Airfix

[NARSES2]

Just started working on the new 110. Goes together very well with some nice detail. There's some nice engineering to the parts fit. A few of the parts I've worked on so far can be glued from the "inside" face...very usefull when you are as cackhanded as I am 

[Green Dragon]

First pic I've seen of the new TSR.2 sprue for the Stratos Four Meteor Sweeper has been posted on JC Carbonel's Modelstories site (third pic down). http://modelbox.free.fr/news/News1010_P/EURO.html
Also does anyone know the provenance of the AMP/Mini Mir Me 263 kit? (6th pic down).

Paul Harrison

[The Wooksta!]

Likely a copy of the Special Hobby kit - that Ukrainian manufacturer that's knocking out the Bv 155 and Ta 152H has been copying other moulds so I suspect the same toolmaker.  Either that or someone has bought the Huma tools.  Those were the only two injection Me 263s. 

Until I see the sprues, I can't say for definite.

[ChernayaAkula]

First pic I've seen of the new TSR.2 sprue for the Stratos Four Meteor Sweeper has been posted on JC Carbonel's Modelstories site (third pic down). http://modelbox.free.fr/news/News1010_P/EURO.html
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MOST interesting! 
Looks like they include some pilot figures. Cool!
The part in the middle next to what looks like the cockpit tub. Is that the canopy? Wonder whether that means the kit will include a complete "real-world" TSR.2 with the Stratos 4 bits thrown in on top?

[Green Dragon]

Thanks Lee I was wondering if was the Huma mould.

Hi Moritz, last I heard there is the full TSR.2 kit with the extra meteor sweeper bits added, the pilots are two girls in very tight flight suits and that solid part is the new canopy, there should be small round porthole style windows in that part.

Paul Harrison

[Thorvic]

Likely a copy of the Special Hobby kit - that Ukrainian manufacturer that's knocking out the Bv 155 and Ta 152H has been copying other moulds so I suspect the same toolmaker.  Either that or someone has bought the Huma tools.  Those were the only two injection Me 263s. 

Until I see the sprues, I can't say for definite.

http://hobbyterra.com/product.asp?idProduct=3273

That help ?

[The Wooksta!]

I don't have my Special Hobby one to hand but it's definitely not the Huma one - that had a conventional port starboard split as opposed to horizontal.

[frank2056]

Definitely not the Huma kit. Here's a review of the Huma kit with a shot of the sprue.

[NARSES2]

Well it's not a direct copy of the Special Hobby kit because although that is moulded with a horizontal fusalage split, the halves include the wing surfaces. There are also some other details in the SH kit.

They may have used the kit and cut it up to "disguise" it's origins however.

[McGreig]

They may have used the kit and cut it up to "disguise" it's origins however.

I think that it's probably a new tooling. Although the fin and cockpit floor look similar, what I can make out of the engraved detail on the wing is different from that on the Special Hobby kit, the Special Hobby wheel wells are rectangular, not wheel shaped, the undercarriage legs are different, the cockpit cut out is larger on the Special Hobby kit with the solid rear section also treated differently, and there are even differences between the internal bulkheads of the two kits.

[kitbasher]

First pic I've seen of the new TSR.2 sprue for the Stratos Four Meteor Sweeper has been posted on JC Carbonel's Modelstories site (third pic down). http://modelbox.free.fr/news/News1010_P/EURO.html
Also does anyone know the provenance of the AMP/Mini Mir Me 263 kit? (6th pic down).

Paul Harrison

That AMP box art looks so much like the old NOVO box art!

[chrisonord]

Do you think if I asked nicely, Airfix would sort me out with a new canopy for my hind Mi-24 A? 
Chris.

[thedarkmaster]

So how big is the Valient going to br then ?

[Mossie]

Do you think if I asked nicely, Airfix would sort me out with a new canopy for my hind Mi-24 A? 
Chris.

Yes, or at least they're likely to.  They keep spares from the year dot, as long they haven't run out, they'll send you one, free.  Just contact them via the website, you'll not here from them, just get your parts in the post one day.  It might take a little while so don't badger them.  Make sure you list all the parts numbers, I once requested 'wings' and didn't think to mention the transparent light covers, so I didn't get them.

[chrisonord]

Cheers for that Mossie,
I thought I might have been asking for the holy grail (in 1/72nd scale of course )
Chris.