Colin, How about half a kit? I would like to have a good 1/48 P-47B. The main differences between a B model P-47 and later, lets say early D models, is that the B is about 8 inches shorter. Which you can actually see in panels lines of models were Republic add to the fuselage. It has the fewer cowl flaps like the C model. It has a shorter draft on the belly. A forward raked antenna mast behind the cockpit and fabric control surfaces. There might be other smaller changes, I would half to look through my notes. If you could create just the fuselage that used a donor Tamia kit for the wings, tail, gear ect..... The control surfaces would be easy enough to sand down and make look fabric. Now, on to a money maker. WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A GOOD QUALITY 1/48 SCALE P-38!!!! I mean really, it is only one of the most iconic aircraft of all time and all there are no high quality kits of it, only marginal to down right crappy versions. thanks, Tim

Colin: Just curious but what scale is your Pietenpol Air Camper going to be in? I'd never heard of it and had to go look it up. I've always thought building your own aircraft to be a pretty cool idea- sorta a 1/1 scale aircraft kit. And she's a neat looking plane. Looking forward to more details on your work! 

 

I'd list something but everything I can think of is so strange, off-the-wall, or impractical that it'd be a bear to produce and only sell poorly. 

For example: 

The Nakajima G10N Fugaku, a giant aircraft designed to take off from Japan, cruise over the Pacific, overfly the US and Canada bombing any target desired, cross the Atlantic, and then land to refuel and rearm in Germany. Fujimi has a nice kit in 1/144th but I wish someone made one in 1/72nd to go with the rest of my big bombers. 

There is a very nice Staggerwing by Roden in 1:48.  I think a good 1:32 would be a good seller.  There is a 1:32 L-19 which could probably be built as a civil plane.  The Cessna that is really needed is the 190/95, and 1:32 would indeed be a great scale for that.  The latest (new mold) 1:48 kits from Minicraft are very nice, 150 and 172, though they are tail heavy and require a lot of nose weight to sit on nose gear.

 

In 1/144:

Avro Shackleton

Handley Page Hastings

In 1/72 and/or 1/144:

Douglas C-117

Douglas B-23 Dragon 

1/144 Blohm & Voss BV 238

1/48 Blohm & Voss BV 138

In 1/48 I’d like to see:

AH-1G Cobra

F-82G

B-45

B-26A

AH-56

I'd love to see a new tooling of a 1/72 B52 bomber. Revell and Academy both had kits in the past but neither one was a really great kit. It's a pipe dream but it's what I'd like to see. Even a 1/72 B1 Bomber would be great to see retooled.

I also usually build 1/48 scale. I realize there's a 1/72 kit that was (is?) available but I'd love to see a 1/48 Consolidated TBY-2.

I’d love to see a F-84F_Thunderstreak in 1/32 scale! 

Greatmaker

 

Bish

 

 

qlabs

Yeah I've never seen a Ju-87C. Come to think about it I'm not even sure I've seen a conversion for one.
Nice suggestion!

 

 

 

 

hasegawa did a 48th kit. I have been looking for years and never found a kit or conversion in 72nd. When FSM used to put out the survey for kits we wanted, that was always at the top of my list.

 

 

 

 

Hey Bish I did a little searching and found this 

http://www.klueser.eu/kit.php?index=480&language=en

 

I have not seen that but but have seen anotehr one, i am thinking thats the way i will have to go. The surgery is simple enough, its cut straight along the kink in the wing. Its just adding the detail for the wing fold.

Bish

 

 

qlabs

Yeah I've never seen a Ju-87C. Come to think about it I'm not even sure I've seen a conversion for one.
Nice suggestion!

 

 

 

 

hasegawa did a 48th kit. I have been looking for years and never found a kit or conversion in 72nd. When FSM used to put out the survey for kits we wanted, that was always at the top of my list.

 

Hey Bish I did a little searching and found this 

http://www.klueser.eu/kit.php?index=480&language=en

I work in 1/48 scale, so my list would be Bristol/DAP Beaufort, Martin Baltimore (a good one!), Vultee Vengeance, AW Albemarle, and how about a Curtis Commando?

Nice list, I know there has been a 1/48 Cornell, the Canadian RCAF version of the PT-19. Not sure how available it is, but I'm sure a new kit would be nice. There is a flying example at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum so it'd be fun to do variants in US and RCAF markings. PT-22 would be neat as well. I like the trainers idea.
http://www.warplane.com/aircraft/collection/details.aspx?aircraftId=17

Because of space limitations, I do mostly 1/48 scale single engine fighters. So far the only deviation from that has been the 1/72 scale Monogram F/P-82 Twin Mustang. I'd really like to see a decent early Twin Mustang in 1/48 scale. And since my dad was an AAC flight instructor, I'd like to see more trainers in 1/48 scale. Yeah, there are the Revell PT-17 Stearman and the Monogram T-6 in 1/48 scale, but what about the PT-19, the BT-13/15 and a Kinner powered PT-22. So there ya go. That's what I'd like to see if'n I had my druthers.

I would love to see a really nice and accurate 1/144 757-200.  The Minicraft kit just isnt any good.

qlabs

Yeah I've never seen a Ju-87C. Come to think about it I'm not even sure I've seen a conversion for one.
Nice suggestion!

 

hasegawa did a 48th kit. I have been looking for years and never found a kit or conversion in 72nd. When FSM used to put out the survey for kits we wanted, that was always at the top of my list.

Yeah I've never seen a Ju-87C. Come to think about it I'm not even sure I've seen a conversion for one.
Nice suggestion!

Great suggestions, I too like the staggerwing and Cessna's idea.

A Phantom in 1/24 would be impressive for sure! I built a 1/24 Spitfire years ago and that was big enough. A 1/24 F4 would be a show stopper!

Only 1 for me. 1/72nd Ju 87C.

Would love to see a Beech Stagerwing in either 1/32 or 1/24, but don't know how much call there would be.  Also Cessnas is 1/32, either singles or twins.

A 1/24 Phantom would be a beauty, either F-4E or RF-4C.  Lot of potential for super detailing, but would be a monster consideringthe 1/32's out are around 24" overall length.