JamesP Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Well as I lucky owner of the Planet Models kit Iām annoyed that every Tom Dick and Harry will be able to get an SRA1 š 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Now someone photocopy it on 150% so I can have one in 1:48 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phas3e Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Always thought this was a cool design and I would probably build one in the prototype markings, I cant help but think one in Far East FAA colours and markings would work really well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Another kit I'm going to have to accidentally order... Ā Cheers, Bill 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 As others said, nice left field subject and I'll probably get one. Ā Cheers, Ā Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Anyone noticed Hannets sem to have a time machine. The have 40+ in stock of each and they were delivered on 30/9/2022. Either a time machine or Ihave seriously overslept and lost 5 days of my holiday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Paul821 said: Anyone noticed Hannets sem to have a time machine. The have 40+ in stock of each and they were delivered on 30/9/2022. Either a time machine or Ihave seriously overslept and lost 5 days of my holiday. Ā Funny that: I ordered mine yesterday and it arrived six months ago... 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 9 minutes ago, Sabrejet said: Ā Funny that: I ordered mine yesterday and it arrived six months ago... Let's do the time warp again.Ā Ā Ā 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I haven't ordered mine yet but I expect it last week. Ā 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 This one wrong footed me, that's for sure. I wasn't quite sure what I thought about this last night having had several White Russians while on holiday and there being no kit available of a Venom NF.3 but, having slept on it I think I'm going to have to have one (stash reduction policy not withstanding) being as my build theme is British and Commonwealth aviation (in a vain attempt to keep the stash within manageable limits) with the odd Mirage III and century series fighter thrown in.Ā Ā I am slowly building up an 'experimentals hanger' which, as it happens, includes my only other Saunders Roe kit to date, that being AZ's SR.53. I wonder whether Xtrakit will produce further experimental or prototype kits. After the apparent demise of Olimp I for one would be welcome such a development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denford Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Now that's an interesting thought. I'm told that Airfix can't 'rebox the SR53 as it won't fit their current Series 1 boxing. Perhaps Xtrakit could oblige ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Denford said: Now that's an interesting thought. I'm told that Airfix can't 'rebox the SR53 as it won't fit their current Series 1 boxing. Perhaps Xtrakit could oblige ..... The AZ SR.53 is quite a nice kit and still available in what-if boxings. I had a slight issue with fitting the canopy which I never quite resolved to my satisfaction.Ā Ā It would be great if Xtrakit expanded their range in to more experimentals though,Ā seeing as most post-War British operational types are, more or less, catered for. The Bristol 188 was pretty spectacular after all. Anyway it's good to see Xtrakit back in business. I think I bought all their original releases bar the Hunter T.7 and Sea Harrier FA.2; several of the Meteor F.8s in fact. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Denford said: I'm told that Airfix can't 'rebox the SR53 as it won't fit their current Series 1 boxing. That did not stop Airfix when the moved from polybags to blister packs some fairly small models, like the Brewster Buffalo moved into series two, SO they just need to update the decal's, and perhaps learn from Hannants and add a whiff scheme, even series three would be cheaper that the Xxtraket SRA-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Ranger Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 19 hours ago, JamesP said: Well as I lucky owner of the Planet Models kit Iām annoyed that every Tom Dick and Harry will be able to get an SRA1 š My sentiments exactly! Although Iāll probably spring for one of the Xtrakits (prototype). The āwaterlineā option is too good to pass up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 10 hours ago, Hook said: Let's do the time warp again.Ā Ā Ā Itās just a part on the left, and part on the right, put some glue on the lips and clamp the two parts tightā¦ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt-92 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 19 minutes ago, TEXANTOMCAT said: clamp the two parts tightā¦ Damn. Stuck in the middle again... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, alt-92 said: Damn. Stuck in the middle again... š well played sir. Well played šš 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LN-KEH Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Looks like one to pick up when I visit London and Hannants next weekend. Ā I have seen the survivor in Solent Sky and remember Eric Brown telling about the test flight that almost killed him. A nice What-If for air forces with thousand lakes or sheltered fjords to land on. Maybe someone can make a goodĀ XF2Y-1 Sea Dart to keep it company. Ā Thanks to Sword and Hannants for thinking outside of the box. Ā 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWFK10 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 18 hours ago, Denford said: Now that's an interesting thought. I'm told that Airfix can't 'rebox the SR53 as it won't fit their current Series 1 boxing. Perhaps Xtrakit could oblige ..... Airfix don't have the tooling any more. As Paul821 has said, when Airfix changed their Series 1 packaging from polybags to blister packs 50 years ago they bumped some kits that wouldn't fit in the latter up to Series 2 and put them in a box. Arthur Ward quotes meeting minutes from November 1972 in his Airfix: Celebrating 50 years of the Greatest Plastic Kits in the World in which it was suggested that the price increase on these kits could be compensated for by including extra detail, such as underwing stores (which in the event wasn't done).Ā However they decided to drop the SR.53 and the P1127 from the range on the grounds thatĀ "little can be done with these, the aircraft being experimental only". When Arthur wrote his book in 1999 he said that Airfix still had the moulds for both these kits, and the P1127 was re-released the following year but the SR.53 has never been seen again and it now seems likely that the tooling has been scrapped. There was an Eastern European kit which I'd always assumed was produced from the Airfix moulds but Scalemates tells me I was wrong. Ā Incidentally, Airfix did some more "bumping up" in the late 1970s when they re-released kits that had been rotated out of the range. Some but not all of this was due to the return of Series 1 kits that hadn't had a production run since the start of the blister pack era (e.g. the RE8) but not all. For instance their Battle had always been a Series 2 kit but since 1979 it's been in Series 3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Quote There was an Eastern European kit which I'd always assumed was produced from the Airfix moulds butĀ ScalematesĀ tells me I was wrong. Ā There was indeed, I have one, it was produced by Ursus, reboxed in Poland...definitely the Airfix moulds. Ā 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Humm Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, general melchett said: Ā There was indeed, I have one, it was produced by Ursus, reboxed in Poland...definitely the Airfix moulds. Ā Ā No, it was a copy of the Airfix moulds. There were also pirate copies of the Airfix HMS Cossack, Westland Whirlwind helicopter, MiG-15 and Fairey Rotodyne made in Poland around the same time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Sorry, I meant a copy, based on the Airfix moulds, and a rough one at that, seems it was reissued by Astra Models in 1994 and again by Aerodrom in 2001.Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Has anyone received on yet? I ordered Saturday but the big H says my order hasn't been updated since then; no reply to 3 emails today and their phones don't answer. All very strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piotr Mikolajski Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 2 hours ago, general melchett said: Sorry, I meant a copy, based on the Airfix moulds, and a rough one at that Ā I bought this kit in the '80s, it wasn't bad TBH. Certainly better quality than kits from old Frog moulds tortured in the Soviet Union.Ā But "pretty good" 40 years ago today will just be very poor, reference points have changed over that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 34 minutes ago, Sabrejet said: Has anyone received on yet? I ordered Saturday but the big H says my order hasn't been updated since then; no reply to 3 emails today and their phones don't answer. All very strange... I spoke to the Hendon shop not long ago because I couldn't get through to the main shop (I had a Q about my account coz I couldn't change my card details on line) and a polite but very frustrated chap at the other end of the line said that the main shop doesn't answer the phone. Seems he'd received quite a lot of calls about this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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