Italeri

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Only six months back I saw an Esci one go on that auction site for over £40.00  - Great !!

Ian

[Radish]

Awesome RAAF ones!!

No worries with the nose...use the end of a thick knitting needle, one of the plastic ones. Very useful and you can make the nose as long as you like.

[Green Dragon]

Only six months back I saw an Esci one go on that auction site for over £40.00  - Great !!

Ian

Most go for around that from what I've seen Ian. I tend to put in a bid of £15 including Post for esci 1/48th kits and usually lose! Worked with several nostalgia trips though (AJ37 Viggen, Mirage F-1, Mirage IIIE and some helo's).

Paul Harrison

[ChernayaAkula]

Just posted on ARC: 1/48 aircraft results of the Italeri survey. CLICKY!

1st place: AMX
2nd place: SM.79 Sparviero
3rd place: Yak-9/MiG-3

Can't wait for the 1/72 and helo results!  

[GTX]

1st place: AMX  - now if only they follow through and kit it.

Regards,

Greg

[Green Dragon]

Was the Trumpeter 1/48th SM.79 no good then?

Paul Harrison

[nev]

Some bizarre choices on there - D520 & F-86D, like the Tamiya and Revell kits aren't good enough

[Sauragnmon]

Probably not up to JMN standards, in all truth.  I'm waiting to see what wins up in 72nd and possibly 1/144 if they had a list.

[Thorvic]

1/72nd Armour is here:-

http://www.italeri.com/NewsImgs/DOC_NEWS_000033.pdf

Like the Cold War Soviet Tanks in the list

G

[Thorvic]

Speaking of Italeri has anybody identified what variant the EH101 listed in the 2010 catalogue actually is ?

[ChernayaAkula]

I think the JMNs have got nothing to do with it in this case. It's just that Italeri caters mostly to the Italian market. Hence the number of Italian subjects in that list. That they want an SM.79 while there already is a Trumpeter rendition of that plane may be down to the Trumpeter kit being too expensive or simply not available to most modellers. Casual, buying-kits-in-department-stores vs "serious", hardcore modellers and all that.
And there's the simple fact that there's a great tooling of a plane by Tamiya, Trumpeter, whathaveyou doesn't earn Italeri a single Euro. If they think that they can sell enough of a certain type to justify development costs, they should do it.

As for the F-86D, the Revell kit's the bee's knees, but they don't have a K, the gun-armed version the Italians flew. Maybe Italeri could team up with Revell and produce the new parts needed for the K and use the other parts from Revell's moulds? Would greatly easen construction of my projected Israeli F-86K. 

[kitnut617]

As for the F-86D, the Revell kit's the bee's knees, but they don't have a K, the gun-armed version the Italians flew. Maybe Italeri could team up with Revell and produce the new parts needed for the K and use the other parts from Revell's moulds? Would greatly easen construction of my projected Israeli F-86K. 

Special Hobby do a 'K' and an 'L' in 1/72

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72146
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72144

[nev]

And there's the simple fact that there's a great tooling of a plane by Tamiya, Trumpeter, whathaveyou doesn't earn Italeri a single Euro. If they think that they can sell enough of a certain type to justify development costs, they should do it.

Yes, but this is a punters wish-list, not Italeri's release schedule.

[Aircav]

Speaking of Italeri has anybody identified what variant the EH101 listed in the 2010 catalogue actually is ?

Its a Italian EHS version Geoff 

http://www.modellbahn-kramm.com/E/artikel.cfm?fid=410&artnr=801295&nav=0

[ChernayaAkula]

Yes, but this is a punters wish-list, not Italeri's release schedule.

Well, d'oh! You're right. Maybe then it's cost, availability or detail fidelity?

I, for one, had almost forgotten about Trumpeter's Sparviero, although I don't recall any detail discussions about it.