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1/48 Academy CH-53E discontinued?


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On ‎9‎/‎17‎/‎2017 at 4:59 PM, Loach Driver said:

Have you a link to where Academy have announced the kit will be discontinued? Seems starnge, for sure.

 

LD.

 

It's not in their 16/17 catalog and the etailers both in the US and Asia have it listed as such.

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It is strange that the 1/48 and 1/72 kits of the ch-53e are becoming so rare and it is really odd that italeri never capitalised on the ch-53e kit that they had. Now with the ch-53k coming, demand for the echo will fall a little. I have an old mh-53pave low model  that will be getting scrapped soon. I will take the sponsons and add them to my mh-53e kit for a ch-53e, I think.

 

LD. 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Kit makers always do this. It may be discontinued because demand has fallen off. Its an amazing kit. I doubt if it's gone forever. Somebody else may pick up the molds. Gotta build up demand again. Revell has done this several times with their "D". Great kit...but it is only released every 5 years or so.

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