Having looked at the Hannants site, I see that the re-issues of the Airfix Gloster Gladiator and TBD-1 Devastator are at No 5 and No 10 in the charts respectively.
These moulds must be 40 years old. I doubt if they have been modified in any way whatsoever, yet here they are as some of the most popular buys. I must admit that I wouldn't mind buyng these two kits again.
If Airfix simply re-pop 40 year old kits without any modification and we modellers simply go ahead and buy them, are we acting as our own worst enemy? There is no incentive for Airfix to improve the moulds or maybe make a new tool. On the other hand, if we *don't* buy these kits, in an attempt to force Airfix to re-tool them, are we in danger of sending Airfix into receivership again?
Please note that I am not complaining about Airfix re-popping old kits. I'd rather have an Airfix doing that than no Airfix at all. And I'm pretty certain that I'm going to buy that TBD kit. It's a quarter of the price of the equivalent Valom kits. Okay, so it's going to need a lot of work, but I'm supposed to be a modeller...