IBG Model 2025 - catalogue & programme

[Homebee]

Source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=600306152609600&id=100078906617912

IBG Models catalogue 2025 - downloadable here: http://www.ibgmodels.com/instr/IBG_Models_KATALOG_2025.pdf

 

 

The aircraft pages:

 

 

 

V.P.

 

Edited April 10 by Homebee

[Paul821]

For those of us who like soft top military vehicles there is a nice new rage of Bedford MW trucks in 1:72 scale.

[Ngantek]

I wonder if IBG are ever considering going back into 1/700 ships. It's something they do very well; but perhaps the remaining options don't have a lot of potential interest. Danae class? A bit too esoteric perhaps. N class (Piorun) has been done a lot, 'proper' M (Orkan), theres a gap in the market but flyhawk might release at some point. Grom? Wicher? The Mirage options are very rough and an increasingly old fashioned scale. I dunno if Blyskawica's existence as a museum ship would help sales enough.

 

I don't know if they would consider non- Polish subjects.

 

 

[Piotr Mikolajski]

1 hour ago, Ngantek said:

I don't know if they would consider non- Polish subjects.

 

Out of 12 boxes of destroyers, only 1/3 are Polish ships. They produce what the money will come from.

[Ngantek]

1 hour ago, Piotr Mikolajski said:

 

Out of 12 boxes of destroyers, only 1/3 are Polish ships. They produce what the money will come from.

Sorry that was poorly worded. I guess I'm searching for pattern from a sample size of two tool families! So with both being used by the Polish Navy and widely used by the RN, one can see the sense from that perspective. I'm just thinking out loud about others that fit the same criteria, and none perhaps seems so numerous or well known.

 

Ships being niche as they are, I can readily imagine that economically worthwhile gaps in the market for steel toolings are not that common; and US and Japanese subjects are already particularly well covered. There are of course many that one could name that were numerous, relatively famous, and currently lacking in model form, but looking from the outside without access to sales data of any kind, it always going to be a wishlisty shot in the dark. One doesn't even know for example if IBG's foray into 1/700 as a commercially successful.

 

I suppose all I'm saying is that IBGs previous kits are pretty good (the G-Is in particular) and would therefore love to see them make more, and indeed to know whether such a thing is on the cards!

 

Andy

[12by12]

Not enough ship modellers buy destroyers.  They seem to want endless Bismarcks, Yamatos and Titanics. Having said that I have several IBG ships and would like to see more, but I won't hold my breath.

[Piotr Mikolajski]

1 hour ago, Ngantek said:

I guess I'm searching for pattern from a sample size of two tool families!

 

I don't know why so many people are trying to find some hidden pattern when the principle of selection is trivially simple - there must be good documentation, there must be sales potential, there must be an option to release multiple boxes. In this business there is little room for sentiment.

[Graham Boak]

1 hour ago, Piotr Mikolajski said:

 

 the principle of selection is trivially simple - there must be good documentation, there must be sales potential, there must be an option to release multiple boxes. In this business there is little room for sentiment.

Sense and sentiment: this simplicity is why every model manufacturer produces the same subjects every time at the same time.  Or not?  Shock and surprise!  Perhaps some other factors can intrude?

 

Trivial?  Or superficial?

[SprueMan]

Why only aircraft Homebee?
Would it hurt you so much to include all models? 🙄

[Piotr Mikolajski]

16 minutes ago, SprueMan said:

Why only aircraft Homebee?
Would it hurt you so much to include all models? 🙄

 

Vehicles 1/72

• 72042 — Type 89 Kou (Late Production) & Type 95 Ha-Go — 2 in 1
• 72086 — Diamond T969 Wrecker Softcab
• 72150 — Ford V3000S (Late Production)
• 72155 — Greek Centaurs: Centaur I in Greek Service
• 72156 — Cromwell IV (Hull type C) w/ Deep Wading Equipment
• 72160 — Bedford MWD General Service (Early)
• 72161 — Bedford MWD General Service (Late)
• 72162 — Bedford MWR Radio Truck
• 72163 — Bedford MWC Water Bowser (Early)
• 72164 — Bedford MWC Water Bowser (Late)
• 72165 — Bedford MW in German Service

[MiG-Mech]

Two secret items in cooperation section.
Maybe Clear Prop's 1/72 MiG-23 and MiG-19 to make Polish Air Force boxes.

[AaCee26]

37 minutes ago, MiG-Mech said:

Two secret items in cooperation section.
Maybe Clear Prop's 1/72 MiG-23 and MiG-19 to make Polish Air Force boxes.

My dirty ol' crystal ball shows both Mi-8/17 and Su-24 from Trumpeter in Ukrainian liveries 🙂

 

On the other hand I'd be happy to see a Ford V3000S with an US cab.

 

Cheers,

 

AaCee 

Edited January 29 by AaCee26
Typo

[MiG-Mech]

There is also a big chance for that. 

[Piotr Mikolajski]

1 hour ago, MiG-Mech said:

Two secret items in cooperation section. Maybe Clear Prop's 1/72 MiG-23 and MiG-19 to make Polish Air Force boxes.

 

It's impossible to announce cooperation reboxes when original manufacturer has not released the kits yet.

Edited January 29 by Piotr Mikolajski

[Dennis_C]

9 hours ago, AaCee26 said:

My dirty ol' crystal ball shows both Mi-8/17 and Su-24 from Trumpeter in Ukrainian liveries 🙂

 

Mi-8 is possible. Trumpeter Su-24 is already in Ukrainian markings, but might be a nice idea to supplement it with Storm Shadows. Could be also MiG-21F-13 from Modelsvit in Polish markings. Or Trumpeter's An-2.