1/72 B-24 Liberator MkVI (Coastal Command)

[Dougie-1212782]

As Airfix have been going through the WW2 bombers over the last few years creating some really nice new tools, I'd love to see them take on the B-24 next, there is no currently in production 1/72 kit that I'm aware of and I know a decent number of people would love a new option beyond the older kits that are wildly inflated in price and fairly old toolings.

the coastal command scheme option would be great to see (personnaly I think the Libby's look best in those colours, and would go well with the new wellington kit released a few years ago in a CC scheme. (547 squadron would be fantastic ;) )

[dogsbody]

Yes!

Chris

[Pretty Mediocre Modeller]

Yes, I would go for this.

Eduard did release a Coastal Command Liberator a year or so ago, based on the Hasegawa kit, but this was a deluxe boxing, and cost over £100 for a 1/72 4 engine bomber!

I think this would fit in perfectly with Airfix's current release policy, a kit that could be released initially as an USAAF bomber, then later as an RAF machine, just like the B-17 was. At around the same price point as the B-17 or Lancaster would be great!

[Hurricane Boy]

I am in..... we should ask for a number of Coastal Command variants mk III, V and VIII as well

Currently doing a Log Book narrative for a friend on his grandfather's time as a W/AG with 59 Sqd RAF and would love to build a model for him.

Tim

[peebeep]

Eduard did release a Coastal Command Liberator a year or so ago, based on the Hasegawa kit, but this was a deluxe boxing, and cost over £100 for a 1/72 4 engine bomber!

 

 

Eduard had two releases a GR V and GR VI. Yes they were expensive, but the release RRP was not £100, in fact I got both for under £70 on Facebook sales groups. I get that that's still a lot for a lot of people, but the Hasegawa base kits are not cheap, plus you get masks, PE, extensive decal options and B-24 reference monographs to go with them. They're more costly now because there's fewer of them about. I'd still be up for an Airfix B-24, there's lots of options they could look at.

[Stu7sinc]

Very keen to see a new Liberator.

[Richard Graham1707820255]

Yeah - a B-24 has to be a logical choice for the Airfix "to do list". Ticks so many of their boxes grinning. British based during WW2; in both US and RAF Service; 4 engined WW2 bomber; compliments the B-17; replaces an older classic kit; reasonable size; available to scan etc etc.

[Susanna Viljanen]

We need a new 1/72 B-24H Liberator with Ford nose. There are no Ford nose Lib kits in existence, and more than 50% of all nose-turreted Liberators had the Ford nose - it is distinctly different from the Consolidated nose.

The old Airfix B-24J kit is a toy. It is not for a serious modeller. It is dated, crude, filled up with rivets and horribly inaccurate. It should experience a blissful retirement and be replaced with a new tooling B-24H.

[Peter Terry1707820234]

Yes the Liberator would be great edition for 2022 in RAF Coastal Command and a tooling like this would give opportunities for other versions the market is wide open for a kit of the Liberator both here in the UK and the States.