I would guess 1936 Oh bummer would swore it was earlier than 1938. Well im excited about a couple mentions Meng's Kubkewagon has my attention as does Tamiya's panzer I model kit. Its about time they produced a PZ-1. I just order the Academy Pz-1 with motorcycle and sidecar with crew, as well as Tamiya's mitorcycle w/sidecar and their new MG team. Cant wait. Thanks for video and future releases.
@bobrivett7645 thank you for your feedback! I really like the Kübelwagen as well and have made enquiries after the Fairey float plane by silver wings. My stash is growing, and my bank balance is shrinking!
My favorite modeling video, I always end up buying a bigger " piggy bank". Fortunately this time the kits hitting my wish list are kind of late releases and I won't have to break the bank just yet. Its amazing how you keep ahead of the game with so many manufacturers coming out. Thanks and Cheers , Bob in the Colonies
Great to hear fromn you, Bob Which colonies? (USA or Far East). Yes, I have made inquiries after the Silver Wings Fairy Float Kit. The Mitches Models flight crew gunners are amazing, and I'm tempted there as well. Oh my, what to do?
What would the KC-97 be refuelling? I would like to build it in-flight at work. Maybe a Boeing B-50 bomber? I do not know enough of the history of that time.
it refueled a variety of aircraft such as B-50 Superfortress B-47 Stratojet B-52 Stratofortress Convair B-36 Peacemaker F-84 Thunderjet F-100 Super Sabre.
@@TheScaleModeler RU-vid “Tamiya, Airfix, Meng, ICM, Eduard & More Scale Models Update” (The Scale Modeler; the segment on the 1:144-scale kit of the Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter USAF In-Flight Refueller, Sunday, 28 July, 2024) David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Saturday, 3 August, 2024) Wow! A lot there! Way more than I would have expected! Years past had I endeavoured to make an in-flight diorama of 1:72nd-scale kits of the 1) Monogram Boeing B-52A or -B (the first operational version) Stratofortress USAF Strategic Bomber and the 2) AMT Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker USAF In-Flight Refueller. I would have liked to add to this display other replicas of Refueller variants. One could make models of other USAF aircraft based upon Boeing’s KC-135 series, e.g., an EC-135 Emergency Command Aircraft. One also could convert this kit to reproduction of a KC-135E, which likely had refuelled Boeing’s B-52D during the Vietnam War, the latter painted in the Southeast Asia camouflage scheme. Amongst numerous other combinations; I estimate well over a dozen! I even had wanted to include in this extensive display a pair of 1:72nd-scale Airfix kits of Airco’s DH-4 Scout Bomber (and postwar U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier), the crews of which during the 1920s had conducted the world’s first in-flight refuelling. Academy years past had made a 1:72nd-scale kit of a Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter USAF In-Flight Refueller (though I cannot recall which variant). Also, a series of related kits: a B-29 very heavy bomber, a B-50 medium bomber, a C-97 USAF transport, the civilian passenger airliner version of that last (though of these last two, I do not know which had preceded the other).
Thanks for commenting concerning the kit Scalemates are showing it as a 100% new tooling from 2024 - I always appreciate feedback though so thank you 👍
No the only tooling I know of in that scale is the Classic Airframes kit and that's an early 2000 tooling. I'm waiting for a 1/48 Lysander but it's going to be a long wait, I'm sure
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Saturday, 3 August, 2024) Years past had Volkswagen issued a distinctly odd-looking automobile model they had marketed as “the Thing” (see Wikipedia “Volkswagen Type 181” (en.wikipedia.-org/wiki/Volkswagen_type_181 ). In hindsight, it rather reminds me of the Volkswagen Type 82 Kübelwagen from the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Are they essentially the same thing? Or are they different vehicles? If you do not know, please pass along my enquiry. Respond here.
David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Saturday, 3 August, 2024) RU-vid “Tamiya, Airfix, Meng, ICM, Eduard & More Scale Models Update” (The Scale Modeler; the segment on the 1:144-scale kit of the Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter USAF In-Flight Refueller, Sunday, 28 July, 2024) Wow! A lot there! Way more than I would have expected! Thanks! Years past had I endeavoured to make an in-flight diorama of 1:72nd-scale kits of the 1) Monogram Boeing B-52A or -B (the first operational version) Stratofortress USAF Strategic Bomber and the 2) AMT Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker USAF In-Flight Refueller. I would have liked to add to this display other replicas of Refueller variants. One could make models of other USAF aircraft based upon Boeing’s KC-135 series, e.g., an EC-135 Emergency Command Aircraft. One also could convert this kit to reproduction of a KC-135E, which likely had refuelled Boeing’s B-52D during the Vietnam War, the latter painted in the Southeast Asia camouflage scheme. Amongst numerous other combinations; I estimate well over a dozen! I even had wanted to include in this extensive display a pair of 1:72nd-scale Airfix kits of Airco’s DH-4 Scout Bomber (and postwar U.S. Postal Service Mail Carrier), the crews of which during the 1920s had conducted the world’s first in-flight refuelling. A decade or so later, another group flying the Lockheed Model 5C Vega airplane (I infer two; I am relying upon recollection here, so I may be uncertain as to the specifics) also endeavoured to develop this idea (to what extent I do not know). Academy years past had made a 1:72nd-scale kit of a Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter USAF In-Flight Refueller (though I cannot recall which variant). Also, a series of related kits: a B-29 very heavy bomber, a B-50 medium bomber, a C-97 USAF transport, the civilian passenger airliner version of that last (though of these last two, I do not know which had preceded the other).
Thank you for your detailed comment! It sounds like you have a deep passion and extensive knowledge of model aircraft. Your diorama project sounds fascinating and ambitious. Best of luck with your future modeling endeavors!
@@TheScaleModeler Thank you for your merry encouragement. I do enjoy researching the details of combat aircraft, primarily those of the USA. I am an aspiring novelist-popular fiction, mind you! I have no pretensions to “literature”!-and essayist (I would like to think that you have seen before you serviceable samples thereof); in the nonfiction area am I decidedly more reluctant, however, as the often difficult issues that I endeavour to examine in my exposition upset me deeply, largely because I live them. My situation, however, deny me the means to build, detail, paint, etc., model kits. These circumstances are why I come to RU-vid model-building channels: I take what delight I can (if rather wistful) in watching you channellers reify in polystyrene, resin, adhesives, paints, etc., your imaginations, and your kits. I wish I were wealthy enough to hire at a worthy income a dozen or so (or more!) top-flight model-makers to 1) research, develop, design, build, etc., the various projects I envision-think of a long line of 1:72nd-scale replicas of Boeing’s KC-135 Refueller series assembled airborne, each with a different USAF or USN aircraft queuing behind; a KC-135Q topping off a pair of Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird USAF Surveillance Reconnaissance Aircraft; an EC-135C “Looking Glass” Airborne Command Post (emergency mobile command aircraft; this is the AMT Ertl model kit 8955, itself based upon the tanker, still retaining its equipment) as it services its escort of McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II USAF Fighters (originally with the designation “F-110A”); a KC-135R facilitates a North American-Rockwell B-1B Sentry (Bone) USAF strategic bomber to maintain its tight schedule-and 2) to block time for them to build the kits they have in mind. Related to these, Heller some years past had offered a 1:72nd-scale kit of the Boeing 707-300B TWA Airlines passenger jet (I think a re-boxing of an ESCI model), perhaps re-issuing it again. From this airframe derived 1) the first USAF executive transport expressly for the official use of the President of the United States of America, and 2) Boeing E-3B Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) USAF Aircraft. The French Air Force (Armée de l’air) had designated their version as the E-3F (the Heller kit has alternate parts, markings, etc., to make one or the other).
Thank you for sharing more about your interests. Your dedication to researching combat aircraft and your writing ambitions are impressive. It's great to hear how much you enjoy watching model-building channels. Your diorama ideas are fascinating. Best of luck with your creative projects!
Why are some people dead against the "blueprint" stuff? I guess it's like me not liking certain models that I'll never build. Still it's not like I'm against them I just find them boring
Anyone know why there is 1/35 scale? Seems to me with many aircraft in 1/32....WHY don't the companys consolidate the scales to just 1/32 so you can pose aircraft and vehicals TOGETHER? Still no 1/48 B-47 or C-119, Transall 160 or Boeing 737-400 (short body, fan engined) huh? I know companies would sell a million just B-47's.....
They didn’t think this through at the beginning and now the cost of moving to either 1/35 or 1/32 I would imagine would be immense. Border models do make planes in 1/35 to match the armour. There’s a lot of models missing from various scales and it does get frustrating when they make yet another version of a plane that has been done a 100 times before by 50 companies. But things are changing albeit slowly. Thanks for your feedback 👍
@@TheScaleModeler yes, my point exactly. How many P-51's ME 109s, or Phantoms do ya need.....all in different sizes. It confuses people when a 1/72 Lancaster is smaller than your 1/32nd F-14. I'm happy with the 1/16. 3/4"= 1foot.....even then, most die cast cars are 1/18. Another bizarre scale....
