Airfix

[Pellson]

I'd really prefer an equally big 1/72 Blackburn Beverley, to be honest.. 

[Charlie_c67]

I'd really prefer an equally big 1/72 Blackburn Beverley, to be honest.. 

Or just two of the front fuselages to mount on your wall? 

[Pellson]

I'd really prefer an equally big 1/72 Blackburn Beverley, to be honest.. 

Or just two of the front fuselages to mount on your wall? 

I could use a garage in the garden for my Land Rover..

[Weaver]

T'rific <stifles yawn>...

Do you mind if I share a yawn with you?  

Now I'm wondering how you "share a yawn" exactly, and the mental images are not pleasing to me...  

[George the Cat]

New 1/24 release due tomorrow (not a Spitfire).

Gloster Gladiator?

Messerschmitt Bf 109 

G and K?

[Weaver]

Okay I'll give them some credit here:

1. Two of the five schemes are for captured test aircraft, one in USAAF hands and one British. The USAAF one in particular is very colourful and different.

2. They've included a set of masks for not just the canopy exterior, but also some of the other fiddly bits like spirals on the spinner. There will also be a supplementary set with internal canopy masks and a lot more besides.

RRP is £99.99 for the kit and £9.99 for the supplementary set.

[Mossie]

Yeah, not exactly inspiring but I understand why they've done it, it'll be popular. I agree with Harold on the marking options, two unusual ones and three standard service versions, something for everyone.

[Charlie_c67]

I could use a garage in the garden for my Land Rover..

Like this van? (For the full picture search for the IT crowd episode - The internet is coming...)

[The Rat]

I don't do luftstuffe. A Hunter would have been nicer.

I don't generally do anything larger than 1/72 but, if you're after a large Hunter, the Revell 1/32 Hunter T.7 is due soon

Tempting...

[The Rat]

In many ways, the modeling community itself is to blame. Not us, we go for the weird and wonderful, but, to paraphrase the many different people it's been attributed to, "nobody ever went broke underestimating how many people will buy a 109." It's the most produced and purchased aircraft since modeling began, by a long shot.

I understand the attraction, I really do. There were a zillion different camo schemes and markings that can be challenging to do, and rewarding to finish, but there seems to be an unholy fascination with them.

[jcf]

In many ways, the modeling community itself is to blame. Not us, we go for the weird and wonderful, but, to paraphrase the many different people it's been attributed to, "nobody ever went broke underestimating how many people will buy a 109." It's the most produced and purchased aircraft since modeling began, by a long shot.

I understand the attraction, I really do. There were a zillion different camo schemes and markings that can be challenging to do, and rewarding to finish, but there seems to be an unholy fascination with them.

I think that historically it has more to do with the casual buyer market and what
they associate with a particular combatant: 109 and Stuka for the Nazis; Spitfire
and Hurricane/Lancaster (it's a tossup) for Britain; P-51 and B-17 for the US.
All of them sell steadily to the general market, including large scale elaborate kits
to the "one day after I retire" folks.
Any sale is a good sale. 

[kitbasher]

Yes, any sale is a good sale.  Airfix is a business, not a charidee - sales of the 109 might just go to fund a 1/72 Sea Vix or Javelin. 

[Mossie]

Workbench blog on the big Gustav release at SMW. The two captured aircraft and the German machine with the black and white spinner are the same airframe, a regular theme now with Airfix.

https://uk.airfix.com/community/blog-and-news/workbench/airfix-unleash-large-scale-me-109-gustav-scale-modelworld

[NARSES2]

The big 109 looked very nice on the Airfix stand at Telford and it will be interesting to see how quickly the aftermarket people get behind it.

[Weaver]

Yes I saw them getting many favorable comments on the big 109s too, including from me with respect to the US captured scheme (see I don't just bash them!).

Speaking of 109s, they do seem to be the thing of the moment don't they? Everywhere I looked they were more of them, in every scale, scheme and sub-type imaginable. If I actually liked the things I'd be over the moon...