[flyXwire]

Pre-War American:

Any Grumman or Curtiss 1930s Army/Navy biplane fighters

WWII:

Curtiss Helldiver
IL-2 Sturmovik
Mig-3
Aichi D3A1 "Val"
Japanese float plane
OS2U Kingfisher (American float plane)
Arado Ar 196 float plane (Kreigsmarine)
Savoia Marchetti S.M.79

Modern:

SR-71
SAAB "Viggen and Gripen"
Dasault F-1
Sukhoi Su-24 "Fencers"
Sukhoi Su-22 "Khadafi's Fitters" to tangle w/my FOV F-14s

[Berkut76]

I'll echo the statements before me. At this point, I'll settle for any decently made Soviet, Italian, French, and Japanese aircraft will do it for me. Heck, some Polish airplanes PZL P.11c or PZL P.23 Karas would be nice as well.

Nowadays, reference materials (if someone really wants to make a model of a Polish aircraft, I'm here to help) are plentiful even on the so-called obscure subjects, and the hardcore collectors market (i.e. US, who buy the majority of these models) is ripe and ready for variety.

Regards,

Sergey

[Cavtanker]

F-105 Vietnam era (silver or camo)
F-111
A-6 (c'mon, it lasted from Vietnam to post-ODS)

[admin]

Originally Posted by PH-LKK

There are plenty of threads that plow this ground, but I'm happy to contribute my top ten to yet another. Hobby Master already seems to be picking up on some of these, and Altaya has done a bunch of others, but I'd still vote for the following:

Originally Posted by PH-LKK

1. 1/72 F-105 Thunderchief (Some folks complain that there are not enough paint schemes; but there are probably as many as there are for the E.E. Lightning, and Corgi has demonstrated significant success with the English Electric)
2. 1/72 P-61 Black Widow
3. 1/72 MiG-15
4. 1/72 B-26 Marauder
5. 1/72 Mitsubishi G4M/G6M Betty
6. 1/72 Yak-3 (or the Yak-9)
7. 1/72 Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
8. 1/72 Aichi D3A Val
9. 1/72 Ilushin IL-2 Shturmovik
10. 1/72 F-84 Thunderjet/Thunderstreak (I know, it would require at least two sets of toolings to do both the 'Jet and the 'Streak, but I can't make up my mind between them)

I'd go with the streak. It was used by more countries than the jet.
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Oh, by the way tell Hobby Master to stop inking the D*** panel lines. Diecast panel lines are exaggerated enough in size. I appreciate them taking some cues from other manufactures, but IXO should not be one of those sampled. I'm a little disgusted by what I've seen on the new George Bush Avenger.

[fileasfog]

The PZL p 11C was one of my favourite childhood plane.

Any floatplane is good too.

[Ted in DC]

Originally Posted by fileasfog

The PZL p 11C was one of my favourite childhood plane.

Any floatplane is good too.

It looks like some momentum is building for the PZL P-11c... I guess people like the David vs. Goliath nature of the battle between them and the Luftwaffe's more modern aircraft. Not to mention the gull wing and fixed landing gear are pretty cool.

[no4mkit]

Send them all links to the forum DD!! Seriously though, with this forum and the past MH1 (and UK forum), it's hard to believe they've missed out on all the free marketing research.

So my list, sticking to my area of interest (1/72 WWII), and acknowledging that some may be announced but not yet released or already available though not the highest standard, would include:

P-39 Airacobra (US and Soviet liveries)
Curtiss Helldiver
Yak-3/9
La-7/9
OS2U Kingfisher
Griffon engined Spitfires (Mk XIV, F24, etc)
Fairey Battle
Fieseler Storch
Il-2 Sturmovik
A-20 Havoc/Boston (US & British liveries)
BP Defiant
Bf-110 (BOB and nightfighter variants)
Arado 234 Blitz
Me163 Komet
SM79 Sparviero
Bristol Blenheim
Bristol Beaufighter
Bristol Beaufort
DC-3
AW Whitley
Short Stirling

[mustangdriver]

Yeah, add the A-6 to my list.

[Folgore]

I'll add my voice to the chorus (choir?) calling for WWII Soviet, Italian and Japanese planes, and 1930s-era biplanes -- especially now that we know biplanes can be done right, thanks to Corgi's recent releases. In 1:72 scale, please. I generally stick with single-engine craft, due to space and budgetary constraints. I'd love to see the MiG-3 done right. Plus the Folgore, Kate, Jill, IL-2, I-153, F4B, F9C... *sigh* So many planes!

[Hoverbug]

I think if manufacturers want to establish themselves in a niche now, they need to start moving away from WWII and modern, which have been done to death. A diecast company could make a name for itself by really striking out into the WWI, Interwar, Korea and Vietnam eras. Sure, people have been clamoring for WWII and modern, because that's what is most known, but that's also where collectors are really starting to get burned out, because the same subjects (and often the same plane) are done by four or five 1/72 diecast manufacturers.

Take a look at IXO. The reason they sold well is not that they were well done, it was because they were covering gaps not already done to death and were thus fun to collect.

Given the number of competitors in the market, it's going to start coming down to those who do the best job on their research that are going to get the collector's dollar. How many Corgi models have gone to the "bins" lately because they get flayed on release for an obvious inaccuracy?