Airfix

[Chris Payne]

Looks like someone uncovered this years batch of Airfix advent calendar pics a week early.......*****SPOILER ALERT***** http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234950797-airfix-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-2014-spoiler-alert/?p=1472383

[inkworm]

Some nice kits there that might have to be added to the stash.

[Captain Canada]

Intriguing !

[Librarian]

There's a BEAUFORT ! and a SWIFT . Heaven, I'm in Heaven.....

[The Wooksta!]

No Beaufort - that's a Blenheim mk I and possibly a Mk IV as well.  Personally, I wish that they'd done the V first.  If the u/c nacelles are separate, we may well get a V, because I'd swear that the type used Beaufighter nacelles.  I've a spare turret left from the MPM abortion.

72nd Spitfire V but really, a XIV would have been better.  Depending on it being a B or a C, my bank balance is going to take a hammering...

Metal wing Hurricane I though.  That's going to please a lot of people.  New sprue in 2015 for a IIb?

Dornier 17Z?  Interesting development. 

Wonder if the RAF vehicles are being scaled up.

[Librarian]

No Beaufort - that's a Blenheim mk I and possibly a Mk IV as well.  Personally, I wish that they'd done the V first.  If the u/c nacelles are separate, we may well get a V, because I'd swear that the type used Beaufighter nacelles.  I've a spare turret left from the MPM abortion.

72nd Spitfire V but really, a XIV would have been better.  Depending on it being a B or a C, my bank balance is going to take a hammering...

Metal wing Hurricane I though.  That's going to please a lot of people.  New sprue in 2015 for a IIb?

Dornier 17Z?  Interesting development. 

Wonder if the RAF vehicles are being scaled up.

Should have worn my glasses . Also a Gnat or is it a Midge? VERY happy about the Swift. We can really hope now for an eventual Scimitar

[The Wooksta!]

48th Gnat T1.  Personally think that a 48th Meteor 4, 7 or 8 would have been a better seller but the market has examples by Classic Airframes so possibly more of a slow burn.  That said, there's never been an injection Swift in 48th  so perhaps they're right.  Still, may mean we'll get a decent 72nd one at some stage.  And I suspect it'll be a damn sight more accurate than the CMR/Xtrakit ones.

I'm just getting a decent Spitfire V and I really hope it's a C, because that opens it up for a lot of possibilities.  That and the fact that stash is awash with Airfix Vbs - I brought back half a dozen from Telford (plus 2 Airfix Vcs that will be Vbs because the C wing is so... poo) and got another 3 in a ebay bundle afterwards.  Still, they'll end up as whiff fodder for The Plan, which is really why I bought them.  That and they were cheap.

[Spey_Phantom]

i really hope Airfix re-issues the 1/72 Lockheed P/F-80, i could use a couple 
i dont care if its the old vintage mould or a new one.

[Green Dragon]

With you there Nils, F-80's a great little kit.Would like them to reissue the F-86D too.

Paul Harrison

[Librarian]

I think the F-80 was the first model I ever made, or the Revell Draken, sometime around 1975. My brother was making the Frog Whitley .

[Weaver]

Another oldy-but-goody is the Fouga Magister. It's pretty rivet-heavy, but there's something about the way it's engineered that makes it go together really nicely. I've build two, and even with whiffy modifications to complicate matters, they were still fun. Lots of interesting real-world colour schemes too, since they've been used by several display teams and as warplanes in some "interesting" situations.

[Captain Canada]

A new F-80 would be awesome. For $8 I'd buy a bunch !

[Daryl J.]

Should the Swift and Gnat both indeed be 1/48, they'll be purchased.   Same with the Do-17Z.    There are a few solidly-post-war scenarios I have in mind for the Dorn-yay.   

[Thorvic]

Interesting options there, Mossie will be happy with the War Bus out again, and the D-Day theme is being focused upon. I just hope we see something suitable in Cold War British Aircraft in 72nd or it may be a rather lack lustre year for some. However the Advent Calendar is just teasers and not all the 2014 range and that sentry box somehow says Colditz to me or something similar !

[PR19_Kit]

....and that sentry box somehow says Colditz to me or something similar !

Didn't they do the Colditz Glider at some stage in the past?