S M 1962

Dear Sir, thank you for the information. My error.

As a paid up member of the Airfix Club it would be nice to be told about new kits, sets, or in fact any other new things. While looking for something else on the Airfix site I accidentally come across the fact that a new 1/35 lorry kit is now available, and that there is a recently introduced bundle for sale. As part of the paid membership it would have been nice to receive some sort of Email announcing these developments. What is the point of being a "club member" if you are out of the loop? The advert says that members get all sorts of benefits, well now that Airfix have my money can you please add "information" to the benefits list.

Forgive me if I sound silly but do these new dropper bottles open up to allow a brush to be used like a proper paint pot? It seems I am the only human on this planet who does NOT spray their paint.

Thank you for the reply. It is a rotten shame. The company saves a ha'penny of plastic but have lost an income of nearly £100 from myself. It is a lot of money to find and then have to spend more for a pilot to bring it to life.

Dear Sir, I am trying and failing to deduce on the internet whether this kit has a seated pilot. Could you please confirm if it does? Thank you.

We have bucket loads of Spitfire aeroplanes, various Panzer tanks, lots of HMS this that and the other, and dozens of old buses. etc. So how about something that is all but ignored? Okay so they only made just over seventy but it did serve throughout the swinging sixties. I will let Airfix guess its name. Here is a clue - there is one perfect example sitting in the Fleet Air Arm Museum waiting for the Airfix "Lidar" team.

Did someone mention the forgotten Scimitar?

The two replacements for the badly manufactured parts for the 1/48 Vampire arrived this afternoon. No request for extra money. They arrived in only a week. This is customer CARE. All that Customer Care Pain when I asked for a missing 1/72 Harrier part to be told I had to pay for it was un-necessary. Life is a bit rubbish at the moment so this nice thing helps. Thank you and good bye.

I have just started the 1/48 Vampire that I bought a week or three ago from an well known online retailer. Soon after starting it this afternoon I found that two large parts that make up the booms are not fully moulded. Part 3 has a chunk missing, while part 4 has a huge gap separating the boom into two with 1cm of air. I have of course just now contacted Airfix "Customer" Services for a replacement. We shall see what happens. I really do hope that I will not be throwing away £30.95p.

Okay mayhaps I was lucky. I do not know about Italeri but the experience with Revell was nice. It was about two years ago when a 1/72 F-16 MLU Tiger Meet kit (I did not use their decals but had my own already) was missing a tail part, left or right I forget. I sent off an email and heard nothing of it and to my surprise about two weeks later the part turned up. So for Revell the score is 0/10 for communication but 10/10 for customer care.

Thank you for the idea but unfortunately the missing part is the "under wing part" quite literally the underneath of one side of the wing. So I am unable to take unused parts from elsewhere.

Dear Mr.Airfix, please delete this thread. I am willing and happy to pay for two replacement canopies for kits that I recently messed up, but this is not MY error nor the retailer. Unfortunately I have 13 other Airfix Harriers stashed away to make in the years to come, and NO receipts for any of them. I did not have this ridiculous denial of corporate responsibility from Revell. A few years ago when I needed a missing part. It came within two weeks and it made this customer happy to buy their product. Airfix obviously do not care.

The contents were sealed. It was sealed inside an Airfix factory. No dodgy sellotape or glue marks. The product left the Airfix Factory sealed. The manufacture is at fault, not some poor fool for trusting them.

I have just had an un-necessary exchange of E-mails with the Spares Team. I bought a kit. Two parts were missing. Easily happen in the factory that has machines packing hundreds of small lightweight plastic parts every few minutes. The vary rare bad one gets through. I asked for the two parts. One part is not essential so I was willing to let that go, but the other is a needed. Cost to me is £3. I have already paid for the full product. I do not need to pay more for Airfix bad quality control. The retailer is not at fault, they paid for a sealed Airfix product. I am not at fault, I paid for a sealed Airfix product. Any other company, in any sector, takes responsibility for their mistakes. Not Airfix. Part missing? The buyer's bad luck!

How about the ignored but not forgotten Royal Navy's Supermarine Scimitar - in any scale./media/tinymce_upload/48b8ee7adffd271d3947a0e7b74ae7c8.png

Okay. I have just joined and handed over £24.99p. I still reckon that the Flying Hours going up is unecessary. The cost of ordinary Airfix kits has gone up which means each Flying Hour costs more. Not to mention the now increased cost of the Club membership - so they both automatically cover "other" increases. Anyway I have paid so enough said.

If I read this correctly it will cost (minimum membership £14.99p) + (16 flying hours from the cheapest kits at £5.99p each = £95.84p) + (p&p £4.98p) = £115.91p for a "free" series one kit. I shall have to think about this a bit more. Someone please tell me I read this wrongly, I have been waiting two years for this. 🤔

Think of a model like a master work painting. From a distance my model looks like a Rembrandt or a Constable, you can see what it is supposed to be and it looks magnificent, get up close and it is all blobs and missed bits.

I called them this afternoon and was told the same. No information was available regarding details other then "November".

I have 65 flying hours. It has been over a year since the Club was suspended and still no announcement or even a whisper about its return. I am getting the feeling I should exchange them for Reichsmarks or Confederate dollars, they would be worth something! Earth calling Airfix Club, are you there?

One big reason for choosing an Airfix kit over other company's offerings is the Flying Hours scheme. Without the Club up and running and accepting Flying Hours why buy an Airfix kit? Other Czech, German, Chinese offerings are just as good. In the past I have bought an extra Airfix kit or chosen a version by Airfix because I could collect Flying Hours. The lure of a discount tomorrow can decide who gets my money today. If indeed the Airfix company has "few employees" surely it is not too difficult for someone in the office to walk across the floor to the desk marked Airfix Club and ask the person sitting there "when?" and get a proper date.

The Royal Navy Scimitar, in any scale (with a pilot). Ignored by Airfix all these decades. There are two extant ones in this country for the Airfix boffins to measure, and another in the U.S.A. so no excuse.