Eduard new P40 familiy in a next future (1/48?)

[GioCare]

In the last Eduard INFO pampleth (August 2023) it's clear a next P40 project is in advance working stage. Only warhawk version or even Hawk81 and Kittyhawk MkI ? This is not clear ... MrSulc told only about they are checking some Warhawk in or around Texas, it's a kind of final check on a work still advanced, so he seems to declare. 

[TheKinksFan]

Mr Sulc said this on modelforum.cz (machine translation):

 

We're going to do the series in turn, starting with the P-40E and going through all the subversions up to the F/L and then back to the P-40B/C and their British variants.

Edited August 4, 2023 by TheKinksFan

[Stephen]

27 minutes ago, TheKinksFan said:

Mr Sulc said this on modelforum.cz (machine translation):

 

We're going to do the series in turn, starting with the P-40E and going through all the subversions up to the F/L and then back to the P-40B/C and their British variants.

They should start with the F/L versions first of all. New tools of those are sorely missing from WWII modelling. 

[Piotr Mikolajski]

6 hours ago, TheKinksFan said:

We're going to do the series in turn, starting with the P-40E and going through all the subversions up to the F/L and then back to the P-40B/C and their British variants.

 

From this, the conclusion is that they will do B, C, D, E, F and L. The question is, will they also do K, M and N? That would be logical, Eduard likes to do whole families. It's possible that they don't want to reveal everything for now.

[Homebee]

On 04/08/2023 at 13:23, TheKinksFan said:

Mr Sulc said this on modelforum.cz (machine translation):

 

We're going to do the series in turn, starting with the P-40E and going through all the subversions up to the F/L and then back to the P-40B/C and their British variants.

https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=95280&start=40860#p2594502

https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=95280&start=40875#p2594504

No new 1/48th MiG-19 "Farmer" or MiG-23/-27 "Flogger" families. 

 

V.P.

Edited August 5, 2023 by Homebee

[Piotr Mikolajski]

Something for all those who have claimed many times that Eduard has already announced the P-36:

 

https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?p=2594517#p2594517

Já nechávám P-36 otevřenou, patrně se k ni vrátíme, ale s nějakým časovým odstupem.

 

I'm leaving P-36 open, we'll probably come back to it, but with some time to spare.

 

 

 

[redracer]

I guess everyone has to start with an "E" variant first - Otaki, Revell, Hasegawa, AMT/Italeri.   Would be nice to see them do an M first and go backwards.  But a least there were no Photo recon P-40's so unlike the Spitfire we will see the full family of Curtiss's over the years.    

[alt-92]

Up to - i.e. not including.

[352nd Fighter Group]

      

[352nd Fighter Group]

if Thay start the F I am 100% doing the The Fighter Colletions  P-40F Kittyhawk  (G-CGZP)

[One 48]

Great news 👍

[Tbolt]

4 hours ago, alt-92 said:

Up to - i.e. not including.

 

Why would they mention F/L if they weren't doing them? You cant go up to two versions.I think a little has been lost in translation there.

 

If we are talking alphabetically, then K comes before L and the Hasegawa short tailed K didn't  stick around long so that we be almost as welcome  as the F/L.

[Tbolt]

On 04/08/2023 at 18:49, Piotr Mikolajski said:

 

From this, the conclusion is that they will do B, C, D, E, F and L. The question is, will they also do K, M and N? That would be logical, Eduard likes to do whole families. It's possible that they don't want to reveal everything for now.

 

Well they haven't done the whole families of Spitfire or 109's yet and those lines have been going a while, but let's hope they get there!

[Piotr Mikolajski]

7 hours ago, Tbolt said:

Well they haven't done the whole families of Spitfire or 109's yet and those lines have been going a while, but let's hope they get there!

 

To be clear: "the whole family" does not mean all versions and "the whole family" usually has "sub-families", which are treated as separate families due to technical differences and so on. In the case of the Bf 109, we have the following breakdown: A-D, E, F-K. For Spitfires we have: early Merlins, late Merlins and Griffons. And in 1/48 they made two families for each aircraft.

 

Personally, I don't think Eduard will do the Bf 109 A-D. They won't do a full set of Spitfires with Griffons either, rather a few selected versions, if any.

[Tbolt]

6 hours ago, Piotr Mikolajski said:

 

To be clear: "the whole family" does not mean all versions and "the whole family" usually has "sub-families", which are treated as separate families due to technical differences and so on. In the case of the Bf 109, we have the following breakdown: A-D, E, F-K. For Spitfires we have: early Merlins, late Merlins and Griffons. And in 1/48 they made two families for each aircraft.

 

Personally, I don't think Eduard will do the Bf 109 A-D. They won't do a full set of Spitfires with Griffons either, rather a few selected versions, if any.

 

Well the early Merlin Spits have a few gaps, let's hope they get around to them at some point. I'm sure someone will pick up the Griffon Spits soon.

[Holzhamer]

When it comes to WW2 subjects, it strikes me that Eduard goes for the most relevant versions (aka profitable) of the plane, even more so if there’s few or no competition for that specific version.

This seems to fit Mr. Sulcs narrative about keeping the B/C versions of the P-40 for later since the newest p-40 kits in the market  are from these early versions.

I’d love to build an E, M and a K versions from them
 

[Piotr Mikolajski]

21 hours ago, Tbolt said:

Well the early Merlin Spits have a few gaps, let's hope they get around to them at some point.

 

I suppose Eduard might release some 3D printed parts for the conversion. I don't think they will make up the missing variants in the injection moulded parts.

[Erik Leijdens]

Fantastic news! Hoping for a N version but in my opinion every version is more than welcome. The Hasegawa is nice too but the segmented fuselage is just not nice. 
 

Erik 

[dragonlanceHR]

On 8/5/2023 at 12:28 PM, redracer said:

I guess everyone has to start with an "E" variant first - Otaki, Revell, Hasegawa, AMT/Italeri.   Would be nice to see them do an M first and go backwards.  But a least there were no Photo recon P-40's so unlike the Spitfire we will see the full family of Curtiss's over the years.    

Mauve started with a N 😉

[VMA131Marine]

The most numerous P-40 variant was the N so I would be surprised if Eduard don’t produce a kit of this. That would make sense as Special Hobby has been able to do the D thru N (excluding the F/L) using substantially the same set of tools. 
 

Also of note is that the long-tail P-40K is practically indistinguishable from the P-40M and K’s and M’s were both called Kittyhawk III in British and Commonwealth service.

[Scimitar F1]

Don’t Eduard have the Mauve N Tooling already?

[Stephen]

2 hours ago, Scimitar F1 said:

Don’t Eduard have the Mauve N Tooling already?

Academy. 

[Piotr Mikolajski]

4 hours ago, Scimitar F1 said:

Don’t Eduard have the Mauve N Tooling already?

 

To release limited editions, Eduard orders sprues only, they don't buy tooling.

[Tbolt]

5 hours ago, Scimitar F1 said:

Don’t Eduard have the Mauve N Tooling already?

 

Even if they did, that was last released in 2005 and the moulds date back to the mid 90's and while a fairely good kit, it's not to modern standards so a new one would be welcome as it should be less modular and cheaper than the Hasegawa kit.

[Homebee]

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