I LOVE KIT Models (ex Merit)

[PR19_Kit]

I suppose you could have a time delay on the detonator ? Doesn't become "live" until so many turns of the small prop at the front ?

Those Soviet ones appear to have been ejected by compressed air, given the tanks immediately in front of the torpedoes. I was thinking some poor sod had to push/roll them into the sea. Told you I'd not thought of the practicalities 

Apparently they fired them astern with a small charge, and the torp's motor didn't start until it was kicked into life by a (presumably long....) lanyard attached to the MTB.

[zenrat]

The more I look at the box art the more I want one.  Which I suppose means it is doing it's job.

[NARSES2]

The more I look at the box art the more I want one.  Which I suppose means it is doing it's job.

Yup, it is very enticing 

[Rheged]

I suppose you could have a time delay on the detonator ? Doesn't become "live" until so many turns of the small prop at the front ?

Those Soviet ones appear to have been ejected by compressed air, given the tanks immediately in front of the torpedoes. I was thinking some poor sod had to push/roll them into the sea. Told you I'd not thought of the practicalities 

Apparently they fired them astern with a small charge, and the torp's motor didn't start until it was kicked into life by a (presumably long....) lanyard attached to the MTB.

I think that the WW1 RN CMBs (coastal motor boats) did the same. Augustus Agar did all sorts of unpleasant things to the Bolshevik navy in 1919 with  CMBs and the Russians probably took the idea and used it themselves.  See here:-  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Agar  for the results of 2.73 seconds worth of rigorous in depth research.

[jcf]

The Thorneycroft built CMBs did indeed launch their single torpedo from the stern.
The Tupolev designed and built Soviet boats adopted the technique from boats
they captured during the Civil War.

[Weaver]

Merit models have apparently either sold out to, or at least changed their name to, I LOVE KIT Models, which is fairly hilarious, at least on this board.... (hi Kit... )

Here's their website: http://www.ilovekit.com/index.php?l=en

Quite a few are available on Hannants: HERE

Here's the TLDR version:

1/6th scale:
SGM Machine-Gun

1/16th scale:
2 x Easy-Eight Shermans
2 x German WWII artillery pieces
M198 155mm modern towed howitzer

1/18th scale:
Douglas SBD Dauntless
88mm anti-aircraft gun

1/24th scale:
Fokker DR.1
S.E.5a
SPAD S.XIII

1/35th scale:
M65 'Atomic Annie' 280mm nuclear cannon
4 x M3 Lee/Grant tanks, including the cast-hull A1
HEMTT with a C-RAM (i.e. a naval Vulcan Phalanx gun)
2 x M1278 JLTVs (jeep-sized modern armoured 4x4s)
Pershing missile launcher
M48 tank
2 x M925 cargo trucks
2 x M19 tank transporters
German WWII Waffentrager SPATG
British X-craft minisub
Soviet G-5 MTB (as much discussed on this thread)

1/48th scale:
F-22 Raptor
2 x Gladiators
Grumman Duck
2 x ELCO torpedo boats  (as much discussed on this thread)

1/72nd scale:
3 x variations on the OSA missile boat (as discussed at the start of this thread)

1/200th scale:
IJN Mikasa (1905 battleship)
USS Hornet CV-8

1/350th scale:
HMS Ark Royal (1939)
USS John F. Kennedy CV-67
USS Enterprise CV-6
USS Yorktown CV-5

1/700th scale (these are ex-Trumpeter but come with wooden decks, photo-etch, turned barrels etc...):
USS North Carolina BB-55
HMS Hood (1941)
Bismark

[KiwiZac]

If you think this is big you should see the 1/18th scale planes!

I think these are intended for those who build one kit a year or so but super detail to the Nth degree ?

You should see JayW's amazing re-work of a 1/18 F4U Corsair over at LSP!

[PR19_Kit]

And I thought my Airfix 1/24 Spitfire IXc was big! 

[KiwiZac]

And I thought my Airfix 1/24 Spitfire IXc was big! 

I have horrible visions of you grafting HF.VII wingtips onto it...

[PR19_Kit]

And I thought my Airfix 1/24 Spitfire IXc was big! 

I have horrible visions of you grafting HF.VII wingtips onto it...

Just for once I won't be extending its wings. 

But it's no going to be OOB, I'd like to make a PRXI out of it. I can see some SERIOUS vacforming coming on...........

[KiwiZac]

But it's no going to be OOB, I'd like to make a PRXI out of it.

That is a very, very exciting prospect!

[PR19_Kit]

But it's no going to be OOB, I'd like to make a PRXI out of it.

That is a very, very exciting prospect!

But very long winded, don't expect things to happen quickly.

[Wardukw]

I've seen Atomic Annie here for sale and my bank won't give me a mortgage to buy one....or the mobile PHALANX...fact there's quite a few 35th scale models in that list I'd happily buy..I do like that list ..but like they say ..dreams are free...prostitution ain't. 

[KiwiZac]

That is a very, very exciting prospect!

But very long winded, don't expect things to happen quickly.

I'll be here to needle you for progress updates