To the model kit manufacturers: Thanks for the Whifs!

[seadude]

This post isn't directed at any single person or model company, etc. But rather it is a collective Thank You! to all the model kit manufacturers that have been currently producing and/or planning, on coming out with various model kits of What If subjects.
Subjects that can include, but is not limited to:

1) New 1/700 USS Montana battleship
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,43176.0.html

2) German Haunebu II UFO
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,43122.0.html

3) Modelcollect German Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,43136.0.html

4) Takom Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/697574-takom-3001-landkreuzer-p1000-ratte

5) Takom German Krupp Raumer S
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,43043.0.html

So to all the model kit manufacturers out there that are producing more what if model subjects instead of the "same old, same old" F-16's, Tiger tanks, Iowa battleships, etc., I just want to say THANK YOU! and that I hope you will continue to produce more and more what if subjects in future months and years.  But please, don't come out with them too fast. My poor wallet can't take much more abuse!   

P.S. - And if any manufacturer plans to produce an HMS Habakkuk in the future, I hope you will consider hiring me as an "advisory consultant". I have a lot of information and am quite knowledgeable about the subject.

[The Rat]

To raise an old complaint that a lot of us have, what's the manufacturer's fascination with German projects that never got off a restaurant napkin, when there are so many real prototypes and one-offs? It would be nice to have decent injection molded kits of all the Martin Baker fighters for a start. Airfix should do a new tool SR.53, and other post-war projects. It would be easier to find real data on such things, and the whiff possibilities are enormous.

[Librarian]

Would die for a 1/48 F4U prototype Maybe I'll skip off an email to Hobbyboss.

[seadude]

To raise an old complaint that a lot of us have, what's the manufacturer's fascination with German projects that never got off a restaurant napkin, when there are so many real prototypes and one-offs?

Maybe the German stuff was just a little bit more weirder and crazier? A lot of the stuff the Germans designed, prototyped, and built was definately ahead of it's time.

It would be nice to have decent injection molded kits of all the Martin Baker fighters for a start. Airfix should do a new tool SR.53, and other post-war projects. It would be easier to find real data on such things, and the whiff possibilities are enormous.

Sorry to hear you're not getting the aircraft you want. Have you tried writing to various manufacturers and asking them for stuff you'd like to see?

[Weaver]

The German stuff is sexy because the What If narrative is a scare story: "What if the Nazis actually managed to get all this cool stuff into service? Man, we came this close to losing the war!" The fact that it doesn't matter what fancy planes you make or don't make if you havn't got any of that boring, ugly 'oil' stuff just doesn't sell books/kits/documentaries/whatever....

[Dizzyfugu]

If nobody produces your desired model, scratch it! 

[NARSES2]

If nobody produces your desired model, scratch it! 

Yup and then it's guaranteed to come out in injection moulded plastic for the rest of us 

[Dizzyfugu]

It's easy if you know the correct rites... 

[tigercat]

If you build it, they will mould it .... quote from Airfield of dreams.

[PR19_Kit]

If you build it, they will mould it .... quote from Airfield of dreams.

So VERY true! 

I'm expecting the Special Hobby Meteor PR19 any day now...............

[Rheged]

The German stuff is sexy because the What If narrative is a scare story: "What if the Nazis actually managed to get all this cool stuff into service? Man, we came this close to losing the war!"

Turn this around.  What about a decent Vickers Windsor, or a Victory Bomber, or Barnes Wallis' Wild Goose?  There were a fair number of wacky ideas on the Allied side too.  For the armour chaps, an Excelsior, or a Black Prince  or even a Giant Panjandrum.  There's plenty to go at :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFDf1_MCD9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3pPJmsiqMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMGHt6lHWn8

[PR19_Kit]

What about a decent Vickers Windsor, or a Victory Bomber, or Barnes Wallis' Wild Goose? 

Yes please, all of the above, and the Swallow in 1/72 as well.

I have the diabolical Contrail Windsor vacform, and while it's a rubbish mould, it's not as big as I thought. For some reason I've always thought of the Windsor as the next size up on a Lancaster, but it's only a little longer and a bit more span, and the max AUW is less than a Lanc.

[NARSES2]

I have the diabolical Contrail Windsor vacform, and while it's a rubbish mould, it's not as big as I thought. For some reason I've always thought of the Windsor as the next size up on a Lancaster, but it's only a little longer and a bit more span, and the max AUW is less than a Lanc.

I've got that in the stash as well and concur re size and kit quality. Always fancied seeing one of the Vicker's Giant Bomber projects in kit form

[PR19_Kit]

The box of the Windsor kit gets me, it's like a school pencil box as it's so narrow! 

But then Barnes Wallis did design it with very high aspect ratio wings.

[Dork the kit slayer]

[/quote]

r, but it's only a little longer and a bit more span,
[/quote]




Who was it said any aircraft can be made better with longer wings