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typerated
30th Nov 2013, 06:35
Scale Plastic Model Kits by Airfix - Calendar Wallpaper (http://www.airfix.com/downloads/calendar-wallpaper/)


Very nice indeed!

just another jocky
30th Nov 2013, 07:42
Hopefully 2014 will be available soon.

Darvan
30th Nov 2013, 07:59
But why are there 2 x 617 Sqn Lancs? Would have been nice to have seen a 9 or 12 Sqn example. But what, hey ho! Its all about the Dambusters and youth today, isn't it?

GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
30th Nov 2013, 11:24
On April's picture, the inverted Gnat shows no flying control surface deflection. Would that be normal for the real aeroplane in that attitude?

Buster Hyman
30th Nov 2013, 11:29
On April's picture, the inverted Gnat shows no flying control surface deflection. Would that be normal for the real aeroplane in that attitude?

No, but perfectly fine for a plastic one. :p

Bob Viking
30th Nov 2013, 13:53
GBZ.
The control surfaces can be neutral at any attitude for a short time at least.
BV

Stendec5
30th Nov 2013, 15:38
Where's the Swazzy on the Focke Wulf??? Winston Smith and his sissors, again?

ShotOne
30th Nov 2013, 17:09
They can't legally sell them in Germany with a swastika. On the decal sheet they still have them but it's in two pieces and has to be assembled.

Rosevidney1
30th Nov 2013, 17:38
I haven't made model aircraft for many years now - when I did insignia and other painting details were on transfers! I assume decals are an American invention.

TorqueOfTheDevil
30th Nov 2013, 18:12
Nice though the pictures are, they are hardly representative of the quality of the models Airifx sell...it's no coincidence that Airfix changed their box design from a photo of the model inside to a painting. So many other companies produce better quality kits, and very few aircraft types are unique to Airfix in kit form.

mantog
30th Nov 2013, 18:34
Have you built a recent Airfix model? They're very good, and great value for money! They also make plenty of unique aircraft, just look at the latest release, a 1:24 scale Hawker Typhoon!

500N
30th Nov 2013, 19:20
Torque

Has the quality dropped from times past, both in the finish
and the "fitting together" ?

Who was the "other" major maker of models pre 1980 ?

I thought it started with a "B".

ShotOne
30th Nov 2013, 20:20
Having resumed my airfix kit making due to two air-minded sons, having not done so since my teens, I can vouch that quality now is excellent, perhaps better than first time round. Only negative is the transfers (I apologise for americanising into decals) which aren't as good.

Revell was t'other one

Agaricus bisporus
30th Nov 2013, 20:26
Professional Pilot's Rumour Network!!!!

Military Aircrew????

Airfix Kits--------------:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Does no one see the utterly inappropriate nature of this thread. It doesn't even belong on jetblast.

**** off children! :ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

Buster Hyman
30th Nov 2013, 21:46
Oh dear. More Tylenol to table 12 please...

All the kits I did referred to them as Decals.

500N
1st Dec 2013, 04:21
Agaricus bisporus

What is wrong with airfix or any kit models ?

A fair few on here would have made them as kids.
Or probably if interested as above made them with own kids.
And now probably grand children as well if like minded.

I'm not a pilot but if ever I was on a RAAF base always aircraft models on desks, from airfix to the metal ones.

Nearly 50% of that calender are modern jets, the rest historical aircraft
bar the Helo and the Soldiers ?

Can't see what the problem is.

Mad_Mark
1st Dec 2013, 06:06
Agaricus bisporus...
Professional Pilot's Rumour Network!!!!

Military Aircrew????

Airfix Kits--------------

Does no one see the utterly inappropriate nature of this thread. It doesn't even belong on jetblast.

**** off children!


I think you need to read the 'tag line' of this particular forum in PPRuNe... "A forum for the professionals who fly the non-civilian hardware, and the backroom boys and girls without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, Navy and Airforces of the World, all equally welcome here."

It says it is forum FOR the people listed, nowhere does it say what subject matter the conversations should be limited to :ugh:

MadMark!!! :mad:

RUCAWO
1st Dec 2013, 09:17
For Quality a recent Airfix Lynx kit built by a Lynx pilot .

1/48 Airfix Westland Lynx AH7 - Ready for Inspection - Aircraft - Britmodeller.com (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234916444-148-airfix-westland-lynx-ah7/?hl=lynx7#entry1009136)

500N
1st Dec 2013, 09:50
" For Quality a recent Airfix Lynx kit built by a Lynx pilot ."

Aaaahhhh, maybe because he is a Lynx pilot that
will satisfy Agaricus bisporus ;)

Roland Pulfrew
1st Dec 2013, 10:02
**** off children!

What a childish thing to say; perhaps Agaricus has picked a few magic mushrooms by accident. What a ****head!

BEagle
1st Dec 2013, 14:54
Quite so, Roly!

I wonder for quite how many of us the sequence went:

The Eagle / Biggles
Airfix kits
Air War Picture Library
C/L aeromodelling
R/C aeromodelling
Gliding
Flying Scholarship
RAF

Per Airfix ad Astra!

FODPlod
1st Dec 2013, 15:34
BEagle: You missed out reading the works of Capt W.E. Johns although in my case it was also Winton, Monsarrat, Alistair MacLean, etc., which is why I ended up messing around in boats and joining the Andrew.

BEagle
1st Dec 2013, 15:56
Indeed - what an omission! Post duly amended!!

Rosevidney1
1st Dec 2013, 18:50
A search in the Oxford English Dictionary came up with this definition:

decal /0ˈdi:kal/ noun. Chiefly N. Amer. M20.
[ORIGIN Abbreviation of decalcomania.]
A picture etc. prepared on special paper for durable transfer on to glass, china, plastic models, etc.


They will always be called transfers by this old codger!

NutLoose
1st Dec 2013, 19:35
Moved on a bit these days RV1, we use stencils and spray them on like the real deal :)

Paint Masks Model Hobbies Plastic model kits and diecast models for the enthusiast Paint Masks (http://www.modelhobbies.co.uk/shop/plastic-model-kits-paint-masks-c-27_153.html)

TomJoad
1st Dec 2013, 20:18
Professional Pilot's Rumour Network!!!!

Military Aircrew????

Airfix Kits--------------:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Does no one see the utterly inappropriate nature of this thread. It doesn't even belong on jetblast.

**** off children! :ugh:


Obviously hasn't seen "Flight of The Phoenix":=

Take some of your own advice fella and stop reading posts on which you have no interest. If your head hurts on hitting it against the wall - then stop hitting it against the wall :ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

Rosevidney1
1st Dec 2013, 20:58
Moved on a bit these days RV1, we use stencils and spray them on like the real deal http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/smile.gif

Crikey! I had no idea this had advanced so far. Well beyond my ability. :O

TorqueOfTheDevil
1st Dec 2013, 21:09
I'm glad to hear that some of their recent offerings are better than the old ones (the only new Airfix kit I have tried in the last few years was the Nimrod, which was fine apart from the terrible decals!), but there are still plenty of the old Airfix moulds masquerading in nice modern-looking boxes - moulds which weren't that great 40 years ago and now are getting even worse! Compared to the likes of Trumpeter, Hasegawa, Tamiya, Italeri etc etc one has to have a real devotion to want to build an Airfix kit unless it is one of the unique ones!

And yes the Lynx looks amazing but some modellers (not me, I hasten to add) can work wonders with a poor kit - look at how some of the vacform kits turn out! I'm not saying the Lynx is a poor kit - I really don't know either way - but the fact that someone has made it look good doesn't necessarily mean that it's a sweet kit...

RUCAWO
1st Dec 2013, 21:21
but the fact that someone has made it look good doesn't necessarily mean that it's a sweet kit...

It is, I have built a couple but not to that standard. I don't have Tonys skills.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/sniperUK/IMG_0145-1.jpg

GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
1st Dec 2013, 22:53
NutLoose. I made my stencils out of clear acetate sheet in '82. Cost bugger all, easily cleaned and still going strong. The low tack double tape sometimes leaves a mark on the previous paint, though. I still have a bottle (nearly) of Johnson's Klear; thankfully.

For what it's worth, apart from having a dad that built aeroplanes, Airfix had a lot to do with my obsession for flying machines.

A little story; Dad started a Frog Vulcan in '58 and never quite finished it. He built 4 white ones for other people. The fact that the nitro synthetic high speed silver paint (borrowed from New Assembly) pitted the plastic may have been a deciding factor. In '73, I found it in the loft and asked if I could finish it. On the afirm, I made it into a MK1A, moulded some missing U/C bits in resin, and made up intake blanks and the other stuff to make a diarama and he was chuffed to nuts. I now so wish that I'd finished it as it was, as XA891 in HS silver. Funny old world.

NutLoose
1st Dec 2013, 23:50
I tend to do 200mm resins

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/SASnew.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/GermanParaFrontrightSml.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/Hermannnew5.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/Hermannnew1.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/modelling/200%20mm/Falklands/falk3para.jpg

Roland Pulfrew
2nd Dec 2013, 05:59
Torque

Airfix have come on leaps and bounds in recent years, even since the release of the Nimrod. As an example, and I know it's a big scale, have a look at the test shots in the link below.

Airfix announce new 1:24 Hawker Typhoon for 2014 (http://www.airfix.com/news/airfix-new-for-2014-hawker-typhoon-124/)

Now if only Airfix would do a 1/72 VC10, I could complete my flying career in that scale!

CoffmanStarter
2nd Dec 2013, 09:22
RP ... Not Airfix but 1:72 scale in resin :ok:

http://media.hannants.co.uk/pics/MAG7290.JPG

VC-10 1:72 Scale (http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MAG7290)

CoffmanStarter
2nd Dec 2013, 09:54
Whilst I certainly don't have Nutty's skill and talent ... I don't mind admitting that a 1:48 Scale Chipmunk, WK518 in Training Command Red & White, is on the cards for the New Year ... provided Mrs Coff has got the "hints" dropped so far :ok:

Here is a completed example (Heritage Model Kit) by an expert modeller ...

http://www.britmodeller.com/Mike/chipmunk/finished2.jpg

1:48 RAF Chipmunk TMk10 (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/75432-de-havilland-chipmunk/)

Roland Pulfrew
2nd Dec 2013, 09:58
Coff

Many thanks - wrong type of 10 though and I'm not sure my basic skills are up to resin. :ok:

RUCAWO
2nd Dec 2013, 10:17
Completed Anigrand VC10 1/72 VC10 - Anigrand 101 Sqn 90th anniversary - Ready for Inspection - Aircraft - Britmodeller.com (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234912678-172-vc10-anigrand-101-sqn-90th-anniversary/)

54Phan
2nd Dec 2013, 16:00
There's some very nice work depicted in this thread. I have always viewed plastic modelling as a way to depict history in 3 dimensions. Airfix is certainly back with a vengeance, although not in 1/48th scale, sadly :{. Maybe in a few years time, though.... Their new kits are very good.

RUCAWO
2nd Dec 2013, 17:10
Have you seen their Javelin, Sea Vixen ,Merlin and new Spitfires ?

54Phan
2nd Dec 2013, 18:08
These are all either at 54Burg or the way, with the exception of the Javelin. I have been furiously lobbying my better half for it, and hope springs eternal.

TorqueOfTheDevil
3rd Dec 2013, 15:14
Roland,

The Typhoon looks great! The 1/24 Mosquito is another I would love to try. Interesting that Airfix are confident there is sufficient demand for new 1/24 kits, especially as Trumpeter seem to have a habit of doing the same aircraft as Airfix in that scale but (dare I say it) to a rather better standard. I do have experience of both...the 1/24 Airfix Bf 109E, while a basic kit, makes into a good model, the P-51 is just about passable (although not great alongside the Trumpeter one) but the Hurricane, Fw 190A and Ju 87 somewhat poor and the Spitfire awful, even without the superior Chinese offerings! And one assumes the Trumpy Fw 190A and Ju 87 will also be quite nice...

I hope you get your VC10 - given the Nimrod and Valiant, you might just be in luck!

TOTD

Willard Whyte
3rd Dec 2013, 16:54
If you've got a (big) spare room available there's always the 1/72 C-17.

1/72 scale Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas) C-17 GlobeMaster - Tacticak Transport (http://www.anigrand.com/AA2071_C-17.htm) [sic]

http://www.anigrand.com/images/items/AA2071_C-17/AA2077_C-17_parts.jpg

(Anigrand also produce a 1/72 C-5 and 747 if anyone fancies getting divorced)

Personally I think I can get away with a 1/72 Apollo 11, all 5' of it, because it takes up very little floor space.

NutLoose
3rd Dec 2013, 17:17
Or the 1/32 B17 and B25, soon to be joined by the Lanc


The Modelling News: Now THIS is large scale modelling folks! HK Models B-17G Flying Fortress test kit - our thoughts so far? (http://www.themodellingnews.com/2013/03/now-this-is-large-scale-modelling-folks.html)


Or the 1/32 resin Catalina

The Modelling News: Kingscale Models - 1/32 Catalina latest along with 1/18 engines & King Cobra pics (http://www.themodellingnews.com/2011/09/massive-news-form-hph-models-132.html)


I have an unbuilt 1/72 uboat which Is 4 foot long

But for sheer size it's got to be the 1/35th railway gun :)

Not exactly pop it on the shelf to display it size lol


SCALE MODEL NEWS: REMEMBER THE HUGE DORA RAILWAY GUN? HERE?S THE MAN WHO MADE THE MASSIVE MASTERPIECE (http://www.scalemodelnews.com/2011/04/remember-huge-dora-railway-gun-heres.html)

just another jocky
26th Dec 2013, 11:35
Jan 2014 calendar now available. (http://www.airfix.com/downloads/calendar-wallpaper/)

54Phan
27th Dec 2013, 16:53
For those who might be interested, the Javelin did land at 54Burg, and it is a beauty!:D

pbk
28th Dec 2013, 12:45
I think rather more of us a at least secret modellers, but I am sure that modelling was almost a right of passage in my schoolboy days. Not many lads went without an Airfix Spitfire, a brilliant stocking filler.
I built most of the Airfix offerings as a school boy and when I joined in 66, some of the stuff produced by fellow appos was amazing.

Having left in 90, I miss the sight sound and smell of the wonderful stuff that was flown by the RAF in my time, and when my grandson got to the right age I gave him a 1/72 Spit. Unfortunately he wasnt interested, but it rekindled a spark in me......... I have currently got a stack of Airfix kits waiting for my shakey old hands to murder, but I have such great memories; being kept awake as a 6/7 year old by Javs at Odiham, prototype VC 10s at @2000 over Bentley (why?) Black Arrows practising for Farnborough (never needed to go) Victor and a couple of Lightnings in formation the summer I joined up, again over Bentley, numerous sonic booms. The Jav on the main gate at Stafford Recruitment Centre and again the 1st fault finding excercise on a Jav in the hangar at Cosford. A Vulcan cruising over Cosford complete with Blue Steel, Shiny brown Hercs at Thorney Island.. Vulcans at Waddo and Scampers (how can 2 camps be so different?) Redtop & Firestreak at STCAAME for the sins of an earlier life but brilliant contact with the fast jet fleet... Marham for a couple of years on the magnificent Victor and finally a return to Fat Albert.
Currently got a Vulcan, 2 Valiants, 1/48 Jav, 1/48 Lightning lined up and looking for a Revell/Matchbox Victor. I shall enjoy every single minute of their construction and will be busy recalling happy times spent on the real thing. Airfix? Dont knock it!!

Willard Whyte
29th Dec 2013, 00:08
Pricey, but very hard to find these days:

Matchbox 1/72 HP Victor K2 Date: 80's PK-551 | eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Matchbox-1-72-HP-Victor-K2-Date-80s-PK-551-/301047962677?clk_rvr_id=566413148668)

Tashengurt
29th Dec 2013, 16:03
pbk,
Snap. Except it was my son that wasn't fussed


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