New Airfix kits for 2004

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Nick Willis 22 years ago

Just thought I'd let you know some news for 2004 from Airfix:-

They are to re-box the 1/35 British Challenger II from Trumpeter, its already in the UK and will be released this month, they are also to re-box the Italeri DUKW and M1A2 Abrams

New tools from Airfix are 1/72 Concorde which comes with a DVD and other presentation goodies. 1/72 Willy's Jeep, GMC Truck and a Landing Craft. Final new tooling is a 1/600 Queen Mary 2 again with a DVD and other stuff.

They are to re-box 1/72 Kitech Apache and Sea Cobra.

Re-releases include 1/32 Alfa Romeo, Bugatti and Bentley plus 1/72 Auster Antarctic and Avro 504K

Hope this is of interest

Regards

Nick

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Jim Atkins 22 years ago

Good Gravy! Just how much money am I going to have to hide from SWMBO to get a 1/72 Concorde? That should be one basically unhideable box, too.

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Greg Heilers 22 years ago

"SWMBO"?

By chance, are you a faithful listener of a certain Atlanta-based radio personality?

:o)

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Darren 22 years ago

Re-Boxing Kitech kits? Oh how the mighty have fallen, Still I`ll most likely buy the rest though.

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John Walker 22 years ago

Not the Italeri kits then? Airfix have reboxed a lot of these in the past few years.

John

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Roger Demming 22 years ago

SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed (your wife in other words).

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Roger Demming 22 years ago

Airfix used to have their own boxing og the DUKW years ago. I remember building it.

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TSR2 22 years ago

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John Walker 22 years ago

English??? Leo McKern was an Australian! If he wasn't dead already the shock of this might have been enough to kill him!

John

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The shuffling Shambling Zombiefied corpse of estarriol 22 years ago

unprecedented

This is true but he played a character written by John Mortimer who is decidedly English.

-- estarriol

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Moramarth 22 years ago

In article , Roger Demming writes

Originally one of the native titles for the immortal Ayshea, shortened to give the title of the first novel in which she appeared: H. Rider Haggard's "She".

Regards,

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Nick Willis 22 years ago

They are in fact Kitech re-boxes (£8.99 retail!), straight from the horses mouth. I had a meeting with Airfix on Friday. They're also doing a D-Day set for £29.99 including 10 models (aircraft, military vehicles) and the Gun Emplacement, seems good value. Apparently they've spent £750k on new tooling this year.

The whole Heller catalogue will be available in the UK this year as well.

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Nick

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John Walker 22 years ago

Very interesting, but who on earth are Kitech?

John

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Roger Demming 22 years ago

See here

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but I'm still none the wiser.

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e 22 years ago

beats the hell out of that SO pc crap. (signifigant other my ass.)

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Greg Heilers 22 years ago

Right....I was just asking, since (in this area, at least), it is such a seldom-heard expression, but the afore-mentioned radio personality (

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), uses it frequently. I was wondering if it had any effect on the public lexicon....

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Andrew Fraser 22 years ago

[SNIP]

I think you'll find that Kitech used to call themselves Zhengdhefu

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Eyeball2002308 22 years ago

so what you're saying is,as bad as most people say old airfix kits are,they are gems in comparison?

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Rob Grinberg 22 years ago

Hear, hear. Although most Septics seem to think that culture is something you find in yoghurt....

RobG (the Aussie one)

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Rob Grinberg 22 years ago

Now that's a VERY scary thought....the mighty have indeed fallen.

RobG (the Aussie one)

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