Airfix

[PR19_Kit]

Don't get me going on about Maxis, they made my last two years in the motor industry hell on wheels!

A great idea, but very poorly executed, for purely monetary reasons, and taken by people who knew NOTHING about cars, but thought they did because they did know all about trucks and buses. 

[Weaver]

Just watched the Airfix releases 2021 on YouTube as their website is currently down.
I'm pleased about the Bond Bug and Jaguar 420, the Vickers Valiant  and the Chipmunk.
The starter sets are a good idea on the tank range,  but I'm betting that aftermarket kits will be needed to finish off the Spitfire and Hawk.
I haven't seen the catalogue yet but I will be checking YouTube for kit reviews.

It's not the Bond Bug, it's the Beach Buggy:

[PR19_Kit]

Oh rats.

[McColm]

Sorry Kit,  I just saw orange and assumed it was the Bug

[Leading Observer]

Is no-one celebrating the re-release of the Trident?

[PR19_Kit]

Is no-one celebrating the re-release of the Trident?

I would be if I'd known they were doing it, but the web site was impossible to look at with a slow broadband y'day.

PLEASE tell me they're doing it in DIFFERENT colour schemes and not the boring old BEA Red Square and the BA Red tail..................

Doing it properly would be even better instead instead of moulding a model of the prototype.

[Leading Observer]

Is no-one celebrating the re-release of the Trident?

I would be if I'd known they were doing it, but the web site was impossible to look at with a slow broadband y'day.

PLEASE tell me they're doing it in DIFFERENT colour schemes and not the boring old BEA Red Square and the BA Red tail..................

Doing it properly would be even better instead instead of moulding a model of the prototype.

It is the old BEA scheme. The thought occurred tome that, given the Tridents reluctance to actually leave the ground, it might be an idea to convert it to an Ekranoplane for cross Channel work

[zenrat]

Was that modelled on an actual Beach Buggy design?  And if so, what?
It's not a Meyers Manx - AMT did that in the one true car scale (1/25).

[Gondor]

Talking about older re-release by Airfix. Are we sure that the Mosquito is a new kit?

Gondor

[Mossie]

Definitely.  There's a video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/LVx0yLyeeuQ

[Mossie]

Special Hobby do a Tempest Mk.II in 1/72 in two different boxings IIRC for different operators and of course there is the old Matchbox Mk. II/VI kit too

Gondor
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I'm sure plenty would happily convert the Airfix for the higher detail.  There's still a fair few shudder at the idea of a SH kit.

[Nick]

Was that modelled on an actual Beach Buggy design?  And if so, what?
It's not a Meyers Manx - AMT did that in the one true car scale (1/25).

Bugle Beach Buggy. One piece moulded body, shortened VW Beetle chassis, Porsche V6 engine.
http://www.buglebeachbuggies.co.uk/history-of-the-bugle-buggy.php

[zenrat]

Thanks Nick.

[McColm]

Was that modelled on an actual Beach Buggy design?  And if so, what?
It's not a Meyers Manx - AMT did that in the one true car scale (1/25).

Bugle Beach Buggy. One piece moulded body, shortened VW Beetle chassis, Porsche V6 engine.
http://www.buglebeachbuggies.co.uk/history-of-the-bugle-buggy.php

I wonder if that would work on the new Beetle?

[Weaver]

Bugle Beach Buggy. One piece moulded body, shortened VW Beetle chassis, Porsche V6 engine.
http://www.buglebeachbuggies.co.uk/history-of-the-bugle-buggy.php

As i read that link, the Porsche engine (flat-6 not V6 BTW) was only on a couple of specials: most of them used the standard Beetle engine.