Kits with extra Bits

[pyro-manic]

Revell(Matchbox) UC-64 Norseman - comes with wheels, skis and floats.

Revell Tornado GR.1 - comes with a good selection of British weapons, including ALARMs, LGBs and iron bombs as well as sidewinders.

Revell (Zvezda/ICM re-box?) Su-24 Fencer - two huge sprues of Russian air-to-ground weapons, including bombs, missiles, rockets, etc.

[Army of One]

Having seen the sprue shots of the new Zvezda Mi24 v/ve (?) you get a lot of choice re inner wing stores....not as much as the Hobbyboss one....and a choice of 4 barrell HMG or twin barrel nose turret 23mm (?)...as well as a few crew figs....let you know more when I get some....

[Weaver]

Holy thread revival, Batman!

Thought I'd mention a couple of extra discoveries in the last (gulp!) 15 years:

The Italeri 1/72nd Bell 212/412/Agusta-Bell AB212/412, whatever the boxing, uses the same mould tool, which has BOTH the 212's 2-bladed rotor AND the 412's 4-bladed rotor, so whichever you build, you still end up with a spare rotor of one sort or another. I think the Revell ones are a reboxing of the Italeri mould too, but don't hold me to that.

The Special Hobby 1/72nd Trent Meteor includes a complete standard Meteor F.8 (cropped tips) wing and engine set.

The Special Hobby 1/72nd Meteor T.7.5 (two-seat demonstrator with tip tanks) includes a clear plastic PR.10 photo-recce nose, because RAE Bedford ran a T.7.5 like that for a while. This means that you can build the T 7.5 kit in any other scheme, and then use the nose to convert a single-seater to a PR.10, essentially for free.

All Special Hobby 1/72nd single-seat Gnats/Ajeets, whatever the boxing, include three noses: solid, ranging radar and cameras.

The otherwise poor quality, but cheap, Mistercraft 1/72nd Westland Lynx includes a rare GEC Heli-tele store: basically a huge ball with a 1970s-tech stabilised TV camera in it, used for surveillance in Northern Ireland, amongst other places. SOME boxings include two tail booms and noses, and SOME boxings include both the smooth AH.1/HMA.3 nose and the stepped HMA.8 nose. All versions include a couple of Mk.46 torpedoes on the main sprues (even the Army ones...). Mistercraft change their boxings a lot, so if you can, check exactly what's in the box before you buy.

[PR19_Kit]

The Special Hobby Prone Pilot Meteor comes with all sorts of extra Meteor bits too. It's ages since I used mine to make the Prone Pilot Hunter so I can't remember the 'extras' accurately, but there's a lot of them

[zenrat]

Special Hobby Canadian Vickers Delta Mk.II RCAF "on snow and water" contains two sets of wings, floats, skis, wheels, and at least two different pairs of spats.



Be aware that this, military, version lacks most of the fuselage windows seen on civilian Northrop Deltas.

[PR19_Kit]

Be aware that this, military, version lacks most of the fuselage windows seen on civilian Northrop Deltas.

Nothing that a  small drill, and a few files can't solve though. 

[NARSES2]

The AZ Me 109's contain lots of extra bits, ranging from 3/4 different tailwheels to complete wings and tailplanes for the "What If" versions like the "H" etc.

[Mossie]

The otherwise poor quality, but cheap, Mistercraft 1/72nd Westland Lynx includes a rare GEC Heli-tele store: basically a huge ball with a 1970s-tech stabilised TV camera in it, used for surveillance in Northern Ireland, amongst other places. SOME boxings include two tail booms and noses, and SOME boxings include both the smooth AH.1/HMA.3 nose and the stepped HMA.8 nose. All versions include a couple of Mk.46 torpedoes on the main sprues (even the Army ones...). Mistercraft change their boxings a lot, so if you can, check exactly what's in the box before you buy.

Something about Lynx kits. The old Matchbox Lynx comes with options to build the Army or Navy variant. So you've got a nose and extra skids or undercarriage. Not an extra, but it's based on the prototypes which might be useful for whiffing

The Airfix Lynx HMA.8 kit comes with two sets of rotors, the earlier square tipped type and the spade tipped BERP blades. IIRC it comes with different sponsors for the earlier naval variant the kit is based on.

[perttime]

Has anybody mentioned that Airfix 1:48 Seafires (at least MK 17 and 46/47) come (came?) with extra wings? One solid and one foldable.

[PFJN]

Hi,
One of the first things I thought of when I saw this thread was the old Lindberg aircraft kits with "battle damage parts"

A-4
F-100
F-4G
MIG-21

[PR19_Kit]

Oh my life, I still have a couple of those in The Loft! An F-4 for sure, but can't remember the other one. 

[Weaver]

The otherwise poor quality, but cheap, Mistercraft 1/72nd Westland Lynx includes a rare GEC Heli-tele store: basically a huge ball with a 1970s-tech stabilised TV camera in it, used for surveillance in Northern Ireland, amongst other places. SOME boxings include two tail booms and noses, and SOME boxings include both the smooth AH.1/HMA.3 nose and the stepped HMA.8 nose. All versions include a couple of Mk.46 torpedoes on the main sprues (even the Army ones...). Mistercraft change their boxings a lot, so if you can, check exactly what's in the box before you buy.

Something about Lynx kits. The old Matchbox Lynx comes with options to build the Army or Navy variant. So you've got a nose and extra skids or undercarriage. Not an extra, but it's based on the prototypes which might be useful for whiffing

The Airfix Lynx HMA.8 kit comes with two sets of rotors, the earlier square tipped type and the spade tipped BERP blades. IIRC it comes with different sponsors for the earlier naval variant the kit is based on.

That reminds me: the older Airfix 1/72nd Sea King (looks like the new tool is the the same), has both 5 and 6 bladed tail rotors.

Not an extra part but worth mentioning while we're on the subject of Lynxes: the old Airfix Army Lynx comes with six unspecified anti-tank missiles, which most people assume are HOTs, since they are also often fitted in two triple sets. However, they're not: they are actually Hawkswings: the abortive helicopter-launched version of the British Swingfire, which means it's a whiff-in-a-box.

Hawkswing was the original intended armament of the Lynx AH.1, but ironically, it was Swingfire's unique party trick that doomed it. In order to make the missile's thrust-vectoring, 90-deg-turn-out-of-the-box maneuver controllable, it had a very low velocity right after launch. That was great from a ground launch, but from a helicopter, launching into the savage downwash from the rotor, it was getting batted so far off-course that it was difficult for the operator to gather it to the line-of sight. Fitting a more powerful motor was much more complicated than on other missiles because of the thrust-vectoring setup, to the point where Hawkswing would have ended up as, effectively, a completely different missile from the ground-launched version. Since commonality was the only good reason for developing a British missile on a later timescale than HOT and TOW, the Army just went for 8 x TOW instead.