Airfix

[Weaver]

Airfix 1/48th Mosquito PR.XVI is now available:

http://www.airfix.com/de-havilland-mosquito-prxvi-1-48.html?utm_campaign=Airfix_Email_A07112_deHavillandMosquito&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=CM_hornby-airfix


When did the Airfix website change? Are you no longer able to buy any Airfix kit through it like you used to? It's wierd: the catalogue pages are still there if you go direct to them from a google search, but the home page seems to have no way of getting to them.

[monkeyhanger]

Yes, I noticed that it isn't as "user friendly" as it used to be.

I have a couple of the Blenheim Mk1s in the stash and I'm looking forward to the MkIV.

Come to think of it I'm looking forward to building them! Just go to the house sorted......

[Howard of Effingham]

Can anybody tell me what is the difference between the Airfix 109G and the Airfix 109G? They currently have two 1/72 scale versions in the catalogue. The reference number differ by "A".

P.s If I'm being thick, please point it out. I'm used to that!

no you aren't thick, but the A version of the 109G kit does come with some handy Swiss AF decals, that will go
nicely on some whiff. it confused me at first too.

[darthspud]

i've noticed a couple of cheap(ish) 1/24 Airfix Spitfire Vb's on t'interweb.
Just wondering if they are genuine Airfix or a re -issue of an older mould?
Anyone got any info please, as i'm considering going huge.

[NARSES2]

The latest Airfix mag (Sept  ) has a build of the new tool Swift. Very good, complimentary review and it does look very, very nice 

[PR19_Kit]

i've noticed a couple of cheap(ish) 1/24 Airfix Spitfire Vb's on t'interweb.
Just wondering if they are genuine Airfix or a re -issue of an older mould?
Anyone got any info please, as i'm considering going huge.

IIRC they did re-pop their original 1/24 Spitfire I into a V some years ago, with added cannon etc. I can't recall how accurate it was deemed to be by The Internet Judging Team I'm afraid.

[darthspud]

i've noticed a couple of cheap(ish) 1/24 Airfix Spitfire Vb's on t'interweb.
Just wondering if they are genuine Airfix or a re -issue of an older mould?
Anyone got any info please, as i'm considering going huge.

IIRC they did re-pop their original 1/24 Spitfire I into a V some years ago, with added cannon etc. I can't recall how accurate it was deemed to be by The Internet Judging Team I'm afraid.

Thanks Kit, I may see if one is available at Avon Show and examine before I buy.
I'm not a rivet counter so small inaccuracies I can live with.
that does of course depend what gets my attention beforehand and I end up spending all my budget on!!

[Weaver]

Airfix 1/48th Mosquito PR.XVI is now available:

http://www.airfix.com/de-havilland-mosquito-prxvi-1-48.html?utm_campaign=Airfix_Email_A07112_deHavillandMosquito&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=CM_hornby-airfix


When did the Airfix website change? Are you no longer able to buy any Airfix kit through it like you used to? It's wierd: the catalogue pages are still there if you go direct to them from a google search, but the home page seems to have no way of getting to them.

Solved the website thing: there's a white box with three red lines in it at top left on the home page which opens up the menu to get to the catalogue pages. What fooled me is that it doesn't produce any explanation when you mouse over it, unlike all the other buttons on the front page.

[Howard of Effingham]

The latest Airfix mag (Sept  ) has a build of the new tool Swift. Very good, complimentary review and it does look very, very nice 

indeed it does brother narses. i need several when it does eventually reach these shores.

[NARSES2]

Whilst it's outside my normal period for modelling it is an aircraft I like so one at least will enter the stash for a real world build 

[Weaver]

I've never had any liking for the Attacker-Swift line in themselves, but I could see the wings being useful for all sorts of whiffs.

[PR19_Kit]

The Swift FR5 review does look promising, but why oh WHY do present day reviewers all have to go down the 'pre-shading' and 'washing' route?

The finished model looks like a die cast with WELL over-emphasised panel lines. You only have to turn over a couple of pages to see pics of the real thing and on it the panel lines are pretty much invisible. 

[Thorvic]

The Swift FR5 review does look promising, but why oh WHY do present day reviewers all have to go down the 'pre-shading' and 'washing' route?

The finished model looks like a die cast with WELL over-emphasised panel lines. You only have to turn over a couple of pages to see pics of the real thing and on it the panel lines are pretty much invisible. 

Yeap it annoys me too, and ruins the look, maybe the control surfaces perhaps but not every panel, especially on aircraft with a short service history and operating from their base as Pilots and Crew chiefs like to keep their aircraft looking clean.

The recent 1/48th Spitfire VB build in the Malta colours in the Airfix mag is a prime example of a cock up, lovely faded paint scheme, and weathering yet crystal clear crisp markings as per the decal sheet, if the camo scheme is that weathered from the sun and sand then the markings would have faded to some extent at the same time !!! He probably should have gone for a freshly repainted aircraft the Malta scheme represents or looked into the Humbrol weathering materials to weather the decals to match the washed out paint scheme

[Mr.Creak]

The latest Airfix mag (Sept  ) has a build of the new tool Swift. Very good, complimentary review and it does look very, very nice 

I'll almost certainly get one.
But I'd far far rather they'd done a (good) Scimitar ¹.
Everything I've read about the Xtrakit one seems pretty damning.


1 Ooh, thought: I wonder how much of it - if any -would be good for Supermarine 545?

[PR19_Kit]

1 Ooh, thought: I wonder how much of it - if any -would be good for Supermarine 545?

Quite a lot of it I'd have thought. The fuselage from the rear of the cockpit backwards is pretty much the same as a Swift, and most of the wings would be usable, with added bits to make the crescent shape. The nose will be the major problem of ccurse, I can't think of enything even vaguely like it apart from the SAAB 210.

The 545 was at Cranfield when I was there and it was a very interesting shape, the canopy especially so as it bulged outward from the frames upward! A pity they scrapped it.