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Tony May
Oh my goodness that is incredibly expensive! That's a half month's rent for my little apartment in this tiny rural community. Haha.. That's a good bit more than the Anigrand B-32 Dominator resin kit I've been kicking around the idea of building instead of my Contrail vac kit.

Purely civilian aircraft are a bit beyond my areas of interest, honestly. I've no idea why I developed a fixation on military aircraft but it is what it is. I will admit that the extras you can get with these look really nice & seem like they would allow you to build one up into a really great model! I noticed that they're planning to release a C-5 Galaxy too. It's scary to imagine how expensive that one might be but once upon a time I would have been desperate to obtain one.

I decided several years ago that for any post-WW2, plus sized, aircraft I would build them in 1/144 scale. As I stated, I live in a tiny apartment & with the value of the dollar having been cut in half over the past 22 years, I don't ever expect to be able to afford a bigger place again. Therefore display space is at a premium. I can't afford to have a dozen 1/72 airliners bought "off the shelf" to fulfill a variety of military roles. As it stands I gave all the large 1/72 aircraft I had, like the Nimrod, B-52, RB-36, KC-135, Canberras, U-2s, Vulcan, etc., to my son even before I was able to replace them.

Even before that I had narrowed my scope of builds to only include subjects from conflicts between 1930 & 1980. While most correspond directly to nationalities & time frames of actual conflicts there are some that are in gray areas like transport aircraft or trainers that served prior to those conflicts which played a critical role in the lead up to said actions.

Bas Tonn
Mooi werk Pieter !!