Airfix 1/48th scale Bf109E in stock at Airfix.com!

[John]

http://www.airfix.com/airfix-products/new-...t-bf109-a05120/

Mine is pre-ordered!

John

Edited June 10, 2010 by John

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Wooohooooooooooooooo!!!!

[The wooksta V2.0]

This is fine if you like targets. Where's the all new 72nd Spitfire MkIa? That's what I want to know, although my Bank Manager hopes it'll be some distance in the future!

Seriously though, great news and one which should spit in the eye of all the anti-Airfix naysayers on here.

Edited June 8, 2010 by The wooksta V2.0

[FalkeEins]

great news and one which should spit in the eye of all the anti-Airfix naysayers on here.

..neat word-play

we can but hope....unfortunately for Airfix, other companies - Eduard Zvezda and Trumpeter - have all produced fantastic 109s this year, Airfix will have to do something special to make any sort of impression..

[Enzo the Magnificent]

..neat word-play

we can but hope....unfortunately for Airfix, other companies - Eduard Zvezda and Trumpeter - have all produced fantastic 109s this year, Airfix will have to do something special to make any sort of impression..

Eduard's 109s are in 1/32. Zvezda's 109 is a Friedrich rather than an Emil. As for Trumpeter, I've been bitten too many times by them.

[FalkeEins]

...sure. I'm sitting drooling over all three boxes right now. I'm thinking that aficionados like myself might be 109ed-out at the moment....Let's hope Airfix can make an impression with their 48th scale Emil

Edited June 8, 2010 by FalkeEins

[thx6667]

we can but hope....unfortunately for Airfix, other companies - Eduard Zvezda and Trumpeter - have all produced fantastic 109s this year, Airfix will have to do something special to make any sort of impression..

How about... separate slats, flaps, rudder and control surfaces, one-piece upper and lower cowl, engine, different canopies, separate gun bulges and leading edge inserts, optional bombs and racks, drop tank, alternative spinners, bulged wheels, tropical filter... in fact everything you'd need in one box to make any Me 109 variant from an E-1 right the way through to an E-7 trop for £13.99?

[Heraldcoupe]

I really was impressed by the Airfix Bf-109E sprues at Yeovilton. Some of their recent offerings have been a bit coarse, but this shows some real finesse. Whether it's accuracy will stand up to close scrutiny I can't say, but it certainly shows promise.

Cheers,

Bill.

[FalkeEins]

..thanks Jonathan - I've got three on order. Just finishing off a Tamiya 48th Emil - surely the 'best' mass-produced kit ever manufactured - and I'll be building one of these Airfix Emils as soon as.

Edited June 8, 2010 by FalkeEins

[Heraldcoupe]

Just finishing off a Tamiya 48th Emil - surely the 'best' mass-produced kit ever manufactured

Now there's a subject for debate....

Cheers,

Bill.

[Enzo the Magnificent]

...sure. I'm sitting drooling over all three boxes right now. I'm thinking that aficionados like myself might be 109ed-out at the moment....Let's hope Airfix can make an impression with their 48th scale Emil

On my return to aircraft modelling six years ago, I built nine 109s. I thought I had got them out of my system. But no... I am currently building a Tamiya 1/48 109E and a Unimodel 1/48 109G at the moment. I have every intention of building the Airfix kit as soon as I can lay my sticky paws on one and there will be another one - converted to a 109D using Alley Cat's hopefully forthcoming conversion kit - for the Blitzkrieg GB.

[jenko]

If this 109 is as good as they say can I make emil of it???

I'll get my

Dick

[IanC]

If this 109 is as good as they say can I make emil of it???

I'll get my

Dick

If it's one in emil-lion, I'm sure you can..

+1

Ian

[jenko]

If it's one in emil-lion, I'm sure you can..

+1

Ian

Better do emil-itary one then.

+2

Dick

[John]

I've had an email from Wonderland Models saying mine has been dispatched. I'm not that much of a Luftwaffe fan but I'm really looking forward to this one - the last 1/48th scale Bf109 I build was the Hasegawa E-3 when it was released, about 1987? I remember mounting it on a base with a Monogram Me262 pilot figure.

John

[is it windy yet?]

I really was impressed by the Airfix Bf-109E sprues at Yeovilton. Some of their recent offerings have been a bit coarse, but this shows some real finesse. Whether it's accuracy will stand up to close scrutiny I can't say, but it certainly shows promise.

Cheers,

Bill.

That will really be the key for me, the finesse. I can live with minor accuracy errors. But it better look the part, and look like something tooled in the 21st century. Otherwise I'll keep shopping at any price.

[davidelvy]

..neat word-play

Airfix will have to do something special to make any sort of impression..

They will have two major advantages - price and (in the UK) distribution. Not seen many Eduard kits in the newsagents.

[jenko]

They will have two major advantages - price and (in the UK) distribution. Not seen many Eduard kits in the newsagents.

When we knock Airfix from time to time, the above two sentences should be ringing in our ears.

This is one of the most truest comments I have seen on BB.

Dick

[BAC]

There's a couple of built pictures on the Airfix website....

http://www.airfix.com/airfix-products/new-...-bf109e-a05120/

[Nick Millman]

Of course it won't be accurate - well not after its been available for a few weeks anyway.

At first there will be the frisson of excitement and the jumping on the bandwagon to buy them, then the first nagging doubts of disappointment because this or that is wrong, or doesn't look right, or is too long or too short, then the online arguments between the micrometer and/or Luftwaffe experten brigades and the "it looks like a 109" and/or "Airfix can do no wrong" brigades , then the resin aftermarket corrections will appear, some of them no doubt identical to the kit parts but made of resin instead of plastic. Then as the cost of resin correction is totted up and compared to the rival kits the real recriminations will begin . . .

Some kits last a few months or even years before being relegated.

[Don Flynn]

I've one in the pipeline, plan on a comparision build between it and the Tamiya Emil (my prefered Emil 1/48th scale) to see what the deal is.

I know all the faults the Tamiya kit has so we'll go from there

[Stephen]

I know all the faults the Tamiya kit has so we'll go from there

A Tamiya kit with faults,that's heresy,heresy I say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen

[dragonlanceHR]

I know all the faults the Tamiya kit has so we'll go from there

Could you PM me on those - IIRC on the E-4 release, they fixed all but the anemic prop?

TIA

Vedran

[Richard M]

First look in-box review on the ATF with some sprue shots;

http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/about19650.html

Best

Rich

[John]

Very fast service from Wonderland Models! Here's the box, featuring a BoB Anniversary sticker:

2 sprues of light grey plastic:

3 spinners:

Separate wheel hubs:

Engraving on wing and fuselage:

Transparencies - still bagged. 2 canopies and rear sections, 4 windscreens:

Decals, small but look to be perfectly formed:

Painting guides:

Parts map - a first in an Airfix kit?

Sample page from instructions:

John

Edited June 13, 2010 by John