New moulds will be revealed at Beijing HEC Model Expo 2025

[planes_on_a_shelf]

I must admit, despite seeing some of the unusual, to say the least, types announced there is no mention of a Tupolev 114.
Surely the world's biggest and fastest turboprop airliner deserves a little more love?

Bingo. Hopefully soon enough

 

[Phantom]

I must admit, despite seeing some of the unusual, to say the least, types announced there is no mention of a Tupolev 114.
Surely the world's biggest and fastest turboprop airliner deserves a little more love?

One would think that inbetween all these new high in demand moulds, obscure stuff like a 707-120/320/420 or a DC-9-10 would find a tiny niche...
But I have a feeling that - as soon as every new "brand" has finally done their own new spectacular gimmicky 787, 350... we'll see a super detailed PZL M-15 bevor one of those super obscure PAN AM 707-121s is done.

 

[miaoyimiaozhongl]

I must admit, despite seeing some of the unusual, to say the least, types announced there is no mention of a Tupolev 114.
Surely the world's biggest and fastest turboprop airliner deserves a little more love?

Actually, I hold a pessimistic view on this matter, though I would very much love to see a new 1:400 scale mold of the Tu-114. Given that the Tu-114 is quite a niche subject, there are very few viable commercial opportunities to justify developing it. I believe the manufacturer most likely to produce this mold would be JC Wings. However, waiting for them to finalize the mold and release a new product could easily take maybe 10 years or more, LOL.

 

[Gazontipede]

True, the Tu-114 can be regarded as a bit niche with only around half a dozen livery variations, yet we see a VM-T and an An-71 in the pipeline? Or multiple manufacturers piling on the Tu-204? I just don't get it.
While there are not a huge number of livery variations for the An-22 either I am very much looking forward to that one.
As Phantom says, bring on the early turbojet 707 series (& the 400's) etc.

 

[DaveSoda]

Be nice to see some more of the unique military items come up in 1/400. RC-135, Nimrod, E-3, KC-135, Hercules variants, C-141 and so forth.

 

[YesterAirlines]

The thing I feel being overlooked here is that all the brands making new moulds are Chinese and run by Chinese owners. Soviet metal gets attention because a lot of it has flown in China too, plus the Chinese state has strong ties to Russia. A lot of the owners of new brands are quite young too and so focus on modern types. Combine those factors together and voila no turbojet 707s, 727s or DC-9s. None of them ever flew in China and are old.

While you might think the above favours a Tu-114 it is a complex mould to make with very delicate undercarriage, plus the aforementioned small number of schemes. JC would be the only likely brand that would touch it.