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  1. Dave Fleming
    Yay! Good to see, there have been rumours for about 5 years of Special Hobby doing a new Battle, so I guess this is it! With this and the Venom, what do I put on my wish list now?
  2. Dave Fleming
    I think someone has taken the p
  3. Dave Fleming
    Special Hobby, still in their plans apparently.
  4. Dave Fleming
    Does look like a 3D print
  5. Dave Fleming
    I believe they couldn't get permission to do the same with the Apache, hence no 1/48th one in the Herrick range
  6. Dave Fleming
    It's always been a part of the Airfix strategy - look at the 70s, where they replaced the Whirlwind (fighter), Fw190D, P38J etc. Sometimes they retired the old mould, sometimes they kept it in the range. Look at now, where they have three different 1/72 Hawk kits (Simpler one with reduced parts for Red Arrows starter pack) The strategy was that if a kit was a good seller on the old mould, the upsurge from people buying a new kit as well as that residual sales level made it economic. I was told that Airfix have almost all their old tooling available (and on a database), hence the re-appearance of things like the prototype Concorde (and going back further things like the supposedly lost P1127). The only 'lost moulds' they have ever confirmed (Outside some of the railway range) are France and the SAM-2. I have heard rumours of one or two others, but they understandably keep things very commercially confidential.
  7. Dave Fleming
    Got mine today, looks a cracking kit
  8. Dave Fleming
    SAM-2 yes, The clear mould for the Islander was lost, but Airfix had a new one made when the kit was re-released in the 2000s
  9. Dave Fleming
    Still hoping for Battle Venom Canberra B2/6
  10. Dave Fleming
    Looking at that photo, I'd say white was the most likely colour. The shades are interesting as the blue is very dark for ortho. Wonder if it's ortho with a filter? Having said that, this photo from the IWM collection showing another 274 Hurricane also shows the flash isn't the same colour as the yellow round the roundel, but it's darker than white. ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.. © IWM (CM 868) IWM Non Commercial License
  11. Dave Fleming
    I think we can guarantee more Vintage Classics
  12. Dave Fleming
    Venezuela had FB54s, which were FB4 equivalents, The other export customers were Italy (2) and Iraq, who had FB50s, which were FB1 with the Vampire style tails. Switzerland has FB1s as well as FB4s
  13. Dave Fleming
    Having looked at the Zvesda kit alongside both the Airfix fabric wing and Arma mk I kits, I don't see it as'shorter than Airfix' . The Zvesda kit matches both almost in length from both rudder to nose and cockpit to njose (The panel lines match up too), and is actually slightly longer due to the oil collector plate on the front. If it's too short for a mk I, they all are. Aligned on the rear fuselage/rudder on the cutting mat line (although parallax makes them look out of line), there is hardly any difference. Matching the halves of each kit shows the same The nose is a little deeper on the lower side (An attempt to match the different underside profile of the mk II?) but not so much that it wouldn't look like a mk I. I'm sticking with my plan to make a 4 cannon Sea Hurricane I (deliberately ignoring suffixes, with Airfix hook and Heller cannon) and I might get another to make V7360. Still not a mk II though!
  14. Dave Fleming
    Heller has/had the Jag mould and I beleive Airfix no longer has access to it
  15. Dave Fleming
    Those Scammells were strange, they appeared in the catalogue but not on any listings or on the Hornby page. And no-one from Airfix would comment on them. One particular person rather than a credo - there is certainly a before and after for 1/72 around that time.
  16. Dave Fleming
    Not damaged or worn per se, but the design means that they are easily warped (especially with the softer plastic Airfix use) which means fit and assembly needs to be very carefully managed. Basically, they don't want to have 100s of kits returned as warped when it's an inherent fault of the design
  17. Dave Fleming
    Have we stopped getting the distributors links? That was always good to see what was coming a few months down the line Found the Nov one https://www.eduard.com/out/media/distributors/leaflet/leaflet2021-11en.pdf
  18. Dave Fleming
    It might just be the renders, but those Roundels don't look right - the blue area looks too narrow compared to the white and red.
  19. Dave Fleming
    I found one source that described the early spring as the MK I and the later (mid barrel) one as the mk II. But not a primary source, so to be treated with a pinch of salt
  20. Dave Fleming
    I was just thinking of the law of sod! That rings a slight bell that Hooked Hurricane was used to describe aircraft built as mk IIB/C and converted for naval use, whereas Sea Hurricane was used for those build as naval from scratch
  21. Dave Fleming
    The panels on the Arma mk I and Zvesda kits are the same size, so it's definitely a mk I fuselage Mk I hook is different from the mk II hook in the olde Revell kit I assume? Yes, that's why we love them!
  22. Dave Fleming
    The nose is slightly longer than Arma mk I, but only in the bit before the spinner. Maybe time to build the 4 cannon Sea Hurricane I!
  23. Dave Fleming
    Just picked up the new Zvezda mk IIc kit. (was interested to see how it compared ot the Arma one) and one thing I notice is it has the early cannon with the coils nearest the wing leading edge - does anyone know when production switched to the cannon with the coils half way down the barrel?
  24. Dave Fleming
    I think the drawing is wrong - the prototypes had smaller dog tooth extensions than the production aircraft - Heller was the prototype, Airfix got it right on their kit You can see here how much further inboard the extension went than in the drawing https://www.airliners.net/photo/UK-Air-Force/Dassault-Dornier-Alpha-Jet-A/1375731/L
  25. Dave Fleming
    I was typing when you posted - are the leading edge extensions (Dog-teeth) the same length? I have an early Heller kit, where they are the shorter length and looking at photos of recent issues of the Heller kit, they seem the same. The KP kit ones looked longer (Greater space between the edge of the extension and the alieron) Heller
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