Sy Winship
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I was amused to see the Tiger 1 tank is still in the 2018 catalogue, I assume this is still the nineteen sixties version that has risen from the dead more times than Captain Scarlet ! I'm sure someone at Airfix is keeping it going as a bet.
Seriously though, if this old warhorse can keep going why can't some of the others. I'd like to see the Scimitar tank kit finally updated from the prototype before the real thing finally retires from service after nearly fifty years! I've said before on the forum how disappointing it is that the main UK model manufacturer does not produce more British Army kits. Things don't seem to be changing unfortunately.
Couldn't agree more! And how about one in 1/48 too?
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Don't know if anyone's mentioned this already, but what about 1/48 choppers?
Enamoured as I am with my Belcher Bits conversions to retrofit my Airfix Lynxes into HAS.2/3s, it would be lovely for Airfix to release that version thenselves, not least because so many countries used it. And of course we're coming up to the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands War, where both sides used it.
As well as the Lynx though, there's no such thing as a 1/48 Puma! Surely that's a huge gap in the market that could be filled by a wonderful new Airfix tooling. From the original baseline SA 330 (rudimentarily covered by Heller in 1/50) right through to the latest Super Pumas, nobody is doing them in 1/48.
Admittedly, the Gazelle has been covered by Fujimi and Heller, but those kits are pretty long in the tooth now and it would be very nice to have a state-of-the-art 1/48 kit. An A-109 would come in handy too.
And while you're at it, how about a lovely new Scout/Wasp? The Fujimi Wasp is well past its prime, and wasn't much cop to start with, and yet they're changing hands for 30 or 40 of your Earth pounds on eBay. Again, they're both Falklands veterans, as is the Gazelle.
And if we're talking Falklands, some 1980s British soldiers in 1/48 would be a boon as, agan, you can't get them anywhere else.
Am I wasting my time asking for a 1/48 Skyvan or Unimog S404? Thought so. Ho hum.
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I've said this before, but what about some 1/48 helicopters that haven't been tooled either a) recently, b) in TRUE 1/48 scale or c) both? A Scout and Wasp. A Puma. A Lynx HAS.2/3. A Gazelle. A Sea King HC.4/Commando. Surely I can't be the only person in the world who'd buy a couple each of those kits if they were out...