john redman Posted Tuesday at 11:54 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:54 Two world wars were followed by the commercialisation of injected plastic production. These events to my mind explain why most model subjects are planes, tanks and warships. The time when we all started building Spitfires is now longer ago, however, than the battle of Britain was at that time (55 years versus 28 years in my case). It's ancient history to da youth, and about as interesting as collections of cigarette cards (these are literally worthless). If you're the age now that we were when we started building kits, of what subject what might you be interested in building a kit? What about: The James Webb Space Telescope The International Space Station A model Tesla car you can control from your phone A scale wind turbine that can charge your phone, a bit The Large Hadron Collider A radio telescope ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valhalla Posted Tuesday at 12:22 Share Posted Tuesday at 12:22 I've always wanted to pick up the kit of the Voyager spacecraft, just never got around to it yet. There's also some good PE that really brings the kit to life Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john redman Posted Tuesday at 13:51 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 13:51 How about the Pioneering Spirit in 1/350 scale? It would be 43" by 14" by 4". Lights everywhere, maybe linked to your phone so it tells you what each bit does. With a nice size ISS model you could hang it from the ceiling. Equipped with a projector it could show either the starfield the ISS sees right now on the ceiling above, or what it sees on earth below if looking down. Modules on board could be selected from your phone and you'd then see the module light up and maybe you'd get a description of what it does. Maybe a virtual phone tour of the inside of the real thing by selecting components? With ships they could maybe recreate famous voyages, with lights coming on along Titanic's portholes at night, for example, or Victory's stern gallery lighting up at dinner time. Or how about a 10,000,000:1 scale DNA molecule? It would be a metre tall by 20cm across, so about the size of the 1:144 Saturn V and like the Saturn rather helpfully not taking up a lot of floor space. It could have colour-coded pieces for the nucleotides (Guanine, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine), magnetic rather than glued connections for certain sections so you can do things like rotate sections to demonstrate DNA unwinding, remove segments to show base pairing, have an "unzipping" feature to mimic DNA replication, etc. Again, smartphone linked so when you hover over parts with your phone it gives you information about what this bit of the model / double helix does. You wouldn't even have to preshade it although I'm sure you'd see weathered ones built up at shows.... I wonder if a way to update instruction sheet technology could be to have them as a video on your phone or PC that you follow along and that shows you with moving pictures how to set parts into position? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modeling maniac Posted Tuesday at 15:42 Share Posted Tuesday at 15:42 That list sounds like a thing you should ask revell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted Tuesday at 16:43 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:43 @modeling maniac you know this is the Airfix site 🥴 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modeling maniac Posted Tuesday at 18:28 Share Posted Tuesday at 18:28 Yes, I don't know if there is a revell forum. If there was it would probably be in German. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john redman Posted Wednesday at 14:15 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 14:15 Well, rumour has it Airfix has realised their sales are limited by making products only for the demographic that likes WW2 tanks and planes. Lots of people like building stuff - look at Lego - and might buy Airfix stuff if it depicted something other than WW2 tanks and planes. Hence the above suggestions. Maybe we're the wrong people to ask, being the demographic that likes WW2 tanks and planes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain.Glumbo Posted Wednesday at 14:22 Share Posted Wednesday at 14:22 I did read in the link Ratch posted about the latest financial figures that the new head of whatever it was called was looking outside the traditional WWII genre. Here's hoping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topcat_Ern Posted Wednesday at 19:17 Share Posted Wednesday at 19:17 Those Lego sets ain't half expensive though. Was looking for a Birthday present for my nephew in Smythes and one set was over £600. He wasn't having that! Andy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valhalla Posted Wednesday at 20:22 Share Posted Wednesday at 20:22 Lego did a cool Star Destroyer ... come on Airfix. Mind you, I think some other outfit already did one. But time to think outside the box. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john redman Posted Wednesday at 23:15 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 23:15 Star Wars stuff will carry a crippling royalty on top of whatever it costs to tool the kit. This is why I wonder if enormous ships, phone controlled features and model DNA molecules might be the way to go. Maybe the future is the £300 Airfix kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago On 17/09/2024 at 19:28, modeling maniac said: Yes, I don't know if there is a revell forum. If there was it would probably be in German. RevellAtions in English. 😉 Revell run their own forum, in German. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago (edited) On 17/09/2024 at 16:42, modeling maniac said: That list sounds like a thing you should ask revell. Well they've done the ISS and Star Destroyer for starters. Edited 22 hours ago by peebeep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 14 hours ago, john redman said: Star Wars stuff will carry a crippling royalty on top of whatever it costs to tool the kit. Not a question of will, it does, that's why Star Wars themed kits are so expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain.Glumbo Posted 22 hours ago Share Posted 22 hours ago 31 minutes ago, peebeep said: RevellAtions in English. 😉 Revell run their own forum, in German. That page is unresponsive for me - just wont load after several minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 33 minutes ago, Captain.Glumbo said: That page is unresponsive for me - just wont load after several minutes Working for me so I can't really offer any help. You could try going into Tapatalk and searching from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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