DH-88 Comet, 1:72?

snipped-for-privacy@chello.se (Marcus) wrote in :

Thank you, Harro! Perfect!

/Marcus

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It's a little primitive what with the pilot's head moulded in with the fuselage halves but I wouldn't let that stop you.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Frog did a later, rather better, kit of the DH88. It was re-issued by NOVO and still turns up from time to time. It would be worth looking out for as an alternative to the Airfix kit.

Gordon McLaughlin

Really? Interesting... The more detailed, the better!

Do you know where I should look? E-bay and such, or does

Thanks so much for your help!

/Marcus

"Gordon McLaughlin" skrev i meddelandet news:41545905@212.67.96.135...

I believe there is also a resin kit floating around that would probably have even better detail.Perhaps a google search might find it?

I think E-Bay is more likely. I had a look at LHShop web site and I doubt if they would have it in stock! They do have the Airfix kit and some decals for it. Go to

I don't know what happened to the Novo moulds but Eastern Express have re-issued some of the kits. I don't know if they have the DH-88.

Try advertising in the classified advertisements in aircraft modelling magazines or ask if anyone in this newsgroup has one. Try other Internet modelling groups such as the Yahoo groups.

Gordon McLaughlin

Marcus - Just to give you a head's up, Air Lines also did the Frog-version of the Comet. You can try looking for that one as well.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Bunch of thanks guys!

I'm on the right path now! Thanks for the link:

/Marcus

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snipped-for-privacy@onetel.net.uk (Gordon McLaughlin) wrote in :

They stock some pretty esoteric stuff. They still have a pile of (ancient) Maintrack vacuforms, for example. But the search I listed earlier is everything they have under the "comet" name, so no luck there.

I must admit that I had never heard of LHShop until it was mentioned in this thread. I got the mistaken impression from a brief visit to their web site that they were some kind of airport gift shop that sold models! What do they actually stock as a rule?

Gordon McLaughlin

snipped-for-privacy@onetel.net.uk (Gordon McLaughlin) wrote in :

Click the 'info' link on the site for some photos. It's a huge shop. They stock books, those prebuilt models often used as corporate displays, flight simulator stuff (including complete cockpits), and scale models. They have some 21,000 scale model kits in stock (Hannants has 26,000), ranging from the entire product ranges of the big ones (Revell, Hasegawa, Trumpeter etc) to obscure stuff (resin cockpit sets, old Russian kits, etc.).

I'll admit I'm biased (living in .nl and all that), but I haven't had to order kits from abroad yet.

Marcus,

Take a look at

Dave Rogers

Thanks man! Excellent! I placed an order on it, the NOVO-model - it will be exciting to see. Hopefully it will be something like the one Michael Johnson mentioned in his Airfix review

/Marcus

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Thanks for the information.

I don't buy much by mail order these days, apart from second hand books, so I'm not well acquainted with the suppliers. Even so, I'm surprised that I had never heard of a store operating on such a large scale. No wonder you haven't had to buy from elsewhere! I wonder how many other modellers were aware of it.

Gordon McLaughlin

Fun review:

tidy up seam and remainder of torso with >wet n dry paint area black

Gotta like that; no AMS! Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)