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Title: Unicraft
Post by: The Big Gimper on January 20, 2012, 07:18:12 PM: New plane from Igor:

http://www.unicraft.biz/germ/fw860/fw860.htm (http://www.unicraft.biz/germ/fw860/fw860.htm)

The Wheel of VTOL

http://www.vstol.org/GermanVSTOLFighters.pdf (http://www.vstol.org/GermanVSTOLFighters.pdf)

and a nice Preso on all German VTOL projects:

http://www.robertcmason.com/textdocs/GermanVSTOLFighters.pdf (http://www.robertcmason.com/textdocs/GermanVSTOLFighters.pdf)
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 21, 2012, 03:53:38 AM: Bah! It is in 1/72! :icon_twisted:

Thanks for the VTOL Projects overview though!
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: The Big Gimper on January 21, 2012, 04:38:09 AM: Quote from: GTX_Admin on January 21, 2012, 03:53:38 AM
Bah! It is in 1/72! :icon_twisted:

Thanks for the VTOL Projects overview though!

And what is wrong with 1/72? I can give you 32 or 48 reasons why the other scales are no better!! ;D
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 21, 2012, 04:57:32 AM: Nothing wrong if you like that scale...unfortunately (for me), I prefer 1/48. :(
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: The Big Gimper on January 21, 2012, 05:10:24 AM: NP. When I was younger I did 1/48 but now I am spaced constrained so 1/72 is it. :-[
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 21, 2012, 05:32:34 AM: And yet some folks say that when they were younger they did 1/72 but now they are older and the eyes/hands/patience are not what they once were they are going for the larger scales... ;D
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: The Big Gimper on January 21, 2012, 05:35:48 AM: The eyesight is certainly an issue. But SHWBO is not willing to give me the space for 1/48 so itty bitty pieces it is.
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 21, 2012, 05:39:13 AM: Well that's final then...you only cross SHMBO at your own peril...
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: The Big Gimper on February 11, 2014, 05:37:31 AM: Latest kit from Igor:

(http://www.unicraft.biz/on/ki91/ki91-dr.jpg)

1/72 KI-98 (http://www.unicraft.biz/on/ki91/ki91.htm)
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 21, 2019, 01:58:37 AM: New one - you behind this Zac?

(http://www.unicraft.biz/on/fu24-48/fu24-48-box.jpg)
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: KiwiZac on January 22, 2019, 08:24:26 AM: Nope, evidently the 1/72 version was successful enough for Igor to decide to do this on his own! I had no idea until I saw it at another forum.

Unfortunately he's made a rather egregious error and put the cargo door on both sides - the real deal has it on the port side only.

And yes, I will get one at some point!
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 31, 2020, 03:13:30 AM: Tempted but...

(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/1/6/7/1262167-12741-41-pristine.jpg)
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: KiwiZac on January 31, 2020, 03:30:17 PM: Quote from: GTX_Admin on January 31, 2020, 03:13:30 AM
Tempted but...

(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/1/6/7/1262167-12741-41-pristine.jpg)
Easy compromise: buy it, and send it to me. I'd love one of each 1/72 and 1/48!!

And if anyone's wondering no, sadly I'm yet to get my own 1/48 FU-24. I want one so, so bad :'(
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: tsrjoe on October 17, 2023, 06:40:39 PM: just arrived via Unicraft ... Sikorsky YR.5 :o
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: Old Wombat on October 17, 2023, 07:08:47 PM: Never having seen a Unicraft kit in the flesh & trusting my fellow modellers that they were total crap, it's nice to see that these images completely endorse their opinion! :smiley:
Title: Re: Unicraft
Post by: tsrjoe on October 17, 2023, 08:01:00 PM: Unicraft P.1127 (lower moulding in image, with my own interpretation above) ... ah well, it gave me the incentive to make my own, a quiet lunchtime and a block of tooling resin :)