Airfix

[The Rat]

Cool!

[zenrat]

The armour side has been quiet for a while, good to see they're moving into 1/35 with the Cromwells and replacing some of their 1/72 mainstays.

They should produce some new mould 1/35 armour instead of just repopping old academy kits.
Come on Airfix, show us what your LIDAR can do with a subject other than aircraft.
A Stalwart would be a nice start...

My reading of the AMW piece is the Cromwells are new tools in 1/35.

I may have misunderstood, but I thought the Cromwells were new tools?

I didn't read that far.  I only looked at the picture of the Beaufort.

...there was a fake passenger/freight Beaufighter on ski landing gear in the third Brendan Fraser Mummy film that I want to build some day...

Yes.  It had a yak in it IIRC.

[Mossie]

I didn't read that far.  I only looked at the picture of the Beaufort.

The wording is a little ambiguous, the Cromwell announcement follows on with the rest of the new tools, although it doesn't state outright.

[zenrat]

To me it reads as if the Cromwells are new tools.

[Rheged]

...there was a fake passenger/freight Beaufighter on ski landing gear in the third Brendan Fraser Mummy film that I want to build some day...

Yes. It had a yak in it IIRC.

In the film, or in the freighter itself? And if the latter, how do you get a yak in there?

[andrewj]

...there was a fake passenger/freight Beaufighter on ski landing gear in the third Brendan Fraser Mummy film that I want to build some day...

Yes. It had a yak in it IIRC.

In the film, or in the freighter itself? And if the latter, how do you get a yak in there?

The Film Beaufighter appeared to have a passenger door cut in the starboard side behind the wing, in a later scene one of the characters could be seen firing a MG through this door. The Beaufighter carried very faded Far-East blue/white roundels and SH or SK codes

[kitnut617]

...there was a fake passenger/freight Beaufighter on ski landing gear in the third Brendan Fraser Mummy film that I want to build some day...

Yes. It had a yak in it IIRC.

In the film, or in the freighter itself? And if the latter, how do you get a yak in there?

The Film Beaufighter appeared to have a passenger door cut in the starboard side behind the wing, in a later scene one of the characters could be seen firing a MG through this door. The Beaufighter carried very faded Far-East blue/white roundels and SH or SK codes

SK-N  (which you can get in a decal sheet).  It appears to be a Beaufighter Mk.21.  Interestingly, in the movie, it show the sqn code as SK-N on the port side, whereas, all photos of the real aircraft (and other sqn aircraft) show it should be as N-SK, SK-N being just on the starboard side.

[The Wooksta!]

The render for the Spitfire Vc



Although it seems to have a fair bit in ommon with their current mk I/II/Va, it looks to be a complete new tool, judging by the Vokes filter.

Render for the Beaufort:

[jcf]

The only current 1/35th injected Cromwell is the Tamiya kit, Academy don't make one.
The Airfix kit is a new tool.

[KiwiZac]

Those renders are gorgeous Lee, thanks for sharing. I bet you're very excited for the Vc!

My brain woke me up early(er than I have done lately) and I have some toast and coffee ready to thoroughly digest the range announcement...

Airfix new for 2020 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Oh dear.

[Spey_Phantom]

i think some people are going to be happy with the announcement of a 1/48 Gnat T.1 
i myself am looking forward to the Beaufort, i can then use the FROG kit as WHIF fodder 

[KiwiZac]

It's interesting that (as of this post) on Scalemates 33 people (myself included) have added the Beaufort to their wishlist, 20 want the Canuckistani-built Sabre....but only seven want the Spitfire Vc! It seems those of us who have clamoured for a Beaufort for so long are rather vindicated!

[Knightflyer]

i think some people are going to be happy with the announcement of a 1/48 Gnat F.1 
i myself am looking forward to the Beaufort, i can then use the FROG kit as WHIF fodder 

That'll teach me to look closer at the picture & caption .....a Gnat F.1 , please, me sir! I did wonder on where the colour scheme had come from for a Gnat T.1 ?

As for Beauforts, guess who is building two at the moment!!! A bad FROG one and a horrendous NOVO repop 

[tigercat]

I Can't find the Scammels ?

[KiwiZac]

I Can't find the Scammels ?

No-one can! Very odd they're in the AMW piece but not the site...