Giorgio N Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I'd like a Vc They've got the fuselage, just need the new wing. Add my vote ! The Vc is a very important subvariant, served in every theatre with many interesting colour schemes and markings, yet we've had plenty of mainstream Vbs and only a crude attempt at a Vc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Add my vote ! The Vc is a very important subvariant, served in every theatre with many interesting colour schemes and markings, yet we've had plenty of mainstream Vbs and only a crude attempt at a Vc. Are you forgetting the Special Hobby Vc? I know it takes a bit of care, but I wouldn't call it "crude". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Are you forgetting the Special Hobby Vc? I know it takes a bit of care, but I wouldn't call it "crude". For some reason I still consider Special Hobby to be not a "mainstream" manufacturer. And maybe I'm wrong, as the spitifire Vc has the feel of a mainstream product more than of a short run and some MPM/SH kits have been happily reboxed by the likes of italeri and revell. Same for 1/72 where Sword has a beautiful kit, that some consider the very best 1/72 spitfire, but again it's a short run kit. True that these short run kits are not more difficult to build than many older mainstream kits that still get reboxed today ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominikS Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 I hope for Spits Vc, Griffon fighter Spitfires and some Seafires and Spitfires Mk.I/IIb (there's the fuselage only new wings are needed) and maybe Hurricane Mk.I, Defiant, Whirlwind, new Battle and Curtiss Hawk 75 - all in 72nd of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Did someone mention a MKXI? I think Airfix already have one! Well, you do have to cross kit the MKXIX and MKIX to get it but you have the bits left over for an Airfix MKXIV! Whats not to like! Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewerjerry Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I hope for............................ Whirlwind................ Hi Hopefully a nice 1/24 or 1/32 version. cheers Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Am I missing something here, yesterday, I was in WH Smiths checking on the latest model magazines, and there was an Airfix advert for Spitfires, the latest offering being an F22 in 1/72nd. Looking on the Airfix website there is an advert for an F22 Spitfire in 2 markings, one NMF and one camoflage, looked very nice, so nice that it is out of stock. Robin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Bunker Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 So nice that once again the ads came out before the product reached the shelves. What is the point in an advert when you can't get the product? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Am I missing something here, yesterday, I was in WH Smiths checking on the latest model magazines, and there was an Airfix advert for Spitfires, the latest offering being an F22 in 1/72nd. Looking on the Airfix website there is an advert for an F22 Spitfire in 2 markings, one NMF and one camoflage, looked very nice, so nice that it is out of stock.Robin. Don;t worry, it doesn't mean you've missed it. What you are missing, and to be fair the Airfix website is somewhat ambiguous in this regard, is that every new Airfix product first appears on the website as "out of stock" until the stock arrives from the Far East and they actually start selling them. It would be more customer friendly if they had an extra flag that said "Not yet in stock", to cover these situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 (edited) So nice that once again the ads came out before the product reached the shelves. What is the point in an advert when you can't get the product? You have to book advertising space many weeks in advance, long before you have the product in stock ready to send out, and you never know exactly when you are going to get the ship in, get it all through customs etc. People go to the website and put in their email addresses to be notified when it's in stock. Then Airfix gets a direct sale, and they also get their customers' email addresses. It is far better commercially for Airfix to generate demand in advance, and word of mouth, than to risk the product arriving before the advertising, which leaves a lot of expensive stock lying around on the shelves expanding their working capital requirement. Poor control of working capital is mostly what causes companies to go bust. Personally I think they ought to go one step further and accept advance orders. At the moment Amazon is taking all that business from them. Edited April 26, 2012 by Work In Progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lufbramatt Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Surely advertising something before it's released is pretty much the norm? You don't ever see adverts for films after they've been on at the cinema, and new cars are advertised way before you can actually buy them. Seems pretty sensible to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teenmodeller Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Personally, I am hoping for a 1/72 later mark Spitfire-possibly a clipped wing variant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Venables Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Airfix seem to be giving us a new Spitfire each year, so my question is what will come next (year)? I don't normally enter into speculative discussion/debate on topics like this but since they have replaced their Mk.I/Mk.II with a new kit, they have replaced their Mk.IX with a new kit and have offered late marks as new kits, I wouldn't be surprised if they do a new Mk.V... perhaps even a series of them: Mk.Va, Mk.Vb, Mk.Vb trop, Mk.Vc, etc. Or they may scale down their Mk.XII now that it has been well received and a good seller. My 2 bob's worth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenshirt Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 It's been posted before: their new Mk I/IIa kit has the bits for a Mk Va, easy to release with appropriate markings. I plan to use a spare set of markings from my AZmodel(?) Va. Just make a new sprue with wing and trop filter and they'd have the Vb; same with Vc but that might need a bit more work as it looks to be more different than just the wing, to me. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx6667 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 So nice that once again the ads came out before the product reached the shelves. What is the point in an advert when you can't get the product? To advertise it? Just like film trailers, TV "coming soon" spots and singles for albums that have yet to be released? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miggers Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I don't normally enter into speculative discussion/debate on topics like this but since they have replaced their Mk.I/Mk.II with a new kit, they have replaced their Mk.IX with a new kit and have offered late marks as new kits, I wouldn't be surprised if they do a new Mk.V... perhaps even a series of them: Mk.Va, Mk.Vb, Mk.Vb trop, Mk.Vc, etc.Or they may scale down their Mk.XII now that it has been well received and a good seller. My 2 bob's worth... IIRC,a new V series was announced when the new I/II was announced. Let's see the XII and Seafires XVII/F.46/47 scaled down to 1/72nd. Scaling down the XII and XVII would also open up the possibilities for cross-kitting to produce a Seafire XV,and if a new V is done,a Seafire III using the XVII wing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The wooksta V2.0 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 The F22 will be cross kit-able to a Seafire F46 with a new prop and the sting section of the rudder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DStewart Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 The F22 will be cross kit-able to a Seafire F46 with a new prop and the sting section of the rudder. Yes, it would, as has been pointed out to me elsewhere . . . Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The wooksta V2.0 Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 If you add a larger Spitfire FR18 rudder on the same srue, you'd have a neat F21 contraprop conversion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lufbramatt Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 doesn't a seafire 46 have folding wings though so the f22 wings wouldn't be right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs2man Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 doesn't a seafire 46 have folding wings though so the f22 wings wouldn't be right. No , only the 47 has folding wings . That's why the Airfix Seafire 46/47 kit has 2 sets of wings . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lufbramatt Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 ah i see makes much more sense now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizball Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 I do want a PR XIX (naturally as a Swedish S31) - am I correct in assuming there's never been a decent 1/48 kit of that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denford Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 If you add a larger Spitfire FR18 rudder on the same srue, you'd have a neat F21 contraprop conversion... Not quite: earlier correpondence on this site indicates that a slightly different rudder was used with contraprops. Be very careful with this as there are several photos of test installations made before the final configuration was decided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denford Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Yes, it would, as has been pointed out to me elsewhere . . .Stewart Not quite: there are some other essential changes which are frequently missed. Let's wait till the Airfix kit arrives, which by all accounts won't be long now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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