Homebee Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) In 2022, Academy is to release a new tool 1/48 Mitsubishi A6M2b Type 21 Zeke/"Zero" - Battle of Midway - kit - ref. 12352 Despite rumours It won't be a rebox from the recent Eduard kit (thread) dixit words from M. Vladimir Šulc, boss from Eduard–Model Accesorries ltd., as from M. Gustav Jung, boss from Wolfpack Design, who's closed ties with Academy Hobby Model Kits - see here: link Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4666693050091873&set=pcb.4666695563424955 V.P. Edited December 23, 2022 by Homebee 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franky boy Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 That will be an interesting one to compare to the new eduard kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Maas Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Going to be a hard sell against the Eduard kit, especially once the Weekend Editions start showing up. That seems to already be a real winner and the pricing is quite reasonable as well. I understand why Academy scheduled it this way (Midway 70th Anniversary is in June), but It's going to be a hard choice to buy the Academy plastic when a brand new Eduard kit is available, has a ton of aftermarket, and a reasonably priced Weekend edition, which pretty much kills all the usual Academy advantages. The only good thing for Academy is that with that Anniversary showing up, the market for A6M2's (and F4F's) is going to be broader than normal this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Or will it be an Eduard kit reboxed ? Regards Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Maas Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 1 minute ago, Robert said: Or will it be an Eduard kit reboxed ? Regards Robert Has Eduard ever provided plastic to anybody other than Special Hobby? It's possible of course, and the two types line up to Eduard's big announcements. But it would be a real change in business model for Eduard to sell sprues to somebody else, the only case where we've seen something like that was a couple recent Special Hobby kits, and that's more a case of Eduard providing tooling & molding to them and in return boxing the kit themselves as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tbolt Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 34 minutes ago, Adam Maas said: Going to be a hard sell against the Eduard kit, especially once the Weekend Editions start showing up. That seems to already be a real winner and the pricing is quite reasonable as well. I understand why Academy scheduled it this way (Midway 70th Anniversary is in June), but It's going to be a hard choice to buy the Academy plastic when a brand new Eduard kit is available, has a ton of aftermarket, and a reasonably priced Weekend edition, which pretty much kills all the usual Academy advantages. The only good thing for Academy is that with that Anniversary showing up, the market for A6M2's (and F4F's) is going to be broader than normal this year. It will probably sell well in Asia where the price will be much more reasonable, in the west probably not so much, though Academy might surprise us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Maas Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 17 minutes ago, Tbolt said: It will probably sell well in Asia where the price will be much more reasonable, in the west probably not so much, though Academy might surprise us. I'm not expecting a high price in the west either for this Academy kit, but more a case of Weekend Editions are quite aggressively priced by Eduard, so it will struggle on any price advantage unless Eduard pricing is really bad in that locale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Maas Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 55 minutes ago, Robert said: Or will it be an Eduard kit reboxed ? Regards Robert The main academy announcement has some notes that the Zero and F4F are Academy new tools, not Eduard, from somebody with close ties to Academy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tbolt Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 24 minutes ago, Adam Maas said: I'm not expecting a high price in the west either for this Academy kit, but more a case of Weekend Editions are quite aggressively priced by Eduard, so it will struggle on any price advantage unless Eduard pricing is really bad in that locale. The old Academy WWII fighters sell for around £20 retail and a recent one they boxed was the Mauve P-40N which was £24, so I would expect a new tooled kit to be more expensive than that, so I don't think they would have a price advantage anyway. If it is a new Academy tooling it will be interesting to see what it's like as it's been a long time since they tooled a WWII fighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Adam Maas said: Has Eduard ever provided plastic to anybody other than Special Hobby? Yes, Revell! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffin79 Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 8 minutes ago, VMA131Marine said: Yes, Revell! And Academy, it appears: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/academy-12333-usaaf-p-39n-k--1237689 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturmovik Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I wouldn't mind getting this kit, since the Eduard one will show up in Argentina (if it ever does) overpriced. Hopefully this kit will have Cartograf decals too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Devils advocate here … Could this and the wildcat be Tamiya in disguise ? Didn't Academy start out by cloning Japanese kits ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneman36 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Maybe it will be having less rivets then the Eduard and in that way it will be appealing to a lot of modellers that won’t like rivets at all! I am one of those modellers though I am fond on my Eduard Zero boxing as it gives you a lot of bang for buck.. Still interested to see what Academy will make of it. cheers, Jan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Maas Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Devils advocate here … Could this and the wildcat be Tamiya in disguise ? Didn't Academy start out by cloning Japanese kits ? Pretty sure they got started cloning French kits Lots of their early stuff is basically Heller with recessed panel lines. It's ICM that cloned Tamiya stuff early on, or at least their P-51B/C Edited January 7, 2022 by Adam Maas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politicni komisar Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 This will be a collaboration with EDUARD. Supposedly to be SBD and TBF in the Eduard edition. In 2022/23 P.k 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tbolt Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 9 hours ago, politicni komisar said: This will be a collaboration with EDUARD. Supposedly to be SBD and TBF in the Eduard edition. In 2022/23 P.k The F4F, is that the Eduard kit also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masinissa Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Eduard had mentioned that they kept the A6M kit secret because of the competition . . . so it looks like that was Academy. Will Academy get all the shapes and details right? Stay tuned! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politicni komisar Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 10:00 AM, politicni komisar said: This will be a collaboration with EDUARD. Supposedly to be SBD and TBF in the Eduard edition. In 2022/23 P.k According to the latest information, this is supposed to be their adventure. Eduard has nothing to do with it (Eduard boss said). Samo/P.k 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) Sprues Sources: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.5556550171045259&type=3 V.P. Edited June 20, 2022 by Homebee 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydecker Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 Source: https://twitter.com/ModelArtInc/status/1575731357908553728/photo/1 V.P. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) - ref. 12352 - Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero type 21 - Battle of Midway Source: https://twitter.com/00interallied/status/1576723530921967616 V.P. Edited October 3, 2022 by Homebee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Looks nice! There’s definitely a market for another good zero if it’s priced competitively to the Eduard and Tamiya kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttyng0904 Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 If the price pictured above is right, 3520JPY(incl. tax)=24.3USD=21.5GBP=24.72EUR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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