RupertTheBear

I think I get where the whole thing is coming from after looking long enough at the sprues of the Academy kit. It's the parts breakdown in that area but for something that "glaringly obvious" being mentioned so sparsely, the discussion was rather overheated IMO. I trust your judgement on this as you mentioned you worked on the real deal, as well as built the Academy kit and frankly I can't wait for my new airbrush to arrive to begin the kit Just to end this derailment - I want to apologize for being partially responsible for this discussion, it was unintended.

That looks the business! Awesome Jug, I really like the weathering. Very convincing! 😍

Well in Germany the kit itself costs 45€ and resin engines go for around 30€ to 35€ after a quick search and I'm guessing in the end the GWH A-10 is going to cost 90€ to 95€ so it's a 15€ gap. Sure if you can correct the engines yourself (which I can't ) you are far better off.

That's not a bad price TBH. Yes it is a lot compared to Academy's offer and do you get two times as much plastic for it? Probably not, but I was expecting a price tag around and above 100 GBP. The breaking point of the kit will be the engines anyway. If they are correct straight out the box, the kit will be worth every cent. If you want to fix the Academy kit you end up in almost the same price bracket, counting in the needed aftermarket parts.

Neat! Both look promising. I keep hoping for a quarter scale Super Hind (whole kit or conversion set) So far only Hasegawa touched that subject in 1/72nd and it was a limited affair, so chances of getting one of these are slim.

Oh come on! I'm desperately waiting for it to be scaled down from 1/35th...but not that much!

The F35C is the highlight for me. Their B-Variant was a huge joy to build so I'm very much looking forward to that. The Tu-22M3 in 1/72 is interesting, although I'm guessing it's a re-release of their old kit. And the 1/48 Tiger helicopter intrigues me but that again is a case of accuracy. If it's based on their very old kit, which was based on the prototype Tiger IIRC, it might end up a mixed bag like Revell's Mirage 2000 - An old kit with some new parts added for a particular version. It will all depend on what "NEW" means instead of "100% NEW MOULDS"

Unless the Germans have some special requests for their F-35's like e.g. the drag chutes on Norways F-35A's, I'd say it should be fine. When it comes to camo and markings, a mock-up already exists if I'm not mistaken so the kit will probably go with that. Accurate kits of "on duty" aircraft with authentic markings/ numbers and maybe different camo schemes will have to wait until 2026 I guess.

If that's getting scaled down to 1/48th - Shut up and take my money! Looks tasty! Also looking forward already to people going berserk with "what-if" builds.

Neat! Finally a F-35C In 1/48th scale again. The A and B variant are a nice touch but others got them covered already.

Makes a lot of sense. Curious that seemingly quite a lot of KH kits found their way into stores now, about 3 years after KH went belly up. That practice is pretty much standard. A lot of manufacturers use old forms, like Revell still re-issuing old Monogram or Matchbox kits but all under the Revell brand and even recent molds are released by different manufacturers - Eduard using quite new Zvezda kits but with added bits and bobs from their own range, like resin parts. I never heard or saw kits getting restocked so long after the brand closed its doors and in pre-rebranded boxes, long after other manufacturers picked up the pieces. That seemed odd to me. That could be as well, especially when it shut down during Covid, like KH themselves, they had other issues on their mind back then. Unsold kits were quite low on the priority list.

Interesting wrinkle - I ordered a Kitty Hawk AH-6J/MH-6J kit last week. Super Hobby from Poland got a few boxes which seem to be all gone again by now. Just wondering - Is Kitty Hawk still going in some low volume capacity? Are these the last few kits with Kitty Hawk branding on them, that got ...don't know, lost in transit or were on hold because of Covid or anything? I noticed that e.g. Modellbau König from Germany got a few KH Seahawks in recently, for absurd money may I add, but still. The Little Bird kit was also to be released not only by Zimi Model, but by Storm Factory as well. Apparently, because I yet have to see both of them pop up around Germany. Just asking if anybody knows what's going on or if this, for me at least, confusing situation is rather normal when makers close doors or get taken over and I'm just missing something?

DAMN! That's a spectacular result!

Stunning result despite the decals not playing ball! Beautiful bird! Can't wait to see what you will do with your next Su-27

Also, if the renderings are anything to go by, it should be a new kit with the correct shape of the canopy, which was totally screwed up on the old MRC/Academy kit. That alone is a good reason for me to keep an eye on it.