New Airfix kits for 2008

notice anything about that b-17 "e"?

Thanks for the post it was very informative but I'm afraind there are too many reboxings of items which should have been pensioned-off *decades* ago for my liking.

(kim)

Just how many "new" kits does Airfix release? For some reason this company reminds me of a company that is stuck with 30 year old inventory and just keeps rewrapping it in a new box...

Craig

Yeah, it's a 'G'. Either they have the wrong title up or the wrong illustration, as Academy did have an 'E' moulded.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

!/72 Canberras? Dammit! It's not like I don't have enough obsessions at the moment.

weren't some late f's equipped with the chin turret? i believe they took it from the failed gunships?

wonder if they'll have the super long pr wings? they really make an awesome looking plane.

No doubt someone will bring out a conversion kit.

Retro-fitted, as I recall. The 'G' was the first production model with the chin turret. And yes, the chin turret was adapted from the YB-40. It helped answer the problem of head-on Luftwaffe attacks.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

I noticed that the B-57B pictured there was really a 'G'. Maybe the kit will have optional parts.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

I'd never even heard of the Canberra before I saw one at Gaydon in 1968. That's mainly because Airfix didn't make one at the time. I found out much later that 'other' British company did but I tended to avoid them.

(kim)

I have a FROG B(I)8 kit in my Deep Stash. Original box and everything!

Best left in the box if my experience of trying to build a Frog kit is anything to go by.

(kim)

I also have a FROG Hunter FGA9 as well. Then there are numerous FROG kits in NOVO bags and boxes. I have a couple of Gannets, a couple of Typhoons, a Martin Baltimore and, if memory serves, a Miles Martinet.

I've thought about building one of the Gannets in parallel with the Trumpeter kit.

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Some great long lost friends in there. And to the Airfix and Frog bashers...send 'em to me! :)

ah so, thanks bill.i have a liking for that ac which started when i was 8, got one for a gift and started an endless chain of variety. so fa the biggest was the lindberg, but i have two 1/48s for the future. i want to build the sar version with the lifeboat.

hope so, enzo. i saw one scratched in scale modeler long ago. it was awesome.

and i'll take the lindbergs.

Which scale? I still want their 1/72s too ;)