Airfix

[Captain Canada]

Thanks Geoff....I'll bring that to his attention tomorrow !

[Green Dragon]

Advent pic for yesterday was the 1/600th RMS Mauretania and compo prize was the 1/600th Prinze Eugen, today's seems to be a Jeep boarding a new tool LCVP Higgins Boat but I'm no Floaty Thing expert! Geoff will probably know!

Paul Harrison

[Thorvic]

Advent pic for yesterday was the 1/600th RMS Mauretania and compo prize was the 1/600th Prinze Eugen, today's seems to be a Jeep boarding a new tool LCVP Higgins Boat but I'm no Floaty Thing expert! Geoff will probably know!

Paul Harrison

Yeap the clue is give away for the Higgins boat, although it could well be Heller's LCVP as i notice quite a few of the Heller D-Day themed sets are using Airfix figures and models to bulk the range out so they are still cooperating together.

[NARSES2]

the FW-190 F8 is due out tomorrow

Cheers mate, that's the one I want

[albeback]

An 1/72 C-17 would be huge, and costly if the Amodel 1/72 monster kits are any indication.

Certainly it would be big! At 73cm long with a 71 cm wing span. However, it's still smaller than a B-36 & roughly the same size as a B-52 in 1/72 (I have BOTH of these!!) I reckon I could handle a C-17 (an IL-76 would be nice as well!!)

Allan

He! He!  only one of each Allan, I've got four B-36's and eight B-52's (in 1/72 that is)     Mind you, the C-17 is only half the size of a C-5 or 747, and I've got two of each of those in 1/72

Lol!!D  I'm after more!!I'd like at least one each of the B-52D, G & H variants. I'm hoping my girlfriend will choose either  the 1/72 B52/X-15 combo or, the B-36 from my xmas short list!!. I don't mind the size of the things. I'll just build big shelves!!.

Allan

PS - Come on Airfix!! You KNOW you want to!!

[kitnut617]

I'm hoping my girlfriend will choose either  the 1/72 B52/X-15 combo ----
Allan

Got one of those a while back, it was being sold by KingKit but only to UK customers.  So I asked my bro to buy it then send it to me ---- 

[Green Dragon]

Advent pic for yesterday was the 1/600th RMS Mauretania and compo prize was the 1/600th Prinze Eugen, today's seems to be a Jeep boarding a new tool LCVP Higgins Boat but I'm no Floaty Thing expert! Geoff will probably know!

Paul Harrison

Yeap the clue is give away for the Higgins boat, although it could well be Heller's LCVP as i notice quite a few of the Heller D-Day themed sets are using Airfix figures and models to bulk the range out so they are still cooperating together.

Didn't know Heller did an LCVP Geoff, Knew you'd be able to ID the piccie! Todays pic is the Tiger Moth in a red scheme and the compo prize is a Quickbuild Spitfire Lego style.

Paul Harrison

[Mossie]

Tige Moth on the calendar today.  It's new artwork so good possibility it's a new tool?

[Thorvic]

Tige Moth on the calendar today.  It's new artwork so good possibility it's a new tool?

There are two Tigermoth artworks in the Airfix Modelworld Calendar for next year, and apparently at SMW they produced the testshot sprues for the new Tiger Moth later in the day. So yes its a new tooling due in 2014 and possibly an early release.

[Thorvic]

The new 1/72nd EE Lightning F-2A, FW-190 F8/A8 and the 1/48th Warrior AFV have been relesed today and available to order from Airfix or should be on the shelves at LMS and online retailers in the next couple of days.

So Airfix have acheived their goal, unlike previous years they have managed their release schedule and managed to hit their targets for new tools to be released within the year, well done guys, puts the likes of Italeri and even Revell to shame 

[Captain Canada]

Wow....good job Airfix !

Just to get a feel for the UK/ Canada lag time, how much time elapsed over there between the GR.1 and the GR.3 ? I'll have to go back through the 'stash' thread to see when the GR.1 came in, but I wonder if the Lightning will take as long ?

[rickshaw]

I just checked out how much it cost for one of the new Lightning kits direct from Airfix to downunder - 30 quid postage!  They must be joking!  I'll wait for a cheaper source.   

[Librarian]

Something I'd like to see in 1/48 across a number of aircraft types would be special editions with catapault launch pylons, for example and top of my list would be the Hurricat. Would look superb poking out from a display shelf. Hasegawa have done similar editions but Japanese and in 1/72. I vaguely recall seeing some system in 1/48 but for the life of me can't remember where (Kingfisher?).

[PR19_Kit]

I just checked out how much it cost for one of the new Lightning kits direct from Airfix to downunder - 30 quid postage!  They must be joking!  I'll wait for a cheaper source.  

That's odd, I just posted a parcel for Greg on BTS that's about twice the size of a Lightning and it cost £10.40. The Lightning costs £14.99 so it should be around £25.00 or so to get one in Oz.

[NARSES2]

So Airfix have acheived their goal, unlike previous years they have managed their release schedule and managed to hit their targets for new tools to be released within the year, well done guys, puts the likes of Italeri and even Revell to shame 

Yes indeed  Ordered the Fw 190F