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    Both versions turned up on ebay today at 36 USD. Each, of course.
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    Yeah but..if they had a photo back in April, why a CAD image now? There's speculation further up that the photo is an Airfix Vulcan. I don't know why they even put the CAD in the latest news update if they haven't got anything better. I normally expect box art to denote imminence. Don't hold your breath on this one. (The pit-road alternative might appeal though).
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    Pit Road have a Vulcan B2 with Blue Steel coming, obviously the same as the GWH kit. Pit Road has relationships with Trumpy and GWH. Is this the same Vulcan again? Probably. It's apparently an ad hoc release of an available mould. It was never in the catalogue. Don't get me started on things that HAVE been in the catalogue for a dozen years with no release.
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    Airfix 2019

    12by12 replied to jenko's topic in The Rumourmonger

    Ju-88A-1 would win out of those two..
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    Airfix 2019

    12by12 replied to jenko's topic in The Rumourmonger

    Possibly you are not aware of cockney rhyming slang. Or did you mean Hampden?
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    Well, Minicraft have one but it dates back half a century. Fujimi do a better one. Minicraft itself promises a 'new tool' B-29 but who knows what that entails. Is there any external variation with the Tu-4? I understood there was not.
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    We have a decent 1/144 Vulcan from GWH via Pitroad. Intriguingly Pitroad also works with Trumpy on ships. Maybe, if 1/144, it's the same Vulcan again. I'm not near my stash to check it. Although I don't think a reissue was worthy of a mystery facebook post...
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    Thirty-second, for sure, with legs for a coffee table.
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    Airfix 2019

    12by12 replied to jenko's topic in The Rumourmonger

    OK, I had forgotten a couple of those, Banbury falling outside my usual circles. I suppose the 60s are not going to come back, nor are the specialist model shops. I am not thinking of the denizens of this site when I wonder where any modern kid at a triggerable age is ever gonna see that box top that screams 'BUY ME!!!'
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    Airfix 2019

    12by12 replied to jenko's topic in The Rumourmonger

    Right now I don't know where I'd go round here in Oxfordshire to find a stock of Airfix. They are not going to be selling anything to me on the basis of impulse buy because of box art if there is nothing to see in any shop I go into. Not in Hobbycraft any more, not in WH Smith's short-lived modelzone, no model shop for thirty=five miles in any direction AFAIK. I don't know what their marketing strategy is now. (And they don't do the subjects I like in the scales I follow, but that's another problem)
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    The MiG-15 catalog pic shows the Dragon box art. Convenient placeholder pic or same old kit?
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    " XII only saw Service with one squadron " 100% out?
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    Ju88A-1
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    Isn't that a D in 1/144? By Minicraft?
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    I wouldn't mind a set to convert the Airfix attempt into a Scout. Preferably a late model SS11 Scout with all the role equipment. Although it may be time for a new kit.
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    I can never look at this beast, in the best tradition of ugly French bombers, without thinking of the similar-looking and similarly-named NCC-1701.
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    Now, I am not an artillery expert, but it seems to me that the 8" How only needs new wheels and maybe a barrel to be a 7.2" Howitzer good for all of WW2. Oh, and figures of Gunners Milligan and Secombe.
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    Why is this thread sticky?
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    I'm a 1/144 F-4 modeller. I buy Gashapon kits, F-toys and Platz as well as that awful F-4E that turns up under so many labels. Would you consider making a pack for conversions?   F-4B tailpipes and wings, early radomes.  RF nose. Pylons and missiles, MERs and TERs.  Appropriate decals to go with them.  I can't really do too many Phantoms at £25 but a conversion pack with decals for £10 would go down very nicely.

     

    Adrian Camp

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    I don't think retailers in the UK work on those margins. A £29.99 retail price involves £5 of VAT. He's likely to have paid £13 for the kit.
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    HO figures cover a lot more activity. I remember seeing in the window of a rail model shop in Aachen several sets of Noch figures engaged in..well. Google Noch 15953 for an example. There is quite a long series. I do not expect any competition in 1/72 from Airfix.
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    I have their Valiant. It's not like a GWH Vulcan or Victor but it's decent as a basis. I wouldn't hesitate to buy this one if I wanted a Hastings.
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    Tiny problemette, Kearsage on the decal sheet should be Kearsarge. If this is Vietnam Series V5001, what's 5002, 3 4 etc?
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    In that case, he does a fine job and his choice of subjects is exceptional.
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    Can I assume that someone from Anigrand has been to Pima, where they have a Budd, YC-125 and YC-15? Will there be a YC-14 too? (If you haven't been to Pima, go. Any museum with three B-52s can't be bad. And the bus goes from there around the boneyard.)
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