Rogue Trooper Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 A 1/24 F4U Corsair to go along with their other 1/24 scale aircraft would be a dream come true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaw Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I wonder if Airfix - or any other manufacturer - reads these views...... John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Centurion new tool with AVRE option Now that is a really good idea. Stalwart of British (and many other) post-war armoured fleets, as iconic as the EE Lightning. Loads of different variant and marking options. Good candidate for Airfix's policy of replacing their embarrassing products: to me the existing Centurion VIII never really looked that much like a Centurion. Initial boxing as a Mark 10, with AVRE option, later with new turret for Mark 3? Edited January 10, 2012 by Seahawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Velociweiler Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Now that is a really good idea. Stalwart of British (and many other) post-war armoured fleets, as iconic as the EE Lightning. Loads of different variant and marking options. Good candidate for Airfix's policy of replacing their embarrassing products: to me the existing Centurion VIII never really looked that much like a Centurion. Initial boxing as a Mark 10, with AVRE option, later with new turret for Mark 3? And a Sexton SPG - the last major British AFV of WWII not kitted in any widely-available form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 As Airfix seem to be replacing old, worn-out tools that are still in the catalogues, I suggest in 1:72 - Tiger Moth DH88 Comet racer Hawker Typhoon (bubble and car-door versions please) Gloster Gladiator (with parts for Sea Gladiator) Bristol Blenheim (MkI and MkIV bomber and fighter versions please) Bristol Beaufighter (including the Merlin-engined versions as well) Hawker Hurricane I B-17 B-24 plus in 1:144 a new Boeing 747 (100 or 200 series), and a completely new Concorde. And models new to the Airfix range: 1:48 Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2/P-40B/C 1:48 Aerospatiale/Westland Gazelle 1:72 Handley Page Victor (to complete the trio) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastieboy Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 A 48th scale Spitfire Mk 14 and 19 would not go amiss. Yes I know I lack imagination but they are my favs........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothian man Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 And a FV432 family, come to think of it? Including Abbot ... or has someone already suggested that? One could also add the other CVR(T) vehicles - Striker, Spartan, Sultan - and the Conqueror (someone do that in 1/35 pleeeease ... there was a derelict near my school used by RE and REME to play with, and it was memorably HUGE for a small boy to crawl about in). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wadeocu Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 How about a little revenue on old product by re-releasing the 1/48 Buccaneers with bottom kicking decals just as you have done with the Lightning kit this year. Then reinvest the profit in new tooling for a: 1/350 Ark Royal IV (circa 1976) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 1/350 Ark Royal IV (circa 1976) Now that is something I'd sell part of the stash for! Especially as I got the dvd of Sailor for Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Thompson Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 As Airfix seem to be replacing old, worn-out tools that are still in the catalogues, I suggest in 1:72 - Hawker Typhoon (bubble and car-door versions please) Bristol Beaufighter (including the Merlin-engined versions as well) I second that motion for the Typhoon - definitely a desireable kit, especially the car-door version. The Beaufighter is another good choice for replacement. And, as usual, let me add my own suggestion regarding a third Airfix kit of the same vintage which I'd love to see replaced - can anyone guess? Why, it's the Yak-9 again!!! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitbasher2009 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 1/72 bomber and PR Mosquitos, with/without two-stage Merlins and bulged bomb bays. OK the fighter kit is now very old but to me is standing the test of time such that a replacement - to me - could wait until the others are sorted. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) As Airfix seem to be replacing old, worn-out tools that are still in the catalogues, I suggest in 1:72 - Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3, Lightning F1/3.......and did I say Lightning F1/3? And models new to the Airfix range: 1:72 Lightning F6, 1:72 Lightning F6, 1:72 Lightning F6, 1:72 Lightning F6, 1:72 Lightning F6, 1:72 Lightning F6, 1:72 Lightning F6, and did I say 1:72 Lightning F6? Oh and a 1/72 Lincoln, Shackleton MR1/2/3, Varsity, Argosy & Hastings. Ta very much! Keef Edited January 10, 2012 by keefr22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supertom Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) I love the 1/72 cold war stuff, so I'd be delighted if Airfix would refresh the Lightning, Buccaneer, Javelin, Swift, Attacker, Venom/Sea Venom, Sea Vixen, Vulcan and Victor. Britain has a fantastic legacy of aircraft that they should be proud of, and who better to spearhead this than Airfix? Edited January 11, 2012 by Supertom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I don't think many people would object if Airfix were to scale down the 1:48 Lightning kits to 1:72. If they added the trainer version too... Oh, changing subjects slightly, how about a 1:350 Type 42 destroyer (HMS Sheffield et al)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madam I'm Adam Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Oh, changing subjects slightly, how about a 1:350 Type 42 destroyer (HMS Sheffield et al)? HMS Sheffield makes me think Hms Conqueror...? Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baz50 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 How about 1/48 Jaguar ( have you seen the prices on fleebay?) 2 seater harrier F104 starfighter Buccaneer P61 Seahawk Vampire P51 Mustang Skyraider Seafury 2 seat lightning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx6667 Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 How about 1/48 Jaguar ( have you seen the prices on fleebay?) eBay its pretty much a meaningless indicator - it only demonstrates what an individual is prepared to pay rather than whether a wider market demand actually exists. And the kit was repopped as a GR1/3 a few years back and then got dropped again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingo Degenhardt Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Javelin FAW.9, Swift, Scimitar - all in 1/48 of course... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Bunker Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) I'm all for a 1/72 scale VC-10. And whilst we are thinking big: Boeing 737 Wedgetail (RAAF, Turkey, South Korea) Boeing 737-700/BBJ (RAAF, USAF, USNand countless other air forces) Boeing P-8A Poseidon (USN, RAAF, Indian AF) Even Boeing 737-700 & -800 series airliners (whisper it quietly but with some clever toolmaking, all the above from one set of tools) Edited January 13, 2012 by Nigel Bunker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Ogilvie Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) Now that is something I'd sell part of the stash for! Especially as I got the dvd of Sailor for Christmas. Not the only one - surprised I haven't worn it out yet - it's been watched soo many times since Christmas... Utterly brilliant series. So - at risk of repeating myself (which I am ) - Ark Royal (the *proper* one) in 1:350 Now - 'if' they (or someone) did one - how major to convert to Eagle? 'Cos I'd prolly have to order two... Of course I'm more likely to end up with 14 days number 9's than I am a kit! Iain Edited January 13, 2012 by Iain (32SIG) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan11 Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 It's about time we had a decent Queen of the Skies - VC10 of course - any variant, any scale ---- PLEASE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godders Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) I'm seconding the 1/48 RAF figures and the refuelling set. Too little of that sort of thing around. 1/72 VC-10 would also be very nice. But to be honest I'm just thrilled Airfix are retooling (very well) some of the old stuff!!!!!! The Beau and Blenheim would be a good start. Edited January 16, 2012 by godders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothian man Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 1/72 maritime stuff please ... 1/35 kits are nice but most are just too big. The RN X-craft (with XT training and Far East marks options please) and the Italian MAS boat and a PT boat spring to mind. As do some more of at least the smaller landing craft (LCA, LCT). Perhaps the X-craft kit could include a model of Holland 1 (as at the RN Submarine Museum?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothian man Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 I'm tremendously impressed with the Swordfish which is a superb combination of detail and assembleability (to coin a word) for the mass market, not least in the surface detailing. Which to my mind is especially interesting as thoughts ought to be turning to the implications of the coming years 2014-19, being as any fule kno the anniversary of the Great War. I expect that some museums already are planning, and so will the TV stations. Marketing opportunity in oodles - especially given how much Hornby advertises its Airfix kits in BBC History and similar mags (bully for them). In terms of mainstream kits in 1/72, Airfix's preferred scale, WW1 aircraft are fairly well done by in terms of new kits by Eduard, Roden, Revell, etc., but not all are that easy to find in the shops, or to assemble (both important for the mass market) or to find decals for (with a few notable and merciful exceptions such as Pheon). So opportunities there? And there are some big gaps which have never been done at all in mainstream kit form to 1/72 as far as I know - FE.2, DH.9 anyone? Or a (small scale) WW1 Zeppelin? While other places are held by excellent Airfix kits now currently out of production (Pup [outside the special set packaging], DH.4). And some Airfix kits could, I'd suggest politely, do with retirement and replacement following the excellent precedent of the Swordfish - Camel, RE.8 spring to mind, not all paralleled by other makers. On the vehicle and artillery front, things are, in my opinion, much patchier in quality and range, such that the old Airfix rhomboid tank is still one of the best kits around. It's probably too much to hope for Airfix to do any in 1/35 - just not their scale. Tamiya do rivety things very well in that scale so one can but hope. Wonder about the ships too. 1/350 and 1/700 are beginning to see Jutland dreadnoughts from several mainstream makers even for the poor old RN (neglected hitherto in favour of the High Seas Fleet), but whether Airfix feel able to do more than reissue the 1/600 Iron Duke remains to be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Vor!!! Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 small request avro anson retooled?????????????????? hudson as well thats all bye dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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