Airfix

[Aircav]

I do hope they do a 1/350 Type 23 

[Thorvic]

Queen Elizabeth is going to be one big model in 1:350...

The CVF class are still smaller than the US CVN's and they have bothe been done by Tamiya and Trumpeter.

However don't expect to see a kit till the ships are ready to enter service in another 5 or 6 years at least.
(to quote Trev Snowden)

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[pyro-manic]

Queen Elizabeth is going to be one big model in 1:350...

The CVF class are still smaller than the US CVN's and they have bothe been done by Tamiya and Trumpeter.

However don't expect to see a kit till the ships are ready to enter service in another 5 or 6 years at least.
(to quote Trev Snowden)

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Yep. Still big though. At 1:350, the model will be approx. 80cm long.

[Thorvic]

If they don't get cancelled becaue we've no money to pay for them...

Actually its the other way round Lee, the Govt recently upped the tempo on the CVF builds in order to boost the economy with teh suppliers lined up to build and equip the ship. By ordereing early and paying promptly they are getting the money into the economy when banks are getting cold feet about lending.

i wouldnt be surprised to see the Tranche3 Typhoons fly through the approval process next spring as well, with the Germans also keen to sign for similar reasons

[kitbasher]

Airfix 2009 new items (thanks to Airfix Tribute Forum and the Airfix newsletter)
A02017 Spitfire PRXIX - Mmmm - speculation on Britmodeller as to whether this is a rebadged offering from elsewhere.  Does it have to be?
A02065 Spitfire Mk IXc - Test shot looked nice but the fin and rudder looked a tad undersized.  Hope it was my eyesight playing up!
A03014 Blohm & Voss Bv141 - I want 2 for a Bv282 - yes the only legit zwilling whif as far as I'm concerned!

[lancer]

Really glad to see a slew of SHAR and FA2's out in 72nd at last. got some other decent stuff coming out as well. Now finally I may be able to do some of my SHAR 2 wiffs.

[nev]

i wouldnt be surprised to see the Tranche3 Typhoons fly through the approval process next spring as well, with the Germans also keen to sign for similar reasons

Sure hope so - should help with exports as well.

[Weaver]

If they don't get cancelled becaue we've no money to pay for them...

Actually its the other way round Lee, the Govt recently upped the tempo on the CVF builds in order to boost the economy with teh suppliers lined up to build and equip the ship. By ordereing early and paying promptly they are getting the money into the economy when banks are getting cold feet about lending.

i wouldnt be surprised to see the Tranche3 Typhoons fly through the approval process next spring as well, with the Germans also keen to sign for similar reasons

Be nice (for me) if they decided they did need 18 Nimrod MRA.4s, and/or 3-5 R.4s after all. Don't hold your breath though.....

[kitnut617]

I got the new Airfix Club Newsletter (by email) this morning, it confirms that the new Club Membership renewal kit will actually be three kits in one box.  It will include their Swordfish, Wildcat and a new Seafire Mk.IIc, all in 1/72.  The announcement states that the Seafire Mk.IIc has never been released in 1/72 before, but as I pointed out on the ATF forum, High Planes has pre-empted them by some months, they having no less than three versions of the Mk.IIc on sale.  An early version, a late version and another somewhere in-between.

[Deino]

1/48 TSR-2

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/message/1227813738/Airfix+TSR2+-+Some+pictures..

Deino

[Jeffry Fontaine]

1/48 TSR-2

http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/message/1227813738/Airfix+TSR2+-+Some+pictures..

Thanks to the slow connection you beat me to the announcement.  I will had the following anyway with credit to the person that posted the images:

Spencer Pollard has posted several images of the 1/48th scale Airfix TSR2 test shot on HyperScale.  Spencer will be building this model for an article that will appear as a feature in Military In Scale. 

[Mossie]

Looked in the window of my LMS today (didn't really want anything so didn't go in, took enormous self restraint!) & they had Airfix kits of a 1/72 Alpha Jet & a Horsa.  The Alpha Jet has been mentioned breifly before on this site but it wasn't decided if it was a new tool or a re-release.  I'm guessing the Horsa is a re-box of Italeri's kit?  Can't find either on the Airfix website.

I've also seen an Airfix Typhoon F.2, Mirage F.1C & Buccaneer S.2B in the 'future releases' announcements.  I believe that these are all re-releases of Airfix's existing kits.  The F.1C & the Bucc will both be welcome, but I guess that most will plump for Revell's Tiffy.

[Damian2]

Now if only Airfix will  retool their Tornados and Harriers in 1/48 to bring them up to the standards set by the Canberra and TSR.2 I'll be a very, very happy boy!!

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[PR19_Kit]

Mossie,

I'm guessing the Horsa is a re-box of Italeri's kit?  Can't find either on the Airfix website.

I asked Trevor Snowden exactly that at Telford and he said it was indeed the Italeri mouldings, and the Airfix boxed release '...was at Italeri's request'! That's a new marketing approach if ever I saw one.

[Mossie]

Thanks guys.  Hmm, interesting approach by Italeri, PR19.  I guess with a lot of interest in the Horsa being in the UK, they wanted to use Airfix's traditional markets & supply chains to flog a few more kits?