Personally I do see merit in appropriate and well detailed aircraft models as I have a good collection of diecast aircraft models, but none in 1/30 - 1/32 scale. The main reason being that most of the current larger models are based on fighters that imo are hard to fit into armor or even figure dioramas and displays.
Some that I feel would be popular are: Fiesler Storch, Westland Lysander, US Austers etc, DC-3/Dakota, any glider.
However I would be inclined to make them in 1/32 scale to broaden their appeal to a wider audience. I usually like models to be the same scale but I feel aircraft models tend to look oversize against armor in the same scale. In 1/32 scale they would be near enough for most 1/30 collectors and take up less room than a 1/30 version.
The market for more affordable warbirds, as well as ground crew and related vehicles is clearly there . . . when have you ever seen Andy fail to fill a viable niche in this market? I would be absolutely shocked if K&C did not have affordable warbirds (probably polystone, as that's what their factories have affordably and successfully produced in the past - trying to find a factory that would make affordable wood or metal warbirds seems to be K&C's present problem) along with groundcrew, pilots, bomber aircrew and related vehicles, including ambulances, fuel bowsers, firetrucks and utility vehicles available before the end of 2008.
Yosarian is in trouble as usual, about to be stabbed by Nateley's lady friend.
I think a cool one to have would be Goering and his Albatross. That was when he was actually a pilot and not a drug laced lunatic.
Obviously I vote for it in polystone so that it is within my budget.
What do you all think on that one?
Tom