1/72 - Grumman C-2 Greyhound by Heller Gmbh - release in Q4 2025 ?

[Homebee]

Looks like after its still future E-2 Hawkeye (thread), Heller Gmbh is to release a 1/72nd Grumman C-2 Greyhound - ref. 82303 et 56303 (with brush & paints)

Source: https://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1652352#p1652352

 

 

V.P.

 

Edited January 25 by Homebee

[eng]

Marked as a starter kit in between the two QR codes in the pic.

 

Eng

[janneman36]

22 minutes ago, eng said:

Marked as a starter kit in between the two QR codes in the pic.

 

Eng

The starter kits at Heller are not just the simple kits but they just contain extra’s like glue and paint .

The QR codes are there for info about the kit with or without paint.

 

cheers, Jan

[Ad-4N]

Hope it’s a well designed, great fitting, accurate kit.

[71chally]

Yesss, at long last!  Lets hope it will be as nice as their Hawkeye renders look.

[KRK4m]

Thank God that this is new for 2024, and not, for example, 2022, because then it would only mean a new fuselage and tail for the 50-year-old Fujimi kit, which Heller repacked 15 years ago.

Cheers

Michael

[Geoff_B]

15 minutes ago, KRK4m said:

Thank God that this is new for 2024, and not, for example, 2022, because then it would only mean a new fuselage and tail for the 50-year-old Fujimi kit, which Heller repacked 15 years ago.

Cheers

Michael

Heller are producing a new 1/72 E-2C Hawkeye complete with folding wings supposedly for 2023 although given its now Dacember, more likely qtr1 2024. The Greyhound is a logical development of this now kit.

[Homebee]

7 minutes ago, Geoff_B said:

Heller are producing a new 1/72 E-2C Hawkeye complete with folding wings supposedly for 2023 although given its now Dacember, more likely qtr1 2024. The Greyhound is a logical development of this now kit.

Thread is here: 

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235119177-172-grumman-e-2c-hawkeye-by-heller-new-tool-box-art3d-renders-release-in-2023

V.P.

[KRK4m]

That's exactly what I meant - thank God it's December 2023 and there's a good chance (if not certain) that this new fuselage and tail will be mated to the wings and engines of this "2023 new tool" Hawkeye by Heller, and not to the old Fujimi junk.

Cheers

Michael

[CT7567]

4 hours ago, KRK4m said:

Thank God that this is new for 2024, and not, for example, 2022, because then it would only mean a new fuselage and tail for the 50-year-old Fujimi kit, which Heller repacked 15 years ago.

Cheers

Michael

 

Common and often-repeated inaccuracy: Heller's original Hawkeye kit was actually a reboxing of the Lee clone of Fujimi's dated tooling. 

 

Fujimi's E-2 tooling was originally released as an E-2B and has been updated to a C and several times with various changes in the parts breakdown.   Lee's kit was a close copy of one of Fujimi's releases, but the parts arrangement on the sprues and other details such as primary panel line depth/width are distinct to the Lee release and Heller reboxing.

 

[Source: I have Heller, Lee, and multiple Fujimi boxings in my stash]

Edited December 10, 2023 by CT7567

[IT_Man]

Presumably this will be linking in with Kinetic again with their knowledge from 1:48. (Resolved not to use the term "scaling down" as I know its not that simple!)

[Borisz]

Well, we will see the E-2 first and based on that kit we will able to draw conclusions. I hope its gonna be a nice kit.

[bentwaters81tfw]

Any news on this yet?

[MiG-Mech]

It's not mention on Heller website.
 

[AlbertLima]

"Last quarter 2025", although this was part of a comments chain that suggested there may be a difference between boxes arriving at retailers and the tools arriving at the Trun plant:

[Dennis_C]

Is the last comment on a screenshot suggesting a new thread for a new Heller Gazelle?

[alt-92]

3 hours ago, AlbertLima said:

"Last quarter 2025"

Ugh.   Also... The tooling might arrive in last Q 25. That does not necessarily mean the plastic will be in the shops.
Fingers crossed!