Anigrand

[Thorvic]

Magna did the Belfast and yes the resin was thick, but i suspect Arnold could do a better job of it.

Now if we could interest Arnold in doing the AW681.....

[kitnut617]

Magna did the Belfast and yes the resin was thick, but i suspect Arnold could do a better job of it.

And it weighs like a brick, I've got one of them.

Now if we could interest Arnold in doing the AW681.....

Agreed,  I would even send him a copy of the Brochure I have on CD

[famvburg]

   1/144 is fine if that's what one collects. Realistically, the An-124 wouldn't be any worse than a C-5. I'd suspect either of the Antonovs would be more of an Amodel kit anyway & their method of construction is certainly substantial enough for especially the An-225.

There's an excellent 1:144 scale An-124 out there. Why go for a bigger scale? In 1:72, you're getting to the limit of what's buildable without the model collapsing under its own weight, and I don't see Anigrand building a kit that's more detailed than the Revell one.

We could use a 1:144 conversion to build an An-225. That would go nicely with the Buran that Anigrand already does.

[Green Dragon]

Piccies of the 1/72nd C-5 are up. Very impressed! http://www.anigrand.com/AA9001_C-5B.htm

Paul Harrison

[Gondor]

A built model would take up a whole table at a show !!!!!!

That's one BIG model

Gondor

[anthonyp]

Holy Cow!!!!!!  Look at all that resin!  And from what I can see, the interior details are crisp and clean.  And Arnold is offering it for about $26 less than Nostalgic Plastic lists it at ($380 with shipping vs. $406 at NP).

Look at that landing gear!  Might need to look at replacing the resin wheels with either metal or solid rubber  

I want, but would seriously have to take out a second mortgage and build an addition to the house to put it in.

EDIT:  NP lowered the price to the same as Arnold's.

[kitnut617]

I'll have to take back what I said earlier, that is some seriously nice casting ---

[Mossie]

Looks fantastic.  Hopefully he'll do an An-124 & An-225!

[NARSES2]

Looks to be in a different resin to Arnold's usual stuff ? Different colour anyway

[Green Dragon]

Extra kits with the 1/144th C-5M Galaxy are the Fairchild T-46A, Boeing YUH-61 and Cessna O-2/337 Skymaster. http://www.anigrand.com/AA4058_C-5M.htm
The Sentinel will have 3 British aircraft extras but no word on what yet. http://www.anigrand.com/AA4057_Sentinel_R-1.htm

Edit:- parts pic for the B-54A Ultrafortress. http://www.anigrand.com/images/items/AA4054_B-54A/AA4054_B-54A_parts.gif

Paul Harrison

[Green Dragon]

Still no word on extras for the Sentinel but the XB-55 page now has the extra kit silhouettes posted. http://www.anigrand.com/AA4055_XB-55.htm
They appear to be the Bell XV-3, F5-D Skylancer and the middle one looks like..... the Grumman Design 118! http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=491.0
The only other thing it looks close too is the McDonnell F-3G/H.

Paul Harrison

[famvburg]

      While I admire & usually look forward to Anigrand's 1/72 releases, & sometimes his other stuff, I wonder about some of his refs. The XB-55 isn't a TP version of the B-47, just shares a similar design & he has a pic of a B-29 nose section which tested manned turrets & has nothing to do with the XB-54. I've seen quite a few other ref mistakes on other models as well. I've bought several of his 1/144 kits as refs for 1/72 scratcbuilds as all I have to do is take his parts & double up on the dimensions.

Still no word on extras for the Sentinel but the XB-55 page now has the extra kit silhouettes posted. http://www.anigrand.com/AA4055_XB-55.htm
They appear to be the Bell XV-3, F5-D Skylancer and the middle one looks like..... the Grumman Design 118! http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=491.0
The only other thing it looks close too is the McDonnell F-3G/H.

Paul Harrison

[famvburg]

       When I see things like this, I have to wonder. Have you compared every model you've ever built to perfect drawings? When the kits get built up, do they look like what they're supposed to be? I gave up on JMN many years ago & as long as the completed model looks like what it's supposed to be, I'm happy.

     While I admire & usually look forward to Anigrand's 1/72 releases, & sometimes his other stuff, I wonder about some of his refs. The XB-55 isn't a TP version of the B-47, just shares a similar design & he has a pic of a B-29 nose section which tested manned turrets & has nothing to do with the XB-54. I've seen quite a few other ref mistakes on other models as well. I've bought several of his 1/144 kits as refs for 1/72 scratcbuilds as all I have to do is take his parts & double up on the dimensions.

SNAP!

I acquired the Mirage G8 kit at SMW this past weekend, I'm currently sat with the excellent book "Le Mirage F-1: Et les Mirage de seconde generation a voilure en lieche", this goes into some detail on the G8 and includes some lovely 1/72 scale drawings of the G8. Well I'm comparing the kit to the drawings and oh dear...  

Now lets get one thing straight first...I AM NO JMN! However, I do get a little anal about certain aircraft, the Vigilante being one, and anything by Dassault another. I've always wanted a kit of the G8 since I was a kid, and thus I am possibly somewhat disappointed by what I am finding.

It all starts well... the wings nearly match the drawings, and the horizontal stabs are spot on. So far so good... then you note that both included vert stabs are too small..both in cord and height. The supplied optional ventral fins are way off, for both the single and twin seaters, but this is by far the least of the problems. The basic aft fuselage is too short, and lacks the subtle area rule waisting of the real thing, its just a straight line from intake to tail, with only a slight boat-tailing near the exhaust nozzles. It comes out about 8mm too short compared to the drawings, and worse still the wing glove is too small and has an incorrect leading edge sweepback angle, and the pivot point for the wings is not in the right place (I think this is due to the various inaccuracies in the rest of the aft and central fuselage).

All this adds up to the intakes being out of position, and they are also too small   worse still, the foward fuselage is way too narrow and shallow, the total fuselage width is just about the width of the actual canopy glass as per the drawings! Then both supplied nosecones for either flown variant come out too small as well. Having done some online research, a number of sites quote a figure of 16.8m long, and thats the figure Arnold quotes in the instruction sheet, I've lashed the model together with tape and measured, the result comes out at a shade over 17m...so in the ballpark for the quoted figures, there's just one small problem...the book quotes a figure of 18.9m long... so now...do I believe the online sources...or the book... the book is extremely detailed... and the drawings match the dimensions given...hmmmm    

As of now, the kit is back in the box while I consider this, and decide what to do...say sod it and just build it up and put it in an operational scheme, or do I figure out how to correct the mistakes...major surgery lies that way...or, by sods law, the fuselage is a good match for that of the F2R I am currently scratchbashing, do I chop up a £50.00 kit just to use as scratch fodder...decisions.... decisions



Duncan

EDIT: I've just checked the kit against the Mirage G drawings and it's actually a much closer match to that than the G8!!!

FURTHER EDIT: I've done some more comparisons, and I think Arnold has used the online references, which I think have mixed up the Mirage G and G8's dimensions, as the book quotes 16.8m as the length of the Mirage G, not the G8

The vertical stabs and ventrals match the G, and the wing glove and forebody do as well, the intakes are ever so slightly too big for the G, but way too small for the G8. So that leaves me with a further option, discard the aft fuselage and use the area from the glove forwards to create the Mirage G....hmmmmm 

[kevincallahan]

Looks like Anigrand is rolling out a 1:72 Boeing Clipper for the new year. Even though I've had some pretty uneven castings from them (bubbles and short-shots) I've always wanted a Clipper in the civil/commercial aircraft section. My budget is groaning already.

Kevin C of 72Land

[Hobbes]

The Sentinel R.1 release date is set as Dec. 11, and the 'extras' silhouettes are up:



So, a Rotodyne and a P.1214. Dunno what the small helo is.