Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 03, 2024, 03:05:39 PMMOCK UP a 1/24 Sunderland???

That'd be a BIG job, in more ways than one! 

[Later] Ah, you meant the Paper Plane, sorry.

Airfix have made the 3D print file on-line to print it. Wouldn't it be easier to make it out of PAPER?

Yes, I should have made that clear. If we used a sheet of paper from an Airfix instruction sheet and the stand from a kit box that would be a what-if twist to the whole thing.

Gondor

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 03, 2024, 03:05:39 PMAirfix have made the 3D print file on-line to print it. Wouldn't it be easier to make it out of PAPER?

I saw that this morning and am still scratching my head a bit    Maybe the art of paper plane making has been completely forgotten since they used to fly around in classrooms between lessons 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 03, 2024, 03:05:39 PMMOCK UP a 1/24 Sunderland???

That'd be a BIG job, in more ways than one! 

[Later] Ah, you meant the Paper Plane, sorry.

Airfix have made the 3D print file on-line to print it. Wouldn't it be easier to make it out of PAPER?

No, because the joke is a scale model of a paper airplane made out of plastic.

Quote from: jcf on April 04, 2024, 01:45:43 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 03, 2024, 03:05:39 PMMOCK UP a 1/24 Sunderland???

That'd be a BIG job, in more ways than one! 

[Later] Ah, you meant the Paper Plane, sorry.

Airfix have made the 3D print file on-line to print it. Wouldn't it be easier to make it out of PAPER?

No, because the joke is a scale model of a paper airplane made out of plastic.

And part of that joke is that its to a scale of 1:3 when any paper plane is sheet scale, the paper equivalent of Box scale.

Gondor

About that 1/24 scale Sunderland    ..............see pic below. 

 

  

For those of you who like helicopters Airfix are re-issuing the Belvedere in the Vintage Classics range.

On another note this months Airfix Model World which dropped through the letter box the other day has a test build of the Liberator as well as sprue shots of the Bulldog. Interestingly the Liberator can be built as major sub-assemblies which are brought together at the end. Useful for tight benches  The Bulldog looks 

I hope they do some major upgrading to the Belvedere tooling, it was always terrible!

Sadly I doubt that they will.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 06, 2024, 02:39:04 AMI hope they do some major upgrading to the Belvedere tooling, it was always terrible!

Sadly I doubt that they will.

That's why it's a Vintage Classic Kit 

Looking forward to getting my hands on a Rotodyne. Such an awesome machine ! Thanks for the scans guys.

The B-24 is going to get me into a lot of trouble with Mrs Wombat!


If she finds out!

Quote from: NARSES2 on April 06, 2024, 02:24:32 AMFor those of you who like helicopters Airfix are re-issuing the Belvedere in the Vintage Classics range.

On another note this months Airfix Model World which dropped through the letter box the other day has a test build of the Liberator as well as sprue shots of the Bulldog. Interestingly the Liberator can be built as major sub-assemblies which are brought together at the end. Useful for tight benches  The Bulldog looks 

Chris we just got our latest issues of Airfix Model World here too....from December 2023   
There's being behind everyone else but this is ridiculous 🙄

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 06, 2024, 02:39:04 AMI hope they do some major upgrading to the Belvedere tooling, it was always terrible!

Sadly I doubt that they will.

It wouldn't kill them to do a new clear sprue, so that it's at least an accurate model of the prototype...

Quote from: Weaver on April 06, 2024, 01:39:20 PMIt wouldn't kill them to do a new clear sprue, so that it's at least an accurate model of the prototype...

Absolutely! They did that with the re-popped Bond Bug, but their windows are all flat, a much easier design job I suspect.