Any New 1:32 WWII Aircraft From BBI on the Horizon?

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:16 pm

I don't keep up with this board like I should so forgive me if this has been covered already. The Dauntless and Wildcat are two of the best 1:32 aircraft I've seen. It's been over a year and if I'm not mistaken we didn't even get any repaints which sucks because there are so many schemes for both planes.

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:46 pm

from what i was told by Historic aviation BBI wants a distributor to place a large order before they will do and new or repainted items. thats why we never saw the F-104. they couldnt find anyone to sponsor the plane. with the present economic situation i wouldnt expect anything from them for awhile. distributor dont want to lay out the cash at this time.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:56 pm

AMERICAN_GRENADIER wrote:from what i was told by Historic aviation BBI wants a distributor to place a large order before they will do and new or repainted items. thats why we never saw the F-104. they couldnt find anyone to sponsor the plane. with the present economic situation i wouldnt expect anything from them for awhile. distributor dont want to lay out the cash at this time.

Damn, that sucks. Those two planes are such beauties. The pride of my ceiling air fleet.

I was hoping for a pre-war Wildcat or Dauntless in a colorful scheme.

RAD 2112 · Post by **RAD 2112** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:30 pm

I would have bought a BBI F-104... [sigh]

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:07 am

Damn, that sucks. Those two planes are such beauties. The pride of my ceiling air fleet. I was hoping for a pre-war Wildcat or Dauntless in a colorful scheme.

totally agree! a pre war bird would be fantastic! something like one of the hobby master 1/72 pre war planes.

Rowsdower · Post by **Rowsdower** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:34 am

AMERICAN_GRENADIER wrote:totally agree! a pre war bird would be fantastic! something like one of the hobby master 1/72 pre war planes.

Easy Model had an excellent pre-war Wildcat as well. I had it but it had an unfortunate accident.

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:34 am

i have the carousel 1/48 diecast pre war very nice!

RAD 2112 · Post by **RAD 2112** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:35 am

I "should" pic up a BBI Dauntless.
The lowest price I found was $47.

Has anyone found one for less?

Col.Pickle · Post by **Col.Pickle** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:10 am

Man, some new aircraft would sure be a morale-booster right now. Hell, a new anything would be fine.

hworth18 · Post by **hworth18** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:58 pm

RAD 2112 wrote:I "should" pic up a BBI Dauntless.
The lowest price I found was $47.

Has anyone found one for less?

I haven't found the Dauntless for any cheaper than $40, which seems kinda high considering it doesn't have any moving control surfaces. I might have to break down and buy one anyways, but I am betting we will see more in the future. I just can't see a manufacturer spending all that money on tooling just to issue one plane. Same for the Phantom and Wildcat.

DropTank · Post by **DropTank** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:45 am

hworth18 wrote:
I am betting we will see more in the future. I just can't see a manufacturer spending all that money on tooling just to issue one plane. Same for the Phantom and Wildcat.

I agree. Especially the Phantom. With the popularity of the F-4 and the quality of bbi's first releases, I just felt sure that bbi would spit them out like Octo-mom. Many, many schemes to choose with the Phantom. Maybe we will see something by the summer. All 3 current releases are excellent in my opinion.

On a side note, Harry your 1/32 customs are excellent !!! Great work.

AMERICAN_GRENADIER · Post by **AMERICAN_GRENADIER** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:44 pm

a camo f-4 would be great!

snake · Post by **snake** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:43 pm

The BBI F-4 is a great model.
Begs for several repaints.

RAD 2112 · Post by **RAD 2112** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:50 pm

snake wrote:The BBI F-4 is a great model.
Begs for several repaints.

...and an SUU-23 Gunpod