AZ Models

[The Wooksta!]

The Spitfire Joypack is nice but be aware that unless you change the oil cooler to the smaller mk I version, you CANNOT get either the mk Ib or IIb out of the box.

[jcf]

Rob at West Coast Hobbys has the AZ 1/72 Bell TH-1G on special at $15.00CDN for them what's interested in 1/72 Cobras.
Same as their AH-1G series, just with training markings.

http://www.westcoasthobbys.com/product/az7451-th-1g

[Weaver]

Heads up - AZ's triple Hueycobra 'Joypack' (3 sets of sprues, no decals or etch) is now on limited availability at Hannants, which means they won't be able to get it again.

2 in stock, £16 each (that's £5.30 per model!)

[Weaver]

These molds have been out before (see page 3-ish of this thread) but the product code numbers have changed and I think that at least the colour schemes of the what if one have changed as well.

AZ Model
Aircraft kits (injection)
AZM7519 1:72 Kawasaki Ki-78 Ken "Prototype"  £8.99  £7.49
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AZM7519





AZ Model
Aircraft kits (injection)
AZM7520 1:72 Kawasaki Ki-78 Ken "Special" (What-If)  £8.99  £7.49
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AZM7520

[Dizzyfugu]

The prototype is the same as before, but the whiffy boxing (artwork and the versions, AFAIK) is new. Nice service: the aircraft is so tiny that there are actually two kits in the box, so you can easily build a "real" one and whif up the other one. 

[Weaver]

The prototype is the same as before, but the whiffy boxing (artwork and the versions, AFAIK) is new. Nice service: the aircraft is so tiny that there are actually two kits in the box, so you can easily build a "real" one and whif up the other one. 

Are you sure about that for this re-issue? They normally flag the fact that there are multiple kits in the box quite prominently, and they havn't done so on the re-issue boxes. They're also quite a lot cheaper than the original issue, so maybe these are only one-per-box?

[PR19_Kit]

That Ki-78 prototype looks very much like the Napier-Heston Racer, doesn't it?

Or is it my warped mind?

[NARSES2]

I got the original boxing which was 2 kits in the box (like Weaver I think this issue may only have 1) and it goes together well. They are on site somewhere

[Weaver]

That Ki-78 prototype looks very much like the Napier-Heston Racer, doesn't it?

Or is it my warped mind?

Everyone says that, but when you look at them next to each other it's not so apparent:

[PR19_Kit]

Close counts........ 

[Weaver]

I think it's more a case of convergent evolution. If you set out to design a high-speed aircraft in that time-frame, with a water-cooled V12 engine and the same level of technology, in what way would it be different?

[PantherG]

Wifs out of the box 

I assume PantherG has had something to do with these ?

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AZM74084

First idea was mine..... but What if schemes on this AZ product are not mine

[jcf]

Personally speaking I never saw much of a resemblance, of course I was familiar with the Ki-78 long
before the Napier-Heston.

[Dizzyfugu]

You can also throw in the Me 209 record breaking aircraft - also a very similar layout, result of trying to mate a large, liquid-cooled engine with the smallest airframe possible...

[PR19_Kit]

You can also throw in the Me 209 record breaking aircraft - also a very similar layout, result of trying to mate a large, liquid-cooled engine with the smallest airframe possible...

Hmm, as it turns out I have kits for two of those already. Perhaps I should add the Ki-78 to my 'collection' and build a mini-Air Speed Record fleet?