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Nimrod R1's replaced by even older aircraft!


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No one unfortunately! A -135 family in 144th is a major gap in the market! Welsh do a KC-135, but the whole lot of them in state of the art injection plastic would be more than welcome!

Keef

I know Minicraft have been promising one for a while, so we shall see!

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I know Minicraft have been promising one for a while, so we shall see!

There was another range announced too, by an American firm I can't exactly remember the name of, I think it was Amtech - they did do a limited edition re-run of the AMT 1/72 kit as an NKC-135A & listed all the 135's as future releases in 144! Whoever they were, apparently the owner unfortunately became ill, & that was the last I heard of them. Can't find their website now (if I have the name right!) If Minicraft do do one, I hope they make a better job of the nose than the abysmal effort in their 707's!!

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Interesting news, I guess my AMT RC-135V has just doubled in value :lol:

There was another range announced too, by an American firm I can't exactly remember the name of, I think it was Amtech - they did do a limited edition re-run of the AMT 1/72 kit as an NKC-135A & listed all the 135's as future releases in 144! Whoever they were, apparently the owner unfortunately became ill, & that was the last I heard of them. Can't find their website now (if I have the name right!) If Minicraft do do one, I hope they make a better job of the nose than the abysmal effort in their 707's!!

Most of the 135 family has been done in 1/72 at some point. In the early- mid 90's AMT made the NKC-135A Laser Lab, an EC-135C Looking Glass and the RC-135V Rivet Joint off the basic the KC-135A/E/R kit. Amtech did the snoopy nosed EC-135E/N ARIA/ALOTS some years later, also based off the AMT molds. They can all still be had on ebay if you're interested and usually go for somewhere around the £30 mark.

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