Avant Garde Model Kits

[Green Dragon]

Nobody has mentioned these new guys from China here as far as I can see.
First kit 1/48th Kfir C-2/C-7
Second kit 1/48th L-29 Delphin
Third kit 1/48th Fouga Magister
Nice selection, prob wait for reviews by Yoav Efrati of the six (?) Kfirs at are due out before buying a few. Kinetics is due soon as well.
Here's their facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/#!/AMKHOBBY

Paul Harrison

[Captain Canada]

The link wasn't working, it appears you can't copy it from FB and post it here, but you can copy it here and enter it in your browser, or just type in AMK hobby on FB.

I've always liked the Kfir, and the artwork on their page certainly makes me want to build one !

[Green Dragon]

Thanks Cap'n, I should have checked the link before posting but I forgot!
Prefer Kinetics Kfir boxart from Cybermodeler. http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/kinetic.shtml

Paul Harrison

[Captain Canada]

Oh yes Paul, that one is nice as well !

[Daryl J.]

1:48 MiG-31 Foxhound.   

[major]

Could just be me,
but the artwork looks more like the love child of a Kfir and an A-4 skyhawk!
Kinda' bit short looking, don't ya think?
Cheers... Ray

[Green Dragon]

Latest announcement is a 1/48th Super Etendard.

Paul Harrison

[ChernayaAkula]

The fine folks at AMK are set to release a 1/72 IAI Kfir C2/C7!   I'm gonna need a dozen! More info and pics on their Facebook site: LINK!



Hmmm, first a scale-down of their L-29 Delfin, followed by a scale-down of their IAI Kfir,.... could that mean we'll eventually see a scale-down of their superb Foxhound?

Oh, and seeing that it hasn't been posted here yet: the 1/48 crowd will get another new F-14 Tomcat. LINK!
Going by what you hear about their Foxhound, AMK might actually give Tamiya a run for their money (yeah, I know, different Tomcat versions, but still...).



EDIT: Sorry 'bout the big pics.
EDIT #2: Thanks to Old Wombat's hint, image size is fixed now. Cool stuff!  

[Thorvic]

I think I saw a post on BM from AVG that they intend to scale down the Foxhound next after releasing the L-29, so the Kfir news was a welcome surprise.

[PR19_Kit]

EDIT: Sorry 'bout the big pics.

Big? I needed a Cinerama screen to see them.............. 

[Old Wombat]

Hey, mate, on BtS your images were scaled with this initial script (img width=1200 height=726) & (img width=1200 height=848) in [square brackets]. You may want to try that here, too.

Or maybe even a bit smaller, say (img width=900 height=545) & (img width=900 height=636).

[king of men]

Supposedly the MiG-31 is due to be sized down to 1:72 as well, sometime later this year. I might pick up an L29, though the Kfir doesn't do much for me.

[ChernayaAkula]

Hey, mate, on BtS your images were scaled with this initial script (img width=1200 height=726) & (img width=1200 height=848) in [square brackets]. You may want to try that here, too.

Or maybe even a bit smaller, say (img width=900 height=545) & (img width=900 height=636).
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Whoa, that's pretty darn nifty!   Thanks for the heads-up!   The software on BTS apparently automatically rescales them to a pre-set maximum width.
When I edited the post above, I found that it's actually sufficient to just specify a width. The height is then automatically adjusted. When I tried using the Kfir's dimensions on the Tomcat pic, the latter looked a bit distorted (different width/height ratios as per AMK's original files). Just setting the width to 1024 and leaving out a specific height, the site's software adjusted automatically. It still let's you "right-click" and "view image" at the original image size (or a size fit to your browser's window). Pretty cool stuff and definitely useful to know!  

Supposedly the MiG-31 is due to be sized down to 1:72 as well <...>

That would be really great! 

[Captain Canada]

Prefer Kinetics Kfir boxart from Cybermodeler. http://www.cybermodeler.com/news/kinetic.shtml

This one ?