New models I'd like to see produced.

+1 on the list plus Cessna 180-185

I would endorse all of these, especially the Reliant, which I have been pushing for.  Which Stearman were you talking about, Patrick?  We sure need a PT-17, even though it is not strictly a Civil aircraft unless converted to duster or just a civil owned classic.  There were, however, a number of Stearman models intended for civil service.

I still say we need a decent DC-3 and a decent Ford Trimotor!

A dear friend, now gone, re-drew the plans, sold several sets and built this Great Lakes - http://i1281.photobucket.com/albums/a520/lwillis1/DSCF0039_zps38c2aece.jpg

Thanks, guys.

Heepey: Your friends Great Lakes is just beautiful.

Bick: Nice Ercoupe and Waco Cabin models, great construction and painting. The craft acrylics I bought were what Michaels said were their best in stock, there is another art supply store in town, I'll try them.

Don: Yes, for sure the PT-17. From there, modifications could easily convert it to the Navy N3N or whatever.

Thanks again.

Patrick

Patrick,

Add a Rearwin Speedster to your list  (gotta be red, of course)- and I want all of 'em.

PS If you like the SR7 have a look HERE for Paul Bradley's micro RC Reliant - video of flight near the last page.

Hey guys,

Take the FSM Most-Wanted Kits Survey:

Go to this link and vote for the models you'd most like to see manufacturers make.

We'll publish the results in the September 2013 FineScale Modeler.

Best,

Tim

Your survey doesn't have a catagory for something I'd love to see and that's construction equipment. How about a bulldozer or backhoe or excavator? If anyone has ever produced a kit for any of these things I've yet to find it.

Bick -

OK, if you get to have your Rearwin, (red,) then I'm entitled to have the Stinson Station Wagon, (maroon.)

Patrick

Patrick,

Good deal! The Stinson Station Wagon was a nice airplane BUT not as sexy as the Rearwin LOL!

Voted for a 1/144  MD-11, again.

I am planning a series of 1/48th scale civil aircraft in vac-form to keep prices down.  The Stinson Reliant is one on the list as is the Erco Ercoupe, because one was always buzzing up in the skies of my childhood near Stapleford Tawney airfield (we called it Abridge).

Possibly a Waco as Lars Operland has furnished me with a lot of info on them.  Normally it will be English subject matter, as that's what I know and like best.

Another light aircraft I like is the Super Emeraude.  But the ubiquitous Cessna 172, etc. really should be done as it is the most prolific a/c ever built!  

Austers, too.

Watch this space.  Interest so far is, frankly, woeful! So much so that I may just shelve the whole thing to the level where I just do literally what I like for the hell of it.  My son has a vac-former anyway.  And I could always sell the patterns for resins.

What really annoys me is the way the World and his wife will fawn all over the rare good build of a civil light a/c, yet wouldn't dream of building one even if they have one in their stash!

Martin

I have just learned that Minicraft do a new Cessna 172 model, on floats in 1/48th scale.  It is imported by a company very near me!

AND a Cessna 150 on wheels and a Piper Super Cub!  Also 1/48th scale.  Maybe things are looking up, eh?

Just read that the 172 has removable engine cowlings and engine detail!!

Martin

I'm going to give this a go with a Waco ZQC-5, on floats and skis in 1/48th scale, vac-form. My info is from Lars Opland who knows his bush planes backwards and is, of course, the man behind the excellent Khee-Kha 1/72nd scale kits.

Wish me luck.  I figure the American market is big enough to at least cover costs, whereas Britain?.....

Martiin

"Your survey doesn't have a catagory for something I'd love to see and that's construction equipment. How about a bulldozer or backhoe or excavator? If anyone has ever produced a kit for any of these things I've yet to find it."

AMT did a bulldozer, front loader, scraper, in 1/25.  They aren't too hard to find.

A Shorts C-23 sherpa

A good large scale T-37 and T-38

Hmm.  Never seen a civil T-37.  That would be interesting.  I have seen some nice builds of kits of the T-38.  I suppose NASA's birds could be considered civil.

Doh!

But I would still like them.

I have an A-37 in my stash.  Would like to build it as a T-37, which I flew for awhile before I washed out. I have been trying to remember the differences. I think the A-37 had a different engine but whether the tailpipe was different or not I do not remember.  

I suppose one could take that A-37 kit and paint it as a civil aircraft.  Either use homemade decals or use N-numbers from some other kit.

The engines were different. The A-37 used  non-afterburning J-85 T-38 engines.

The A-37 also had tip tanks and hard points on the wing. I think the cockpit was updated with a gunsight.

It also had a mini gun mounted on the forward right fuselage.

I know the engines were a different model.  Were the A engines afterburning? I'd guess that would make the tailpipe a lot different.  Yeah, I figured I could take the tanks and hardpoints off the wing with no trouble.  Gun might be a bit harder. But the tailpipes might be the hardest to fix.

Don, I started to do that conversion on a Monogram kit and found that the inlets are larger on the A-37, that looked like the hardest part to me.   I am pretty certain there were no afterburners on the A-37, straight GE J-85's are plenty for it.  Same engine as the 23-28 series Lears, civil CJ-610.  The T-37 engines had real poor acceleration so they kept the idle rpm pretty high and had attenuators, flaps that could open in to the exhaust stream, they are shown in the drawing below.

Here is a T-37 3-view from the days when Cessna had a really good PR department.

images3.jetphotos.net/.../91783_1238276565.jpg

That latest Minicraft 172 is a very nice kit- new molds.  Sharp detail.  Both a land and seaplane version are available. I have the kit and it is in the queue to my bench.