Italeri 2024

[PeterR]

10 hours ago, Rabbit Leader said:

Although I do have my doubts about using the red and yellow air brake decals on any low-viz schemed Mirage. I’ll have to check references, however I’m pretty sure the underwing kangaroo roundels were a larger size too. There also appears to be many optional parts not relevant to the supplied decal schemes. I see both the Mirage V and Dagger radomes, the IIIC tailpipe plus the over large fuel tanks that are not often supplied in previous boxings of this kit. I quite like this kit and although it has fine raised panel lines and basic details is quite a pleasant build in comparison to the latest complicated and ill fitting 1/48 kits on offer. 
 

Cheers.. Dave 

 

Hmm, didn't look too closely at the decals. Is this a re-issue of the ancient ESCI kit?

 

I've got one in the stash that I've scribed but it needs a proper cockpit and wheel wells, so it is collecting dust.

[Rabbit Leader]

2 hours ago, PeterR said:

 

Hmm, didn't look too closely at the decals. Is this a re-issue of the ancient ESCI kit?

Sure is, like a lot of subjects in this thread it’s a rerelease of another rerelease, although in this case I don’t think it’s a bad thing. 

[Homebee]

Next aircraft kits in the 2024 pipe line:

 

- 1/48 - ref. 2656 — Douglas Boston III / A-20B/C Havoc

Source: https://nowosci.plastikowe.pl/aktualnosci/zapowiedzi-italeri-lipiec-2024/

 

 

- 1/72 - ref. 1440 - Tupolev TU-22M2 "Backfire-B" (ex-ESCI moulds)

Source: https://www.martola.com.pl/en306/produkty115484/tupolev_tu_22m2_backfire_b

 

 

 

- 1/72 - ref. 72007 - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX - complete set

https://www.martola.com.pl/en306/produkty115481/spitfire_mk_ix

 

 

- 1/72 - ref. 72011 - Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - complete set

https://www.martola.com.pl/en306/produkty115482/f_22_raptor

 

 

V.P.

Edited July 12, 2024 by Homebee

[GiampieroSilvestri]

The Italeri Mirage IIIE has the landing gear legs and wheels of the correct size.The parts in the Kinetic kit are too small.

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

[Homebee]

Released - 1/48 - ref. 2656 — Douglas Boston III / A-20B/C Havoc

Source: https://www.italeri.com/prodotto/499

 

 

V.P.

[Homebee]

Released - 1/72 - ref. 1440 - Tupolev TU-22M2 "Backfire-B" (ex-ESCI moulds)

https://www.italeri.com/prodotto/3061

 

0 free

 

V.P.

[Homebee]

Released - 1/72 - ref. 72011 - Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - complete set

https://www.italeri.com/prodotto/3142

 

 

V.P.

[Homebee]

Released - 1/72 - ref. 72007 - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX - complete set

https://www.italeri.com/prodotto/3099

 

 

V.P.

[Homebee]

Next in the pipe line - 1/72 - ref. 1472 - Reggiane Re.2002 Ariete - new decals

Source: https://www.martola.com.pl/en306/produkty116483/reggiane_re_2002_ariete

 

 

 

V.P.

 

[stevehnz]

I do like the way Italeri have used the plastic colour as one of the scheme colours in the F-22 & Spitfire IX starter sets, takes me right back to my youth, when it was why paint what is already the right colour. A Stirling & Boeing Vertol 107 come to mind.

Steve.

[TheKinksFan]

Italeri's version of Vintage Classics. And the price? Just 24,44€ for a newish kit from 1971.

 

 

[Stickleback]

1 hour ago, TheKinksFan said:

Italeri's version of Vintage Classics. And the price? Just 24,44€ for a newish kit from 1971.

 

 

 

[Stickleback]

Just now, Stickleback said:

 

But how sure can we be actually that it is the vintage supermodel kit from 1971 and not a new kit?

[TheKinksFan]

14 minutes ago, Stickleback said:

But how sure can we be actually that it is the vintage supermodel kit from 1971 and not a new kit?

So you think new tool kits just appear out of nowhere, without the manufacturer ever announcing that they are going to release a newly tooled kit? 

 

Yes, we know that it's an old kit. 

[Stickleback]

14 minutes ago, TheKinksFan said:

So you think new tool kits just appear out of nowhere, without the manufacturer ever announcing that they are going to release a newly tooled kit? 

 

Yes, we know that it's an old kit. 

It was just a question, thank you for your answer! I didn‘t want to state or claim anything. -

Anyway, so we seem to get just a new box art (which may be rather nice) with an over 50 years old kit for nearly 25€. Then it‘s up to us modellers though to enjoy the freedom of buying  it or not.

[GiampieroSilvestri]

The Supermodel kit is not bad.

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

Edited September 21, 2024 by GiampieroSilvestri

[TheKinksFan]

52 minutes ago, Stickleback said:

It was just a question, thank you for your answer! I didn‘t want to state or claim anything

Sorry, my tone wasn't polite. It's easy to forget that sometimes an announcement of a new tool kit might go unnoticed. Scalemates is a good place to check the lineage of any kit. 

Edited September 21, 2024 by TheKinksFan

[Stickleback]

23 minutes ago, GiampieroSilvestri said:

The Supermodel kit is not bad.

 

Saluti

 

Giampiero

And there is even much more recent (2009) Italeri-Kit of the very similar, externally nearly identical Reggiane Re 2000 in 1/72 , which was honored e.g. on Hyperscale. Would it so radically be beyond any imagination, that the announced Italeri Reggiane Re 2002 in 1/72 may be derived from this newer Re 2000 from 2009 instead of the predecessor from 1971?

 

[Bozothenutter]

6 hours ago, stevehnz said:

I do like the way Italeri have used the plastic colour as one of the scheme colours in the F-22 & Spitfire IX starter sets, takes me right back to my youth, when it was why paint what is already the right colour. A Stirling & Boeing Vertol 107 come to mind.

Steve.

Not sure if srs....😉

[Stickleback]

3 hours ago, TheKinksFan said:

Sorry, my tone wasn't polite. It's easy to forget that sometimes an announcement of a new tool kit might go unnoticed. Scalemates is a good place to check the lineage of any kit. 

So let‘s be patient and wait and see. Week 40 as mentioned in the annoncement isn‘t very far ahead.😊

[Giorgio N]

On 9/21/2024 at 2:30 PM, Stickleback said:

And there is even much more recent (2009) Italeri-Kit of the very similar, externally nearly identical Reggiane Re 2000 in 1/72 , which was honored e.g. on Hyperscale. Would it so radically be beyond any imagination, that the announced Italeri Reggiane Re 2002 in 1/72 may be derived from this newer Re 2000 from 2009 instead of the predecessor from 1971?

 

 

The Italeri Re.2000 is just an updated copy of the old Supermodel kit with all its errors. If they'll do the same for the Re.2002, they can keep their kit, the Sword kit is way better. 

If on the other hand they will simply reissue the Supermodel kit, well there'even more reasons to leave the kit on the shelves, more so if the price is really €24.

The Supermodel Re.2002 fuselage was so wrong that a number of companies in the past issued full resin fuselage replacements. Sword got it right fortunately 

[Stickleback]

11 hours ago, Giorgio N said:

 

The Italeri Re.2000 is just an updated copy of the old Supermodel kit with all its errors. If they'll do the same for the Re.2002, they can keep their kit, the Sword kit is way better. 

If on the other hand they will simply reissue the Supermodel kit, well there'even more reasons to leave the kit on the shelves, more so if the price is really €24.

The Supermodel Re.2002 fuselage was so wrong that a number of companies in the past issued full resin fuselage replacements. Sword got it right fortunately 

I begg your pardon, I don’t want to annoy anybody or be overly insisting, but you may try Mr. Google and search for these items as follows: 

Italeri re 2000 1/72 

or also for

Hyperscale re 2000 1/72

If I do so using my smart phone, I find in both cases, at first hand and before anything else, the

 

Italeri No. 1272 Reggiane Re.2000 GA, in 1/72

 

originating from 2009, designated by Hyperscale and scalemates explicitly as „new mold“. 

 

I don‘t own this kit myself, unfortunately, I can only refer to what I see and read in www, but still I seem to remember seeing it in the shops years ago…

[TheKinksFan]

1 hour ago, Stickleback said:

I begg your pardon, I don’t want to annoy anybody or be overly insisting

it's an upgraded version of the old Supermodel kit: https://youtu.be/XODhYALzWKg?si=cgmkvMr9IwZWyCO1

[Stickleback]

16 minutes ago, TheKinksFan said:

it's an upgraded version of the old Supermodel kit: https://youtu.be/XODhYALzWKg?si=cgmkvMr9IwZWyCO1

Thank you for your quick reply! So I have to confess, that I stand corrected, at least concerning some important details of the kit! Obviously I was mislead by what I read in the internet.

That tells us  not to jujdge a kit by shere sayings (or pictures), if you never had it in your hands by yourself.

Anyway, so I come to my own final conclusion, that nearly 25€ are not rectified by a new cockpit in a little ww-II-fighter model of an over half a century vintage.

 

[TheKinksFan]

2 hours ago, Stickleback said:

Anyway, so I come to my own final conclusion, that nearly 25€ are not rectified by a new cockpit in a little ww-II-fighter model of an over half a century vintage.

if you like Reggiane Re 2000, there is the Sword kit, which is pretty good. I have built the GA version, and will get the Falco I this week.