Airfix

[albeback]

Hope the Harrier T.10 resurfaces. Will need that for my Harrier collection

I doubt it somehow i suspect they would probably prefer to retool it along the lines of the GR-9 than re-issue the older kit to keep their 1/72nd Harrier range in the same new tool standard.

I'd settle for that!!

Allan

[kitbasher]

Afterthought regarding the Mosquito.  The Sunderland snuck out at SMW 2012 with no change to marking options, and now has the Mosquito.  Could Airfix simply be reboxing existing catalogue items for which they have reasonable stock levels, rather than exhausting stocks in old boxings and reissuing them later down the line in a new box with new decal options as a way of getting older but still current catalogue items into the current corporate image?

[The Wooksta!]

Probable, although when was the Sunderland last out?  Did it appear in a Hornby grey box?  I'm not sure that it did so I think the quiet release of that one was more as a spoiler for the Italeri kit.

I'd agree with that assessment for the Mosquito.

[Thorvic]

Yeap the Sunderland like the Mossie have been out in the old grey boxes and have switched to the Red boxes with the same decal options.

So basically yes they are reboxing what lines remain in stock that haven't been re-issued or replaced as they are all bagged kits these days so rebrasnding is a relatively simple if time consuming exercise.

Trouble is now you see new box and find old kit which is a bit of an anticlimax when you first spot them 

[kitnut617]

Yeah! but they make lovely kits to kitbash ----

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,36799.msg598430.html#msg598430

[NARSES2]

The latest Airfix Club Newsletter has a double page on the kits that have just been re-boxed in the "new corporate" style boxes, and there are some oldies there, like the Sherman.

[ChrisF]

The latest Airfix Club Newsletter has a double page on the kits that have just been re-boxed in the "new corporate" style boxes, and there are some oldies there, like the Sherman.

And one of my builds on the "Members" page

[lancer]

Trying to get the electronic copy but it's taking bloody ages to download .

[NARSES2]

The June Airfix Mag has a build of the new tool Fw190. Looks fantastic and must be out soon 

[lancer]

Reading ithat article currently, it's pretty damm good. The model is amazing, just as Narses says.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Just read my 'Airfix News' eMail.... both the 1;32 'Desert Outpost' & 'Strongpoint' are back out at 20.00 each. Either of these are enough to make me start building AFV's again !!

Ian

[Mossie]

Got my newsletter, Airfix Gladiator is out.  Decals for a preserved aircraft from the Shuttleworth Collection and Irish Air Corps.

They've been covered elsewhere, but the Dambusters boxing of the new Lancaster has been released and the old Tornado GR.4 with 617 Sqn 70th Anniversary scheme.  Vosper torpedo boat has been re-released.

[McColm]

In todays Metro Friday May 31,2013 page 54. There is free entry to "Airfix Making History" 1 June 2013 to 3 May 2014 at the Royal Air Force Musuem London (Hendon).

[pyro-manic]

Still no sign of the Vampire, Typhoon or TSR.2MS (even bigger missile version) in my area. Rather annoying, as I'd like one of each, but I can wait. No money to spend on models at the moment anyway...

[NARSES2]

New tool Gladiator is out, got mine yesterday. Very nice