Britman Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Just noticed that 26 are selling what appear to be Roden Britannia's with 26 decals for a very good £22! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Yep, it's the Roden kit, I got half a dozen, excellent value.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skodadriver Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 Ray has been selling them for a few weeks now. I have Caledonian on order. I already have a couple of Roden Brits in the stash otherwise I'd have bought more. I see he's run out of MD11s and Tristars which is hardly surprising given his attractive prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky coffeeboat Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 The Roden Britannia is a great kit. I've got a few stashed away and have a couple in my basket with Ray. There's still a few marking options I'd like to see produced such as Lloyd International, Air Spain, Britannia Airlines (for a -100 series chop job) and British & Commonwealth Shipping Company, after watching this very enjoyable video - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Nice find there Pinky! A lot's changed since that was shot. It was a bit of an "in house" charter flight as Union Castle line was part of British & Commonwealth shipping group. Welsh Models do a 100 series Britannia Airways (got one) but I'd go for a set of British & Commonwealth decals @26Decals please Ray :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky coffeeboat Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 It was part of the "Look at Life" series of films made during the 50s and 60s. I've been watching all these quite a bit on YouTube. There are quite a few aviation related films as the novelty of air transport was still strong. Search for the stewardess film (nowadays called the genderless "flight attendant " - yuk) as it follows her on a trip to Bengazi with a Hunting-Clan Viscount. Quite old fashioned and innocent fun had by the crew on their day off!!! We need to petition Ray or anyone else to make us a set of B&C Shipping Company decals and the others to fill the Britannia gaps. The Roden kit is my current favourite model. Jeff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMB Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 (edited) On 4/8/2017 at 8:55 PM, pinky coffeeboat said: It was part of the "Look at Life" series of films made during the 50s and 60s. I've been watching all these quite a bit on YouTube. There are quite a few aviation related films as the novelty of air transport was still strong. Search for the stewardess film (nowadays called the genderless "flight attendant " - yuk) as it follows her on a trip to Bengazi with a Hunting-Clan Viscount. Quite old fashioned and innocent fun had by the crew on their day off!!! We need to petition Ray or anyone else to make us a set of B&C Shipping Company decals and the others to fill the Britannia gaps. The Roden kit is my current favourite model. Jeff I have the whole set on DVD - nice to watch on the big screen without watermark. " Ticket to Tokyo" is the first film in the 4-disc set on Look at Life's Volume 1 - Transport . The film about the 'stewardess' and the Hunting-Clan Viscount is called "Air Hostess" and is on the same disc. Lovely quality films full of nostalgia. Edited April 11, 2017 by AMB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jyguy Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 "Look at life" also produced a short film called the car has wings featuring a BUAF Carvair.The only blooper being the Rolls Royce dart soundtrack as the ATEL98 gets airborne! Back to 26 and the Britannia, I would like to see another Redcoat sheet this time for G-AOVS, The huge R on the fin being in a Red circle, perhaps including fictional "Redair titles" as worn by the aircraft for the BBC drama series Buccaneer.As already mentioned Air Spain would be a nice addition.I remember seeing One of their Brits at BigginHill after it had been purchased by IAS for spares use. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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