Airfix

[jcf]

Yeah, it looks like someone grabbed a low angle image off the web and "made it fit". 

[Weaver]

That's the box art from the original 1987 release, so I don't think they got it off the web...

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-00503-f-14a-tomcat--206610

[jcf]

That's the box art from the original 1987 release, so I don't think they got it off the web...

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-00503-f-14a-tomcat--206610

Well then, I guess they just grabbed a crap stock-image. 

[elmayerle]

That looks so like the Testor's box from the original movie.

[Hobbes]

it's just a very low-angle image, maybe taken from the catapult operator's perspective?

[Nick]

Is this the original boxing? - http://www.vintage-airfix.com/airfix/top-gun-specials/mavericks-14a-tomcat-p-999.html

The Testors / Italeri original box has this identical image https://www.scalemates.com/kits/testors-273-top-gun-f-14a-tomcat--281445

I remember seeing the Skyhawk box in a charity shop years ago, should have bought it then!

[Captain Canada]

What's the kit actually like ?

[jcf]

The more I look at it the more it becomes clear it's the same crap photo of a crap build-up of the kit.
The splayed out stbd. gear is pretty obvious.

[The Wooksta!]

The kit is like the film - a parcel of crap.

[KiwiZac]

The F-14, F-5 and A-4 all have new boxart for the upcoming release...which is very frustratingly not on Airfix's website but has been seen at shows around the place. Not sure what will be in the boxes - lots of folk on BM have noted the Top Gun: Maverick Hornet has the parts count of the old F/A-18A/C kit, when the aircraft in the film is an E...

[NARSES2]

Been looking at some of the "new" 1/35 scale armour, especially the Hetzer as I've always had a soft spot for the type.

Anyone know the providence of the kit and if it's "borrowed" tools what it builds like ?

[Dizzyfugu]

Scalemate claims that it is re-boxed Academy kit. But this is IMHO not a bad thing, and the mold is relatively new (2012).

[NARSES2]

Thanks Dizzy

[PR19_Kit]

Sprue and build shots of the upcoming Beaufort in the latest Airfix Workshop page. Plus a re-pop of their P-40B Warhawk in 7th Dec. 1941 period markings.

https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/news/workbench/beaufort-test-frames-and-a-scale-flying-legend?utm_campaign=2617305_Airfix%20-%20Workbench%20-%20Week%2049%202019%2F2020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Hornby%20PLC&_%24ja=tsid%3A71284&dm_i=2DJZ,1K3IX,22Y11P,59OET,1

[NARSES2]

Beat me to it Kit 

The Beaufort does look nice