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Just wondered why none of the main companies that make foamies haven't taken on making some of the most popular war planes. For example the mosquito, the Lancaster or the flying fortress just 3 planes that played a major part in ww2 but you can only get them in the larger balsa models. After all they make plenty of warbirds even larger 2 and 4 engine models in foam so why not these. I think they would be very popular and with technologies moving on bigger and bigger foam models are coming on the market so the larger 4 engine planes are definitely possible now. Probably a silly question but I thought id put us out there anyway.
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I know there are foam B-17's, at least three are made. I know there was a mosquito but don't think it's still made. -
I have a foam Lancaster.
Multi-engines do bring added complexity.
(There's no shortage of P-51s and Corsairs, though - I guess that's what the market wants).Comment
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Hobbyking still sells the B-17 and the Lancaster.AMA 424553Comment
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I think they've all been done. Eflite made a Mozzy but for some reason, didn't sell well and they stopped. As did Freewing. Lancaster was done by HobbyKing. After 2 or 3 versions, it also stopped selling well. All were quite crappy - flew awkward, poor quality. "Flying Fortress" - one or 2 still being sold, but not stellar sellers. I've had them all, some more than once. After those, I tell those around me (if they didn't witness personally) to not bother.
They made them, but few came. One person's "popular" can be other peoples' "no thanks". They won't make them if nobody buys them and selling a handful isn't enough. I'm sure if you buy a thousand of them, someone will make them for you.Comment
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Cheers guys.Comment
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Whatever the type of plane WW2 etc.. shipping costs appear to reduced the size of most newly made foamies. Don't no if we will larger stuff on mass again.
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And on the lighter side ............................. If I suddenly won a huge lottery, I'd pay a million bucks to Freewing to make me a big foamie Vulcan. That should cover the $75K for the mold and whatever for the R&D plus the profit they wouldn't make from NOT selling enough. Like Porsche, I'd even go there to pick it up.
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4 me a large f4 phantom 120 mmComment
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I have the HK Lancaster (I have two, actually, one for spares). As it comes out of the box it looks fine but is quite poorly engineered as a flying machine. I managed to fix mine up to be reliable by:
washing out the wingtips to help prevent tip stalling,
Addiing additional retaining screws and 3DP parts to the wing attachment (otherwise it can move around),
Adding the optional main retracts since I am not keen on hand launching it, and adding a steerable tailwheel,
Making the battery mount more secure,
Differential thrust to help ground handling,
3D printed collars around the front of the nacelles to fill ridiculously large ugly gaps between the nacelles and spinners
Integrating the differential thrust with the yaw stabilization from my AS3X+ receiver (this needed a custom Arduino, code available on request). This really helped with the ground handling.
As with all HK models, its availability comes and goes, and the spares situation is abysmal.
If you're prepared to make the effort and to deal with the vagaries of HK, you end up with a nice model.
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