f aircraft even if they often are referred to as BE2e.
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    The Blue Max kit is hard to get hold of (limited run of 1500) and goes for 50-60 USD/GBP/EUR + postage on eBay. So what version is Roden likely to go for first - the trainer or the anti-Zeppelin fighter? I have little hope for the Dyak (inline) engined version flown and preserved in Norway - fortunately did we also have some of the standard rotary engined aircraft as well.
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    The Avro 504 ticks all the boxes. Multiple versions possible, from the very early bombers and Zeppelin interceptors via the standard Avro 504K trainer (rotaries and inline engines) to the later Lynx powered versions in RAF service. Markings variations, 504Ks were used by several air arms besides the RAF during and after WW1 - and colourful civilian fly circuses after the war. Relatively well known even if it was mainly employed as a trainer. Reasonable size in 1/32 - it is a medium sized two-seater. Surviving examples and plans should be available to base the kit on. A lack of decent kits in any scale, I would be happy to see Roden shrinking the kit to 1/48 and 1/72 as well. I know of no Avro 504 kit in 1/32, in 1/48 we had the ancient Smer kit and in 1/72 the 50+ years old Airfix and Amodels undernourished offshoot. Why Wingnut skipped the Avro 504K is a mystery to me
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    I would really like to see them doing the the aircraft of Werner Hosewinckel Christie as featured on Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 93.
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    Is it likely that IBG will follow up with a couple of Ta 152 releases? I believe the Ta 152 developed from the FW 190D-9, so there should be some commonality.
  22. LN-KEH
    Did Mach2 show up there with something new? They have usually brought a new release to Telford the last couple of years.
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    I welcome a FW 190D series made to the same standard as IBGs recent releases, even if I initially guessed on them doing the Ju 87 as it has more of a Polish connection. Their PZL 11s and 37s I picked up while in Gdansk, are very fine examples of toolmakers art. And the FW 190D series has not been done to death in 1/72 - unlike the Me 109 E and G. I would not mind some early FW 190As by IBG either since Eduard seems to stick to late versions in 1/72. Maybe Piotr could enlighten us to why we suddenly have two Polish companies (IBG and Arma) releasing top quality injection moulded kits? Earlier Polish kit releases were rather rough.
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    Possibly for creating an emergency lightweight fighter like the Caudron 714 - then we are definitely talking about a what if French AF 1941.
  25. LN-KEH
    I have one of the large scale resin kits of this beauty by Fisher Models and Pattern, When looking at it, I am impressed both by the original aircraft and the kit iteself.
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