Akatombo Works - 1/72 Arsenal VB-10!

[Madoc]

Atsushi Koyanagi has announced that he will be producing a 1/72 Arsenal VB-10 kit in 2018!

http://akatombo.world.coocan.jp/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1475817255848042&set=a.275576905872089.61345.100002593454269&type=3&theater

This one will be a "must buy" for me.  It's both a "WhIf" and a real world machine.  Had France held out for a bit longer in 1940 then the VB-10 stood a real chance of having been made during the war and serving with the Armée de l'air and that would've been some kinda awesome!

Mr. Koyanagi's kitwork is good quality stuff and this one looks in line with that.

I'm wondering if he'll do anything fancy with the landing gear for this one as the VB-10 was NOT a small plane by any means so the weight of all that resin would take some care to deal with.



I can imagine depicting VB-10s flying escort on bombing missions to Berlin - or once the Nazis are taken care of, flying escort on Moscow missions...

The possibilities abound!

[Knightflyer]

That's a beautiful big brute of a beast of a plane   

I like it even though it wouldn't fit in with any of my plans - although that's never stopped me before! 

[The Wooksta!]

There was a resin kit years back, possibly French and possibly by Dujin or Vami.  I got it in 2000 and it was second hand then, so I'd suspect early/mid 90s for a release date.

The one I got was bagged and it went in NMF and RAF markings as a captured/evaluation machine.  Never did finish it and I'm not even sure I still have it.

There's a thread about the type on Beyond the Sprues and this French website indicated a previous kit.
http://www.jfrteam-neufgrange.fr/pages/modeles-fsc-en-images/arsenal-vb-10.html

Scalemates has these:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/185571-fsc-dujin-fsc-003-arsenal-vb-10 (I suspect that's a rerelease of the earlier kit)
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/688474-replica-arsenal-vb-10 (Not sure but I think this bunch are either French or Spanish)

[NARSES2]

That's a must have, lovely beast. 

Must admit I didn't realise it was that big until I saw that photo with all the guys gathered underneath it 

[PR19_Kit]

Super looking aircraft, makes the similarly sized Firebrand look like an airborne barn door!

[rickshaw]

Super looking aircraft, makes the similarly sized Firebrand look like an airborne barn door!

It is ze French style, Monsieur!   

[PR19_Kit]

Super looking aircraft, makes the similarly sized Firebrand look like an airborne barn door!

It is ze French style, Monsieur!   

That's for sure. 'Style' is something that Blackburn never developed, until they did the Buccaneer maybe.

[Old Wombat]

Super looking aircraft, makes the similarly sized Firebrand look like an airborne barn door!

It is ze French style, Monsieur!   

That's for sure. 'Style' is something that Blackburn never developed, until they did the Buccaneer maybe.

And even she's a bit of a brute!

[rickshaw]

Super looking aircraft, makes the similarly sized Firebrand look like an airborne barn door!

It is ze French style, Monsieur!   

That's for sure. 'Style' is something that Blackburn never developed, until they did the Buccaneer maybe.

I think it was the Firecrest actually.  It took all the elements of the Firebrand and refined them down to something that looked a thousand percent better IMO.   

[NARSES2]

Super looking aircraft, makes the similarly sized Firebrand look like an airborne barn door!

It is ze French style, Monsieur!   

I don't know where it went in the 30's then ? Most French aircraft during that period are just  Mind you they have a certain amount of character and for that reason I find myself strangely attracted to them 

[jcf]

That's for sure. 'Style' is something that Blackburn never developed, until they did the Buccaneer maybe.

Oh, I dunno the Pellet was rather attractive.

[zenrat]

Ah, but that was a one off racer.  i'm sure if they had put it into mass production they would have managed to disfigure it in some way.
It is a very handsome aircraft.