Airfix 2022 range launch

[tdm34]

https://uk.airfix.com/new-for-2022

New 24th Scale Spitfire MKIX launched Yesterday

https://uk.airfix.com/products/supermarine-spitfir...

Return of the Harrier GR1 in 24th

https://uk.airfix.com/products/hawker-siddeley-har...

New Buccaneer in 48th

https://uk.airfix.com/products/blackburn-buccaneer...

New Avro Anson in 48th

https://uk.airfix.com/products/avro-anson-mki-a091...

Updated Slatted wing F86F in 48th

https://uk.airfix.com/products/north-american-f-86...

Updated Spitfire XVIII in 48th

https://uk.airfix.com/products/supermarine-spitfir...

Meteor F8 in 72nd

https://uk.airfix.com/products/gloster-meteor-f8-a...

Plus a fair few re-releases, Live the Victor, Beaver, Linx and others

https://uk.airfix.com/shop/aircraft/military-aircr...

[dr_gn]

I wonder if the 1:43 E-Type is new-tool?

ETA if you pre-order kits from their website, do you pay when you order, or when they are in stock?

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 10th January 17:48

[robemcdonald]

The 1:48 Buc is £72.49!

Alternatively you could have the new Tamiya F-4 for £3 more.

It’s got to be good to justify that sort of price. None of the usual issues.

I know you pay your money and take your choice and that I will be labelled an Airfix hater.

I’m not. I buy most of their new kits, but let’s not kid ourselves. If Tamiya is top half of the premier league then Airfix are very much in a relegation battle.

I’m getting to the end of the new tool 1/48 Vampire and there are quite a few issues, worst of which is the fit of the top and bottom halves of the fuselage (but only on one side)



I’ve watched a few build videos and they all look like this.

Not good enough to demand a premium.

[dr_gn]

£24 for a 1:72 Meteor - ooof.

Go on then

[r159]

The 1/48 Tamiya f14 can be had for just over £70, Zoukei f4s for less, but there is no one else doing a Buc.

The Victor seems to be the same boxing from the first time around and is on Amazon for £60…I can’t see why it is more than the Vulcan direct from Airfix?

[dr_gn]

r159 said:

The 1/48 Tamiya f14 can be had for just over £70, Zoukei f4s for less, but there is no one else doing a Buc.

The Victor seems to be the same boxing from the first time around and is on Amazon for £60…I can’t see why it is more than the Vulcan direct from Airfix?

Victor and Vulcan are the same price on the Airfix website. Amazon prices are what they are.

[spitfire-ian]

dr_gn said:

I wonder if the 1:43 E-Type is new-tool?

ETA if you pre-order kits from their website, do you pay when you order, or when they are in stock?

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 10th January 17:48

When I pre-ordered the Victor from the Airfix website when it came out a few years back, I was only charged when it was sent out which was probably nearly a year later. Of course I’d forgotten about it by then!

It’s still sat on the shelf waiting to be built and looking at today’s price I’m quite glad I bought it when I did.

[Murph7355]

I had a 1/24 Harrier back in the 80s. Loved making that kit (my mum was less impressed as I ruined a favourite tablecloth during building it).

Also had the Hurricane. Loved that too.

[Eric Mc]

I have never built a 1/48 kit but I would be tempted by the 1/48 Anson.

[dr_gn]

spitfire-ian said:

dr_gn said:

I wonder if the 1:43 E-Type is new-tool?

ETA if you pre-order kits from their website, do you pay when you order, or when they are in stock?

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 10th January 17:48

When I pre-ordered the Victor from the Airfix website when it came out a few years back, I was only charged when it was sent out which was probably nearly a year later. Of course I’d forgotten about it by then!

It’s still sat on the shelf waiting to be built and looking at today’s price I’m quite glad I bought it when I did.

OK thanks. I've got an Airfix voucher, so I'll have to wait until everything I want is in stock, and get it in one go I guess.

[Tempest_5]

I'm horrified at the prices of kits these days. I know it's not been a cheap hobby for a while but they will just put new people off, especially if the quality is a bit iffy. I must have built at least 45 Tamiya kits by my calculation over the years. Not one has had issues going together. The same can't be said of Airfix. Some of their starter kits that my young children where given as presents would definitely put people off. It took my experience to make the kits go together well. The youngsters wouldn't have had a hope on their own.

Is the 1/24 Harrier a new moulding or are they just churning out the old one? I enjoyed building that kit when I was about 10. It was my main Xmas present from my parents and cost the princley sum of £7.49. Way beyond my pocket money in 1978. The Bank of England inflation calculator reckons it should be being sold for £44.00 based on the 1978 price. It's currently going for £96.00!

[r159]

Tempest_5 said:

I'm horrified at the prices of kits these days. I know it's not been a cheap hobby for a while but they will just put new people off, especially if the quality is a bit iffy. I must have built at least 45 Tamiya kits by my calculation over the years. Not one has had issues going together. The same can't be said of Airfix. Some of their starter kits that my young children where given as presents would definitely put people off. It took my experience to make the kits go together well. The youngsters wouldn't have had a hope on their own.

Is the 1/24 Harrier a new moulding or are they just churning out the old one? I enjoyed building that kit when I was about 10. It was my main Xmas present from my parents and cost the princley sum of £7.49. Way beyond my pocket money in 1978. The Bank of England inflation calculator reckons it should be being sold for £44.00 based on the 1978 price. It's currently going for £96.00!

I built the harrier well over 30 years ago, for some reason I still have the stores in a bag of Britains soldiers, no idea what happened to the rest of it.

Mind it’s better value than their Topgun f14, that kit is 45 years old and looks every day of it…

Edited by r159 on Tuesday 11th January 22:21

The new Spitfire does look nice though…

Edited by r159 on Tuesday 11th January 22:29

[Eric Mc]

Tempest_5 said:

I'm horrified at the prices of kits these days. I know it's not been a cheap hobby for a while but they will just put new people off, especially if the quality is a bit iffy. I must have built at least 45 Tamiya kits by my calculation over the years. Not one has had issues going together. The same can't be said of Airfix. Some of their starter kits that my young children where given as presents would definitely put people off. It took my experience to make the kits go together well. The youngsters wouldn't have had a hope on their own.

Is the 1/24 Harrier a new moulding or are they just churning out the old one? I enjoyed building that kit when I was about 10. It was my main Xmas present from my parents and cost the princley sum of £7.49. Way beyond my pocket money in 1978. The Bank of England inflation calculator reckons it should be being sold for £44.00 based on the 1978 price. It's currently going for £96.00!

The new Spitfire MkIX is a brand new tooling and has no link to the 50 old year old MkI/V tooling.

Regarding kit prices, my best example as to where they have gone is the price of the 1/12 scale Tamiya Ferrari 312B2, I bought one of these in 1975 for the princely sum of £8. The kit is still produced by Tamiya and now retails for around £150 to £200.

An Airfix Series 1 bagged kit in 1966 cost around 2/- or 2/6 (10p to 12p). A kit in Series 1 today is around £10.

[CanAm]

Eric Mc said:

The new Spitfire MkIX is a brand new tooling and has no link to the 50 old year old MkI/V tooling.

Regarding kit prices, my best example as to where they have gone is the price of the 1/12 scale Tamiya Ferrari 312B2, I bought one of these in 1975 for the princely sum of £8. The kit is still produced by Tamiya and now retails for around £150 to £200.

An Airfix Series 1 bagged kit in 1966 cost around 2/- or 2/6 (10p to 12p). A kit in Series 1 today is around £10.

Airfix list their current 1/72 Spitfire MkI at £8.99 compared with the original at 2 bob (10p) in 1959. Mind you, the current model has 3 times as many parts!

[CanAm]

dr_gn said:

I wonder if the 1:43 E-Type is new-tool?

ETA if you pre-order kits from their website, do you pay when you order, or when they are in stock?

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 10th January 17:48

Were these 1/43 cars the Heller ones? One picture of the E-type shows it clearly as lhd which does hint that it’s not a new tool.
I noticed they are doing the old 1/32 E-type at an exorbitant price as a starter kit. Whoever built it up for the catalogue has painted the metal hard top matt black, as though it were a soft top.

[dr_gn]

CanAm said:

dr_gn said:

I wonder if the 1:43 E-Type is new-tool?

ETA if you pre-order kits from their website, do you pay when you order, or when they are in stock?

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 10th January 17:48

Were these 1/43 cars the Heller ones? One picture of the E-type shows it clearly as lhd which does hint that it’s not a new tool.
I noticed they are doing the old 1/32 E-type at an exorbitant price as a starter kit. Whoever built it up for the catalogue has painted the metal hard top matt black, as though it were a soft top.

It is a new tool; Lufbramatt confirmed it on a different thread - it was scanned from a real car. Also, the box art isn't from the model CAD. Good job, because the side profile is all sorts of wrong in the side window area, same with the wheels.

[CanAm]

dr_gn said:

It is a new tool; Lufbramatt confirmed it on a different thread - it was scanned from a real car. Also, the box art isn't from the model CAD. Good job, because the side profile is all sorts of wrong in the side window area, same with the wheels.

Phew, that’s a relief, because the artwork in the 2022 range announcement is dreadful. And the model of the 1/32 car in the current catalogue is very poorly built. If I were looking for a model E-type I would have ignored Airfix, based on that publicity material.

[dr_gn]

CanAm said:

dr_gn said:

It is a new tool; Lufbramatt confirmed it on a different thread - it was scanned from a real car. Also, the box art isn't from the model CAD. Good job, because the side profile is all sorts of wrong in the side window area, same with the wheels.

Phew, that’s a relief, because the artwork in the 2022 range announcement is dreadful. And the model of the 1/32 car in the current catalogue is very poorly built. If I were looking for a model E-type I would have ignored Airfix, based on that publicity material.

I'm getting one - I'm intrigued to see how it looks in the flesh. Very few E-Type models get the shape right; if they're right in one place, they're invariably wrong in another. Even the latest Revell version doesn't look right.

[CanAm]

dr_gn said:

CanAm said:

dr_gn said:

It is a new tool; Lufbramatt confirmed it on a different thread - it was scanned from a real car. Also, the box art isn't from the model CAD. Good job, because the side profile is all sorts of wrong in the side window area, same with the wheels.

Phew, that’s a relief, because the artwork in the 2022 range announcement is dreadful. And the model of the 1/32 car in the current catalogue is very poorly built. If I were looking for a model E-type I would have ignored Airfix, based on that publicity material.

I'm getting one - I'm intrigued to see how it looks in the flesh. Very few E-Type models get the shape right; if they're right in one place, they're invariably wrong in another. Even the latest Revell version doesn't look right.

Excellent! Could we ask for an in the box review, and hopefully a full build when you have the time?

[dr_gn]

CanAm said:

dr_gn said:

CanAm said:

dr_gn said:

It is a new tool; Lufbramatt confirmed it on a different thread - it was scanned from a real car. Also, the box art isn't from the model CAD. Good job, because the side profile is all sorts of wrong in the side window area, same with the wheels.

Phew, that’s a relief, because the artwork in the 2022 range announcement is dreadful. And the model of the 1/32 car in the current catalogue is very poorly built. If I were looking for a model E-type I would have ignored Airfix, based on that publicity material.

I'm getting one - I'm intrigued to see how it looks in the flesh. Very few E-Type models get the shape right; if they're right in one place, they're invariably wrong in another. Even the latest Revell version doesn't look right.

Excellent! Could we ask for an in the box review, and hopefully a full build when you have the time?

I can do, but I need to get several other models direct from Airfix as well, all in one go. The 1:72 Meteor I fancy doesn't seem to be released until summer, so it will have to wait. I don't think 'in-box' reviews are much good TBH, most modern kits look great, and it's only when you try and build them that the problems start.

There was a video of the new E-Type released by Airfix just before Christmas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoL56XeZB4&t=...

Not sure if it featured a production model, but it must be said the quality of the paintwork and overall dust-covered finish did it no favours whatsoever. I'm surprised whoever is in charge of marketing let that one out of the door.