1/24 scale Hawker Typhoon...

[Gern]

Looks very nice but you guys without kids had better get busy. Methinks you may need to sell a couple into slavery to afford this! Has anyone heard how much it may be?

Gern

PS Apologies Allyne - didn't see your post. If the quality is what everyone reckons, then £90 sounds amazingly cheap. You can pay more than that for a 1/48 Tamiya Spit!

[Guest]

Don't shoot the messenger

OK I'll be more specific ... He said the sprues looked like they'd been cleaned up, i.e. the surface wasn't smooth, there were tool marks like it had been sanded flat.

He was probably miffed it wasn't an rc boat cos that's all one bloke builds

Another quote from him '' if it wasn't for all the guys coming in the shop with money burning holes in their pockets like school kids ... I wouldn't bother selling plastic kits''

[Ian M]

Looks very nice but you guys without kids had better get busy. Methinks you may need to sell a couple into slavery to afford this! Has anyone heard how much it may be?Gern

Those of us that do not have kids can still afford to buy stuff! ;-)

I have heard £90 which for its size and detail is pretty fair... How much did the Javlin in 1/48 cost? £50...

Ian M (trying to save up for a 1/32 mossy!)

[Guest]

They probably found a rivet 0.0000001mm out of place and that makes the kit unbuildable lol

Theyre like that with their boats and trains definitly

I should have added that the aircraft does look quite tasty with all the detail, I'd love to have a bash at something this complex but finances and skill would be where I lacked luster I'm afraid.

What are the 1/24 aircraft like ... the ones around 40 quid, do they compare at all??

[Ian M]

TBH Colin the only things that I have seen that come close to this are the Maru whotsits that go at £150+ for a 1/32 scale. As far as I know only Airfix and Trumpy make 1/24 wing things.

(in injection plastic).

Ian M

[Guest]

Well I prefer 90 quid to 150

Just a lot to pay for me to make a b**ls up of it.

[Guest]

I've built the 1/24th spitfire in the 1970's. This is a big improvement. I think I'll also put this on my xmas list. If I get it, I'll have now where to display it

[stona]

I'd be wary of judging the kit that will go on sale from pictures of the test sprues. I'd also be surprised if they hadn't cleaned up the mouldings for a presentation.

It looks good to me, I even noticed some lap joints represented correctly between skins.

I wonder how much of that lovely detail on the wing surfaces would have been filled and smoothed on service aircraft during the war ?

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

I'd be wary of judging the kit that will go on sale from pictures of the test sprues. I'd also be surprised if they hadn't cleaned up the mouldings for a presentation.It looks good to me, I even noticed some lap joints represented correctly between skins.

I wonder how much of that lovely detail on the wing surfaces would have been filled and smoothed on service aircraft during the war ?

Cheers

Steve

You beat me to it Steve. I've always found it sad that there seem to be so many who are happy to find fault in anything Airfix do. I think the fact that they have even been able to put this together is testament to thier drive, initiative and detemination to keep Airfix going forward. The fact that they are now creating models to compete with Tamiya is briliant to me and gives me hope that the future will bring even more british based models from a company that we all cut our teeth with and who started many of us off on our modelling paths.

I would like to see them do a complete retooling of the original 1/24th scale kits to this standard but if they don't then I hope we get more Typhoons, or 262s, or 110s etc...etc.. As for opinions from those who are so narrow minded as to quote the usual poorish fit from Airfix, they won't stop me buying from Airfix, but they might stop me buying from them!

[Alan 45]

I think we all started on Airfix back in the day and I must say that then the kits were poorly made but having looked at the new tool stuff you can see that they are moving away from this into some very tasty kits and I always judge a kit for myself and not what people say in reviews

[Guest]

As for opinions from those who are so narrow minded as to quote the usual poorish fit from Airfix, they won't stop me buying from Airfix, but they might stop me buying from them!

You ain't far off the truth her Richard, this is the shop I mentioned a while ago that only seems interested in you if you're after RC stuff or trains ... I put up with their attitude because they're 2 miles up the road and very very cheap for balsa.

For anything modeling I go to wonderland models who I cannot fault, and of course I've had the exceptional service from John on a few occasions.

There was a guy talking about this new model in the shop and the guys commented as I have quoted above.

I personally would rather listen to those on here if I were to try something new, You lot seem to know more than the reviewers .... As Steve has just said above, the model has the correct Lap joints (whatever they are) and I wonder if these shop owners mistook them for ill fitting parts ... Is that plausible?

[Ian M]

getting a bit off the target but I would just like to remind some people, that probably don't visit our 'little' forum.

Three all time classic 'must have' kits, that all the "clever experts" rave about. The Jag, the Brick and the Lightning in 1/48. Who was it that made those......

OK they arn't shake and bake but they hold their own.

Back to the subject. Its big, it looks good and worth the price. Once its hit the shops and people start building them, then we can see what its really like.

Ian M

[Guest]

getting a bit off the target Ian M

Yeah sorry Ian that was my fault, I just thought it relevant to offer the info, in hind-sight maybe I should have kept it to myself.

Back to the kit ..... I'd like to see what the 'large scale' aircraft builders on here do with it ... Maybe we could have it as a 2015 super SIG.

[Wendall]

Bad fit, mold lines, ejection marks, flash. Brilliant! We make models don't we? I see these things as challenges to be overcome I don't Understand modelers who complain about the same problems with every new release. If a kit looks too challenging for you or there's something you don't like about it; a: don't buy it or b: put it right. If I wanted it out of the box with no challenges then I'd buy diecast.

I would rather listen to an honest critique from a member of this forum than a whinge from a reviewer...

I'm full of admiration for Airfix for developing what looks like an awesome kit and even if there are a few issues, that's part of the fun. I hope that many people buy this kit and it spurs Airfix on to develop many more in the future.

I love 1/24 so I'll be adding one to my stash in time for that super SIG Colin

Jason

[stona]

I think it's reasonable for someone to post the opinion of someone who has seen the test model close up. It is just one man's opinion after all, and it wasn't even Colin's. It should be taken in that context though. Don't shoot the poor old messenger!

I don't think that the newer Airfix kits bear any resemblance to the old kits in plastic bags that I built as a kid and I see no reason why this one should.

The technology, particularly for designing and then cutting moulds was rather different in the 1950/60s!

I'm not sure that I'm in the market for anything in 1/24 scale but I would hesitate to pass judgement on something that hasn't even entered production yet. I hope that it will be as good as it looks. Having a company like Airfix produce quality models can only be a good thing

Now whose going to be the first to take a swing at one?