Holy Grail -- Part Deux?

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keavdog wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:24 am I had always loved the look of the Defiant despite it's record. It was the first modern Airfix kit I did and it was awesome - love what they're doing
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I did the 1/72 Airfix Defiant a couple years back, and I've wanted to do another one. Does Airfix do a 1/48 Defiant?
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That's what's in the picture. Airfix # A05128A
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Yes, Airfix came out with this kit a few years back. It’s all new tooling and quite nice.
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keavdog wrote: Sun Aug 06, 2023 3:35 pm 1/20 Red Bull F1 Max Verstappens ride. Or any modern halo car F1 and Indy
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Wow that looks nice! Super pricey but nice.
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Only because I want one (built as a young teen...shot up with bb gun)...the

1/32 Monogram Phantom Huey with sound!

and/or the

Renwal Visible Wasp radial engine.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Kits that I would like to see:

Newer kits to replace other ones
1/72 Cheyenne, coolest helicopter ever. The Aurora/Atlantis kit is outdated.
1/72 G-6 wheeled artillery, I found that there is a white metal kit but that look very rough.

Kits that don’t exist
1/72 Me-163A (no the Condor kit doesn’t count, that doesn’t remotely look like a 163)
1/72 HAL Tejas, come on India, do yourself a favour and make a kit if it!

Kits that do exist and I really want:
1/72 Sword P-66, passed on it once. Never saw one again…
1/72 either Heritage Avation of Vami Grob Twin Astir/Viking. Both are out of business so that is going to be tough
1/72 Pavla Culver, one again, out of business
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I have several kits that are my Holy Grails. Here’s a few on top of my head, all vintage kits….

Auto kits:

MPC Dodge Off-Road Pickup Camper w/Suzuki dirt bike
Several Monogram Tom Daniels Design kits such as Quicksilver/Bad Actor Chevy Panel Truck, Tijuana Taxi, Red Baron, Vandal/Vanbulance, Cherry Bomb, Bad Medicine, etc…
Any vintage Monogram kit from the 70s and 80s
KISS van
1/20 scale MPC Highjacker Ford Econoline Off-road van
1/16 scale Street Charger
1/8 scale Monogram ‘78 Corvette

Aircraft:

Monogram 1/72 scale B-52 Stratofortress / Big, Bad, Beautiful B-52 Stratofortress - both are vintage kits of my youth years


Others:

8 Clydesdale Budweiser wagon kit

The General locomotive kit


Ships…

Any vintage Revell 1/720 scale ship kits from the 70s
Any vintage Revell 1/600 scale WW2 carrier, battleship, destroyer, cruiser kits - Hornet, Yorktown, Enterprise, etc…

Lindberg large scale PT-109 Kennedy torpedo boat
Revell 1/72 scale John F. Kennedy PT-109 torpedo boat
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:hmm: I'm thinking that I must be quite strange, well alright I know I AM but still, I don't think I have a 'grail kit' as such - certainly nothing that springs to mind, I'm too busy trying to build what I've already got.

If I had to choose anything, I guess I'd like to see more non-military subjects - a decent range of GA aircraft (Cessna's, Pipers etc.) and what about some decent farm or construction machinery in 1/35th or 1/24th? I've never understood why the latter wasn't more popular - some of the modern Tractors are HUGE and a JCB excavator would be a great subject - certainly plenty of weathering opportunity.
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