Airfix

[zenrat]

...It has an American engine, wrong prop and smoke generators, but still...

Good paint job though.


I'm eagerly awaiting a new 1/72 zeppelin to accompany the BE.2c.  Dogfight double anyone?

[KiwiZac]

Maybe that's the "BIG" announcement they've teased for Telford? 

[Leading Observer]

I see the 1/48 Meteor, Lightning and Defiant are up for pre-order on the Airfix shop, together with the 1/24 Mossie

[zenrat]

Maybe that's the "BIG" announcement they've teased for Telford? 

Hope so.  And given the way they engineer their new moulds it'll have full interior frames and gasbags rather than just be 2 hollow  halves glued together.

I'm kidding myself aren't I?

[Rick Lowe]

Maybe that's the "BIG" announcement they've teased for Telford?  

Hope so.  And given the way they engineer their new moulds it'll have full interior frames and gasbags rather than just be 2 hollow  halves glued together.

I'm kidding myself aren't I?

Mmmm... probably just a tad...

Though someone, somewhere, will be plotting a scratchbuild of that very thing...  

(Possibly Adam Savage...)

[zenrat]

I've toyed with the idea of scratchbuilding a zeppelin.
The amount of styrene sheet needed puts me off.

[rickshaw]

I've toyed with the idea of scratchbuilding a zeppelin.
The amount of styrene sheet needed puts me off.

Do it with cloth and/or tissue paper instead.  Much cheaper and more accurate with the correct level of "sag".  Build the frame from balsa and/or plasticard.

[PR19_Kit]

Until recently the Barnes Wallis Hut at the Elvington Airfiled Museum had quite a good 1/72 model collection in glass cases arranged down the centre of the hut.

On the top of the case, mid-way down the hut, was a Wellington with some 'fabric' removed so you could see the geodetic structure and the label for the model mentioned that the geodetic idea was developed by Barnes Wallis when he was building the R100 airship, and it said 'If you look above you there is a model of the R100 to the same scale as the Wellington model', and sure enough there was!

As the real thing was 720 feet long the model was TEN feet long.............. 

[zenrat]

I think i'd need a bigger bench...

[Spey_Phantom]

Airfix's 1/72 Shackleton MR2 has been sighted in the shops here, but €54 seems a bit steap for me  
i think im gonna wait for the Revell kit to come out, otherwise the missus is gonna kill me  

[The Wooksta!]

The Revell kit isn't much cheaper and the wings are supposedly wrong too.

[KiwiZac]

Getting the Airfix Shack from Hannants would've set me back close to NZ$140 including postage - a couple have popped up on TradeMe (our eBay) for NZ$100 and are very tempting, but I think I'll just give Sam a Christmas wishlist with the same boxart over and over again on it!!

I'm counting down to SMW and their BIG announcement, but we all know it'll just be a 1/24 TSR.2. Seriously (and intriguingly) though, a poster at ATF had this to say in the Airfix magazine thread:

Not seen it mentioned here yet but on Page 25 of the December issue is a full page advert an Airfix 2016 Yearbook available from 12th November and the front page refers to a "Type History" section above a HP Victor.
I wonder 

[zenrat]

...I'm counting down to SMW and their BIG announcement, but we all know it'll just be a 1/24 Rotodyne...

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A Victor.  How does that tie in with their announcement "no new moulds unless we can scan a survivor or use original drawings"?

[Captain Canada]

Interesting.....

[Hobbes]

A Victor.  How does that tie in with their announcement "no new moulds unless we can scan a survivor or use original drawings"?

There are surviving Victors. And I'd be very surprised if the drawings weren't in an archive somewhere.