Airfix

[pyro-manic]

There's a few they've never tackled too. I suspect a reasonably-priced new-tool DH Hornet would go down well, as would a good Venom.

My total support for both of those! 

Perhaps they have a down on de Havilland for some reason, notwithstanding the lovely Vampire T11.

Agreed. A new Mossie, Hornet, Venom, Vampire fighter, and maybe even a new tool Comet would be really good. Actually, thinking about it, one I'd also really like to see would be a Dragon Rapide... Can't have enough de Havilland, IMO...

[lenny100]

if we are on a de Havilland want list how about a Dove, Oxford, Swallow and a blue streak

[TallEng]

if we are on a de Havilland want list how about a Dove, Oxford, Swallow and a blue streak

Whilst the Oxford has some charm of its own, I don't think it's quite De Haviland shaped.
Surely you mean Morris Oxford? or more likely Airspeed Oxford

Regards
Keith

[lenny100]

no there is a dh oxford just love its shape like a rapide with guns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Oxford

[Weaver]

and maybe even a new tool Comet would be really good.

Now there's an idea....

Also, since they've done a Valiant and a Vulcan, how about a Victor B.2, since Revell seem to have abandoned the old Matchbox mould and it was a tanker anyway...?

[darthspud]

Random question, but would Airfix still have spares for a HP Halifax, looks like a mid 60's edition kit and I appear to be missing just a wing flap/aileron.

[Gondor]

Just received a pair of the new 1/72nd EE Lightning F6's off Airfix 

So where's the review then? 

Really ?

Well its the new Lightning F2 kit with a new sprue containing the Red Tops, the over wing tanks, longer ducts and the belly tank gun pack together with new decals !

I could have said that as soon as I saw the sprue's of the F2. Its the obviously different parts between the two versions of the Lightening

Gondor

[Thorvic]

Random question, but would Airfix still have spares for a HP Halifax, looks like a mid 60's edition kit and I appear to be missing just a wing flap/aileron.

Well its due for a repop this year so it should be available if not from old stock, then at least the new batch they have scheduled

[Thorvic]

Also, since they've done a Valiant and a Vulcan, how about a Victor B.2, since Revell seem to have abandoned the old Matchbox mould and it was a tanker anyway...?

Well there was rumours that the Airfix researchers had been all over the one at Elvington this summer....

So maybe a 2016 release perhaps (the first of the 2015 stuff will already be at test shots by now and the rest will being designed and developed over the next 12 months so they are ready for the 2015 catalogue at the end of the year)

[The Wooksta!]

Bearing in mind that there's a die cast Hornet from Oxford - whi I believe have some tie in with Corgi - then the CAD files could well be available.  I wouldn't be surprised if they DID do a DH Hornet, although having spent the last few years buying up many Frog/Novo and Skybirds kits, I doubt I could justify replacing them with Airfix examples - even to myself...

[PR19_Kit]

It'll be interesting to compare Airfix's Do17Z with the older ones, the Monogram version being darn good even by today's standards, apart from the raised panel lines. I've still got a pristine one in The Loft.

It'll also be good to compare the wing/fuselage joint. On the Monogram, FROG and Airfix Do17E/F the joints were pretty much identical. The wings are all in one piece, tip to tip, and they fit into a recess in the top of the fuselages with almost no PSR needed. I did a recce Do17 using the Monogram Z wings on an Airfix E/F fuselage and the wings fitted like a dream.

[The Wooksta!]

I wish they'd do the same with the Mosquito and show Revell that there is a market for decent Hunters in all scales.

Oddly, I'm hoping that they DON'T do the Mosquito and that's due to the overtly engineering way they seem to be breaking down their larger kits these days.  There has to be a trade off with detail and buildability, and more and more recently, the latter has been suffering due to the extent of the former - the Lancaster is a case in point.  The spars have to go through the fuselage.  Fine - Revell and Hasegawa do the same and even Frog did - but then you have to build the u/c box and assemble the wings around that.  Now yes, the aircraft may have been built that way but this is a kit and it's a real pain to try and build the wings round it, not to mention having to trim every part of the minor flash because the tolerances are so tight.  The Blenheim, stunning as it is, is broken down along similar lines and fit *is* suffering because of that.

I can't help but fear that the Mosquito will be exactly the same, plus they'll just got for the same tired favourites - an NF.2 and an FB.6 and nothing with two stage Merlins.  If they were smart, they'd break it down as Tamiya did, but have a fighter with single stage Merlins and a bomber with two stage and then let us do the cross kitting.  They'd sell more kits.  But no, I suspect that they would much rather show off.  I really doubt that I'd buy many Airfix new tool Mossies unless they were really something special.

[The Wooksta!]

The Monogram Do 17Z has a dodgy wing - the chord is way out but the fuselage shape is nice.  Supposedly, cross kitting the Revell and Frog Do 17s was the best way to get the most accurate.

[zenrat]

As a kid I would never buy an Italian WW2 kit as that camo looked way too difficult to paint with my brushes and Humbrol enamels.
Now, i'm looking at them with a different eye viewing them as whiff fodder or having an airbrush to paint with meaning more camo options.
However I don't see the need for Airfix to kit anything italian unless it's something Italeri hasn't done.  Italian Schneider Trophy racers maybe?

[jcf]

For the Macchis just use Mike Grant's hobby destroying smoke ring decals. 

http://mikegrantdecals.com/shop/product/italian-smoke-ring-camouflage/