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1:72 Fairey Barracuda Mk.II *FINISHED*
Meatbox8 replied to Dunny's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
I've got my eye on this kit so I'll be following with interest.- 81 replies
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Excellent news. Hopefully they'll follow up with a Wasp. Edit. Oops. They are. Top notch.
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1/72 - Vultee A-31/35 Vengeance by Dora Wings - released
Meatbox8 replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
Looks very nice. I built the old Frog kit a few years back, 45 sqn with SEAC roundels. Still pretty good for its age but this kit trumps it massively,I would imagine. I feel an Aussie one coming on with a white tail. I can recommend the book 'Vengeance!' by Peter C. Smith as a reference. An excellent read and he feels the type was massively underrated.- 27 replies
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Maybe they will box it with the starter set Spit VC. That would make perfect sense.
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My guess is sonething from Junkers in 1/72 and/or something from Republic in 1/48th.
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Fantastic news. I've wanted a late Anson for years. Valom have been covering some great subjects recently.
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I'm going to have to have one of those TT.20s.
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1/72 Airfix Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 Starter kit.
Meatbox8 replied to Plastic Bonsai's topic in The Rumourmonger
All things considered it looks pretty nice from the photo. I don't have Typhoon kit as I rend to build things which are retired. Might be persuaded by this ( and their F-35) though. -
And there was me trying to avoid RAF helicopters for the sake of keeping the stash down.
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If this a starter set it seems odd to release it as a Dogfight Double with their standard P-51D kit. Also, would there have been many 109Fs around in mid-44? Edit: just saw that the 51D is a new starter kit as well.
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1/72 Airfix Boulton-Paul Defiant
Meatbox8 replied to RazgrizBSG27's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
A nice looking Defiant and an interesting scheme. It's a great little kit. I also find canopy painting the most onerous part of kit building. One technique I've started using is to brush apply acrylic paint for the framing and use a wooden cocktail stick to gently remove any excess. While it's not perfect, it's accrptable for my standards and certainly speeds up the production line. -
1/72 - Fairey Delta FD.1 by Dora Wings ? - rumour
Meatbox8 replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
Oh wow. Got to have one! Thanks, Father Christmas.- 18 replies
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1/72 - de Havilland Mosquito (two-stage variants) by Special Hobby
Meatbox8 replied to 172flogger's topic in The Rumourmonger
Sounds even easier than the Brengun conversion, Steve. I wonder if it's still available. -
1/72 - de Havilland Mosquito (two-stage variants) by Special Hobby
Meatbox8 replied to 172flogger's topic in The Rumourmonger
Theoretically, I would have thought so. It depends mainly on how they design the engine pods. The nose section shouldn't be too difficult as Matchbox did so in the 70s, with noth a bomber and night-fighter fit available in the kit. The rest would come down to details. Having a kit with openable bomb doors might complicate things due to the different armament fits. -
1/72 - de Havilland Mosquito (two-stage variants) by Special Hobby
Meatbox8 replied to 172flogger's topic in The Rumourmonger
I was under the impression that the errors in the Airfix kit were well established. The bomb bay doors are incorrect as they are for a TT version. All the detail on them needs to be removed. Ditto the rear fairing to the bomb doors which needs to be filled and reshaped. The tailwheel should be the anti-shimmy type, similar to that provided on their Beaufighter kit. A new one needs to be either purchased or found in the spares box. The wing strengthening strips are, in my view, horribly over-scale and I believe that if they were a similar scale on the real thing they would have serious repercussions for the airflow. Looking at photos of the real thing they are hardly visible. As noted above, the undercarriage units are too narrow - quite noticeably so. I also think the tread on the tyres looks really strange. There are odd decisions Airfix made which aren't errors as such but just... odd. The bulged bomb bay on bomber Mosquitos was so the type could carry a 4000lb 'Cookie' but they don't provide one. Only one crew member and he is curiously under-scale. Other things are more subjective but, personally, I think the Tamiya kit has much more finesse to it and uses a much nicer plastic. None of these issues are completely insurmountable, especially to a non-rivet counter like myself, but it is much easier to convert the Tamiya kit to a two-stager than correct all the errors in the Airfix kit provided, of course, you don't want a bomber/PR variant with the bulged bomb bay doors. The removal of the single stage engines and their replacement was pretty straight forward. -
1/72 - de Havilland Mosquito (two-stage variants) by Special Hobby
Meatbox8 replied to 172flogger's topic in The Rumourmonger
I recently used this set with the Tamiya B.IV kit to make a PR.IX. Went together really well and was a lot less bother than trying to correct the Airfix kit. The Tamiya kit, despite having been around for a while, is a real beauty. I'm still looking forward to the SH mouldings though. Hopefully pain free renditions of bomber, PR and NF versions will be most welcome. -
1/72 - de Havilland Mosquito (two-stage variants) by Special Hobby
Meatbox8 replied to 172flogger's topic in The Rumourmonger
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A good choice by Airfix which I reckon will sell really well. Not my bag, unfortunately, but I'm glad it's in 1/72 as they seem to have been releasing less and less in that scale theee days.