Airfix quality control

[Guest]

Don't worry I will be giving them a nice phone call first thing tomorrow.

Good for you , esp as the latest TV program on keeps going on about how keen the CEO is to have things right.
Hope you let us know how you got on .

[rtfoe]

I'd be pissed.:angry:

Cheers,
Richard

[Mini Me]

Hell Richard.....I'm pissed and it ain't even my model!!

[adt70hk]

And on further inspection the lower wing section looks like this.
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And should look like this. [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1162907[/ATTACH]

That really is shocking!! How your get it sorted and get dinner decent compensation for your troubles....

[Gern]

Don't we have enough problems with Airfix selling kits from worn out moulds which are 60-70 years old? And short shot pieces aren't new. I remember getting their big HMS Victory about 60 years ago, only to find one of the hull sides was missing most of the bow area. OK - I got a replacement but it took several weeks.

I know some of their modern stuff is pretty good for the price you pay - you don't get Tamiya quality but you don't pay Tamiya prices - but it seems it's become a lottery what you're going to get when you open an Airfix kit nowadays. That kit of Peter's is truly awful.

I can't see them lasting long if they don't get their act together.

[peterairfix]

Just had an email from airfix they have no spinners so hopefully they will have the other parts as I might be able to bodge it with some plasticard and filler I won't buying to many airfix kits in the future.

[Tim Marlow]

I think I’d ask for my money back Peter. If they can’t supply good spinners it’s unbuildable, so not of marketable quality.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Surely that kit is ''not fit for purpose''

[Guest]

Reading this you would think the TV series about the company is an entirely different business. They go on about getting things right and how reports in the magazine's mean so much, and how pleased the CEO is .Perhaps he should join this forum !

[Gern]

Perhaps he should join this forum !

Makes me wonder just how many manufacturers look at forums like this one - and how much notice they take. Aren't we a sort of free quality control resource?

[Guest]

Makes me wonder just how many manufacturers look at forums like this one - and how much notice they take. Aren't we a sort of free quality control resource?

Think we are indeed, I remember watching a tv programme some years ago where a company asked a kit builder to see what a new kit was like, all unpaid of course, he just had the kit. Thinking about it i'm pretty sure it was Airfix.

[peterairfix]

Got fed up with waiting for my spares to arrive so I have ordered another kit from John so fingers crossed I should be able to finish and when my spares arrive I have another kit to sell on or keep for a rainy day.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Got fed up with waiting for my spares to arrive so I have ordered another kit from John so fingers crossed I should be able to finish and when my spares arrive I have another kit to sell on or keep for a rainy day.

Good luck with that, I really hope that this one is better.

[adt70hk]

Actually Peter, you're not the only in person to have issues.

I saw a build elsewhere using the newest 1/72 mosquito kit, where there was a massive gap in the middle of the usual fuselage with open air between the two end sections...

Hope your get it sorted in the end.

[Guest]

Actually Peter, you're not the only in person to have issues.

I saw a build elsewhere using the newest 1/72 mosquito kit, where there was a massive gap in the middle of the usual fuselage with open air between the two end sections...

Hope your get it sorted in the end.

Sure the TV program showed that in design and how the boss thought it was good ?