SleeperService Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 59 minutes ago, noelh said: Well I noted after clicking the coming soon link in the email from Airfix. This: https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/coming-soon/2018-airfix-catalogue.html Note the blank cover, which to me implies something as yet unannounced is to feature. But What? I still think Sopwith Camel perhaps as part of an RAF 100th special issue. Does anyone have a contact in the printer Airfix uses for their catalogue? 'Dozens of releases' please don't let this be marketing over-statement 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanC Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Dozens if you include new decal options for existing kits? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntPhillips Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 I'm sure the latest Airfix Club Magazine shows a picture of the catalogue inside the front cover, it seems to have the Typhoon, Spitfire and Camel, as featured in the recent Airfix ModelWorld 2028 calendar, as soon as I finish bedtime for Meg I'll post a pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albeback52 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 I don't read anything into the blank cover at all. No point in getting worked up into a frenzy of fevered anticipation.Remember the " big announcement" at Telford that never was? All because many assumed that, because of past practice, Airfix would do so again. There may or may not be anything as yet not announced. Airfix does have a propensity for springing surprises though. I'm not getting my hopes up. If I am wrong, it's a bonus. If I'm right and there is nothing to add to what we know, then I won't be disappointed because its what I expected. As for "dozens of releases", I think IanC is right. Perhaps it should really read "'dozens of re-releases"😉 Allan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhoenixII Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 17 hours ago, noelh said: Well I noted after clicking the coming soon link in the email from Airfix. This: https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/coming-soon/2018-airfix-catalogue.html Note the blank cover, which to me implies something as yet unannounced is to feature. But What? I still think Sopwith Camel perhaps as part of an RAF 100th special issue. Does anyone have a contact in the printer Airfix uses for their catalogue? If accurate, the displayed price of £6.99 means a series 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Gollin Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 . The blank/black cover is probably due to a coxk-up Hornby made with their catalogue tease. They posted a cover with a heavily pixelated painting of a train. Unfortunately, an eagle eyed poster identified the painting from a few bull rushes which hadn't been pixelated out in the extreme left hand corner !!! Hornby withdrew the cover and replaced it with a blank/black cover, obviously they don't trust airfix modellers not to repeat the trick. ( P.S. The Hornby cover showed a painting of a Southern Lord Nelson locomotive hauling the Night Ferry stock. ) . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 19 hours ago, The Tomohawk Kid said: My late Grandfather bought me an Airfix Concorde in BOAC livery and he died in 1972, therefore it was way before 1977. Thomo. Airfix released two Concorde kits. The first, which came in BOAC and Air France boxings was of the prototype aircraft. That was the one available when you got yours. The 1977 version represented the production aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 On 12/27/2017 at 10:20 PM, SeaVenom said: Yes it would probably be some company like Roden. Why Roden can bring out new airliners in 1/144th but Airfix can't I don't know though. Different market expectations and internal cost structure on creating new tooling probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 On 12/27/2017 at 12:29 AM, Radpoe Spitfire said: If your gonna chuck Me 262's in 1/24 - then there has to be a Meteor Mk1👌 Not a Mk.I: only 20 aircraft produced and only seeing service with 616 Sqn doesn't allow for many different marking options or other variations. The Mk.III would be a better choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 12 hours ago, Albeback52 said: Remember the " big announcement" at Telford that never was? All because many assumed that, because of past practice, Airfix would do so again. Actually the big announcement was mentioned in at least one workbench and somewhere else on the Airfix site. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albeback52 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 4 hours ago, PhoenixII said: If accurate, the displayed price of £6.99 means a series 1? Or, it's simply the price of the catalogue? Allan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 12 minutes ago, Albeback52 said: Or, it's simply the price of the catalogue? Allan That's what I think too! People are reading too much into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 29 minutes ago, Wez said: People are reading too much into it. It’s an Airfix thread. That’s the entire point..;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Just now, Plasto said: It’s an Airfix thread. That’s the entire point..;-) Silly me, I was forgetting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneman36 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 I still expect a Hampden in 1/48!! Despite what have been told to visitors at Telford that the y wouldn't do one..... They at least mentioned the project in Cosford in one of their blogs... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Wez said: Silly me, I was forgetting! Easy to do in Lucid moments. Just make a prediction that makes no commercial sense in any way and is entirely baseless and you’ll be back on track. Edited December 29, 2017 by Plasto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Plasto said: Easy to do in Lucid moments. Just make a prediction that makes no commercial sense in any way and is entirely baseless and you’ll be back on track. That's easy, Avro Manchester or Lincoln, phew! Obviously taking too much tonic with my gin! Edited December 29, 2017 by Wez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Good work... Types of little general appeal beyond the enthusiast market and with absolutely no evidence Airfix Are even considering them in any way. Spot on. Continue to Speculate freely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 6 minutes ago, Plasto said: Good work... Types of little general appeal beyond the enthusiast market and with absolutely no evidence Airfix Are even considering them in any way. Spot on. Continue to Speculate freely. Thanks for rescuing me, I was in danger of being sensible... ...almost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 No thanks needed... I’m interested in seeing how many pages this thread gets to before the announcement on the 9th. With the holidays and a paucity of actual fact it’s got a life of its own... Sense, fact and reality are the scourge of an expansive thread full of hopes, dreams and down right craziness. Let the Seasonal Guess-A-Thon continue Un-encumbered.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradleygolding Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Another Airfix workbench deadline missed, I notice. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 8 minutes ago, bradleygolding said: Another Airfix workbench deadline missed, I notice. Steve Yes this clearly signifies they plan to announce a 1/48 Supermarine Scimitar and a 1/24 New tool Spitfire Mk 1 and Sopwith Camel.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albeback52 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 I wonder how many people will get the hump when the Sopwith Camel fails to materialise? Allan 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 19 minutes ago, Albeback52 said: I wonder how many people will get the hump when the Sopwith Camel fails to materialise? Allan I'll get your coat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasto Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 1 hour ago, Albeback52 said: I wonder how many people will get the hump when the Sopwith Camel fails to materialise? If it doesn’t appear then it solves a couple of perennial Airfix thread issues it cannot be the ‘wrong’ scale nor too expensive. In fact the more I think of if the best way for Hornby to please everyone is to release nothing... The problem is Tamiya do nothing so well and with much more detail and better fit. However as the adage goes Tamiya’s nothing makes no money for Airfix... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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