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Van

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  1. Excellent job. I wonder how Airfix got it so wrong...
  2. That looks like the aircraft..i am interested in 1/72 scale but also in the real aircraft , I know nothing about them in service with the french at this time..
  3. Does anyone know much about these and are there any decals available? Van
  4. why should it be free? Duxford is not wholly government funded. The money to run it needs to come from somewhere.
  5. Your point being? IWM HMS Belfast charges £16.00 The thread is about the Duxford may 2016 prices being too high (for some). My point being the Airshow is only £11.50 on top of the museum price.
  6. IWM Duxford costs £18 per adult WITHOUT an airshow, so exactly how is £29.50 for the May show expensive? Van
  7. perhaps an issue with the glue? Unless the pylons have special physical properties that resist adhesives?
  8. Why not reply here for all our benefit??
  9. Why just the Shackleton? By the same logic the same goes for mzny aircraft of a certain vintage..
  10. The "older" Airfix mould is very very recent (2012). As I said, looking at the actual aircraft that was scanned the errors can be seen. Note that the lifting tube is just forward of the tail bulkhead and the opening for the tail gear doors just aft (both on the real aircraft and on the 72 scale kit but not on the 48th version...
  11. I was so pleased to see at Telford that Airfix are bringing out a new early P-40. Then I got home and went on line... normally I am not what some call a rivet counter-but when I saw how Airfix have messed up parts of the new P-40 (pointed out on another forum with really good pictures of the new sprues compared to the 72 scale version). I thought I ask the members of the forum how this mess could have occurred when Airfix used LIDAR on the Duxford aircraft. Looking at pictures of the Duxford P-40 even I can see the lifting tube hole is miles too forward as is the tailwheel opening and access panels in the tail are in the wrong place. How did they get it right on the recent 72nd scale offering and then wrong on this one? My interest in this is mostly academic. As a psychologist I am interested how Airfix managed to ignore the data they had previously collected and then turned in to plastic. Someone must have seen the problems and then either not said anything or have been ignored. And yes, I have asked Airfix directly.
  12. I built my TSR when the kit first came out. No superglue was used and it still sits happily on its undercarriage years later...
  13. Why on earth Airfix did not release later Skyhawk vaiants I do not know...they began to think about it as the wing has flashed over holes for outer pylons...
  14. I built a 1/72 version when it came out-it only needed a little fettling. it was fine.
  15. Given that all (except Plastyk) 1/72 scale Javelins are very old and often eastern bloc repops, the original decals are usually rubbish, then this isn't really an option. Your answer is not helpful. Following your logic: why supply any roundels with sets of decals at all? Painting roundels may be easy for some. Perhaps your post was to tell everyone how easy you find painting them.
  16. I have the Model Alliance 1/72 scale decals and am really disappointed that there is only one set of tail fin flashes. Why oh why coulld they not include enough for each scheme. It is not as if Javelins used generic fin flashes, they were huge! Yes, I know I could paint them, but they wouldn't match the roundels as well as decals would...
  17. http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/news/workbench/5889/
  18. As I said, I thought there would be something of the sort. For spectators.
  19. I think the CAA response is quite reasonable in the circumstances. When people talk about no public fatalities at an airshow in the uk since 1952 it does seem that they are diminishing the magnitude of this accident. Part of the outcry is that the fatalities in this case were not attendees of the show. When one goes to motor racing there are signs to say it is a dangerous activity and that spectators are there at their own risk, so spctators buy into this. It is probably the same at airshows-I haven't noticed, but I still go and have done since I was a boy in the 60s. People travelling on a public highway should not be put at risk by an airshow, which is basically entertainment for others. Van
  20. I am sorry you have been traumatised by being close to the crash. It is horrible, but how is seeing the film different from any film showing fatal things happen? E.g gun camera footage that military aviation enthusiasts seem to "like"; viewing footage of the explosion and sinking of HMS Barham (the death throes of many many hundreds) etc etc. People will speculate, it is human nature and our ability to do it sets us apart in the animal kingdom. Van
  21. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/11818191/Plane-crashes-at-Shoreham-Air-Show-Live.html Police statement: "At about 1.20pm the aircraft hit several cars on the A27 just to the north of Shoreham Airport, where an air display is taking place. The aircraft ended up in a bush. There have been several casulties but we have no further infromation on these at the moment."
  22. What strikes me as odd is that such a fuss is being made by people who may or may not be seeing an error in the Hurricane that may or may not be there when compared to drawings that may or may not be accurate!
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