Bjorn Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/new-for-2021/de-havilland-mosquito.html Edited August 17, 2021 by Bjorn 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Two-stage Mossie. Finally. I can die in peace now... 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Schilhart Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 We have been waiting long time for a new mould Mosquito! A most welcome release. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
occa Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 hour ago, caughtinthemiddle said: Poor Special Hobby, they've been working on 2-stage Mossie family for a while... I think they held it back cause they learned Airfix would do it. 1 hour ago, alt-92 said: Two-stage Mossie. Finally. I can die in peace now... But not before you build a load of them 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I wonder if the moulds will have provision for a fighter version? If not still leaves SH or AZ space for one. Given that we have seen much about the Czech projects makes me think they have been on the back burner, after all there are so many 109s to do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modelraynz Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 First I was like "but muh Tamiya..." then noticed its a 2 stage 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franky boy Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Well done Airfix. This is long overdue in any scale. I think I’m going to need some overtime with this years kit announcements! James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Alan Bardell Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 At last!! put me down for two or more. Thanks Airfix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Good morning This is the SH announcement in 2017 But they have not given any new information on this project for several months , on the other hand they released a 109 without having announced it before ... Patrice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Another splendid choice! It'll save me from butchering my Tamiya one I discovered have in my stash and replacing the engines with the Pavla Resin 2-stagers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oz rb fan Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 now how hard is it to make a PRxvi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 11 minutes ago, Rabbit Leader said: I was just about to say the same thing and personally would rather an Airfix kit than one from SH. I would agree if accuracy and availability are the most important aspects, as today Airfix kits are guaranteed to be pretty accurate (at least in the shape of the main parts) and they are easily available in many shops (except here in Italy...) while not all SH kits have been accurate and they are not a brand that can be found easily everywhere. However when it comes to other aspects I feel that the most recent Special Hobby kits are of a higher quality than what Airfix is producing, with finer moulds and better detail. Said that, since Airfix wil issue this subject for sure while SH may or may not, there's no choice anyway, it's Airfix or nothing. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric B. Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, Giorgio N said: I would agree if accuracy and availability are the most important aspects, as today Airfix kits are guaranteed to be pretty accurate (at least in the shape of the main parts) and they are easily available in many shops (except here in Italy...) while not all SH kits have been accurate and they are not a brand that can be found easily everywhere. However when it comes to other aspects I feel that the most recent Special Hobby kits are of a higher quality than what Airfix is producing, with finer moulds and better detail. Said that, since Airfix wil issue this subject for sure while SH may or may not, there's no choice anyway, it's Airfix or nothing. Hello, I am 100% on par with you - same exact words... Eric B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 13 minutes ago, lasermonkey said: If Airfix are only doing the bomber/reconnaissance versions (we don't know for sure yet) then SH could always do the fighter versions, thereby complementing rather than competing. That might make sense. Good afternoon I might be wrong but seeing at the last Airfix kits I think that they are just the doing the Bomber /Reconnaissance version .. And SH could do the fighter versions once they have finished with 109 kits (that are completeley unecessary for me ).. Patrice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas V. Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Czech market alone being one of the biggest in Europe plenty of market for both Airfix and SH, given how Beaufort looks would prefer SH to Airfix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Praise be! Thanks to my frequent whinning about their being no two-stage Mosquito in 1/72 on Britmodeller Airfix have seen the light. Seriously though this was THE one I wanted to hear was coming. Fantastic news. So many schemes as well. I would reckon a PR XVI boxing will follow. I had to frantically scramble around to check whether it was going to be 1/72 or 1/48 as it doesn't say on the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 2 hours ago, oz rb fan said: now how hard is it to make a PRxvi? Easy. Really just the canopy and camera ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._571_Squadron_RAF Nice colour photo of ML963 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcanicity Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Excellent news, very glad they decided not to overlap with Tamiya and went for the two-stage variant instead. ML957 straight out the box for me, maybe with a 4000lb cookie! Interior CAD seems to suggest they got the later radio fit including the GEE control box behind the pilot's seat which is encouraging 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 It does go to show that Airfix will produce a smaller scale model of something they have done in a larger scale, even if it is a different variation. Gives us hope for a new Javelin or Chippie sometime in the future (maybe!). Ray the ever hopeful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I suspect that you could, but most of them are indeed just history. What you have to consider is the policies of the current company, and the way they split their models between the scales. Outside the inevitable iconics, and only a few of those, they have not downscaled a number of the more tempting subjects that they've done in 1/48 nor upscaled terribly many (but I wouldn't really know...). The 2021 1/72 Mosquito isn't a Mk.VI. Thankfully! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 So not Tamiya (as I was thinking about) but Airfix decided to go with two stage Mossie! Great news! J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Already thumbing through my references........ Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Vulcanicity said: Excellent news, very glad they decided not to overlap with Tamiya and went for the two-stage variant instead. ML957 straight out the box for me, maybe with a 4000lb cookie! Interior CAD seems to suggest they got the later radio fit including the GEE control box behind the pilot's seat which is encouraging I was looking at that and thinking how awkward it must have been for the navigator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 2 hours ago, TEXANTOMCAT said: #2 for the 72nd Chippie - and I hope either they rebox the Mossie as a TT.35 or the AM come to the rescue! TT Absolutely. The IWM's TT.35 looks great and I have a bit of a thing for wartime types that went on in to the Post-War period. I'm sticking my neck out here but all the two stage bomber and recce types are pretty similar externally as far as I know. It's one of the reasons I was so hoping this kit was going to happen. It remains to be seen how they engineer the bomb bay and whether it can be contructed as a standard rather than bulged, or as a PR camera bay. Those PR Mossies in PRU Blue are extremely appealing. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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