| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2013 10:43 p.m. PST |
"I'm happy to show you the first results of a new range we had been silently working out for a long since. What you see in the attached captions is the very first model of our new range devoted to Spanish Civil War fighting aircraft, that will be developed at 1/100th and 1/144th scales alongside. Yes, legendary Polikarpov I-15 "Chato" is ready for lording Spain's skies again!"
From here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| johnpreece | 13 Oct 2013 2:19 a.m. PST |
That is tremendous news. You have a knack of knowing exactly what is needed. Also these are very clean and nice looking kits. I shall probably go for 1/144 since I have a few die cast bombers already, but having a choice is great. Accompanying decals would be just perfection. Congratulations John |
| Captain dEwell | 13 Oct 2013 2:27 a.m. PST |
Very useful and nice to see. Thanks. |
| Johny Boy | 13 Oct 2013 3:03 a.m. PST |
I'm in for some 1/144 models, especially the Fiat Cr 32 |
| Dogged | 13 Oct 2013 4:25 a.m. PST |
Lluís is becoming the most wargamer friendly miniature manufacturer this side f the Ebre river… |
 Lluis of Minairons  | 13 Oct 2013 6:43 a.m. PST |
Don't know how, but Tango01 always manages to overtake my own Hobby News announcements (grrrrrrr)  Well, that's the stuff I wished to let you know. Happy to read any kind of feedbacks, suggestions or criticisms you would deserve to the new range. Cheers,
Lluís
www.minairons.eu
minairons-news.blogspot.com |
| NoPasaran | 13 Oct 2013 6:49 a.m. PST |
very interesting aircraft 1/100 15mm! |
 Saginaw  | 13 Oct 2013 6:54 a.m. PST |
BEAUTIFUL!!  Lluís, do you have an idea of which aircraft you want to depict, specifically in 1/100 scale? I'm guessing that the majority of them will be fighters, ground attack, and possibly reconnaissance aircraft. Don't know how, but Tango01 always manages to overtake my own Hobby News announcements (grrrrrrr) It might be time for you to offer him a job with your company, Lluís.  |
| Lluis of Minairons | 13 Oct 2013 8:49 a.m. PST |
It might be time for you to offer him a job with your company, Lluís. An ideal hire for spotting and counter-spionnage duties, certainly  …do you have an idea of which aircraft you want to depict I'd love to produce some of the most common SCW aeroplanes, taking care not to duplicate subjects already worked by other manufacturers with a similar pattern of quality. Likely candidates are Henschel Hs-123 and Grumman G-23 (ground attack), Nieuport-Delage NiD-52 and Breguet XIX (early war aircraft), or the beautiful Hawker Fury. Just for listing a few. Lluís |
| Black Bull | 13 Oct 2013 10:01 a.m. PST |
How about a I-15bis or didn't any go to Spain ? |
| jpattern2 | 13 Oct 2013 10:04 a.m. PST |
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| johnpreece | 13 Oct 2013 10:11 a.m. PST |
You have the two I would most want in your first release. From a wargames point of view ground attack aircraft are the most useful but only by a narrow margin. I would say Breguet and Nieuport for the next release in order to get the early air force represented. Then the Condor legion Henschel. But you really cant go wrong, so many beautiful aircraft to choose from. |
| Lluis of Minairons | 13 Oct 2013 10:43 a.m. PST |
Hi Black Bull, There were I-15bis in Spain indeed --but at so small numbers and so late that didn't play any significant role. It shouldn't be discarded though, for its non-negligible role at Winter War or Sino-Japanese war… …hasn't Battlefront already released it, BTW? Or was it an I-153? |
| Saginaw | 13 Oct 2013 11:53 a.m. PST |
…hasn't Battlefront already released it, BTW? Or was it an I-153? It's the I-153 "Chaika", Lluís. Likely candidates are Henschel Hs-123 and Grumman G-23 (ground attack), Nieuport-Delage NiD-52 and Breguet XIX (early war aircraft), or the beautiful Hawker Fury. Just for listing a few. GREAT choices! |
| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2013 9:08 p.m. PST |
Luis, va ser pura casualitat. Els teus treballs són els millors.
Espero que no descobreixis al meu espia dins de la teva empresa (somriure). teu amic
Armand |
| Lluis of Minairons | 14 Oct 2013 2:54 a.m. PST |
Armand, Merci a toi pour ton amitié  A la prôchaine,
Lluís |
| Joes Shop | 14 Oct 2013 5:21 a.m. PST |
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BlackWidowPilot  | 14 Oct 2013 3:47 p.m. PST |
Lluis, speaking of things SCW, have you ever seen this contraption before:
Source:
link
If it was used in the SCW, I want one in 1/72 scale!
Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net
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| Etranger | 14 Oct 2013 9:12 p.m. PST |
I'm so glad that you're making these in 1/100! |
| Patrice | 15 Oct 2013 4:32 p.m. PST |
Very interesting. Since some time I think that such small aircraft (1/100 or 1/144 or whatever I'm not sure yet) would be good for air forces above 28mm battlefields. We don't really need 28mm aircraft as long as they are in the sky above the gaming table they can look smaller (and so they can really be small). |
| Lluis of Minairons | 16 Oct 2013 10:10 a.m. PST |
Leland, Nice gun indeed. I've browsed a bit around to find some info on it, and have read that around 30 of them were used in SCW --mainly in Central and Northern Spain. Hum… having so a long barrel, it won't be that easy to bring it into resin, though --unless barrel itself is cast in metal, along with something for counter-weighting it, don't you believe? Well, we perhaps might include it in our public wishlist. Lluís |
| Lluis of Minairons | 16 Oct 2013 10:15 a.m. PST |
For 28mm gamers: It's likely that we decide in the end to produce these aircraft at 1:72nd too. However, market is literally plenty of modelism 1:72nd aircraft kits --and this keeps us a bit doubtful. Just for case, both I-15 and CR.32 are already being re-scaled right now, so that whenever a decision is taken we'll have their 3D-printed prototypes ready! Cheers,
Lluís |
| BlackWidowPilot | 16 Oct 2013 2:54 p.m. PST |
Lluis, about that Fiat CR 32 in 1/72 scale: to the best of my knowledge there's only one (1) plastic kit of this important SCW aircraft available, the old SuperModel kit which has the very worst set of interplane struts I've ever encountered in an injection moulded plastic model kit! GAH! As a wargamer, I am always on the look out for subjects that don't take me half a year to build. Right now I have a Nieuport Delage NiD-522 and a Polikarpox R-5 in Republican colors, and some unbuilt kits of the SM 81, the Potez 540, and some I-15s, but, I personally need some air support for my Nationalists, and a fast build CR-32 would be a great addition, as frankly I'd want to build several not just for the SCW, but for the Chinese KMT Air Force, and the Regia Aeronautic for the Ethiopian invasion and later as ground attack aircraft during the British invasion of Italian-occupied Abyssinia. Like the I-15/I-15bis/I-153, the CR 32 got around quite a bit more than many appreciate, and it was used both as a fighter aircraft, and IIRC as a ground attack aircraft, so if the kit included some underwing anti-personnel bombs, that would be a real bonus! As for that McLean gun, perhaps you could render the entire gun in white metal, and the rest in plastic/resin?
Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net
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| Lluis of Minairons | 17 Oct 2013 10:57 a.m. PST |
I-15 and CR.32 designs already re-scaled into 1/72nd!! (Don't ask me when shall we release it, though; too soon for knowing yet. We must taste their respective 1/100th version degree of success first) As for the "maklen" gun, I definitely like it --so that will see what we can do for enforcing it into the pipeline. |
