Homebee Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) AVI Models is to relase a 1/72nd de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth kit - ref. AVI72011 Source: http://www.avimodels.com/index.php?id_product=34&controller=product&id_lang=2 V.P. Edited November 13, 2023 by Homebee 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Holden Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Great........and about time ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!! Will definitely get a couple. My fear is though, that prices are rocketing. Noticed the Dora WIngs Proctor family are now nearly 24quid from around 16!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Holden Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 6 hours ago, Paul J said: My fear is though, that prices are rocketing. Noticed the Dora WIngs Proctor family are now nearly 24quid from around 16!!!! Their new SM55 flying boat is £64 !!! Was expecting it to be about £45...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branky Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Who is pricing those kits in the UK??? In Holland the SM55 goes for around 50 euro and the Proctors for about 20.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 Test parts & test model Source: http://avimodels.com/7211/AVI7211.htm V.P. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Wonderful! I have their Fox and it will be on my bench soon- this will be very welcome too! TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Holden Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Looks like they've made made more of an effort with the fabric surfaces than their mediocre Fox Moth kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 (edited) Several boxing - ref. AVI72011 - de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth over Europe - http://avimodels.com/7211/AVI7211.htm - ref. AVI72013 - de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth over Asia - http://avimodels.com/7213/AVI7213.htm - ref. AVI72014 - de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth - Floating & Skiing - http://avimodels.com/7214/AVI7214.htm V.P. Edited February 24, 2020 by Homebee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Any news on this chaps? TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 On 5/6/2019 at 10:43 AM, Paul J said: Noticed the Dora WIngs Proctor family are now nearly 24quid from around 16!!!! Just double checking, but that's not the price difference between the 1/48 and 1/72 kits is it? I'm still seeing plenty of the 1/72 kits for around the £14 to £16 mark, and I'm just about to pick up the dual combo Mk III/Vega Gull set for £22 post free. The 1/48 kits appear to be in the £24 bracket. 2 hours ago, TEXANTOMCAT said: Any news on this chaps? Ditto! I'm up for a few of these. Looks like a nice kit. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 4 hours ago, fightersweep said: Just double checking, but that's not the price difference between the 1/48 and 1/72 kits is it? I'm still seeing plenty of the 1/72 kits for around the £14 to £16 mark, and I'm just about to pick up the dual combo Mk III/Vega Gull set for £22 post free. The 1/48 kits appear to be in the £24 bracket. Steve The current 1/72 Proctors are now the higher price. I picked one up at Middle wallop for £20..00 .The 48th ones I've seen are in the £40.00 bracket Take a look at the Hannants list. I expect the Puss moths in 72 will be the same as the Proctors But I will still have a couple though as an essential addition to my collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 6 minutes ago, Paul J said: The current 1/72 Proctors are now the higher price. I picked one up at Middle wallop for £20..00 .The 48th ones I've seen are in the £40.00 bracket Take a look at the Hannants list. I expect the Puss moths in 72 will be the same as the Proctors But I will still have a couple though as an essential addition to my collection Blimey! If that's that's the case, I'm sticking to eBay! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Holden Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 48 minutes ago, Paul J said: The current 1/72 Proctors are now the higher price. I picked one up at Middle wallop for £20..00 .The 48th ones I've seen are in the £40.00 bracket Take a look at the Hannants list. Dora Wings themselves were selling the 1/72 Proctors for £14 at Telford and also the SM-55 flying boat at £35 vs Hannants price of £64. Someone is being mightily ripped off. Not buying any of their kits from British suppliers in future..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 I see that you only get one fin and rudder. Early Puss Moths had the small unit and later aircraft had the taller unit. As the Puss is my all time favourite aeroplane I will be looking with interest. Hmm those wheels... John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyTiger66 Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Omega Models have had a nice 1/72 Puss Moth for sale for some years now. I remember at least one nice build on here nicely built and displayed in blue. They are resin and multimedia, which I realise is not everyone’s cup of tea. Meanwhile I’m beginning to like Resin and Vac Form more and more. The owner of the Omega business often has offers and if emailed direct, politely, will sometimes offer very good deals. The Puss Moth In 1/72 is €23. A great variety of boxings. It works out at about £19.60 at the moment direct from the Website. For some reason some resellers often triple or more his prices. So they sell none, but appear to blame him; yet he has always given me excellent service 🤷🏻♂️. I am beginning to doubt, in my lifetime, if anyone will produce a nice Leopard Moth in 1/72. I have been away from the hobby for a couple of years so anything I have missed: most appreciated. Omega have Vega Gulls and so on too, but yes, all resin. Best regards TonyT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Looks like this is slowly progressing... with the initial boxings slightly revised from Homebee's links above (which dont work now for some reason) - Three initial Pusses - Over Asia, In Commonwealth Service and Over Europe for which the schemes now seem to have been published: 143-AviModels_thickbox by Ben Brown, on Flickr The German machine is an interesting one, actuall I posted a profile of it on my RFI Fox Moth build - it was used as a glider tug and a mate recently bought it's dataplate off ebay from Germany! Come on AVI hurry up! TT Sources: Hannants - https://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?search=puss+moth AVI - http://www.avimodels.com/index.php?id_product=34&controller=product&id_lang=2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 On 12/19/2019 at 10:50 PM, John Aero said: Hmm those wheels... It is not a problem to replace wheels, but on this drawings wheels are big but on photos are much smaller However fast googling reveals one with bigger wheels So maybe it was easy-bush-landing modification of single machine? Cheers J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Holden Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 2 hours ago, JWM said: It is not a problem to replace wheels, but on this drawings wheels are big but on photos are much smaller However fast googling reveals one with bigger wheels So maybe it was easy-bush-landing modification of single machine? Cheers J-W Both types were used. The larger wheels with high-pressure tyres came first, but there was a general move to lower -pressure tyres on small wheels around 1931 for civil aircraft generally, which seems to have started in the US with tyre manufacturers like Goodyear and BF Goodrich. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Off the top of my head, I recall that the balloon type tyres are the same as on the Tiger and 19" overall diameter. The narrow tyres are larger overall dia but I will have to rummage to find the correct size. From memory I reckon that they are the same as on the early Gipsy Moth at 24 inch OD. I'm somewhat busy with a non aircraft project in 1 to 1 scale at present. John 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptmvarsityfan Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Looking forward to this, not greatly inspired by the initial schemes but the rendition of the blue GAAZP in the artwork looks gorgeous! Cheers, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Very many years ago I was at Old Warden when (I think it was AZP) landed 'Hot' as the A.S.I had failed. On chatting to the pilot it appeared the Pitot was blocked. On removing the rubber connecting tube we sought something to push down the head (in reverse) to unblock it. Fortunately I had a roll of thickish solder in the car toolbox. This worked beautifully and out came the offending objects.. Caterpillers.. John 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) First references announced: - ref. AVI72011 - de Havilland DH-80A Puss Moth "Over Europe" Source: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AVM72011 - ref. AVI72013 - de Havilland DH-80A Puss Moth "Over Asia" Source: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AVM72013 - ref. AVI72014 - de Havilland DH-80A Puss Moth "In Commonwealth Service" Source: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AVM72014 V.P. Edited April 9, 2020 by Homebee 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalea Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Markings announced so far are reminiscent of the Omega issues. I think you can expect more boxings, no Prince of Wales, no Amy Johnson yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimK Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 From Puss Moth entry on Wikipedia: "Most famous of the record breaking Puss Moths was Jim Mollison's G-ABXY, "The Heart's Content" which completed the first solo east-west Atlantic crossing in August 1932 from Portmarnock Strand near Dublin to New Brunswick, Canada and the first east-west crossing of the South Atlantic from Lympne Aerodrome to Natal, Brazil in February 1933. His wife, Amy Johnson, made record flights between England and Cape Town using G-ACAB, "Desert Cloud" in 1932." Tim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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