i admit that i am more than a little tempted by the club this year,  and have a pile of  points / airmiles thinhgys, that i could use, but the fact that most of the 1:48 stuff and the bigger kits in other scales seem to be off the scale for getting does seem rather to go against it....

I'm curious as to how many tokens it would take to get a V bomber bundle...

Or just a Vulcan or Victor.

Quote from: The Wooksta! on February 12, 2023, 05:27:45 AMI'm curious as to how many tokens it would take to get a V bomber bundle...

Or just a Vulcan or Victor.

Largest number on the booklet is 60 tokens for Series 7 to 9

Gondor

One of the reasons I re-joined the Club this year is because of the number of Tokens I have.

Also a point to note is that this Monday nights (13/02) "Hornby : A Model World" on the Yesterday channel features the Sikh lad (Paramjit) working on the design etc for the 1/48 Buccaneer.

Quote from: Gondor on February 12, 2023, 05:34:26 AM

Quote from: The Wooksta! on February 12, 2023, 05:27:45 AMI'm curious as to how many tokens it would take to get a V bomber bundle...

Or just a Vulcan or Victor.

Largest number on the booklet is 60 tokens for Series 7 to 9

Gondor

And if I read the Boxes correctly the Victor for instance is a Series 12. I suppose you could always ask them if they take tokens for these big kits and if so how many they'd take ? They tend to be pretty good at getting back to you.

it only has up to series 9 on the site, hence my comments above, 

The first plastic kit Airfix made, and which I'd like to see again,  was a Ferguson TE20 tractor.   Thus sayeth Wikipaedia:-    "In 1949, the company was commissioned to create a promotional model of a Ferguson TE20 tractor, moulded in cellulose acetate plastic and hand-assembled for distribution to Ferguson sales representatives. To increase sales and lower production costs, the model was sold in kit form by Woolworth's retail stores."

The Fergie tractor kit goes for a LARGE fortune these days, if you could ever find one! The last time I saw an unbuilt one was in the last century I reckon.

The collectors would go bananas if they did it again I'm sure, but it surely sell I reckon. I recall it was a really good kit too.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 12, 2023, 10:47:30 AMThe Fergie tractor kit goes for a LARGE fortune these days, if you could ever find one! The last time I saw an unbuilt one was in the last century I reckon.

The collectors would go bananas if they did it again I'm sure, but it surely sell I reckon. I recall it was a really good kit too.

My great uncle had a  real "little grey Fergie"  on his market garden.  I learned to drive it at the age of 13..................it had two useable speeds; dead slow and 'overtaken by continental drift'. By 15, I was ploughing with it; probably the most boring job in agriculture!

 He also had a made-up Airfix  model,  but this was in 1965.    He'd been given it in the mid 1950's ready made.   I've no idea where it went when he died in 1989, but I hope someone who understood what it was acquired it.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 12, 2023, 10:47:30 AMThe Fergie tractor kit goes for a LARGE fortune these days, if you could ever find one! The last time I saw an unbuilt one was in the last century I reckon.

The collectors would go bananas if they did it again I'm sure, but it surely sell I reckon. I recall it was a really good kit too.

To keep the collectors happy, just make a slight modification to distinguish it from the original. For instance, something that was originally one part is now two parts, or vice versa. Or a different colour of plastic. Simples!

Quote from: Rheged on February 12, 2023, 09:15:55 AMThe first plastic kit Airfix made, and which I'd like to see again,  was a Ferguson TE20 tractor.   Thus sayeth Wikipaedia:-    "In 1949, the company was commissioned to create a promotional model of a Ferguson TE20 tractor, moulded in cellulose acetate plastic and hand-assembled for distribution to Ferguson sales representatives. To increase sales and lower production costs, the model was sold in kit form by Woolworth's retail stores."

Quote from: Rheged on February 12, 2023, 09:15:55 AMThe first plastic kit Airfix made, and which I'd like to see again,  was a Ferguson TE20 tractor.   Thus sayeth Wikipaedia:-    "In 1949, the company was commissioned to create a promotional model of a Ferguson TE20 tractor, moulded in cellulose acetate plastic and hand-assembled for distribution to Ferguson sales representatives. To increase sales and lower production costs, the model was sold in kit form by Woolworth's retail stores."

On the same note, I'd like them to do Spitfire BT K.  I believe the moulds are lost though.  Airfix ostensibly 're-released' it some years ago, although it was their then current Mk.I in blue plastic with the BT K decals.

It's odd shaped but there's a charm to it, being their first aircraft kit.

Just making the Fergie kit in styrene should be enough to distinguish it from the cellulose acetate of the original, I'd think.

If you particularly want a Fergie for building, there's a free 3-D printable online... scaled at 1/18 or so but it's a digital file y'see, so you merely have to get it reduced by whatever factor to get it in the scale you want it...

Just saying, putting the info out there FWIW.   

There's also the Heller 1/24 kit that's been available recently.

Quote from: Old Wombat on February 12, 2023, 04:33:36 PMJust making the Fergie kit in styrene should be enough to distinguish it from the cellulose acetate of the original, I'd think.

I've heard it said that some of the later production Fergies, the ones sold in Woolies, were moulded in styrene as an experiment to prove the 'new material' was as good as it was made out to be.

I can't find anything to prove that was actually the case though. A real, Woolies bought Fergie kit would go some way toward that, but I don't have a World Bank account.......