Brent Gair
06-30-2006, 04:12 PM
I'm not generally one to start wish lists or whine about a particular subject being unavailable. However, sometimes there seems to be a hole in the model world which defies explanation.
Airlift has never gotten a particularly impressive representation in the model world. The C-141 had a couple of kits. The C-5A had a nice kit...not a lot of kits...but one nice one. Today, there seems to be models of almost every obscure type. I even saw a model of a Coaler.
I'm slightly dumbfounded by the complete absence of any injection molded C-17. I'm not trying to convince anybody that a C-17 will outsell any of the trillion ME-109 kits currently in production. But seriously...you can currently buy kits of the MBB Siat-223 Flamingo, Sopwith Tabloid, the Nord Griffon, HP Herald...you get the idea.
The C-17 first flew 15 years ago. It's seen action in every hot spot since then. I do have a new motive (though not my only motive) for this new interest. Canada has just announced the purchase of Four C-17's. In England, the RAF is leasing C-17's (leasing?). The Australians are buying it too. That puts it in the service of worlds main Englsih speaking countries. That's a bigger market than the C-141 or C-5 ever had.
And no kit (old Combat vacuform barely qualifies as a model of anything)?
Yeah..."Panda" announced one about 5 years ago. I can't display an announcement on my shelf.
Airlift has never gotten a particularly impressive representation in the model world. The C-141 had a couple of kits. The C-5A had a nice kit...not a lot of kits...but one nice one. Today, there seems to be models of almost every obscure type. I even saw a model of a Coaler.
I'm slightly dumbfounded by the complete absence of any injection molded C-17. I'm not trying to convince anybody that a C-17 will outsell any of the trillion ME-109 kits currently in production. But seriously...you can currently buy kits of the MBB Siat-223 Flamingo, Sopwith Tabloid, the Nord Griffon, HP Herald...you get the idea.
The C-17 first flew 15 years ago. It's seen action in every hot spot since then. I do have a new motive (though not my only motive) for this new interest. Canada has just announced the purchase of Four C-17's. In England, the RAF is leasing C-17's (leasing?). The Australians are buying it too. That puts it in the service of worlds main Englsih speaking countries. That's a bigger market than the C-141 or C-5 ever had.
And no kit (old Combat vacuform barely qualifies as a model of anything)?
Yeah..."Panda" announced one about 5 years ago. I can't display an announcement on my shelf.