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DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« on: December 15, 2011, 09:46:41 AM »
Michael Benolkin has posted a review of the DML 1:200 scale Northrop YB-49 kit that provides images and a description of the kit contents.  It certainly has potential for speculative and fictional modeling subjects. 


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Brian, this should appeal to you in that it is certainly much smaller than the AMT/Ertl/Italeri B-35/B-49 kits and might work to your favor for any possible projects you have in mind for the flying wing. 

I wonder if DML will offer the B-35 in the same scale? 
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2011, 11:33:44 AM »
I had heard that DML is planning the XB-35 as well as the V-bombers in 1/200 scale. They already have an assembled display model of the Vulcan in 1/200 as well as the YB-49.

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2011, 12:02:20 PM »
I have this kit; the most annoying part is the odd (for aircraft) scale. 1/144 or 1/350 would have been better. Even in 1/200 it's a sizable kit (at least in wingspan). Looking at the instructions, the main landing gear has an odd attachment method. It'll make a great whif, though. And at 1/200, it's almost exactly the same wingspan as the N-9M, the 1/3 scale version of the B-35.

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2011, 04:29:09 AM »
Thanks for the tip, Mr Fontaine! I'll be keeping an eye out!

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 09:44:07 PM »
Looks like Dragon is getting into real-space 72nd in a big way with a Mercury/Redstone combo and this little beauty

http://www.hlj.com/product/DRA11003

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2012, 05:26:45 AM »
and not too far behind their release of the  Nbfz multi-turret tank ( Krupp version ) Dragon has
 released the Rheinmetal version with its uber-cool over & under guns and frame antennae! Whoo!

 review by Cookie Sewell at Hyperscale:

 http://www.missing-lynx.com/reviews/small/dml7436reviewcs_1.html
 

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2012, 05:40:24 AM »
I picked that kit up along with a Vulcan with the thought of Scale-o-Rama-ing them into something 1/72.   But, after looking at the kits themselves better,  I'm second guessing myself.   :)
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2012, 05:42:28 AM »
If this is the place for Cyberhobby as well, one of the gaffes they did on the new Sea Venom is perfect for whiff-land with that overextended wing.  PR or HF Sea Venom's anyone?    :-*
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2012, 08:21:06 AM »
I picked that kit up along with a Vulcan with the thought of Scale-o-Rama-ing them into something 1/72.   But, after looking at the kits themselves better,  I'm second guessing myself.   :)

Yeah, that relatively odd scale of 1/200 kinda earmark them for scale-o-ramas. I got meself a Vulcan to kitbash it with a 1/72 Hawker Hunter fuselage into a 1/72 bird. Maybe as a Vulcan proof-of-concept design. After looking things over, I'm now thinking of kitbashing it with a Revell 1/144 Tornado (or two) to make a two- or even three-seater attack aircraft.
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2012, 03:26:17 AM »
Something tasty for those of us who build 1/144!  :icon_beer:



« Last Edit: July 13, 2012, 07:52:38 AM by ChernayaAkula »
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2012, 03:30:27 AM »
I hope they put 2 in there since its so tiny!  That one will make a lot of whiffers happy  8)
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2012, 03:57:42 AM »
The only problem is if I built one, I'd probably reverse the wings so they're swept-back.
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2012, 04:03:01 AM »
The only problem is if I built one, I'd probably reverse the wings so they're swept-back.
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2012, 07:55:24 AM »
Same here! I was big on FSW until I started modeling them in X-Plane. They were not much fun to fly. An X-29 with normal wings would look cool!

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2012, 08:10:14 AM »
An X-29 with normal wings?  :icon_surprised: Never thought of that! Hmmm.... F-16 or Rafale wings? While keeping the canards?
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2012, 08:15:26 AM »
I guess I'm not thinking far enough outside of the box on this one.  I just wanted one in USN aggressor colors with the blue AIM-9 and data pod on the wingtips  :-\
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« Reply #16 on: July 13, 2012, 08:40:00 AM »
To be different, what about a X-29 with F-104 wings...but with no anhedral.
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2012, 09:13:43 PM »
To be different, what about a X-29 with F-104 wings...but with no anhedral.

Wouldn't that be an F-5 then Greg ??????

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2012, 02:57:26 AM »
Kind of but not quite...it would certainly confuse. 

Another option might be some sort of box-wing.
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2012, 11:46:09 PM »
This one isn't new but I'm glad to see it coming back, especially as a somewhat cheaper "Orange Box" version-

T34/85M
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I've been on the hunt for one of these for a couple years now but I keep missing them on eBay or the prices are more than I care to spend. ~ $30 US MSRP seems pretty reasonable.

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #20 on: August 20, 2012, 10:39:50 PM »
Bernd Heller has provided an in-box kit review of the Dragon 1/144th scale Bell X-1 (Number 4630) for anyone interested in this subject at Modellversium.de

Click on html or thumbnail image to see the review. 



I usually do not have that much interest in models in such small scale but I have to admit that I am quite impressed with the amount of detail that Dragon has managed to stuff into that little model.  The one-piece slide molded fuselage sections (forward and aft) are also quite impressive.  Certainly takes the issue of alignment out of the equation when you have only one piece to deal with instead of the traditional left and right halves or worse, the left, right, top, and bottom or any combination based on that. 

I am tempted to get a set just to see how they would look as a scale-o-rama item on a larger scale model where they would play the role of a decoy or target drone.  Granted all of that wonderful internal detail would be wasted in such an effort but it would certainly be interesting resources for such a project.  I have to blame Greg Twiner for that idea ever since he posted that image of a Mirage III O superimposed in front of an obviously larger F-4 which got me to wondering what small scale modern aircraft might look functional mounted on a stores pylon of a larger aircraft.  Most of the 1/350th scale aircraft are far too small for such things unless you are working in 1/72nd or 1/144th scale where you could get away with that but not in 1/48th scale.  So maybe this little Bell X-1 kit is the solution. 
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2012, 01:46:39 AM »
I sincerely hope there is truth to what I hear about Dragon planing all three V Bombers in small scale.

I have their Vulcan and quite like it, so I do hope a Valiant and Victor are in the pipeline somewhere.
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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2012, 07:57:26 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2012, 10:31:10 AM »
WOW! I don't know what's more impressive - a 1/35 T-28 that doesn't require a house mortgage to buy or that DML is putting out a non-German WWII kit. I thought the NAZIs won that war?

That T-28 is going to be over a foot of plastic tank goodness.

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Re: DML (Dragon Models Limited) and CyberHobby
« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2012, 11:31:19 AM »
Word of warning to anyone who has or is thinking about purchasing the recent DML 1/700 HMS Amazon Type 21 Frigate kit; someone got their scales mismatched!  The hull is 1/600 while the rest is 1/700  :-\  DML has apparently been notified up the ladder about this but what if anything they are doing or are going to do about it is still anyone's guess. 


Just giving a head's up, it might work to our advantage as whiffers  ;) 
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