Tu-160 Blackjack
Tu-142 Bear
Tu-22M Backfire
BAe Nimrod
Beriev A-40
E-767 AWACS
E-4 (747)
IL-76/A-50 Candid/Mainstay AWACS
IL-20/38 Coot/May EW/ASW
An-124 Condor
An-70
An-22 Antheus
An-12 Cub
BAe VC-10
C5 Galaxy
C141 Starlifter
C17 Globemaster
KC/DC-10
MD-11
737 All Variants
757
767
777
L-1011
DC-8-60
DC-9
MD-80
A300-600 Beluga

Not a ding or anything, just a casual observation. At most local hobby shops I see those large kits (in the huge boxes) sitting on shelves. It seems to me they don't move quickly. The shop usually has one or two on the shelves, and a year latter they are still there.

I recall seeing the XB-70 at a closeout store in Alabama. They had 20 or so for less than $10. The PX here has the old Ertl/AMT Flying Wing on the shelves. Same kits I saw on my first trip to Ft. Lee in March 2000. I also think they have the B-52s dying on the shelves and they are dirt cheap.

Large aircraft are really cool, but I think some folks look at them and the 30" wingspan and wonder what they'd do with it once completed. I know I do, I'd grab that B-52 in a minute if I had a place to put it.

Boy SABOT, you put the damper on that one However, I have to agree with you. My brother had the old Monogram B-52 back in the 70's and it cast a large shadow in his bedroom as it hung from the ceiling. I also built the old Airfix B-29 in 72nd, it too was big.

1/144 is considered the airliner scale for that very reason - space & cost.

Now for some of my choices, which are not so bid:

B-9 just cool looking 1930's gull-wing, two-engine bomber
B-18 - an obsolescent late 30's bomber that was state of the art when built and allowed the US to send tne B-17s overseas. B-18s flew ASW and off-chore patrol in teh Philipines, Alaska, the West Coast, from Bermuda & Newfoundland, the Caribbean and from Panama at the start for WW2 - really a much more important airplane than is credited.

Both of the above can be found in vacuform, but nor in injected plastic.

Jeff

I didn't mean to rain on his parade, it's just that some of the planes listed are beyond belief. A C-5 or An-124 in 1/72 scale? Very big aircraft indeed.

I do have several large 1/72 scale aircraft like the AMT YB-49 Flying Wing, Testors B-2, Williams Bros C-46 Curtiss Commando. All three are very nice kits that I would build once I stop moving and actually have a place to display them.

I would like to see these in 72nd and 144th, as well as :

Tu-95MS6 Bear H
B-1A (1/72)
Tu-16K
Tu-22
B-52D


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