Airfix scale model kits
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Well I've finally(!) got around to finishing a kit, a rare event sadly! Bought a new compressor and dual action air brushes which helped! This is the new tool Airfix kit. Needless to say a great kit from Airfix and so well priced. In [...]
Here are a few pictures of the all new Airfix 1:48 scale Defiant which I have built for Airfix Modelworld Magazine and is featured in the new issue of the magazine which came out yesterday. I have to say this is a superb kit, fit is [...]
Here's a rather charming little video promoting the new-tool Airfix 1:72 Fokker EII (late) Eindecker; produced by Tom Grigat
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This is a conversion of the Airfix Seafire 46/47 using the old Aeroclub Spitfire Mk. 21 conversion set. The conversion uses the extended kit wing, landing gear, exhausts and miscellaneous parts along with Aeroclub's fuselage, radiator [...]
A bargain compared to the Tamiya and Eduard Emil kits, if only for the optional parts. You can do just about every major E subtype from the parts in the box.
There are a few minor let downs. The propeller blade shape us a tad dodgy, and [...]
This is the new tool Airfix Hurricane Mk I. The kit was great and I think is arguably the best out there in 1/48 of the Hurricane. I added resin exhaust and wheels from Brassin by Eduard and stole a rear view mirror from one of my Hasegawa [...]
This is the new Hawker Hurricane Mk.I by Airfix. I added a ring and bead gun sight, made out of twist tie wire, as well as the pitot tubes made of the same wire.
I also added Quickboost exhausts, and CMK five spoke wheels
Decals are Iliad [...]
Except for a lot of add-on details in the cockpit (punched instrument faces, reworked ejection seats, sawn-open canopy, it's basically stock. Solid overall detailing, but still before Airfix really hit its stride in the past couple of [...]
Painted with Humbrol, Testors and Model Master Enamels, rust colors in exhausts from Life Color.
Seat from Quickboost and photoetched Ring and Bead sight from Eduard.
Improvements in control surfaces, propeller axle, brass aerial post and [...]