Two new Revell upcoming releases

Ditto, Don.  And I put in a vote for a good 1/48 Ford Tri-motor.

Curt

That Stearman is sweet!  I'll have to put one on my list of things to do.  Thanks for the heads up... Raymond

Sorry to tangent the topic, but since were now talking  DC-3/C-47s, how about a 1/48 Ju-88 A-1 so we can finally have a Battle of Britain variant?  They did it in 1/32 scale.  Anyone else with me on this?

Joe

The Monogram DC-3 is a rework of their original C-47 molds- no cargo doors and the smaller step door instead, no astrodome for the navigator, and something different with the tail cone as well. The interior has the passenger seats instead of the side benches, and a set of molded curtains to glue in place over the windows once those are installed. While it does not have recessed panel lines of todays kits (inaccurate for the overlapping skin panels and raised rivets of a gooney) it still builds up quite nicely. I saw one built (C-47) at an IPMS meet a couple years back where the builder had built up enough paint  and the sanded the raised panel lines down to wher it looked like those were drawn on. It looked fantastic! I still have not been able to replicate his technique for that.

Too many of the supposed DC-3 kits have the big cargo door scribed on the side.  Don't specifically remember the Monogram one you mention, but I think it was long enough ago that it probably doesn't have the molding quality of recent kits.

Don Stauffer

I think we need a nice DC-3  more than we need a C-47 :-(

For sure the Stearman.

I think we need a nice DC-3  more than we need a C-47 :-(

I also noticed that they plan on rereleasing their C-47 next quarter.  I've been waiting for that reissue for a long time.

My mistake, it is indeed a RAF Ventura, and not a Hudson. But still very welcome with its RAF equipment.

Stearman Pic don't show & HobbyShipper.com links don't work for me,

but if you type in the search box RMXS5533 or RMXS5264 The pics show up.

The Brit Ventura looks like it will have a glass nose & 'Brit' style turret, Soooo... Want it!

The artwork looks like it was 'coloured-in' by a talented child, though   

  No matter which color scheme I go with on the Stearman, it's going to look really nice compared to the usual drab colors found on all the fighters and bombers in my collection.  Gotta love those old yellow wings!

Eric

Definitely waiting anxiously for that Stearman!

Sorry, guys, that's not a Hudson, it's a Ventura in British colors as the listing says. The Hudson was the smaller precursor of the Ventura. The tell is the ventral gun position, longer engine nacelles and cowls, etc. on the Ventura. To do a Hudson in 1/48, you'd have to find the out-of-production Classic Airframes kit or maybe a vac kit(?).

Yup... me too!

Ill definitely be getting a hudson, itll be nice to be able to buold essentially the same kit with some cool paint schemes as the ventura