I have a sneaky idea that Hornby have had something to do with this. It could be that the new design team at Airfix have seen/used one and got talking about the possibilities. I have a mate over her that uses one every day in his work. He has scanned everything from a 500 year old coin to a whole building!\ said:What puzzles me is that the model railway manufacturers have been doing this type of thing for years and producing some pretty damned good locomotives from the scans.
The idea is great but it is limited to there being a subject in existence to scan...