Revell (Revell of Germany and Monogram)

[Weaver]

Hannants are selling the Arado E.555 whif-in-a-box for £8.50 (temporary offer):

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/RV4367

[NARSES2]

It's a nice kit, but then I do have 3 in the stash 

[Spey_Phantom]

4th quarter autumb releases has just been revieled 

http://www.revell-news.de/display.php?M=139293&C=e841ed73091170fee0c9eb41500db193&S=566&L=36&N=226

the 1/72 F-4J Phantom and P-70 (and the 1/144 Fast Attack Craft Albatross Class 143) are definitly going on my list 

[Captain Canada]

Phantom eh ? What and who's ?

[jcf]

Phantom eh ? What and who's ?

Probably the old Monogram:
https://hangar47.com/F-4J_Phantom_-_Monogram.html

[zenrat]

Would the 1/76 armour be the old Matchbox moulds with the diorama bases?  I used to love those.

[NARSES2]

Would the 1/76 armour be the old Matchbox moulds with the diorama bases?  I used to love those.

I'm fairly sure the kits are the old Matchbox ones, but don't know if they include the bases. Those Matchbox armour kits got me back into armour modelling/wargaming for a while during the more stressfull period of my divorce (all my fault so no sympathy required).

[Green Dragon]

BK117 also is ex Matchbox, wonder if the P-70 is the Matchbvox or MPM/Special Hobby one? Wish they'd repop the HS125.

Paul Harrison

[NARSES2]

Revell have done a fair few Boston's in the past so I would have thought the P.70 is descended from them ?

[Old Wombat]

No 1/35 armour.

[Captain Canada]

Phantom looks like a nice little build

[kitbasher]

The Matchbox P-70 was a rebox of the old Revell P-70.

[Snowtrooper]

That true.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/136357-revell-h-232-p-70-nightfighter

The Matchbox original A-20 only builds to a coarse approximation A-20G/J/Boston IV , no P-70 specific bits whatsoever in the box, and was fortunately never sold as such. In true Matchbox style the inside of the turret has no detail and only shows the pivot of the plastic rods pretending to be M2 machine guns, main gear wells are just empty spaces while nose gear well has no depth, there is no bomb bay, no underwing pylons, no details in the cockpit or bomb-aimers position apart from the pilot figures, seats, and a control yoke; the solid-nose G unlike IV is missing cheek guns despite both having the bulges for them, neither version has the ventral gun, etc.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/128684-matchbox-pk-120-douglas-boston-iv-havoc-a-20g

[Dizzyfugu]

BK117 also is ex Matchbox, wonder if the P-70 is the Matchbvox or MPM/Special Hobby one? Wish they'd repop the HS125.

Paul Harrison

I'd expect it to be a simple reincarnation of the 1967 Revell A-20 with some extra parts. But you never know - the MPM Boston also popped up in a Revell box, so there's some hope... Scalemates already quotes the MPM kit as basis! 

Agree with the revival of the HS.125. 

[famvburg]

So what was the old Revell P-70 then?