New Tool Phantoms In 1/48!

[nev]

Well that's the interesting thing, right now our hobby seems to be expanding both up (Eduard hi-tech etc) and down (Airfix range, forget the name, Revell 1/100, Hobby Boss 1/72).

[NARSES2]

Agreed Nev - and all for the better.

Chris (who might still get an Eduard 110 )

[Jennings]

It gets even better for Phantom Phans!

This months SAMI announces not 1, not 2, but 3 new modellers datafiles for the Phantom    

USAF, USN/USMC and Export  

If they're the same quality as some of the others in that series, I wouldn't waste my money.  

J

[Jennings]

Well that's the interesting thing, right now our hobby seems to be expanding both up (Eduard hi-tech etc) and down (Airfix range, forget the name, Revell 1/100, Hobby Boss 1/72).

I agree with a couple of the posts I saw about Hobby Boss on Hyperscale however - they're thieves, and I refuse to support them.  They blatantly stole the Eduard Mirage, and I can't give them my money in good conscience.

J

[nev]

Not just the Mirage - Their UH-34 is based off the Italeri kit, and there's a couple of others too I believe.

Trumpeter started out the same way with a series of Tamiya knock-offs.  It seems to be the modus operandi of these new Chinese companies to cut their teeth on copying other peoples kits then doing their own new tools once they have some experience under their belt.

Doesn't make it right mind.

[JC Carbonel]

Not forgetting Academy who also cloned Tamiya and Bandai in the early days ....
Beside HB do try to do original stuff by declining their clones ... see the Rafale : from Revell M we now get B and C from HB.
And the inclusion of photoetch into a styren part (T34) is a technological novelty . Finally I did not hear anything about the 1/72 WW2 aircraft being copies.
It seems to me a lot of people in the industry could be afraid of the low prices, good engraving etc... and focus on the kits which are obvious copies...As if they were alone.

JCC