New moulds will be revealed at Beijing HEC Model Expo 2025

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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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