At Sea

Now spoken for!

I’m buying one, just to prove theres love for the Wessex & hope they make a 1:48 one! Looking good for Helicopter lovers this year!

I have the AS version and will build this as well. Thankfully the wings fold!

If anyone wants a set of Grey Nurse decals I have a spare Eduard set. PM me.

Unsure how this will fare Vs Tamiya & Eduard’s kits. I know the usual answer ‘they don’t make any money for Airfix’. But I do recall this being an exceptional kit 10 years ago.

Schemes. Hmmm. my Kitty Hawk was built in green/grey wrap around. I think winter white & grey will have to be the one!

Yay! I got something right!

Additionally: I have always thought Biplanes would work in 1/24. Sopwith Camel Tiger Moth. Bristol Bulldog the detail would look incredible. That’s a real shame.

I’m joining in because I am sure Airfix bods must read these threads. New Tool: 1:72 Halifax BIII 1:48 Spey Phantom FG.1/FGR.2 1:48 Scimitar 1:24 Corsair 1:24 Sea Fury Re-Release: 1:48 Sea Vixen 1:48 Lightning F2A/F.6 also, if Airfix could please make 1/35 Land Rovers: Civillian Series 1 & 2 short wheelbase. Military Lightweight & 101. thank you.

My limited experience of the Japanese this is an incredibly personal blog post. Happy he is well and as determined as ever. Retaining one's sense of humour is a must! Now stop all this J-79 nonsense and launch a kit with Spey's please. Keii o motte kansha shimasu.

Blimey that takes me back! I started my career at sea with China Navigation Co. (Also part of Swire group) out of Hong Kong & we always flew Cathay. lovely rendition of a nice scheme.

A kit I would love to see and will probably never be made is a Seafire FR.47 in 1/24. Folded wings, Contra rotating prop, the massive Griffon nose with the distinctive cam cover bulges. That would look so amazing on the shelf. Looking at the kit breakdown of the 1/24 Spitfire the sprue layout allows for a Griffon Spitfire. Any Griffon Spitfire in that scale would be amazing. As would a new tool Mk.I-V.

They did though with the 'Black Mike' 1/72 FG.1 boxing. In a fit of the common senses Airfix graced us with one box which contains all the parts required to build and FG.1 or FGR.2 with or without a RWR and weapons. We shall never see it's like again. A06019 if you are interested.

A CATastrophe, if it doesn’t happen I’d be so depressed I may become CATatonic. However a surprise Telford release may be CAThartic enough to lift me from my gloom!

Whoever decides to make a 1:48 Phantom FG.1 or FGR.2 has an albatross around their neck. It is an aircraft that is so geeked out on, so iconic and so loved that even if SWS or Tamiya put their A-Game on it there will still be mistakes. I would dearly love Airfix to be able to produce a Spey Phantom kit with everything in the box to build any Spey Phantom, to the standard of their 1/24 Spitfire for under £100. I believe they could. The elephant in the room is nostalgia. If anyone dared to bring out the Hasegawa kit today, at the price point, with blind intakes, thick & incomplete decals, non posable tailerons, no belts, incorrect wheel hubs etc etc the internet would crash! People of a certain age (me included) adore the Hasegawa kit with the iconic Shigeo Koike artwork and that is enough to warrant the price plus all the aftermarket to make a stunning kit which easily breaks the £100 barrier. This is why Revell’s re-pop flopped. My hope lies with SWS plus the Xtra-Decal 1:48 Phantom sheets. But I still have faith that Airfix could pull it off if they really want to.