Airfix

[NARSES2]

the one true scale  what 28mm?   

Don't bring that discussion into this thread 

[NARSES2]

From the Airfix Facebook page 

Two weeks to go before we need to finish the 2014 Catalogue and have it ready to go to print. Unfortunately there appears to be four weeks work involved!

Only 4 weeks work, not so bad. I once got 9 months done in 8 weeks, then spent 6 years converting the way I'd done it (which was quick and simple using existing systems) into the "correct" way using the new software. Ah the delights of the alledged Millennium Bug  

Seriously though doesn't look as though it will be ready for Telford unless that Facebook post was a couple of weeks ago ?

[Thorvic]

From the Airfix Facebook page 

Two weeks to go before we need to finish the 2014 Catalogue and have it ready to go to print. Unfortunately there appears to be four weeks work involved!

Seriously though doesn't look as though it will be ready for Telford unless that Facebook post was a couple of weeks ago ?

I think thats intentional, give them SMW to double it check it with some of the key figures in the Modelling World and verify no obvious clashes with some of the other manufacturers before they commit to the 2014 plan the week after !.

[NARSES2]

Spoilsports ! 

Seriously last years catalogue was the first kit catalogue I'd actually bought for years. Going through it took me right back to my childhood ............................... (leads appropriate spaces for pithy/witty/downright rude comments  )

[kitbasher]

Seriously last years catalogue was the first kit catalogue I'd actually bought for years. Going through it took me right back to my childhood ............................... (leads appropriate spaces for pithy/witty/downright rude comments  )

Those early papyrus editions are worth a fortune now!

[NARSES2]

Seriously last years catalogue was the first kit catalogue I'd actually bought for years. Going through it took me right back to my childhood ............................... (leads appropriate spaces for pithy/witty/downright rude comments  )

Those early papyrus editions are worth a fortune now!

Yea but the hand scratched in slate were far more durable 

[kitbasher]

And the dH.88 and R.E.8 featured in both editions too!

[lancer]

Seriously last years catalogue was the first kit catalogue I'd actually bought for years. Going through it took me right back to my childhood ............................... (leads appropriate spaces for pithy/witty/downright rude comments  )

Those early papyrus editions are worth a fortune now!

Yea but the hand scratched in slate were far more durable 

I dug an inscribed caly tablet one out of storage yesterday.....

[Rheged]

And the R.E.8 featured in both editions too!

In the earliest one, did it feature as " the RFC's latest machine"?

[rickshaw]

Seriously last years catalogue was the first kit catalogue I'd actually bought for years. Going through it took me right back to my childhood ............................... (leads appropriate spaces for pithy/witty/downright rude comments  )

Those early papyrus editions are worth a fortune now!

Yea but the hand scratched in slate were far more durable 

I dug an inscribed caly tablet one out of storage yesterday.....

Wow!  Talk about modern technology.  I've still got an old one scratched on the cave wall...

[kitbasher]

And the R.E.8 featured in both editions too!

In the earliest one, did it feature as " the RFC's latest machine"?

RFC as in 'Roman Flying Corps' I presume?

(now THERE'S a whif!)

[The Wooksta!]

Rad did it twenty years ago.  The old SIG newsletters have a load of his Roman stuff in them.

[kitbasher]

I've seen Imperial Roman whiffery on the web and at shows, tends to be jets and stuff, but never an R.E.8.

[NARSES2]

R.E.8 featured in both editions too!

It undoubtedly was, and was undoubtedly giving me nightmares even then  That kit is my own personal worse nightmare, it still gives me the shakes to think of those struts and stringy tube glue, almost, not quite, but almost self rigging, but there was a good build of it in last months Airfix Mag

[Geoff]

R.E.8 featured in both editions too!

It undoubtedly was, and was undoubtedly giving me nightmares even then  That kit is my own personal worse nightmare, it still gives me the shakes to think of those struts and stringy tube glue, almost, not quite, but almost self rigging, but there was a good build of it in last months Airfix Mag

IIRC it took me days to get that big upper wing to fit.