GreenDragon Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Modelstories have some of the Heller announcements for 2013 and say the 1/72nd Alpha Jet is a new mould! Also there are new 1/72nd tools of the M4 Sherman and Tiger I plus several boxes of 72nd scale figures. http://modelbox.free.fr/news/News1300_HELR_P/index.htm Glad to see they're reissuing Su27UB. Paul Harrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Interesting - their last Alpha jet release was the Airfix kit, with the rumour they sold their original tooling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flankerman Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Modelstories have some of the Heller announcements for 2013 and say the 1/72nd Alpha Jet is a new mould! Also there are new 1/72nd tools of the M4 Sherman and Tiger I plus several boxes of 72nd scale figures. http://modelbox.free.fr/news/News1300_HELR_P/index.htm Glad to see they're reissuing Su27UB. Paul Harrison Interesting about the Heller Su-27UB...... The moulds went to Alanger in the Ukraine..... Have they got them back i wonder ?? Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDragon Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Didn't know the moulds went to Ukraine, I assumed that Heller sent them bagged kits and Alanger boxed them. Paul Harrison Edited February 11, 2013 by GreenDragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephLalor Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Interesting - their last Alpha jet release was the Airfix kit, with the rumour they sold their original tooling. The original tooling has appeared in Revell boxes. Joseph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 We had a long discussion about 1/72 Alpha Jets a few years ago: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3505-172-alpha-jets-whats-in-the-box/?hl=%22whats+in+the+box%22 A new addition to the stock would be interesting. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx6667 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 From what I remember, the Heller mould was sold to Lodella in the late 80s along with some other kits like the Vampire, Texan, AR196, which may explain why the latter turned up in Revell boxes in the early 90s as, at the time, I don't remember Heller having a licensing agreement with Revell. Certainly when Humbrol reissued the Vampire and Texan/Harvard as Airfix kits, they had to go to Mexico to get polybagged mouldings. It had always been assumed that the Heller were buying in bagged mouldings of their own AJ kit, but the appearance of the Airfix kit in a Heller box came as a bit of surprise! I can only imagine that Heller have felt they need their own AJ mould tools, probably being as much core product to them as Hawks to Airfix,so they've gone for an all-new kit. Be nice if it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) This project is still alive and is definitely a new tool - ref. 80257 Seen in the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2015 pics. Source: http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/Ausstellungen/Nuernberg2015/Bilder_AE/Heller_07.htm   V.P. Edited February 5, 2020 by Homebee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris57 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Interesting about the Alpha Jet, I have 4 or 5 of the originals intending doing them as African AF subjects. Saw on Hannants site yesterday that Berna has released a new sheet to cover African Alpha Jets, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo which I've already done. Did allow myself a chuckle when I saw a Quatari option on the sheet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
172flogger Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Is this "new" kit in shops or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofiane1718 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 (edited) No, still no release date, but it's going to be released this year,that's for sure. http://www.heller.fr/en/maquettes/scale-military-airplanes-model-classic/502-alpha-jet-3279510802573.html Edited December 29, 2015 by sofiane1718 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
172flogger Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I wonder if it will have the German nose as well. This is particularly eye-catching: http://airpic.smugmug.com/keyword/NAF%20477/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Good afternoon It should be available before the end of this year in at least 2 boxing : one for the training version (French Air Force and Patrouille de France) one for the attack version (German AIr Force Portugal etc ..) Patrice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavingav1 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 the m4 sherman is already out and in my humble opinion, it is the one of the best 72 armour kits out there-high hopes for the tiger and alpa jet here is a review of the sherman http://www.onthewaymodels.com/reviews/Heller/PVan%20Kempen_Heller_M4_preview.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob P Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 What happened to this in the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 (edited) Not sure, it seems to have disappeared from their website Edited December 27, 2015 by Dave Fleming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 But so did also their Renault 4GTL before it was released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofiane1718 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Someone said on a french forum that they were looking for investors, so it's a standby for this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 No, still no release date, but it's going to be released this year,that's for sure. Heller better hurry up, then.... Salut, Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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