And a 1/72 Sea King HC4 - https://uk.airfix.com/products/westland-sea-king-hc4-a04056a
Airfix 2024
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Only 4 Spitfires this year...
The only one that really grabs me is the 1/48 Bristol Bulldog
https://uk.airfix.com/products/bristol-bulldog-mkii-a05141
Dave
https://uk.airfix.com/products/bristol-bulldog-mkii-a05141
Dave
Haven't seen it when I have searched! It seems the way to produce a Wasp is to buy the 'Scout' kit and then modify it with AM parts at a silly cost!
Airfix' new 2024 is for me a tad disappointing! The Mk4 SK only in 1/72 after all the work on the Mk2/5/6 variant in 1/48 and NO Wasp!!! :disappointed2:
Blimey not one of my predictions right :thinking:
Think I’ll give the lottery a miss this week :tears-of-joy:
Geoff.
Think I’ll give the lottery a miss this week :tears-of-joy:
Geoff.
Maybe you didn't copy my work...I only called two right!!!
You should have copied me, a measly two correct!
The HC4 was released a few years ago and this its first reboxing since then; Airfix’s HAR3 has been reboxed previously.
I think it is still too soon since the 1/48 SK for Airfix to release another version, this makes sense as the designer told me at Telford that another version was most likely going to be 2025.
G
Here’s what’s at the top of the New Releases page at Scalemates just now:
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Of most interest to me is the Sherman, but quick-build … that’s not something I really ever expected for a 1:35 scale tank kit. It’ll be interesting to see what exactly that entails.
Edit: Oh, wait:
… it means Lego-compatible, by the looks of it
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Of most interest to me is the Sherman, but quick-build … that’s not something I really ever expected for a 1:35 scale tank kit. It’ll be interesting to see what exactly that entails.
Edit: Oh, wait:
… it means Lego-compatible, by the looks of it
So the lifeboat and the Bulldog for me.
I been gaving a pop at Airfix at every chance for a bunch of 1/48 birds, jaguar, a new tool EE lightning, british Phantoms and british helicopters.
I been gaving a pop at Airfix at every chance for a bunch of 1/48 birds, jaguar, a new tool EE lightning, british Phantoms and british helicopters.
I watched the video out of curiosity and what struct me was the comment at the end regarding surprises this year. I am sure that they have held off the news of the good stuff, a 48 scale FAA Phantom perhaps????
Without that last comment these releases would have been a real disappointment, not that I had any great expectation anyway as they won’t produce in 1/32.
Without that last comment these releases would have been a real disappointment, not that I had any great expectation anyway as they won’t produce in 1/32.
Airfix given up on 1/350 ships, just two very old 1/600 golden oldies.
No doubt the cost of tooling is a big factor but, all those RN ships
New KGV, Renown, Vanguard, Nelson
Ah never mind! The wait goes on and on
No doubt the cost of tooling is a big factor but, all those RN ships
New KGV, Renown, Vanguard, Nelson
Ah never mind! The wait goes on and on
Mmmm, the lifeboat looks interesting. Make a nice diorama with a Sea King HAR3!!
Umm doesn't the Severn Class Lifeboat date back to 2007? - I've got one in the stash!
Dave
Dave
A 1/48 Bristol Bulldog!? Who'd have predicted a 1/48 Silver Wings? My genre but not my scale. But I would buy a 1/48 Hart...
Hmm. Is the Fury going to reappear?
Now, what I WANT is a Fairey Fox (so I don't HAVE to build my Pegasus one), or an Armstrong-Whitworth Atlas
I'm not fussy, either would be nice
But I've as much chance of Airfix doing THEM as I have of Italeri doing an accurate CANT Z.1007...
Hmm. Is the Fury going to reappear?
Now, what I WANT is a Fairey Fox (so I don't HAVE to build my Pegasus one), or an Armstrong-Whitworth Atlas
I'm not fussy, either would be nice
But I've as much chance of Airfix doing THEM as I have of Italeri doing an accurate CANT Z.1007...
It’s a bit of a mixed bag, I’m surprised they have gone for another lifeboat.
Be interesting to see what the surprises will be as the year winds on.
You have to hand it to Airfix though, they are the only manufacturer I can think of that’s making a sustained effort to bring new/young people into the hobby with all the new tooled starter kits and easy build kits they keep releasing :thinking:
Geoff.
Be interesting to see what the surprises will be as the year winds on.
You have to hand it to Airfix though, they are the only manufacturer I can think of that’s making a sustained effort to bring new/young people into the hobby with all the new tooled starter kits and easy build kits they keep releasing :thinking:
Geoff.
My copy of this months Airfix Model World arrived today with a feature on Airfix’s new Chinook HC1. I was curious to read about there being a “lowered/raised undercarriage” option! I often found myself wondering where the landing gear selector lever was in a Chinook cockpit when doing brakes on a move. 
P.s. The landing gear is fixed on the Chinook.
P.s. The landing gear is fixed on the Chinook.
Does anybody remember the rather lovely Tamiya series of Samurai/Ronin? (1/32?)
Steve
Steve
Yes, the classic '47 Ronin' in their firemen outfits, in 1/35. Box of 4 and box of eight
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