Your aircraft wishlist that's never been made or out of production?

Did not know that there was a Navion kit out there.

Haven't had a chance to check back in till now.
Some fantastic suggestions and a great discussion. Thanks everyone for chipping in your ideas. I'm adding them all to my ever growing list.

Geez! Another kit that would be great in 1/48 scale! The XP-40Q. The last of that long line of fighters.

A pretty nice looking fighter plane. I know Planet Models had a resin kit of this airplane years ago. From what I've seen online, if you can find the old Planet kit, it'll cost you close to $90.00. If you can actually find one.

1/48 scale Fanjet Falcon 20. 

1/48 scale Saberliner. 

2 birds my Dad logged many hours in that are limited production out of production kits. 

1/48 scale C-123 Provider.

Accurate 1/144 DC-8 or 707

A new Buccaneer in 1/72. All we have are the ancient Revell (ex-Matchbox) and Airfix kits in styrene. There is the Czech Model kit, but something a little more affordable would be nice.

Phil_H

A new Buccaneer in 1/72. All we have are the ancient Revell (ex-Matchbox) and Airfix kits in styrene. There is the Czech Model kit, but something a little more affordable would be nice.

 

I'll go for that. Hopefully its on Airfix's to do list, just hope its not to far off.

Bish

 

 

Phil_H

A new Buccaneer in 1/72. All we have are the ancient Revell (ex-Matchbox) and Airfix kits in styrene. There is the Czech Model kit, but something a little more affordable would be nice.

 

 

 

 

I'll go for that. Hopefully its on Airfix's to do list, just hope its not to far off.

 

Did I also suggest in 1/48 scale a Cessna 190/195 Businessliner?

GMorrison

Accurate 1/144 DC-8 or 707

 

With the DC-8, maybe have an option to make it into a stretched 8, since alot of us were herded onto one for our SEA vacations.

Second on the 707, was a great bird that ushered in the passenger jet age.  Granddaddy to everything today.

I'd love an accurate/modern F-100D Super Sabre in 1/48.  I looked at the Trumpeter offering online, but the reviews ripped the kit a new one for accuracy issues.   

How about the Boeing Dash 80 in any scale! There was a old comet kit of it in the 50s.

Stuff I'd like to see will probably not sell well, like the Fw Triebflugel, Convair Sea Dart, the M2F2/X-24A&B, the LeDuc ramjets, Nord Griffon II, Snecma C.450, Douglas Skyshark, XB-46/48/51, Hughes XF-11, Vultee XP-54, McDonnel XP-67, Saunders-Roe SRA.1, BAC-221, Bristol T.188, Republic XF-103,  Rockwell XFV-12A, RB-57F, and those wacky tilt rotors like the X-22, XC-124, and XV-15, all in 1/72.  These look like candidates for MPM or Meng.

Stuff I think might sell include P-82 Twin Mustang, B-26 Marauder, A-26K Counter Invader, Canberra/B-57 series, Saab Viggen, SR-71 series, U-2 series, all in 1/48.  The CA Canberra is hard to build.  I have one on the SOD and the Airfix one, while easy to build, is Bantha podu.  We could do better than the Tarangus Viggen, and Modelcraft's P-82s, well the less said the better.  The Monogram B-26, Italeri Blackbirds, and Hawk/Italeri U-2s are past their "sell by" dates.  Oh and a 1/72 Vulcan.  Giddiyap Airfix, Trumpeter is up to something here!

Although not on my wish list, we do need modern 1/48 kits of the Kingfisher and B-17.  Plus Hasegawa should revisit their large 1/72 kits like the B-47, P-3 Orion, P2V Neptune, and Marlin, Mavis and Shinmeiwa flying boats with new tools.  Oh yeah, and where is the modern 1/35 kit of the AH-1G Vietnam-era Cobra?  I thought that a strange omission, considering it was the first of the purpose designed gunship helicopters to go into action.

Real, Huma did a 1/72nd Triebflugel. If you can get hold of one, its not to bad a kit. Would be nice to see some one like Special Hobby or RS do one though.

Mach 2 made a pretty decent A2D. In fact it's one of their better kits.

If you can find one it's worth building.

Bish - Yeah the Huma Triebflugel was the first limited run kit I built, and it was shockingly bad!  But it was the start of my Luftwaffe 1946 craze, before it became mainstream.  But I want a new, modern Triebflugel for the masses to enjoy!  Amusing Hobby announced a new 1/48 injection kit this year, but I want one in the "official" Luft 1946 scale.  

GMorrison, I have a number of Mach Poo kits, and I do not wish to add another!  I'd like someone else to do kits in their catalog, to a modern standard.  A lot of subjects I want are in their range, but in all the years in existence they have not really improved. You are brave and quite skilled to finish a Mach Poo kit!

I actually rather liked the Huma kit. Had to through in some AM for the pit, but i thought it built up nicley for a Huma kit. But ye, a new one would be welcome. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw one at some point.

Excuse me if already listed:

1/48

Bf 109 (I know right?) A-D "although I hear the new AMG offering is okay"

Do-17Z

Ju-88A-1

P-38 ALL variants

I want to see Tamiya quality 1/32 scale civilian aircraft like Cessnas, Beechcraft Bonanzas, Waco's and Staggerwings. 

The awesome Rivet Clamp thread reminded me - we need a fresh tool C-130 in 1/72, from A to J and beyond.  You could have a dozen models, each a different version in a different paint scheme flown by different operators.

General aviation planes in 1/32 sounds reasonable, as I feel 1/48 is a little small.  Revell Germany makes gliders in 1/32, so why not?

would like to see

1/48 bf-109z

1/48 Heinkel Lerche

1/48 Blohm & Voss 141

a retooling of a 1/48 b24D

a 1/48 A4 Skyhawk (uss kitty hawk, Vietnam war groud attacker please)

and finally a 1/48 me 163

oh one I forgot to add was the diamond da40

Real G

The awesome Rivet Clamp thread reminded me - we need a fresh tool C-130 in 1/72, from A to J and beyond.  You could have a dozen models, each a different version in a different paint scheme flown by different operators.

General aviation planes in 1/32 sounds reasonable, as I feel 1/48 is a little small.  Revell Germany makes gliders in 1/32, so why not?

 

I agree with you on the C-130. I'd like to do an RAF C4 but just not sure about getting the Italeri kit.

B-36Andy

How about the Boeing Dash 80 in any scale! There was a old comet kit of it in the 50s.

 

Been/being restored at Boeing.  So is still around to get data for.

First test flight-Johnston rolled it over Lake Washington during SeaFair.

I didn't run my stopwatch, but I think one of those stretch 8's out of Travis AFB gave me the longest take-off roll of my life  when I was traveling to the SEA War Games, 2nd Place Finish. I think it was actually around 45 seconds. (Although as I say when asked about the outcome: "I don't know what happened, we were still winning when I left.") 

If we are voting a B-36 Peacemaker is on my wishlist. Don't care what size. I just want one on my shelf. B-1 is another close contender as I haven't found many at my normal venues. Best of luck on your business venture either way though!

Don't see it mentioned anywhere, but a larger scale OV-1 Mohawk would be a MASSIVE opportunity for show-stopping cockpit mods, and more.  Did anyone ever make an OV-1 in any scale?  I do not recall ever seeing one.  I'm a fan of the O-birds, and now that we have a decent OV-10, a 1/32 scale Mohawk would pair up nicely.