Aardvark Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 4 hours ago, Learstang said: And of course an Il-2 - as far as I'm concerned you can't have too many Il-2 kits. To paraphrase the famous Stalin telegram about IL-2, https://koalason.livejournal.com/991.html You need to send a similar one to Arma Hobby: “You failed our modeller's and the Britmodeller. You have not deigned to still produce model IL-2. Our Britmodeller needs IL-2 models now as air, as Tamiya gives one IL-2 a day, and Trumpeter gives MiG-3 one, two each. This is a mockery of the modeller's, the Britmodeller. We need not MiGs, but IL-2. If the Arma Hobby plant thinks to get rid of the modeller's, giving one Il-2 a day, then it is cruelly mistaken and will incur punishment for it. I ask you not to take the modeller's out of patience and demand that IL's release more. I warn you one last time. ” maybe this will help? 😉😁 B.R. Serge 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 49 minutes ago, Aardvark said: maybe this will help? 😉😁 B.R. Serge Well, it would certainly persuade me, but I'm not a kit manufacturer - most of them have pretty thick skins... John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botan Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 19 hours ago, Col. said: If the Polish connection is a running theme with Arma's subjects I'm wondering what other 'bankers' of popular subjects they can potentially go with in the future. A Mosquito perhaps? A Spitfire of various marks I suppose. Yak1 & 9? Ilyushin IL-2? Into the jet age with the Yak-23? I'm praying for a MiG-19 Polish pilots were flying on almost everything with wings and made by allies during WWII, so scope is quite wide here. Personally I guess time is coming slowly for some French planes, Morane-Saulnier MS-406C.1 or Caudron CR.714, plane so bad, that only Poles were crazy enough to fight in it. For the closest kit, I bet on RWD-14 Czapla, but I hope for RWD-13. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 2 hours ago, Aardvark said: o paraphrase the famous Stalin telegram about IL-2, Nice joke on kit,, however this telegram is terrible, it is simple: if you will not produce more IL2 you will be executed... Brrrr...And it was not a joke... J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 1 hour ago, JWM said: however this telegram is terrible, it is simple: if you will not produce more IL2 you will be executed... Brrrr...And it was not a joke... J-W It’s not worth attributing what is not in this telegram! 😉 I gave a link to the whole story, 3 hours ago, Aardvark said: https://koalason.livejournal.com/991.html yes it is in Russian, but something tells me that you can read in Russian without resorting to Google translator.😉 Or me need translate from Russian whole article on link? B.R. Serge P.S. About Morduh (Matvey) Borisovich Shenkman to whom the telegram was addressed. http://cyclowiki.org/wiki/Матвей_Борисович_Шенкман On May 23, 1942, Shankman died in a plane crash. I very much doubt that Stalin organized this plane crash , because planes have an unpleasant feature of down and crashes, the story of Glenn Miller confirms this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller (But of course you may believe in conspiracy theory Russian Wikipedia: https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Миллер,_Гленн that Yuri Andropov https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov was Glen Miller!) 😁😁😁 In addition, there was a war, so do not rule out saboteurs of the 3rd reich in the case of a Shankman plane crash. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 Could be German. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 11 minutes ago, spaddad said: Could be German. Bf 109E-1? 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 33 minutes ago, Aardvark said: that Yuri Andropov was Glen Miller! It all makes sense now. 16 minutes ago, spaddad said: Could be German. That would be an interesting twist. My impression is that it will be a Polish subject, but certainly an Arma Bf109E-1 to the same quality as their Hurricane would sell like hotcakes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, Procopius said: It all makes sense now. That would be an interesting twist. My impression is that it will be a Polish subject, but certainly an Arma Bf109E-1 to the same quality as their Hurricane would sell like hotcakes. But I can hear the groans now: "Not ANOTHER 109!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of men Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 6 hours ago, VMA131Marine said: But I can hear the groans now: "Not ANOTHER 109!" Indeed. And one of the groans would be coming from me... 😎 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petr Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 If German, then Hs-123 🤗 ... but I guess it can be something Polish like RWD-14 etc. as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gioca Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 It's the Hawk 75. First box dedicated to polish pilots in the Battle of France. Several other boxes will follow. ( finnish, RAF , NorvegianAF, Dutch, etc ...). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 22 minutes ago, gioca said: It's the Hawk 75. First box dedicated to polish pilots in the Battle of France. Several other boxes will follow. ( finnish, RAF , NorvegianAF, Dutch, etc ...). You know this or you're just blowing smoke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botan Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 6 hours ago, gioca said: It's the Hawk 75. First box dedicated to polish pilots in the Battle of France. Several other boxes will follow. ( finnish, RAF , NorvegianAF, Dutch, etc ...). I guess that's a guess, but I have checked wiki and it have also September 1939 connection. Quote On September 20, Sergeant André-Armand Legrand, pilot of the H75A-1 n°1 in the Groupe de Chasse II/5 La Fayette was credited of the first Allied air victory of World War II on the Western front with shooting down a Messerschmitt Bf 109E of the Luftwaffe 3/JG 53, over Überherrn. Anyway, I doubt many boxes will follow, because Arma Hobby do not make multiple variants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 46 minutes ago, Botan said: Anyway, I doubt many boxes will follow, because Arma Hobby do not make multiple variants. There's been several boxings of the Hurricane and TS-11 so you may see plenty different colourschemes for your Hawk 75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botan Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 30 minutes ago, Col. said: There's been several boxings of the Hurricane and TS-11 so you may see plenty different colourschemes for your Hawk 75 Mostly with different colours schemes, not a different aircraft variants. Different Hawks had different engines, cowling, armament and so on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 22 minutes ago, Botan said: Mostly with different colours schemes, not a different aircraft variants. Different Hawks had different engines, cowling, armament and so on. That may be a bit restrictive on reboxings then. If true I hope it sells well regardless or it WILL be Spitfire, Mustang, Bf109 or Fw190 next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 As I said already: FAIREY BATTLE ! Squadron 302 an 303 started with Hurricanes, whereas 300 and 301 with Battles. This will be a world wide bestseller - OK, mostly in UK and Commowelths... Regards J-W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of men Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 7 hours ago, JWM said: As I said already: FAIREY BATTLE ! Squadron 302 an 303 started with Hurricanes, whereas 300 and 301 with Battles. This will be a world wide bestseller - OK, mostly in UK and Commowelths... Regards J-W I'd certainly be up for a Battle. The MPM one just didn't cut it for me; overengineered and the fit was pretty bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caughtinthemiddle Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 15 hours ago, Botan said: Mostly with different colours schemes, not a different aircraft variants. Different Hawks had different engines, cowling, armament and so on. Plus it's risky given that Eduard are going to deal with this subject in 1/48...and later probably in 1/72 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gioca Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, caughtinthemiddle said: Plus it's risky given that Eduard are going to deal with this subject in 1/48...and later probably in 1/72 as well. Eduard will be on the market with the 1/48scale kit after 2021/22, a kit in 1/72 from Eduard is simply a bet at the moment and if a winning bet it will be on shelves not before 2024 or 2025. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caughtinthemiddle Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 47 minutes ago, gioca said: Eduard will be on the market with the 1/48scale kit after 2021/22, a kit in 1/72 from Eduard is simply a bet at the moment and if a winning bet it will be on shelves not before 2024 or 2025. I have 450 kits in the stash, I can wait 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gioca Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 5 hours ago, caughtinthemiddle said: I have 450 kits in the stash, I can wait Can we suppose Arma intends to make profit from the Hawk 75 before 2024/5? 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caughtinthemiddle Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 The problem mentioned by Botan still remains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 There were still a lot of possible schemes for the P&W variant, though it would rule out the RAF ones in SEAC. The armament differences are minor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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