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Started by Radish, September 01, 2007, 09:46:18 AM

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ysi_maniac

#465
This is great! :thumbsup: :blink:
Airfix people have seen the Final Countdown, indeed! :cheers:
Will die without understanding this world.

Mossie

Quote from: kitnut617 on January 27, 2010, 02:07:28 PM
Quote from: Mossie on January 27, 2010, 09:59:40 AM
You've seen the Final Countdown haven't you??? ;D

I kid you not Simon,  fortunately I've got the two Club SHARs coming so will be able to do a swap.

Oh, I know, I've got the SHAR & it's definately a WWII pilot!  It made me smile when I saw it & I thought of The Final Countdown! ;D
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

PR19_Kit

Quote from: kitnut617 on January 27, 2010, 06:41:58 AM
If you buy the very nice new tool Airfix Spitfire Mk.XIX Carlos, you'll find where the modern pilot figure got too.   :blink:

Five will get you ten that they used the BBMF aircraft as references, and they DO have modern pilots of course. Quite where their references were for the WWII pilot in the SHAR boggles the mind though.........
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Mossie

I'd just assume that since both kits were created at the same time, someone made a whoopsie & somehow got the two pilots mixed up? :huh:

No probs really, should be able to find a modern pilot to pop in the Sea Harrier, of course my problems will be solved if I pick up the Spit PR.XIX! :lol:
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

JJC

KEEP THE VULCAN FLYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pyro-manic

Ooh! Hoping for a 1:72 version!
Some of my models can be found on my Flickr album >>>HERE<<<

Weaver

Just been having a look at the site, and it seems they're also re-popping the 1/144th Vostock 1 rocket. Lots of bits for the whiffer's bits box there!

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

kitnut617

My Club kits arrived today ---- very nice ---
If I'm not building models, I'm out riding my dirtbike

Ian the Kiwi Herder

Quote from: pyro-manic on January 29, 2010, 12:01:08 PMOoh! Hoping for a 1:72 version!

"I wish to be associated with the comments of the previous speaker..... "

Ian
"When the Carpet Monster tells you it's full....
....it's time to tidy the workbench"

Confuscious (maybe)

JJC

although airfix now say the sea vixen will be released in september

http://www.airfix.com/latest-news/archive/2010/1/15/new-hs-sea-vixen/
KEEP THE VULCAN FLYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike Wren

not sure if it's been mentioned here already, Airfix have kit A08011 listed as 1/72 Stratos 4 (I assumed it to be some kind of space rocket...) but it's not mentioned at all on their site, them I remembered it's a TSR2...

Mossie

Stratos 4 is an animie production, in it there is (amongst others) a ZELL version of the TSR.2 (called the TSR.2MS).  Lots of scanitlly clad young ladies as pilots too.  Would probably sell by the ton in Japan, also a way of getting the TSR.2 through the back door elsewhere (getting around the limited addition problem), as I assume it'll just be the standard kit with an extra sprue?

I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Radish

Whooooohooooooo!!!! :thumbsup:
Once you've visited the land of the Loonies, a return is never far away.....

Still His (or Her) Majesty, Queen Caroline of the Midlands, Resident Drag Queen

ChernayaAkula

Wonder if it comes with the TEL as well?  :wacko:
Anti ballistic missile, ZELL-launched TSR.2 on a Russian giant truck - can it possibly get any more awesome than that?  :party:
Cheers,
Moritz


Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

Green Dragon

Are you guys serious about the Stratos 4 kit or is this a very early April fools gag! I think Cafe Rio did one in 1/144th scale in Japan (a gashapon trading kit). Main diffence to the airframe is a hump at the base of the tailfin with two rocket engines in it. Think the centreline pod is a large missile for destroying meteors if I remember the anime right.
If it's for real I'll be getting a couple.

Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

On the bench.
1/72 Space 1999 Eagle, Comet Miniatures Martian War Machine
1/72nd Quad Tilt Rotor, 1/144th V/STOL E2 Hawkeye (stalled)