Airfix

[GTX_Admin]

Actually Greg, Over on The Airfix Tribute Forum, the Hawker Typhoon topped out the poll they had there for the most wanted new tool 1/24 scale kit.  I guess they got what was voted for ---  Now they need those people to buy it --

I don't care for what those unwashed masses voted for!  Bloody democratic process!!!    I clearly told them 1/48 Scimitar or Swift.  That's all that they should be focussing upon.  God has spoken after all!!

[jcf]

Sounds very much like parts of my workshops at work.  We still use a pantograph at work...but only for name plates on people's desks, doors etc...

Not the same kind of 'pantograph', the ones used for mould sinking were a very different
animal from the flat engravers like the nameplate type. The term pantograph is broad and
imprecise, covering everything from the simplest drawing tool to very large milling machines.

[GTX_Admin]

Fair 'nuf

[Volkodav]

Sounds very much like parts of my workshops at work.  We still use a pantograph at work...but only for name plates on people's desks, doors etc...

Not the same kind of 'pantograph', the ones used for mould sinking were a very different
animal from the flat engravers like the nameplate type. The term pantograph is broad and
imprecise, covering everything from the simplest drawing tool to very large milling machines.

Yes I was referring to a large milling type, used wood models to provide the profile and would rough out the die core and the a toolmaker would finish it with die grinder, files and stones

[Rickshaw]

Well, I was actually using the term as a verb, not a noun...

[ChrisF]

The point there is most wanted "1:24th" kit... i wanna know what the normal scales of 1:72nd and 1:48th came out !!

[jcf]

Sounds very much like parts of my workshops at work.  We still use a pantograph at work...but only for name plates on people's desks, doors etc...

Not the same kind of 'pantograph', the ones used for mould sinking were a very different
animal from the flat engravers like the nameplate type. The term pantograph is broad and
imprecise, covering everything from the simplest drawing tool to very large milling machines.

Yes I was referring to a large milling type, used wood models to provide the profile and would rough out the die core and the a toolmaker would finish it with die grinder, files and stones

Yep, that's what we had at the moulding plant I worked at. Mostly made jar tops
for food products; peanut butter, mayonnaise etc., in a range of sizes. Not the most interesting
products but definitely a good education in injection moulding equipment and processes.

[Volkodav]

Alloy car wheels in my case.  When I'm up to my neck in reports audits and plans I look back to my bench wok days with fondness.

[jcf]

Well, I was actually using the term as a verb, not a noun...

Fair 'nough, but how does one pantograph a CADD data set?

Never saw that function in CADDS, AUTOCAD or CATIA. 

[elmayerle]

Well, in CATIA V4, it would be TRANSFORM-->SCALING and then follow the prompts; saving the solid model under a different name to avoid confusion.  It's an intermediate step to producing a .STL, or equivalent file, for a scale model.

[finsrin]

I know Greg would like a 1/48 C-133 kit to convert to C-130 style gun ship.
Perhaps Airfix will release it in 2014.

[Daryl J.]

Hmmm....there are no spats  and fixed gear lower wing in the new fabric wing Hurricane kit.......
 

[GTX_Admin]

I know Greg would like a 1/48 C-133 kit to convert to C-130 style gun ship.
Perhaps Airfix will release it in 2014.

I like your thinking!

[kitnut617]

I know Greg would like a 1/48 C-133 kit to convert to C-130 style gun ship.
Perhaps Airfix will release it in 2014.

I like your thinking!

Well, something interesting I just discovered, ID Models did a C-133 in 1/48, I wonder if that is one of the moulds Tigger Models got hold of ---  I know they have most of the 1/32 scale ones.

[GTX_Admin]

Detailed build of one here

I am kind of surprised Combat Models don't offer one.

[kitnut617]

What a fantastic build ---      I don't think I will get the Gene Hooker 1/72 kit I have to that standard of detail ---

Combat Models do a 1/72 kit too.

[jcf]

Well, in CATIA V4, it would be TRANSFORM-->SCALING and then follow the prompts; saving the solid model under a different name to avoid confusion.  It's an intermediate step to producing a .STL, or equivalent file, for a scale model.

Yes, Evan I know that, 'twas simply making a joke about 'pantograph' as a verb vis CAD models. 

[finsrin]

What a fantastic build --- 

OMG yes it is !

[ChernayaAkula]

There's a survey from Hornby, asking for feedback and modeller's wishes: LINK

Item 7 ("Are there any products that you would like to see Airfix produce?") may be a tad difficult to figure out. Revelling the correct answers is out of the question, of course. Let me put it this way: If you were to put down "1/72 D.H. Sea Vixen FAW.2" or "1/72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2", you'd not be wrong. But, shhh, don't tell anybody I told you!

[Volkodav]

There's a survey from Hornby, asking for feedback and modeller's wishes: LINK

Item 7 ("Are there any products that you would like to see Airfix produce?") may be a tad difficult to figure out. Revelling the correct answers is out of the question, of course. Let me put it this way: If you were to put down "1/72 D.H. Sea Vixen FAW.2" or "1/72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2", you'd not be wrong. But, shhh, don't tell anybody I told you!

I'm sorry, I have sinned, I asked for 1/700 warships 

[ChrisF]

Ive sinned too tbf... I asked for a Mastiff, British Phantoms and a Victor to go with the other V-Bombers they already make !

[Rickshaw]

I asked for (all in the one true scale of 1/72), a Javelin, a Victor, a Venom and a Sea Venom.   However, thinking about it, I should have thrown in some Spey powered Phantoms as well...

[Volkodav]

I'm temped to go back and ask for an AVRO 730 in 1/72

[finsrin]

There's a survey from Hornby, asking for feedback and modeller's wishes: LINK

Item 7 ("Are there any products that you would like to see Airfix produce?") may be a tad difficult to figure out. Revelling the correct answers is out of the question, of course. Let me put it this way: If you were to put down "1/72 D.H. Sea Vixen FAW.2" or "1/72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2", you'd not be wrong. But, shhh, don't tell anybody I told you!

My $.02
1/72   XB-15
1/72   XB-51
1/72   XP-67

[The Big Gimper]

There's a survey from Hornby, asking for feedback and modeller's wishes: LINK

Item 7 ("Are there any products that you would like to see Airfix produce?") may be a tad difficult to figure out. Revelling the correct answers is out of the question, of course. Let me put it this way: If you were to put down "1/72 D.H. Sea Vixen FAW.2" or "1/72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2", you'd not be wrong. But, shhh, don't tell anybody I told you!

My $.02
1/72   XB-15
1/72   XB-51
1/72   XP-67

1/72 XP-72 (The Alliance Kit is mega expensive)
1/72 A-3 Skywarrior and all the cool derivatives (12?)
1/72 U-2A/B/C/D/R/S & TR-1 (existing molds are fine)
1/72 Westland Welkin

S'ils Vous Plait, Pour Favour, bitte Mein Herr