Airfix

[pyro-manic]

Check your PM, lancer.

[kitbasher]

Hampden's on the shelves, playmates.

[kitnut617]

Has anyone got a like to Whirlybirds web site or a contace address for them please? I can see a few DH88 bits and decals in my future

Whirlybid doesn't have a website Lancer, the only way to go is this.  And they do have a number of bits & decal sheets too.

[TomZ]

JBot decals also have sets of Comet decals. They have decals for ALL Comet markings and I think they are better than Whirlybirds.

http://www.jbot.ca/welcome.shtml


TomZ

[kitbasher]

Sea Vixens on the shelves at Holborn Modelzone, boys and girls.

[thedarkmaster]

Should be at all modelzones.......we had ours Monday

[Cliffy B]

Was in the local Hobby Town USA this morning and noticed an entire rotating rack of Airfix "starter kits."  The kind that come with a little tube of glue, a few plastic pots of paint, and a brush.  They were all 1/72 scale and consisted of the usual prop and jet suspects.  The one that really caught my eye though was a Hawker Sea Hawk!  The boxes claimed they were "skill level 1" which usually means they're on par with a snap-tite kit as far as detail goes.  They wanted $16 a piece for them but I wanted to do some research before possible springing for that Sea Hawk.  A USN version in GSB over Korea sounds nice    Anyone know anything about these new kits?  Are they really "snap-tite" type kits or are they in disguise?

[PR19_Kit]

Cliffy,

AFAIK they are all the older Airfix non-recut moulds, with all the starter stuff added to aid sales. Airfix did do some snap-tite type kits many years ago, the Spitfire V being one, but I don't think the Sea Hawk was one of them.

[The Wooksta!]

The Spitfir Vb was never a snap tite kit although the Spitfire Ia was ruined to make it snap tite, along with the Lightning F1a.

[PR19_Kit]

Spitfire, Schmittfire, seen one Airfix Spit of the period, you've seen 'em all............ 

[NARSES2]

Cliffy,

AFAIK they are all the older Airfix non-recut moulds, with all the starter stuff added to aid sales.

That's exactly what they are

[kitbasher]

Spitfire, Schmittfire, seen one Airfix Spit of the period, you've seen 'em all............ 

How very dare you!!!!

[PR19_Kit]

How very dare you!!!!

When I have 92 Spitfire kits in The Loft, very easily actually. 

As I recall, the Airfix Spitfire 1a and V had pretty much identical fuselage moulds, only the wings were different, and you could chop and change one to the other quite easily. I made a Mk XII using the Mk V fuse as a basis, but with LOADS of other bits added of course.

[Thorvic]

http://www.airfix.com/2011/

Enjoy

[lenny100]

nice to see the stands back, no more standing a aircraft on its gear now flying were they belong, (did i mention i hate undercarts)