TALKING MODELS - Should all aircraft models be inflight?
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2022
- In this episode of Talking Models, I ponder the suggestion raised by Master Modeller Paul Budzik that model manufacturers should release much simpler aircraft kits, with all their openable panels closed, including landing gear, making for inflight models!
Paul's RUclips channel, The Scale Model Workshop is here: / @scale-model-workshop
His interview at the Sprue Cutters Union podcast can be found here: spruecuttersu.buzzsprout.com/...
Timestamp at around 2 hrs 30 minute for the discussion on making models simpler...
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This has been a note of contention with me for many many years, I have always been dissappointed in the fact that kit manufacturers do not include a pilot figure. Some kits have a standing pilot figure for grounded aeroplane dioramas but hardly ever include a sitting pilot for in-flight dioramas, apart from some of the 1/72 scale plane kits. I don't really see the point of having an aeroplane on the ground with landing gear down unless that is the specific dio you want to build as an aeroplane is specifically designed to fly, it makes more sense to me to make a dio of the plane in-flight and therefore every aeroplane kit, no matter which scale should include a sitting in-flight pilot figure. Please, any manufacturers that read any comments on RUclips, please, please, please start including a pilot figure, i'm sick of having to either convert a figure to fit, or spend a fortune on resin aftermarket pilots just to make a kit in-flight when that figure should have been included in the kit in the first place.
I just completed a Tamiya 1/48 Dewoitine 520 and it was fun with only 2 sprues!
Great subject. Here's the rub........ nothing has lost it's identity as much as an aircraft on the ground. "Don't just stand there. Get one up!"
Great editorial Chris. As an older modeller I agree with you. I have chosen not to buy a kit because of the parts count( may not live that long!). Like many of the comments below, I want a reasonably detailed kit, not an exact part by part model. I do appreciate the many talented detail builders that are out there. I have always wondered why most aircraft kits are built wheels down? To me planes are meant to be in the air, they look much better 'flying'. We do need better flying display bases.
could not agree more.i always put my aircraft in flight
I agree...... although many love to display their aircraft on the ground, and in a dio, aircraft are designed to be in the air!! It's where they come alive!!
In-flight gear door options/closed panels with proper fitting closed canopy should always be an option in any aircraft kit. Granted…I prefer in-flight builds myself, but from the perspective of a “simpler” kit to construct as a way to attract newer builders…I agree
I like what you said about buildability, I like a simple fit, the painting and weathering is the skill, if you have to fiddle to get alignment proper, it speaks about the design of the model, to begin with.
I watched this after Chris' latest video regarding the Style of Modelling. I strongly agree with the premise. I think there's a place for very expensive highly detailed models with photo-etch and 1.000 parts right down to simple "quick" builds. That doesnt mean that these models should lack detail or quality. Armour kits which come with and without interiors are going in the right direction. I think aircraft and ship models should adopt a similar approach. Design the kit so that those who want to hyper- or super-detail can either out of the box or by buying add-on kits that provide the super-detailing sprues. I would also add, if you choose to add photo-etch as a manufacturer you should not remove plastic parts leaving the modeller with no choice.
Great vid.I am a returning modeler. I have always felt that aircraft should be the default option. That's the way aircraft are designed, their usefulness. How many cover art on the boxes are planes flying, not sitting on the apron waiting for something.
If only manufacturer's would include in flight stands and better moudlings to represent in flight configuration. 100% agree!
So kits that match the skill level suggested on the box sounds good it would also attract those who just want to paint the models not build them.
I remember back in 1977 I bought the Airfix 1/24 scale Me109 and the landing gear could open and cloes,also the canopy and also I had a 1/48 scale Hawker Hurricane that did the same thing.
That Kotare spit looks fantastic. You can get the Revell 1/32 Mk.iia which I’ve built and it’s not bad and cheap.
Enjoyed your vid... I got back into the hobby a couple of years back and started off with fairly inexpensive Tamiya, Airfix - some ancient ones, Frog, Hasegawa, Revell etc... Mainly 1/72 aircraft and in most added a neodymium magnet in the fusalage even in a model with wheels down they look great on the re-issue Airfix stands simply cut off the notch on the stand and superglue the magnet to the stand, the
I think you are correct, the problem is no pilot and stand are not provided in most kits.
My old Airfix Spitfire came with a dedicated set of up and down gears.
Great video Chris, which not only makes very practical sense but economic sense too. Even old modellers like me, I’ve been at it 59 years, hanker for simpler times. I would absolutely echo all you and Paul have said and yes please, more videos like this as I certainly would like to get a shelf full of finished models rather than lots of nearly there because I’ve just lost the Will!!! Thanks Chris and excuse my ramblings
Hi Chris , I do agree that many of the new kits are getting too complex and expensive to be reasonably quick builds and have also wondered why so few kits have pilots and some new ideas for stands to display them in flight as after all that is their intended purpose . I have also been waiting for the Kotare ( you did pronounce it fairly well ) Spitfire of one of NZ's famous sons Al Deere , hopefully this might set some new standards for the industry of precision engineering and fit without being over complex .
Would love to see a video (or series) on the intricacies of wheels up modelling.