Arma Hobby 1/72 Messerschmitt Me 262A, release mid 2025

[TheKinksFan]

"The next kit in the design and release queue is the Curtiss H-75, followed by the P-51D Mustang 1/72. These kits are planned for the first half of 2025, and we hope to start pre-orders of the Curtiss this year. That’s not all, however. The next kit is a twin-engine Axis Powers aircraft from World War II. We will reveal the secret on 30 December, two weeks from now."

 

From armahobbynews.pl.

Edited January 5 by TheKinksFan

[TheKinksFan]

Something tells me it's not a transport plane or a glider. My wish is  a 1/72 Ki-45 or Ki-46.

[MiG-Mech]

Finally a 1/72 He 219 ?

Edited December 16, 2024 by MiG-Mech

[TheKinksFan]

3 minutes ago, MiG-Mech said:

Finally a 1/72 He 219 ?

Would be very pleased with that one too.

[Eol97]

He 219 most likely candidate

[2996 Victor]

Before the usual wishlisting takes off, are there any actual rumours of what it might be? 

[stevehnz]

8 minutes ago, 2996 Victor said:

Before the usual wishlisting takes off

Whatever are you on about?  

Steve.

[ckw]

Obviously a Gotha Go 244 - you know how it is, you wait ages for a bus and then ...

 

Cheers

 

Colin

[Fukuryu]

54 minutes ago, TheKinksFan said:

Something tells me it's not a transport plane or a glider. My wish is  a 1/72 Ki-45 or Ki-46.

 

Either one will make me very happy, and sincerely wish you're right.

 

It's curious, I read "axis" and automatically think "German". I should read my own "Interests" blurb more carefully...

[ckw]

Arma seems to have a penchant for Japanese subjects, so yeah, I'd bet on a Japanese twin to replace the various very old kits that exist.

 

Cheers

 

Coli

[GioCare]

the definitive Me 262 ... before it enters in the Eduard gun sight😀 

[Trenton guy]

Can’t we just transfer the entire “IBG in two weeks thread” and be done with it. But I do love Arma kits and am in for at least one, no matter what it is.

[TheKinksFan]

5 minutes ago, Trenton guy said:

no matter what it is.

Even a Breda Ba.88? There's definitely a market for a new state of the art Lince. 😆

[Fin]

Oh, no! There hasn’t been enough time since the previous one. For some reason the Simpsons’ “bonk it!” scene springs to my mind.

 

https://youtu.be/mOMD8Xwv3bM?si=6v88JhtJjY_4QP5U

Edited December 16, 2024 by Fin

[Trenton guy]

1 minute ago, TheKinksFan said:

Even a Breda Ba.88? There's definitely a market for a new state of the art Lince. 😆

Even a Lince, but what I really need is a Do-217 — so discouraged by the really undernourished rear of the  ancient Italeri one.

[stevehnz]

I don't normally indulge in these guess fests but one Japanese twin I'd love to see done is a J1N1-S Gekko, which, according to Scalemates hadn't been boxed since the 1990s by Fujimi & earlier by Revell. I don't mean the one with current Hobby 2000 boxings but the straight backed one as resides at the Smithsonian in the US, IMHO, perhaps the best looking Japanese twin.

Steve.

[Karearea]

The upcoming P-51D will need something to sink its hooves into. Definitive 1/72 Me 262?

[VMA131Marine]

Let’s round up the usual suspects. Given that Arma haven’t shown a penchant for obscure subjects and pick things with several variants and lots of marking options, I think the potential list is quite limited. I also think we can rule out the Go 242/244 🤣

 

Fighters

 

Bf 110

Me 210

Me 410 (unlikely)

He 219

Do 335

Ki 46 Dinah

Ki 45 Toryu “Nick”

J1N “Gecko”

Ar 234

Me 262

Go 229

Bombers/larger aircraft

 

He 111

Do 217

Do 17

Ju 88

G3M Nell

G4M Betty

Ki 49

Ki 67

He 177 (unless you consider this to have 4 engines)

He 115

Do 18

Ju 86

My guess would be the Me 262 followed by the He 219 followed by the Ki 46

[Piotr Mikolajski]

Ki-46 seems quite a likely option. The Hasegawa is now a quarter of a century old, has an average interior, very basic engines and, above all, is injected from unobtainium. The aircraft itself is not large, flew throughout the whole war, had many versions, and can be combined in various sets with other kits from the AH. I was planning to do a French one from Indochina, so a model better than Hasegawa would always be welcomed.

[Fukuryu]

41 minutes ago, VMA131Marine said:

Ki 46 Dinah

 

 

I'm nitpicking, I know... but the Ki-46 was a reconnaissance aircraft. Granted, they were a few fighter variants. 

 

One argument against a Ki-46 kit at this moment would be that Giuseppe Picarella is writing about it, and given the level of detail his two-volume work on the Ki-15 has (a work that started when he was researching the predecessors of the Ki-46 and snowballed from there) I think that it would be prudent to wait until he publishes what I am sure will be the definitive work on the type to catch all possible details.

 

Now that I mention it, I hope someone (maybe Arma Hobby...? I hope so!) is already getting all the ducks aligned for a series of Ki-15/C5M in 1/72. Just watch what LS/Arii/Microace have done to have an idea the many variants that can be kitted. 

[Piotr Mikolajski]

8 minutes ago, Fukuryu said:

I'm nitpicking, I know... but the Ki-46 was a reconnaissance aircraft. Granted, they were a few fighter variants.

 

But for now there is no mention of a fighter, only a twin-engine aircraft: a twin-engine Axis Powers aircraft from World War II. So Ki-46 also fits as a reconnaissance aircraft.

 

[Fukuryu]

8 minutes ago, Piotr Mikolajski said:

 

But for now there is no mention of a fighter, only a twin-engine aircraft: a twin-engine Axis Powers aircraft from World War II. So Ki-46 also fits as a reconnaissance aircraft.

 

 

Yes, I know, My nitpick was about VMA131Marine's classification of it under "Fighters".

 

[VMA131Marine]

8 minutes ago, Piotr Mikolajski said:

 

But for now there is no mention of a fighter, only a twin-engine aircraft: a twin-engine Axis Powers aircraft from World War II. So Ki-46 also fits as a reconnaissance aircraft.

 

There is a question also about how big a model Arma is capable of creating. Could they even tool a model as big as a Do 217 or a G3M? A He 177? What’s their capability?

[VMA131Marine]

25 minutes ago, Fukuryu said:

I'm nitpicking, I know... but the Ki-46 was a reconnaissance aircraft. Granted, they were a few fighter variants

I knew someone wouldn’t let me get away with that …

[Fukuryu]

1 minute ago, VMA131Marine said:

I knew someone wouldn’t let me get away with that …

 

No need to thank me, I'm glad to be of service! 😁