Revell Rotodyne Re-released!

[Nick]

Just found this on the Hannannts site under New Arrivals priced at just £16.99....
The sides come off for a cut-away view of the engine area and the passenger compartment. Makes it easier to convert into a Spooky gunship type!

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=RV00013

Revell have also brought out the Nike and Hawk AA missiles.

http://www.revell.de/en/products/model_kits/services/info_channel/Revell_Classics/index.html?&L=1

[puddingwrestler]

I always enjoy a look at the REvell classics range; they made some really eccentric stuff in some really eccentric scales in the early days, and it's great to see it re-released. I'm often a bit amazed by what was deemed to be financially viable in the early days; lots of this stuff would never get passed the accountants now.

I'm not hugely familiar with the rotodyne, but the box art makes it look different to the machine from Airfix - is it a different version?

[Nick]

The tailfins are canted outwards as appeared later in the project, together with the central fin.

[Aircav]

The fins cant outwards when the main blades start to droop as they slow down so they don't get chopped off.

[PR19_Kit]

Here we go again........... 

At various times in the Rotodynes history the extension fins did different things. Originally they weren't there at all, then they were horizontal, then they started up canted outwards with the rotor stopped and hinged to the vertical as the rotor powered up, as Aircav mentions.

The centre fin is a bone of some contention. They only fitted it for a very short time, and I think Revell have moulded it tilted to one side, but the available photos are difficult to interpret and it may have been actually swept.