Airfix

[The Wooksta!]

42$?  That'll be nigh on £40 when they appear here.  Had away and bollards!  Ye'd be better off sourcing Airfix TSR2s on ebay.  They'd certainly be cheaper!

Closer examination of the Airfix Spitfire Ia reveals a flashed over hole on the starboard fuselage, roughly where the Coffman starter is on the Spitfire mk II.  One of these is therefore on the release schedule.  Why?  Simple.  Like the Spitfire PR.XIX, F.IX and Hurricane, there's one on the airshow circuit.  There's also the BBMF set to consider.  If they do a mk IIa, I suspect that they'll include two props and a new oil cooler so that the modeller can build either the mk IIa or the Va, the latter with Bader's markings.

Mystic Wooksta!'s next prediction?  New tool Blenheim for 2011 or 2012.  Like the above, there's one on the airshow circuit and their current tooling is ancient and has been pretty crummy for the last 20 years, if not before!  You heard it here first!

[Thorvic]

http://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/airfix-172-stratos-4-bac-tsr-2ms/

Well it should be a bit lower price over here, as the kit has little meaning in the UK without the cartoon, where as in Japan there looks to be a possible franchise cost involved.

G

[Mossie]

Yeah, I think there's a Valiant in Stratos 4 so another possibility for the Japanese market?

[NARSES2]

Mystic Wooksta!'s next prediction?  New tool Blenheim for 2011 or 2012.  Like the above, there's one on the airshow circuit and their current tooling is ancient and has been pretty crummy for the last 20 years, if not before!  You heard it here first!

Now that would be nice 

[Geoff]

Yes it would - nice Spit Chris.

[ChernayaAkula]

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10125656

There your go Stratos IV TSR2.MS by Airfix now showing up on Japanese stockists for pre-ordering.

Now we only need to find out what they changed or added.

[pyro-manic]

New tail with rocket motor, new canopy, under-wing rocket boosters, and the big underslung nuke I expect. And decals of course.

[kitbasher]

Closer examination of the Airfix Spitfire Ia reveals a flashed over hole on the starboard fuselage, roughly where the Coffman starter is on the Spitfire mk II.  One of these is therefore on the release schedule.

Could be an Airfix Club option though, rather than a general release

Mystic Wooksta!'s next prediction?  New tool Blenheim for 2011 or 2012.

I Like! And a rumour I am willing to spread!!
Alternatively a replacement Beaufighter (one being restored at Duxford) at a fraction of the Hasegawa effort will do, or even new a Lysander.

[Mossie]

Defiant would be good too, a nice modern, accurate affordable one.

[philp]

Here's my take on a Dutch one Phillip using the origional Airfix kit. I'll get a couple of the new ones (at least) when I see them 

Nice, going to do mine with the orange triangles but got to find a match for the orange to do the rudder in.

[lancer]

Defiant would be good too, a nice modern, accurate affordable one.

While browsing the trade stands at the Avon show last Sunday, I came accross one trader who was selling a resin replacement nose for both the Fairey Battle and the Airfix defiant. I forget the name of the trader though

[The Wooksta!]

Closer examination of the Airfix Spitfire Ia reveals a flashed over hole on the starboard fuselage, roughly where the Coffman starter is on the Spitfire mk II.  One of these is therefore on the release schedule.

Could be an Airfix Club option though, rather than a general release

Alternatively a replacement Beaufighter (one being restored at Duxford) at a fraction of the Hasegawa effort will do, or even new a Lysander.

As I've said before, a lot of the new Airfix kits seem to be of aicraft on the airshow circuit.  Little Johnny sees a Spitfire flying and pesters Dad to buy kit.  Off he toddles to see Mr Models (invariably he's at an airshow), sees the new AirfixSpitfire IIa in the markings of the IIa that the BBMF are flying and buys kit as it's a fiver and in the markings of the Spit that his son's just seen and wants.  

I think they will do a Beaufighter, but that's recently been rereleased whereas the Blenheim's finally been withdrawn and again, there's one flying.  Don't think the Beau will be ready for a few years.

[Mossie]

Airfix have long had a deal going with the BBMF boxed set, which seems to be most of the preserved aircraft they are re-hashing.  I guess they're trying to keep that deal going as sales will probably have flagged with what's in the box.  Maybe we'll see a new Lanc, or maybe a re-boxed Revell kit?

[Thorvic]

They probably couldn't go amiss with redoing one of their RAF Heavies, the Halifax could certainly do with a revamp as very dated, the Lancaster is still selling well and is still rgarded as a good kit (well so was the Spit 1 !!!! ) but i doubt they could match the current revell one for detail at the price it sells for. Stirling would be good too but the kits not too bad regarding detail and certainly better than the Halifax kit.

However as Woolsta says with the Airfix roadshow on the airshow circuit, you can see how its influenced many of thier new kits, BBMF, Vulcan, Sea Vixen, F-86 Fury, Seafire 17 etc.

G

[Aircav]

Hmm, Red Bull markings on the 1/48 Sea Vixen, that would look good