Revell (Revell of Germany and Monogram)

[Hobbes]

What's the deal with the new tool 144th scale Typhoon ? The 'old' kit was awesome and came with every single weapon the 72nd scale kit came with ?!

This is the twoseater, the 'old' one is the single-seater.

[PR19_Kit]

The 747-8F will tee off the guys at Classic Airliners, they won't sell any more 'short top' converions.

[Aircav]

Trabant Estate 

[Thorvic]

Still an underwhelming list with a bulk of re-issues, carried over new kits from the previous year and bog all in the 1/72nd aircraft category bar a Corsair. They are certainly going to start losing out in that field. We'll have to see what Italeri come up with for Nuremburg to see if anything interesting is due out from the European mainstream.

Knew Nils would love the Atlas in 1/144 and would like the landing ship 

[albeback]

http://www.plastik-modellbau.org/blog/revell-neuheiten-2014/2014/

Revells 2014/15 line up, nice 1/144 stuff but the 1/72nd aircraft range is very dull to say the least - 

Agreed. As far as winged things go, 1/144 does nothing for me so, I have zero interest in the A400 etc in this scale. Nice to see the BV-222 though. I'll get the Hunter and, the 1/32 Phantom (worth it for that scheme alone!!). As for the rest? A bunch of mostly re-pops & hold overs. Very underwhelming to say the least

Allan

[Weaver]

The 1/72nd GTK Boxer looks good for sci-fi whiffery.

The Piper Cub with bush wheels is nice to see, but the wrong scale for my taste.

The 1/144th space shuttle launch tower looks like you could re-arrange it into ann awesome bit of Space 1999-style sci-fi: bet it costs an arm and a leg though....

[Hobbes]

The tower is £70/€80.

Good to see the A400M in 1/144, odd that they release so many large-scale aircraft and so few 1/72.

[Thorvic]

The tower is £70/€80.

Good to see the A400M in 1/144, odd that they release so many large-scale aircraft and so few 1/72.

A sign of their growing weakness as not many new toolings and even some of those are carried over from last year, why do a 1/144 LSM ?, its interesting but not compatible with other landing craft and armour which are in 72nd !

[Steel Penguin]

1/144 is one of the small wargames scales ( 10 mm?)  possibly to try to get sales there?

[pyro-manic]

Anyone built the 1:28 Sopwith Camel? I've an idea for one of those but it sounds like quite an old kit...

[Spey_Phantom]

1/144 is one of the small wargames scales ( 10 mm?)  possibly to try to get sales there?

well, maybe, but 1/144 scale is also a kinda popular scale in the east-Asian region, maybe thats theyre market focus  

[PR19_Kit]

Anyone built the 1:28 Sopwith Camel? I've an idea for one of those but it sounds like quite an old kit...

It is, came out back in the late 60s, early 70s IIRC.

It was part of a triple range that included a Fokker Dr1 in Werner Voss' scheme and a Nieuport of some description. I built all of them for my friend's model shop back then and they go together OK, but they're hardly state of the art today.

The rotary engines all rotate BTW, very tricky.

[lancer]

I may be wrong, but ever since Revell Germany got pulled back into the US Revell thier releases and new tools have reduced drastically. Anyway, as to this years releases, I'm happy about the BV222 as I missed it last time around and the Gripen should be a good one. Got some idea for a couple of them. Not a hell of a lot else there really.

[Aircav]

A lot of firms didn't invested in new tooling because of the recession which hit a few years ago and we are only just seeing that with the lead time on new kits plus the loss of Modelzone hammered a lot of firms.

[Freightdog862]

Not much at all to shout about really, but last year was not much either (and some of that rolling to 2014). I was hoping they might announce an RAF Tornado GR1/4 in 1/148 as Revell rep at Telford said the 2013(now 2014) kit will be German markings and stores only.

Colin