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8 hours ago, Homebee said:

Academy novelties 2025

Source: https://mmzone.co.kr/mms_tool/mt_view.php?mms_db_name=mmz_info&no=380152

 

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I’d like to get the P-3 and hopefully someone will do VP-60 and VP-90 from Glenview N.A.S. Chicago. 
 

I dont recognize the APC/mini-tank ? Is it Korean or somebody else's production ? 

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1 hour ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

I dont recognize the APC/mini-tank ? Is it Korean or somebody else's production ? 

 

K21, South Korean Heavy IFV, earlier known as K300 or XK21, sometimes with added KNIFV/NIFV (Korea/Next-generation Infantry Fighting Vehicle).

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Great for the UH-1Y... I would really like them to scale down the -1Z and -1Y down to 1/72. The Dream Models ones are a bit too expensive for my liking...

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On 12/22/2024 at 11:18 AM, cvrle said:

Great for the UH-1Y... I would really like them to scale down the -1Z and -1Y down to 1/72. The Dream Models ones are a bit too expensive for my liking...

 

If only there was an adtermarket kit to give the missing parts and decals to complete the second kit in the DM boxes!

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If it's a nice kit-I won't mind paying more for this in 1/35! Hopefully we'll see a nice CH-53 IN 1/35 eventually as well-it's long overdue!

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It would be nice if they rereleased the 1/48 CH-53E!  Someone, somewhere else posted that the sponson sprues for the E had been damaged and that’s why we’ve only seen MH-53 releases.  Hope that’s not true!

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15 hours ago, Corey in Colorado said:

It would be nice if they rereleased the 1/48 CH-53E!  Someone, somewhere else posted that the sponson sprues for the E had been damaged and that’s why we’ve only seen MH-53 releases.  Hope that’s not true!

This is news to me (but that does not mean alot) - it would explain the lack of CH rereleases. But it should be not a big deal for aftermarked companies to jump in?

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Academy has announced a special one shot Emart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emart) exclusive repop from three Zvezda's 1/144th Boeing aircraft kits.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/academytoy/posts/pfbid0YqahUEwUWoKUeZG1m1jBWmv3DWXTafBRXxzYgHAbDTjcyHGjBTsPEhrybjRLegbWl

 

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 - ref. ? - Boeing 747-8  (Zvezda ref. 7010 - link)

 

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- ref. ? - Boeing 777-300ER (Zvezda ref. 7012 - link)


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- ref. ? - Boeing 787-9 (Zvezda ref. 7021 - link)

 

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Always surprised Academy does not release more of the old Hobbycraft kits.  Like the C-7, Otter, CF-105 and Dash 8.  Sure, they’re not Tamiya level kits, but no one else is going to issue them.  The tooling is paid for and they are just sitting there.

 

And, warts and all, they command good prices on auction sites.

 

Puzzling.  

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1 hour ago, Ad-4N said:

Always surprised Academy does not release more of the old Hobbycraft kits.  Like the C-7, Otter, CF-105 and Dash 8.  Sure, they’re not Tamiya level kits, but no one else is going to issue them.  The tooling is paid for and they are just sitting there.

 

And, warts and all, they command good prices on auction sites.

 

Puzzling.  

And the DHC-4. Maybe they don’t have those moulds you mentioned? Wish someone would find the DHC-4 moulds!

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1 hour ago, Ad-4N said:

Always surprised Academy does not release more of the old Hobbycraft kits.  Like the C-7, Otter, CF-105 and Dash 8.  Sure, they’re not Tamiya level kits, but no one else is going to issue them.  The tooling is paid for and they are just sitting there.

 

And, warts and all, they command good prices on auction sites.

 

Puzzling.  

 

I don't think Academy made those, they were quite different from the kits that Academy made for Hobbycraft (for example the Sabres). 

IIRC the CF-105 at some point appeared in the Kitech catalogue but this may have just been a clone, like all Kitech kits...

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Hobbycraft did not solely rebox Academy kits - the DHC-4 in particular was either tooled up and produced, or somehow cloned by Idea and/or Kitech - both companies' releases of the DHC-4 had the same Hobbycraft copyright on the sprues:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.570942650362166&type=3&comment_id=571674226955675
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal12/11001-11100/gal11026-Caribou-Ng/00.shtm

 

If you're somewhat adept at navigating Chinese ecommerce sites there's some sort of successor company to CC XF/CC Lee that's willing to sell you the Humvee kit Hobbycraft reboxed as the "Liberator" - it's a worse overall version of Academy's M1025 with optional motorization. The same company also is still doing production runs of the 1/144 F-20, F-16XL, F-15, F-4E and F/A-18s Hobbycraft reboxes as theirs

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