Is there any 1/72 model of Lockheed F-90 ?

[ysi_maniac]

I do remember a vacuform

[Thorvic]

Anigrand do a resin version

http://www.anigrand.com/AA2034_XF-90.htm

Cheers

Geoff

[elmayerle]

Well, there was a 1/72 vacform produced as a limited run by KR Models (one man operation run by Ken Rymal - his XF-103 and XF-108 were the only games in town on those two for a long, long time) but it's rather on the rare side.  The Anigrand resin kit is probably your best bet.

[kitnut617]

There wasn't an F-90 as such Carlos, it only got as far as the XF-90A.

In model form and in 1/72, Anigrand (as Geoff mentions), KR Models, Maintrack, Wings.  In 1/48, Collect-Aire, Hawk (reboxed by Aurora) and Wings. In 1/100, Antarqui and lastly in 1/90, Charmore.

[kitnut617]

Well, there was a 1/72 vacform produced as a limited run by KPM Models but it's rather on the rare side.  The Anigrand resin kit is probably your best bet.

Interestingly Evan, there's two companies that go by the name KPM, both Czech. First one is KPM/Kosice but there's no XF-90 in the listing, but thet did do vacuforms, the KPM/Prague was a small modelling group which did many of the Czechmaster resin kits.  That's according to the book I have. 

KR Models though is an American outfit, a guy named Ken Rymal made a limited amount of vacuforms after he had written a few articles on how to make scratch-built models which included how to do a vacuform.

[elmayerle]

Well, there was a 1/72 vacform produced as a limited run by KPM Models but it's rather on the rare side.  The Anigrand resin kit is probably your best bet.

Interestingly Evan, there's two companies that go by the name KPM, both Czech. First one is KPM/Kosice but there's no XF-90 in the listing, but thet did do vacuforms, the KPM/Prague was a small modelling group which did many of the Czechmaster resin kits.  That's according to the book I have. 

KR Models though is an American outfit, a guy named Ken Rymal made a limited amount of vacuforms after he had written a few articles on how to make scratch-built models which included how to do a vacuform.

Memory failure on my part, I meant KR Models and have corrected my post.  Ken Rymal does basic vacform kits requiring a lot of scratchbuilding, but he gets the basic lines accurate.  I've got a number of them in the remote (very!) southern stash dating from when he first started making them in the late 1970s; I find it interesting that he modelled a different version of the XF-103 than Anigrand did, 'twould be rather tempting to use appropriate bits to help detail his vacform just as I'd clone the cockpit panels and weapons from a Testor's/Italieri 1/72 YF-12A and seat/capsules from AMT's XB-70 to detail his kit of the XF-108.

[jcf]

The Wings 72 kit is still available from Don's Modelworks eBay store (I have the 1/48th version):
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lockheed-XF-90-1-72-Wings-Models_W0QQitemZ380008566100QQihZ025QQcategoryZ2587QQcmdZViewItem

Jon

[ysi_maniac]

^^^^
This is the model I remember.

Thank a lot to all of you! For your help and for your amazingly deep knowledge!