Freightdog suggestions for 2023

[McColm]

I have been browsing on the Freightdog Models website and came across the 1/72 H.P. Victor B.2 conversion set for the Matchbox/Revell kit. Will there be a reconnaissance camera pack available?
This could be similar to the Airfix Vickers Valiant camera pack.

[AeroplaneDriver]

I'm hoping we see the Sabre anti-tank missiles that came with the Hawk T.2 conversion come out as a stand-alone set.  What I'd actually love to see is a complete Freightdog Weapons Set with bot real and What If weapons such as Sabre, Red Dean, Red Top, Red Beard, WE.177, etc.

[McColm]

I'm hoping we see the Sabre anti-tank missiles that came with the Hawk T.2 conversion come out as a stand-alone set.  What I'd actually love to see is a complete Freightdog Weapons Set with bot real and What If weapons such as Sabre, Red Dean, Red Top, Red Beard, WE.177, etc.

There's two air-to-air missile sets in 1/72 scale on the Freightdog website.

[AeroplaneDriver]

I'm hoping we see the Sabre anti-tank missiles that came with the Hawk T.2 conversion come out as a stand-alone set.  What I'd actually love to see is a complete Freightdog Weapons Set with bot real and What If weapons such as Sabre, Red Dean, Red Top, Red Beard, WE.177, etc.

There's two air-to-air missile sets in 1/72 scale on the Freightdog website.

I'm aware.  Everything I listed is available.  It would be really cool to see them offered as a set. 

[Freightdog862]

Good morning,

Yes the Sabre missiles will be available separately, I just need to order them from the caster. Just looked at the latest SAM (May 2023), and the Hawk T.2 with Sabre fit is featured as a  what-if subject in the suggested what-if scheme! Quite often when you give magazines samples that is the last you hear from them, or you get a thumbnail image a few months later. SAM are the exception to the rule, and Colin Pickett did a really nice built of it to which is a bonus. Lets see if it translates to any sales.

Colin     

[kitbasher]

It'd be nice to have the Red Tops back in stock, especially the set for Phantoms.

[NARSES2]

Good morning,

Yes the Sabre missiles will be available separately, I just need to order them from the caster. Just looked at the latest SAM (May 2023), and the Hawk T.2 with Sabre fit is featured as a  what-if subject in the suggested what-if scheme! Quite often when you give magazines samples that is the last you hear from them, or you get a thumbnail image a few months later. SAM are the exception to the rule, and Colin Pickett did a really nice built of it to which is a bonus. Lets see if it translates to any sales.

Colin     

Was reading that yesterday afternoon over a nice cuppa    Must admit SAM don't appear to be afraid of What If's, unlike some other publications.

[Weaver]

Good morning,

Yes the Sabre missiles will be available separately, I just need to order them from the caster. Just looked at the latest SAM (May 2023), and the Hawk T.2 with Sabre fit is featured as a  what-if subject in the suggested what-if scheme! Quite often when you give magazines samples that is the last you hear from them, or you get a thumbnail image a few months later. SAM are the exception to the rule, and Colin Pickett did a really nice built of it to which is a bonus. Lets see if it translates to any sales.

Colin     

Nice one - fingers crossed for you. 

Things I would 100% buy, probably in multiple packs:

Sabres
Blue Dolphins
SRAAM-100 twin launchers
AS.11s

Given that there were 600-odd thousand AS/SS.11s built and deployed on 30-odd platforms, it's remarkable how hard they are to get. For example, Air Graphics models seem to think it's worth having almost every conversion set imaginable for the old Airfix Westland Scout, but the one thing they don't do is the 4 x AS.11 fit. Likewise, I don't know of any aftermarket set to do the widely-used 4 x AS.11s on an Alouette III setup, and the heller Alouette III is very widely available. If you wanted to get into land-based stuff, nobody does a conversion for 4 x SS.11s on the AMX-13 tank in 1/72nd. Again, very well-know fit and widely available Heller model.

[PR19_Kit]

Didn't Airwaves to the SS11 in white metal at one stage?

If so it's almost certain that the masters would have been done by Paul Lucas, who is now Colin's master maker...........

[The Wooksta!]

I'd be very happy to see both Red Tops and Firestreaks back in stock.

[Freightdog862]

I have been browsing on the Freightdog Models website and came across the 1/72 H.P. Victor B.2 conversion set for the Matchbox/Revell kit. Will there be a reconnaissance camera pack available?
This could be similar to the Airfix Vickers Valiant camera pack.

Sorry, no plans for anything else for the old Matchbox Victor, the B.2 set pre-dates the Airfix kit and is just old stock I'm clearing out.

[Freightdog862]

I'd be very happy to see both Red Tops and Firestreaks back in stock.

Yes they will come back. These were cast by the late Phil Edwards from  Paul's masters, when he passed away the original masters were missing, so I need Paul to make a sub or new masters. Both popular so will definately re-release as soon as I can, along with the Radar Red Tops with Phantom launch shoe.

[Freightdog862]

Nice one - fingers crossed for you. 

Things I would 100% buy, probably in multiple packs:

Sabres
Blue Dolphins
SRAAM-100 twin launchers
AS.11s

Given that there were 600-odd thousand AS/SS.11s built and deployed on 30-odd platforms, it's remarkable how hard they are to get. For example, Air Graphics models seem to think it's worth having almost every conversion set imaginable for the old Airfix Westland Scout, but the one thing they don't do is the 4 x AS.11 fit. Likewise, I don't know of any aftermarket set to do the widely-used 4 x AS.11s on an Alouette III setup, and the heller Alouette III is very widely available. If you wanted to get into land-based stuff, nobody does a conversion for 4 x SS.11s on the AMX-13 tank in 1/72nd. Again, very well-know fit and widely available Heller model.

I would like to do the SRAAM-100 twin launchers, I will try and get ready for Scale Modelworld 2023. We decided to finish the resin Wasp complete kit and release in the ROTORCraft range, it was started over 10 years ago but dropped when I heard S & M were doing the injection kits. As these have never happened and the competition from Air Graphics is not very good, hopefully at Telford we will have a limited production run of this kit. There was an AS.11 master in there so will look at whether it can be finished off. 

Colin

[Gondor]

I'd be very happy to see both Red Tops and Firestreaks back in stock.

Yes they will come back. These were cast by the late Phil Edwards from  Paul's masters, when he passed away the original masters were missing, so I need Paul to make a sub or new masters. Both popular so will definately re-release as soon as I can, along with the Radar Red Tops with Phantom launch shoe.

  

[PR19_Kit]

A injection 1/72 Wasp kit seems a bit like the modeller's Holy Grail. We've beeen chasing it for decades but it's always just out of reach.

I've still got an 'Alan Hall' conversion Wasp build sitting on my Display Shelf, that's the one which was supposed to use 4 Airfix Hudson kits just to provide the hubs for the whheels! 

Who has four Hudson kits just lying around doing nothing, and what do you do with what's left of them afterwards? 

I DIDN'T do that and made my hubs from strips of 20 thou bent into a U shape..............