Modelraynz

yea i was afraid of that; any idea of how much to lob off?

hiya while waiting for some parts for my other projects I decided to use some spares and kitbash a seafire XVII :-) 1st order was to 'de-spite' and airfix spitfire 22 by reshaping the tail - the tail was donated from a sword seafire XV which will be burmese with a different tail: will use some spare ki-27 fuel tanks for the wing combat tanks: the wings are from a sword spit IX sprue someone gave me. I'm still deciding on the spinner , but here is one I have been working on

cheers mate! :-) been doing some cross-kitting and looks like ill be working on a XVII first so good to know :-)

Hi folks, did a bit of a search, but still unsure: seafire mk.45: black or black/green cockpit? Ant help greatly appreciated! :-)

hiya, so ive been trying to match the Martlet mk.I colours: OR totally confused if it is a either a: A) bad us paint matching to british colors (grey and green) or a two-tone green!?!?!?! i usually use tamiya sprays for camo, so made some crude swatches: but still not happy with the colors!

Ah the magister...anybody want 20+ for around that 15 quid price plus shipping? Yea, diddnt think so Good point that airfix is suffering for hornbys losses in other areas: i really hope they're consolidating boxings to produce multiple variants e.g. iirc the new spit va has al the parts for an early mk 1 with watts prop?

Update: according to this retailer: http://www.mrmodels.co.nz/kitset-model-pages/aircraft-72_Acad-Air.html#Airfix The following product lines are being deleted: 1/72 DH Tiger Moth Civil Gloster Gladiator Mk.1 PreWar - Hurricaine MK1 (reeeeaaallly hoping thyre doing a II family based on this tooling) Fouga Magister Bristol Blenheim Mk1 (Bomber Harrier Gr9 EE Lightning F2A/6 Dornier DO17Z EE Lightning F6 Short Sunderland III Douglas DC-3C Dakota Avro Shackleton MR.2 1/48 Supermarine Spitfire PRXlX Messerscmitt BF109E-1/E-3/E-4 Hawk T1 Folland Gnat Hawker Hurricane MK1 1/24 Fw-190

Quite a collection very nice! :-)

Dont forget the 'after'market

Hey folks! in this thread ill be posting my two builds: one martlet mk.I and one f4f-3 (bu.1863) Early w/ spinner :-) first up: Martlet Mk.I Using the airfix 1/72 Martlet IV as a base, Ive started by modifying the cowl by adding the intake fairing on the top; it should protrude a bit further forward so will add a bit more stock card then sand smooth F4F-3 BU.1863 first up I dug out the gun troughs, though got a bit carried away and dug them too far back! - i filled up with the excess with some black sprue and will sand smooth as this airfraft had the earlier R-1830-76 minus the magnetos, I saved the airfix engine for another day and found another replacement ( not much will be seen behind the spinner anyway! the spinner is from the spares and from an academy p-40 from memory, the kit blades were attached to the spinner: more soon!

Will be interesting to see the outcome of the board meeting that's this week I believe. Some thoughts from in the retail space down under: The new airfix series 1 and 2 series range were good movers down here in NZ across a wide range of modelers, but espically with kids and casual enthusiasts. Historically airfix had good pricing but the "historical molding quality " would lead to them not being reccomended to beginners. then their new tools (p-40b, spit, zero, mustang) really found a perfect balance: great packaging to grab the eye, well engineered, and a lot of detail. - cheap enough for the casual consumer, detailed and accurate enough for the enthusiast to stock up on em' - we saw a lot of our regulars buying 2x or more of these kits for the stash, basis for conversions etc. Was a pity to see the 262 jump into the next series, where atleast here it will compete with the academy offering. Likewise the lack of new "baseline" kits for their series 1 and 2 range is dissapointing; new tool p-47, f6f, 109g,mc202? ( standard 'big' ww2 types) would have broad market appeal and do strongly overseas, not to mention the reboxing potential - which it seems they might be picking up on from the likes of hasegawa (though could get a bit more creative on markings). To me one of airfix's stregnths are their back catalog of molds, they really should tap into some of their stronger kits of yesteryear: p-80s, meteors, super mysteres, doing a run of these with their modern packaging and some interesting decals would be a guranteed win withput the heavy upfront cost of tooling. Two of the more dissapointing product ranges here: - pallets of the 'operation herric' range that were impossible to move, playing pingpong between wholesaler and retailers (ditto for swordfish and lancasters) - the quickbuild range that has to be sold around ~40nzd, pricing it out of casual toys for kids territory; cant remeber who we blue pilled to get rid of those. Cheers!

Hey folks! Recently got back into the hobby: im all about 1/72nd aircraft with a bit of armour and sci fi - with particular interest in small air forces or erotic exotic aircraft When not modelling, im busy crunching metadata as a SAS (not 'that' SAS) business analyst/datahamster. Other interests include: popculture, bad memes, b movies and general cynacism :-) Looking forward to joining britmodeler for awhile as seems a really cool community with a strong 72nd vibe and fun folk, used to post alot on ARC years ago as "raymond" and helped out at modelcraftsandhobbies in wellington for a few years :-) Cheers!