1/48 P-51B Bald Eagle

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:34 am

Don't know if anyone has posted or not but picked up a 1/48 P-51B Bald Eagle at TRU yesterday. Didn't know this one was coming out.

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:47 am

Can anyone think of a compelling reason 21C would copy repaints from 1/32 to 1/48? To me that seems to be a foolish move. The Mustang must have more cool paint variants than any other AC and they do a copy?

All I can think is that they could scale down the paint masks.

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:54 am

olifant wrote:

Can anyone think of a compelling reason 21C would copy repaints from 1/32 to 1/48? To me that seems to be a foolish move. The Mustang must have more cool paint variants than any other AC and they do a copy?

All I can think is that they could scale down the paint masks.

Yeah, not sure why they picked this one to do. I would have preferred Ding Hoa or something like that.

jlspec · Post by **jlspec** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:40 pm

I think the 1/48 Bald eagle and Princess were out as 1/48 first then 1/32 this year

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:45 pm

jlspec wrote:I think the 1/48 Bald eagle and Princess were out as 1/48 first then 1/32 this year

Nope, Bald Eagle is a new one for 1/48. The other P-51B/C was the all green one.

jlspec · Post by **jlspec** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:52 pm

My bad it was Princess and Bee not Bald eagle

mikeg · Post by **mikeg** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:16 pm

I found the bald eagle, also in 1/48 along with the 109k-4- bought em

blurx7 · Post by **blurx7** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:38 pm

mikeg wrote:I found the bald eagle, also in 1/48 along with the 109k-4- bought em

Found both of these in Michigan today. What I want, though is the second version of the 1/48 P-40!

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:11 am

These were here and gone last Spring (two P-51s, silver and green and two Me-109s the K-4 and a G-10). I have never seen the 1/48 P-40. It has never shown up around here (Eastern NC). What kind of nutty distribution system do they have? Ten months between them showing up in different parts of the country....

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:57 am

The current P-51B Bald Eagle and 109K yellow 1 are repaints just released.

Closest the P-40's got to my AO was 100 miles away.

jlspec · Post by **jlspec** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:25 pm

Still a few P-40E Aleutian and P-40N hanging around here. None of the new P-51s or Bf 109s

RAD 2112 · Post by **RAD 2112** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:33 pm

I just saw 1:48 P-51C Bald Eagle and BF-109K at TRU.
The Bald Eagle is the same as the 1:32 with the exception of the Malcom Hood.

I almost picked them up, but I'm already committed to collecting 1:32.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:58 am

TrUs instead of Wal-Marts?

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:23 pm

ltcbj wrote:TrUs instead of Wal-Marts?

Yep,
I just saw Bald Eagle and the new Bf-109K-4 at TRU this morning..

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:30 pm

I saw 'em at both WM and TRU. Two paintjobs for the 109K at Wal-Mart, and the P-51B and the 109K at TRU.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:56 pm

hmmmm

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:59 pm

I saw the Aleutian Tigers P-40E at WM. I wish they would make a 1:32 P-40E or later, especially with that scheme.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:11 am

We haven't had a 1/48 at our WMs in >12 months, I thought 21stC had stopped making them.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:08 am

Does my AO get the new D model mustangs or Marders or PZ38T's? No, but we get 1:48 planes out the wazoo!

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:34 pm

Rowsdower, I agree. They're okay, but they need to be stocking the P-51Ds and the Fw-190Fs!

But hey at least it's new stuff, so we know they're semi-current...

We're going to be stuck with Black 3 109Es and Berlin Expresses for months before we get the 190s and P-51s...

Of course I got those two planes, but still.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:01 pm

It's the 32x P-40s that are still sucking up shelf space at most WalMarts in my AO.

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:02 am

I wish... there was a place I could skate to and get planes... I'd be in heaven. The only place I know of has 1:18, he said he's getting 1:32 but that's about a 20 minute drive...

Sucks.

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