New 1/72 Albatros D.III coming from Eduard

[KiwiZac]

Eduard has announced this kit in their latest INFO newsletter and the news (and 3D renders) posted by the ever-vigilant Homebee on Britmodeller.

A new 1/72 Great War kit from Eduard! Happy New Year!

[Rip Van Winkle]

  It will be worth the wait if it is as good as their Fokker D.VII.  I am very much looking forward to it.

[DaddyO]

Terrific news.

 A new kit in Gentlemans Scale is always to be welcomed, but Eduard's are usually the easiest to put together with a nice decal selection that can be used without fear - what's not to be enthusiastic about (And hopefully there won't be any three piece wings to mess about with)

Paul

[WD]

Oh!  Be still my beating heart!  Well, 25 years late is better than never, no? (Yes, it's been about that long since they promised us this kit.)

I must go sell a kidney now in order to buy the dozen or so that will keep all of my Eduard Nieuport kits company on my stash shelf. 

Warren

[PrzemoL]

Nice. Murphys law at its best. I am just building Rodens one. Not a bad kit, though...

[torbiorn]

Terrific news.

 A new kit in Gentlemans Scale is always to be welcomed, but Eduard's are usually the easiest to put together with a nice decal selection that can be used without fear - what's not to be enthusiastic about (And hopefully there won't be any three piece wings to mess about with)

Paul

Yep, I’ll buy all boxings they release, to get decals for all my Roden boxes.

[Thumbs up]

Oh!  Be still my beating heart!  Well, 25 years late is better than never, no? (Yes, it's been about that long since they promised us this kit.)

I must go sell a kidney now in order to buy the dozen or so that will keep all of my Eduard Nieuport kits company on my stash shelf. 

Warren

Ha Ha haaa. love the humour, and the irony!

[KiwiZac]

Nice. Murphys law at its best. I am just building Rodens one. Not a bad kit, though...

A few folk at Britmodeller were bemoaning Eduard's decision given the Roden kit already exists*! Having built the Roden D.II I imagine the D.III has many of the same...shall we call them "design quirks"? Products of their time?


*Say it with me folks: "A kit for manufacturer A makes no money for manufacturer B(...unless manufacturer B gets to reissue it)!"

[WD]

Nice. Murphys law at its best. I am just building Rodens one. Not a bad kit, though...

A few folk at Britmodeller were bemoaning Eduard's decision given the Roden kit already exists*! Having built the Roden D.II I imagine the D.III has many of the same...shall we call them "design quirks"? Products of their time?


*Say it with me folks: "A kit for manufacturer A makes no money for manufacturer B(...unless manufacturer B gets to reissue it)!"

OH!  Not only that, but on my FB post about it, along comes this guy "They need to do it in 1/35th to go with all the vehicles out there."  Seriously, I love the "it's in the wrong scale crowd" just as much as the "Someone already makes a kit of that" crowd. 

Warren

[RAGIII]

Nice. Murphys law at its best. I am just building Rodens one. Not a bad kit, though...

A few folk at Britmodeller were bemoaning Eduard's decision given the Roden kit already exists*! Having built the Roden D.II I imagine the D.III has many of the same...shall we call them "design quirks"? Products of their time?


*Say it with me folks: "A kit for manufacturer A makes no money for manufacturer B(...unless manufacturer B gets to reissue it)!"

OH!  Not only that, but on my FB post about it, along comes this guy "They need to do it in 1/35th to go with all the vehicles out there."  Seriously, I love the "it's in the wrong scale crowd" just as much as the "Someone already makes a kit of that" crowd. 

Warren

Thats Hilarious Warren! I haven't built a 1/72nd WW1 aircraft in a while but this one will be tempting! Still a 1/35th kit 
RAGIII

[Brad Cancian]

This is wonderful news for those of us that build WW1 aircraft in the smaller scales. I, for one, am excited by this release.

Though the Roden kit is nice enough, the moulds are quite dated and, having built the Roden kit some years back, it kit takes a bit of effort to get together. An Eduard quality release here for this mainstream fighter is a magnificent prospect, and will complement their other 1/72 WW1 catalogue aircraft nicely (Fokker D.VII, Albatros D.Va, Nieuport 17... and the SPAD XIII if it gets re-released).

I'd speculate that their 1/72 Fokker D.VII has sold just well enough to encourage Eduard to do this one (I do know that there are some key folks in the Eduard team who still have a passion for WW1 subjects).

I can already see that they have avoided some of the mistakes from their 1/48 scale release (admittedly the moulds for that release is now 25 years or so old). Some other useful touches (comprehensive interior, aileron control horn cut outs, etc) would also be welcomed. I see no over-done rib tapes either on the renders (though something akin to what they did with their D.VII rib tapes would look the part, I think).

Hopefully we may get some aftermarket manufacturers doing some releases to complement this kit (decals, etc... though this didn't really happen with their D.VII release, so, fingers crossed).

Likewise i'll end up buying a few, I reckon.

If a man could dream, I would think that if sales do well enough, this hopefully could spur on other newer releases in this scale, perhaps utilising the data / info that Eduard already has for their 1/48 aircraft. Heaven knows 1/72 WW1 modellers could do with a good quality SE5a, Camel, Pfalz D.III, Nieuport 11, SSW D.III or Roland C.II in small scale....!

Cheers,

BC   

[torbiorn]

*Say it with me folks: "A kit for manufacturer A makes no money for manufacturer B(...unless manufacturer B gets to reissue it)!"

I’m one of ”those folks”, and no thanks, I won’t say that with you.
I understand very well why they selected the D.III (it
s the type they expect to make the most money from) but even though I am happy and excited about anout their choice I still chose to point out that there are plenty of types that are worse represented, to show that there is interest among the modeller to have kits of those as well. Not sure why it upset you so much you had to comment on it.

[WD]

I'd speculate that their 1/72 Fokker D.VII has sold just well enough to encourage Eduard to do this one (I do know that there are some key folks in the Eduard team who still have a passion for WW1 subjects).


If a man could dream, I would think that if sales do well enough, this hopefully could spur on other newer releases in this scale, perhaps utilising the data / info that Eduard already has for their 1/48 aircraft. Heaven knows 1/72 WW1 modellers could do with a good quality SE5a, Camel, Pfalz D.III, Nieuport 11, SSW D.III or Roland C.II in small scale....!

Cheers,

BC

Brad,
        Back in 2005 when I met Vladimir Sulc at the IPMS Nats, he told me that he still had a love and a passion for 1/72nd because that's what he grew up building, so yeah, there are folks there who have a passion for it. I know I spoke with him at length as to why a Nieuport 17 would be a good idea. I'm just sorry it didn't do well for them economically, Someone told me once that they were banking on some popularity from the movie Flyboys which turned out to be an abortion. 

As to your other point, I too would simply love to see a modern, state-of-the-art tooling of a SE5a, Camel, Pfalz D.III, Nieuport 11, SSW D.III or Roland C.II!

Warren

[torbiorn]

Sorry to hear the Nieuports didn’t do well. I bought a whole flotilla of them - dirt cheap, so cheap I wondered how they could earn anything. Guess they didn’t.

[PrzemoL]

Nice. Murphys law at its best. I am just building Rodens one. Not a bad kit, though...

A few folk at Britmodeller were bemoaning Eduard's decision given the Roden kit already exists*! Having built the Roden D.II I imagine the D.III has many of the same...shall we call them "design quirks"? Products of their time?


*Say it with me folks: "A kit for manufacturer A makes no money for manufacturer B(...unless manufacturer B gets to reissue it)!"

Albatros D.I, D.II, D.III and W.4 from Roden share the same elements for the fuselage assembly. Only the wings differ. So yes, they share the same "design quirks" ;-)
asembling that fuselage is tricky but of course it resulted fr0m the company idea to cover many subtypes with the same sprue.
But they are buildable. You can find proofs in this forum, too.

Still, a modern-quality kit of D.III is more than welcome! Easy-assembly fuselage and better surface details will certainly be welcome, too.
I may even buy one, at least to be able to compare with nice but venerable Roden kits. And build it in another Polish livery! 
Nothing to complain about this announcement!!!! And may the other ones follow!

And yes, 72nd scale is very much alive!!!