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Offline Weaver

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #125 on: December 22, 2013, 01:37:37 AM »
Look at it this way: this is the first time the "new" Airfix has re-issued the multipose figures. If they prove half as popular as they did the last time they were out, that might open their eyes to the opportunities that 1/35th versions present. At the very least, they could scan the 1/32nd sprues and feed them to a CAD/CAM system to scale them to 1/35th. At best, they might commission new-tool ones.
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #126 on: December 22, 2013, 03:08:56 AM »
Although I don't find myself impressed by their 2014 releases (personal thing), I will applause Airfix for this:  Project Airfix

Even if one writes it off as a marketing ploy to get more future customers, so what!  At least it is a way of introducing more kids to the fun of modelling rather than simply playing computer games.
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #127 on: December 22, 2013, 03:11:55 AM »
At least we can have a friendly "scale discussion" here and not a flame debate like on other sites !!!!  :icon_ninja:


Speak for yourself - anyone who is not a true believer has had their details noted and will be undergoing re-education in 2014! C:-)
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #128 on: December 22, 2013, 03:39:47 AM »
At least we can have a friendly "scale discussion" here and not a flame debate like on other sites !!!!  :icon_ninja:


Speak for yourself - anyone who is not a true believer has had their details noted and will be undergoing re-education in 2014! C:-)


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Offline Daryl J.

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #129 on: December 22, 2013, 03:44:20 AM »
That new tool Spitfire Vb has to get fabric wings.
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #130 on: December 22, 2013, 09:12:20 AM »
At least we can have a friendly "scale discussion" here and not a flame debate like on other sites !!!!  :icon_ninja:


Speak for yourself - anyone who is not a true believer has had their details noted and will be undergoing re-education in 2014! C:-)


I'm sad I missed that discussion, since I just thought of a suitable commentary... but whatevs I'll say it here since I like it too much to keep it to myself:

1/48 is for boys... 1/72 is for those who have a pair!
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #131 on: December 22, 2013, 11:06:24 AM »
At least we can have a friendly "scale discussion" here and not a flame debate like on other sites !!!!  :icon_ninja:


Speak for yourself - anyone who is not a true believer has had their details noted and will be undergoing re-education in 2014! C:-)


Ha!  Methinks it's time you were sent to Room 101, Greg.  We know what your worse nightmare is - a world where only 1/72 scale kits are available!  ;D ;D

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #132 on: December 22, 2013, 11:14:26 AM »
1/72 have their place...for big aircraft like bombers, maritime patrol, transports.
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #133 on: December 22, 2013, 02:30:18 PM »
Okay I'll admit I do have some use for 1/48... I have a Yak-1 in 1/48 that I'll build one day (only because there isn't a 1/32 kit to build Lydia's plane with!). But for the few "big" projects I want to do one day (CF-104, a Phantom, a Spitfire) I'll likely jump over 1/48 and go 1/32.

I have no issue with 1/48, seriously though, it's just hat 1/72 is better for shelf space! :)
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #134 on: December 22, 2013, 08:40:27 PM »
Work in progress ::

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #135 on: November 02, 2014, 06:23:38 AM »
Something new coming:

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Offline Weaver

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #136 on: November 02, 2014, 10:24:07 AM »
Something new coming:




The non-Red Arrows 1/48th Gnat is up for pre-order on their website, which means it'll be hitting the shops any day soon (in fact, some ebay sellers are already listing it):

http://www.airfix.com/aircraft/1-48-scale-military-aircraft/folland-gnat-1-48.html



There's also going to be a Red Arrows version of course.
« Last Edit: November 02, 2014, 10:26:03 AM by Weaver »
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #137 on: November 04, 2014, 02:57:51 AM »
Great box art!

I see they are doing a new-tool Blenheim.

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #138 on: November 04, 2014, 03:00:02 AM »
Great box art!

I see they are doing a new-tool Blenheim.

Yep - Mk.I is already out, Mk.IV coming soon.
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #139 on: November 04, 2014, 09:26:49 AM »
I wish they would do a 1/48 Beaufort...
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Offline Daryl J.

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #140 on: November 09, 2014, 03:15:50 PM »
A Buckmaster would be too much of a wish methinks.
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Offline Weaver

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #141 on: November 09, 2014, 03:30:59 PM »
Announcements at SMW 2014 for the 2015 catalogue:

New tool 1/72nd Defiant - January 2015
New tool 1/72nd He-111-P2 - third quarter 2015
New tool 1/72nd Sea King HC-4 (Commando) - don't know


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Re: Airfix
« Reply #142 on: November 09, 2014, 07:59:34 PM »
Announcements at SMW 2014 for the 2015 catalogue:

New tool 1/72nd Defiant - January 2015
New tool 1/72nd He-111-P2 - third quarter 2015
New tool 1/72nd Sea King HC-4 (Commando) - don't know


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Re: Airfix
« Reply #143 on: November 18, 2014, 09:23:24 AM »
Just got the following email back in answer to a query I made on the Airfix website.



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Dear Guy

Thank you for your e-mail.

We currently do not have this in our range. Our 2015 range will be released at the end of the year. Until then, we do not have any further information unfortunately. If it is not included in the new one, I will pass it on as a suggestion to the Airfix development and marketing team.

Kind regards

Laura Ahmet

Customer care

A customer has made an enquiry on the Airfix site.

Enquiry type: Product Suggestion

Name: Mr Guy Plachy

E-mail: *******************

Telephone: +61 xxx xxx xxx





Comment: Hi, guys!

Just wondering if you have any ideas if/when you might be re-releasing the 1/48 Buccaneer (retool or otherwise)?

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So, I suggest that if, like me, you wish to see a 1/48 Bucc appear in the foreseeable future you do the same as I did here, http://www.airfix.com/contact, & select "Product Selection" in the Enquiry Type field.
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Offline Weaver

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #144 on: December 22, 2014, 10:21:17 PM »
The Airfix 2015 range has just been released:

http://www.airfix.com/shop/new-for-2015.html?limit=64

1/72nd new tools:

He.111 P2
AV-8A Harrier
Beaufighter Mk.X
Shackleton MR.2
Ju-87 B1 Stuka
Defiant Mk.1
F4-F4 Wildcat
Nakajima B5N2 Kate
Sea King HC.4
Whitley Mk.V

1/48th new tools:

Albion 3-point refueller (RAF WWII)
Bedford MWD truck (RAF WWII)
RAF WWII Ground Crew

Reissues:

1/24th Mosquito FB.VI
1/32nd Ford GT
1/32nd Maserati Indy
1/32nd Crusader Mk.III tank
1/32nd 17-pdr anti-tank gun
1/48th Spitfire Mk.I
1/48th Hurricane Mk.I
1/48th EE Lightning F.1/F.1A/F.2/F.3
1/72nd Battle of Waterloo Gift Set
1/144th Vickers Vanguard
1/144th DH Comet 4B

+ various dogfight double and gift set boxings of the above.



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Offline KiwiZac

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #145 on: December 23, 2014, 05:13:20 AM »
I'm excited about the Shackleton (I've followed the Shackleton Preservation Trust at the Key Forum and on Facebook, so I'll HAVE to build mine as their WR963/G-SKTN), keen to try the Stuka, curious to get a Comet reissue and to see if the Beaufighter can be converted to a DAP Mk.21.

Very happy to see the celebratory posts at Britmodeller about the Beau and Shack! Quite heart-warming  :)
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #146 on: December 23, 2014, 05:35:10 AM »
+1 on the Shackleton.  I'll take two. Build one stock and one a K2 tanker.

I guess the return on investment on my Hasegawa Beaufighters just took at 50% hit.
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Offline Volkodav

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #147 on: December 23, 2014, 10:58:18 AM »
I wonder if there will subsequently be a MR3? 

May need to find a Vanguard as when I first read about the type in my teens I imagined it as an MPA.

What I would love is if Airfix started designing 1/700 scale ships and submarines to complement their 1/350 and 1/600 ranges, covering predominantly RN topics WWI, WWII, cold war and modern, with some historically, or technically significant earlier vessels thrown in.

The Centaurs would be nice, in Suez configuration and then as commando carriers or Centaur in her interim angled deck configuration.  Eagle in her modernised configuration, modernised Superb and Swiftsure, a new Belfast and Tiger, Leanders, Darings, Battles, Implacable, Vanguard, a variety of Colossus and Majestics, Oberons, Didos, Towns, Counties (both the treaty cruisers and the DLGs), Type 21, 22, 23, 26, 42, 45, 82.  Maybe even some whiff in a box, CV01, the proposed missile cruiser, cruiser destroyer and escort cruiser.  Popular releases could then be released in 1/350.

Basically I am dreaming they do the same for ships as they are doing for aircraft.  A UK / Commonwealth slanted, more accurate, Dragon / Trumpeter.

Then again imagine if they also then did the same for AFVs in a genuine 1/72, 1/48 and 1/35.

Offline Weaver

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Re: Airfix
« Reply #148 on: December 23, 2014, 11:14:36 AM »
I'm torn on the 1/76th vs 1/72nd issue. On the one hand, it's nice to have aircraft and vehicles that exactly match, but on the other, 1/76th lets your military vehicles work with the vast range of civilian/scenery models available in HO/OO railway scale.

I've said for ages that Airfix should do a new tool Leander Class frigate.

I think they'd probably be better off doing Ark Royal (R09) than Eagle since although the latter was the better ship, the Ark has more "image" and resonance with the general public.
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Re: Airfix
« Reply #149 on: December 23, 2014, 12:30:37 PM »
My tastes are a bit simpler, I hope their new 1/72 AV-8A will lead to an AV-8C or a conversion kit (Olimp, are you listening?) for such.