Quote from: Mossie on May 07, 2024, 02:44:35 PMI would like to see a Privateer if they were willing to bite the bullet, the Matchbox kit is the only one I can recall.  It'd  be nice for all those water bomber conversions.

Reboxed by Revell in 2009. Good luck finding one though. I've been trying to get either boxing for ages but, I refuse to pay the stupid prices being demanded.

Quote from: Mossie on May 07, 2024, 02:44:35 PMI would like to see a Privateer if they were willing to bite the bullet, the Matchbox kit is the only one I can recall.  It'd  be nice for all those water bomber conversions.

There was a very nicely moulded vacform Privateer conversion done for the Revell B-24D kit by Uniqueform. I have one in The Loft, but it's almost so good an example of what a vacform conversion should be that I feel I should keep it by for posterity.

Plus the Revell source kit would cost a fortune these days too!

Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 07, 2024, 11:58:05 PM

Quote from: Mossie on May 07, 2024, 02:44:35 PMI would like to see a Privateer if they were willing to bite the bullet, the Matchbox kit is the only one I can recall.  It'd  be nice for all those water bomber conversions.

There was a very nicely moulded vacform Privateer conversion done for the Revell B-24D kit by Uniqueform. I have one in The Loft, but it's almost so good an example of what a vacform conversion should be that I feel I should keep it by for posterity.

Plus the Revell source kit would cost a fortune these days too!

I missed out on a pair of examples recently, both of which were on sale in a local charity shop for £5 each!!. Shop was closed but, by the time I got there next day, both were gone!   .Life sucks sometimes.

Quote from: McColm on May 07, 2024, 11:00:01 AMDoes this mean that there will be a future release of the Consolidation Privateer and B-32 in plastic?

The Privateer would require a lot of changes and the B-32 is an entirely different aircraft,
it's not a B-24 variant.

Quote from: jcf on May 08, 2024, 01:10:02 AM

Quote from: McColm on May 07, 2024, 11:00:01 AMDoes this mean that there will be a future release of the Consolidation Privateer and B-32 in plastic?

The Privateer would require a lot of changes and the B-32 is an entirely different aircraft,
it's not a B-24 variant.

The B-32 Dominator was developed from the B-24 Liberator whereas the Privateer can be a conversion using the Matchbox/Revell parts as well as the vacform kit. They make a welcome change in either military or commercial usage. RW or whiffery.

The only part of the B-32 that was similar to the B-24 was the wing. That is not enough for a model making company to reduce the cost of new molds. Tis is even more true when you take into account how few of the B-32's were made, only 118 were made compared to the roughly eighteen and a half thousand B-24's.

Gondor

Quote from: Beermonster58 on May 08, 2024, 12:55:26 AM I missed out on a pair of examples recently, both of which were on sale in a local charity shop for £5 each!!. Shop was closed but, by the time I got there next day, both were gone!   .Life sucks sometimes.

WHAAAT?    

The one I have is the only one I've ever seen! Other than a built one at an early IPMS Nats, no 'SMW' in those days!

Quote from: Gondor on May 08, 2024, 05:47:02 AMThe only part of the B-32 that was similar to the B-24 was the wing. That is not enough for a model making company to reduce the cost of new molds. Tis is even more true when you take into account how few of the B-32's were made, only 118 were made compared to the roughly eighteen and a half thousand B-24's.

Gondor

And yet the Avro Lincoln B.2 bomber is still absent in a plastic model.

Quote from: McColm on May 08, 2024, 07:24:03 AM

Quote from: Gondor on May 08, 2024, 05:47:02 AMThe only part of the B-32 that was similar to the B-24 was the wing. That is not enough for a model making company to reduce the cost of new molds. Tis is even more true when you take into account how few of the B-32's were made, only 118 were made compared to the roughly eighteen and a half thousand B-24's.

Gondor

And yet the Avro Lincoln B.2 bomber is still absent in a plastic model.

For exactly the same reasons, although the numbers produced were a bit higher it was not as well know of as it earlier brother the Lancaster. As for plastic, there are vac-forms available if you know what and where to look, same for the B-32 I think.

Gondor

I think Combat Models were the only ones to do a B-32.  I doubt any uk manufacturer, except possibly Contrail?

Did he change the name in about 1980?  I mean, Sutcliffe is somewhat Ill judged with the Yorkshire Ripper in the headlines around then.

Quote from: McColm on May 08, 2024, 05:06:33 AM

Quote from: jcf on May 08, 2024, 01:10:02 AM

Quote from: McColm on May 07, 2024, 11:00:01 AMDoes this mean that there will be a future release of the Consolidation Privateer and B-32 in plastic?

The Privateer would require a lot of changes and the B-32 is an entirely different aircraft,
it's not a B-24 variant.

The B-32 Dominator was developed from the B-24 Liberator whereas the Privateer can be a conversion using the Matchbox/Revell parts as well as the vacform kit. They make a welcome change in either military or commercial usage. RW or whiffery.

No it flipping wasn't, it was a completely new design and much larger. Both used the "Davis Wing" but only in terms of the aerodynamic profile, the B-32 wing is much larger, 135' span, and not interchangeable in any way with a B-24 wing.

Quote from: Gondor on May 08, 2024, 05:47:02 AMThe only part of the B-32 that was similar to the B-24 was the wing. That is not enough for a model making company to reduce the cost of new molds. Tis is even more true when you take into account how few of the B-32's were made, only 118 were made compared to the roughly eighteen and a half thousand B-24's.

Gondor

Only similar in terms of aerodynamic profile, both being examples of the "Davis Wing", they are not dimensionally similar.

Quote from: jcf on May 08, 2024, 04:13:41 PM

Quote from: Gondor on May 08, 2024, 05:47:02 AMThe only part of the B-32 that was similar to the B-24 was the wing. That is not enough for a model making company to reduce the cost of new molds. Tis is even more true when you take into account how few of the B-32's were made, only 118 were made compared to the roughly eighteen and a half thousand B-24's.

Gondor

Only similar in terms of aerodynamic profile, both being examples of the "Davis Wing", they are not dimensionally similar.

Thanks for the information another build added to the list. I wonder if a kitbash might be easier and cheaper than the Anigrand model.

I've made myself a note for this years SMW. On the Sunday, when it's a tad quieter, to ask those nice people on the Airfix stand what their "minimum projected sales figure" is before they even consider the possibility of starting to look at producing a completely new kit. If I ask in the right manner, and show them my Club badge,  I should get an answer.

Quote from: McColm on May 08, 2024, 11:16:16 PM

Quote from: jcf on May 08, 2024, 04:13:41 PM

Quote from: Gondor on May 08, 2024, 05:47:02 AMThe only part of the B-32 that was similar to the B-24 was the wing. That is not enough for a model making company to reduce the cost of new molds. Tis is even more true when you take into account how few of the B-32's were made, only 118 were made compared to the roughly eighteen and a half thousand B-24's.

Gondor

Only similar in terms of aerodynamic profile, both being examples of the "Davis Wing", they are not dimensionally similar.

Thanks for the information another build added to the list. I wonder if a kitbash might be easier and cheaper than the Anigrand model.

Contrail and Aviation USK both have done models of the B-32, both vac-forms I think.

Gondor