roy_fitzsimmonds Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 WOW! LOOK AT ALL THOSE JAGUARS, MG'S, TVRS AND LOOK AT THAT LOVELY MORGAN 3 WHEELER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Why can't they do an Mercedes-Benz SL Class (R107 generation)? That would get me to buy a proper plastic kits. I have a massive soft spot, for these cars. I love them. They are beautiful, finely made German coupe / convertible, with the nicest engines I have ever heard. Besides, the prototyoes for the cars they are releasing at somepoint, this year, do look good. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 This is what I'm talking about. Look how beautiful this Mercedes is:/media/tinymce_upload/45506f003eeb6322411e764a45986322.jpgWouldn't this be a great kit to build?! 😆 GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 That merc really is nice. Is that roof called a pagoda top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 It is. A fried used to have one, an 'A' reg, in black. It was really nice. I miss the car a lot. Yes, it's a hard top roof, that has to be unbolted by hand. The car comes with the tools. Trouble is, is that unless you a weightlifter, you need about four people to carry it, as the roof is so heavy. It feels like you lifting up the whole car! 😆 It has to be heavy though, so it can protect the people inside, in the event that it flips over in a crash. When you take the hard top roof off, you can't take it with the car. In that has, if you still need to put a roof one, but you are out and the roof is at home, each car has a soft top roof, which folds out from a flap you wind up, from handle, iside of the car, where the back seats are. It folds up nicely under the flap and easy to pull out by hand, whch attaches to the top of the A pillars. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-muc Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 The Pagoda was the SL before. It was available as Airfix kit M208C/02408-6/03411-5 from 1968 - 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Ahh, now I know why these old Mercedes had a reputation for being strong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 @paul-muc Yes, the W113 generation SL was called 'Pagoda, being built from 1963 - 1971. The blue SL, in an earlier post I made on thie topic, is the generation that follwed the W113. This is the R107 generation, being built from 1972 - 1989. The R107 SL's are my favourite. Last night when I replied "yes", to captain triggers' question, I was tired and was not thinking what I was typing. Sorry about that, paul-muc and captain triggers. @captain triggers Yes, the hard top roof is strong, but not the soft top roof is not strong. I wouldn't want to be in a flip-over crash, with the soft top roof on! 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonno65 Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 I have never been so underwhelmed as by this years 'new releases'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Small selection, isn't it?! 😆 GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Well-erm-yes have to admit defeatet on this one. Just a mini with yellow paint in it! But we will have to wait and see with workbench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy_fitzsimmonds Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 GNR-Gordon-4... Small selection? There's absolutely NO selection.There's NOTHING new.Just a few re-pops of old stuff. Utterly pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Sorry! I didn't know it was all repaints. I'm not very familiar with Airfix's products. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Really dissapointing how they deal with car modelers now. They seem to forget that their first kit was a car. or to be more precise a tractor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailorman Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Well their first kit proper kit was the Golden Hind ......and not ship in sight at the moment! Neertheless I'm still hoping we'll get something. They say good things come to those who wait ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Maybe Airfix have found that the planes and helicopter kits sell better than cars, or they concentrating on the first word that appears in the name Airfix - 'Air'! 😆 GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 I fear I might be going japanese with tamiya. Airfix should listen to us though building the odd plane is quite fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 How can somebody turn Japanese, if they are not Japanese? 😬 😆 😀 You are right though, not much on offer for car lovers, such as yourself and myself. GNR-Gordon-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Writer Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 I wonder if the Airfix high-ups ever read these pages? It must require a reasonable and careful analysis of the marketing potential to re-enter a sector like the car model kit one with serious kits, but they have (1) history of decent car kits and (2) a range of the kind of car kits for young people (the ones that go together like Lego) which are surely a stepping stone for those youngster to keep a degree of Airfix loyalty as they grow in talent, interest and spending powe. It might require some co-operative deals with other kit makers to initially flesh out a range of, say, 1:24 car kits, but if Airfix were to focus on making a few subjects that could have international appeal and yet were, say, intrinsically British, they might find that those other kit makers might be interested in licensing the Airfix sprues in their own lines. Let's imagine say something like a Jaguar XJ-13, or a Triumph TR5, or an MGA (in racing Le Mans and Sebring guises as well as road cars), a Morris Minor Traveller, a Jaguar C or D Type, an Austin-Healey 100/4 or an MG RV8... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 I wonder if the Airfix high-ups ever read these pages? It must require a reasonable and careful analysis of the marketing potential to re-enter a sector like the car model kit one with serious kits, but they have (1) history of decent car kits and (2) a range of the kind of car kits for young people (the ones that go together like Lego) which are surely a stepping stone for those youngster to keep a degree of Airfix loyalty as they grow in talent, interest and spending powe. It might require some co-operative deals with other kit makers to initially flesh out a range of, say, 1:24 car kits, but if Airfix were to focus on making a few subjects that could have international appeal and yet were, say, intrinsically British, they might find that those other kit makers might be interested in licensing the Airfix sprues in their own lines. Let's imagine say something like a Jaguar XJ-13, or a Triumph TR5, or an MGA (in racing Le Mans and Sebring guises as well as road cars), a Morris Minor Traveller, a Jaguar C or D Type, an Austin-Healey 100/4 or an MG RV8...Your back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Correct. Airfix needs to rethink its strategy and enter the 1/24 scale niche English car kits. Like heller do with french cars but just don't go bust! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Writer Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 It might be possible to look at the type of cars that younger car enthusiasts would recognise too - things like the new Aston Martin, the Jaguar F-Type, the latest MINI Cooper S (and I know they do an older generation MINI in 1:32 - which - wow - now comes in yellow). Does anyone make a McLaren? The risk though with doing "the latest" is that after a couple of years or so, what was once "new" becomes "out of fashion", which is why, in my opinion, they'd be safer with the classic cars... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Writer Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 It might be possible to look at the type of cars that younger car enthusiasts would recognise too - things like the new Aston Martin, the Jaguar F-Type, the latest MINI Cooper S (and I know they do an older generation MINI in 1:32 - which - wow - now comes in yellow). Does anyone make a McLaren? The risk though with doing "the latest" is that after a couple of years or so, what was once "new" becomes "out of fashion", which is why, in my opinion, they'd be safer with the classic cars.......like the classic aircraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Triggers Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Yes, anything pre 1990 woald do like -gosh- an mgb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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