In the lates issue of FSM someone mentioned a new ROG release of the Halifax. Has anyone heard of this as being true and if so is there a 1/48th scale release? Love this plane and I have no desire to build the FM version which is apparently a nightmare of clean up and fit issues. Thanks.
I Wish…
the RoG New tool release is braille scale
(Link-Fu still not working… )
1/72 REV04394 Handley Page Halifax
http://www.revell-monogram.com/germany/aircraft/80-4394.html
Only other option is Sanger Models 1/48 Vacform… Merlin or Hercules engines though
According to the description, it’s the old Matchbox kit. For a 70s 1/72 scale kit that wasn’t too bad, but it was still a 70s 1/72 scale kit.
I believe Revell Germany owns the molds to all the old Matchbox kits and trots them out from time to time. In the last year they have reissued the 1/32 Spitfire Mk 22.
With the old kit makers who have a large catalog of old kits, you always have to be careful where a kit’s molds come from. Revell Ger has released some great new mold kits in recent years, but the bulk of their releases are old kits.
Bill
Thanks guys. So it looks like no 1/48th.
Could this be the new Revell 1/72 Halifax shown at Tokyo Hobby Show?
The Halifax in 1/72 is a new tool and is scheduled (tentatively) to be released in November. ROG did release the the old Matchbox kit a couple years back.
Any other images available of this kit, the sprus, boxart ?
sniffing another kit to add in the wishbook [:P]
search me too for more pictures of new tooling but the tokyo show image seems the only avaible thing about this new one
Here are two other links
http://www.hyperscale.com/2011/reviews/kits/halifaxbmkiiseries172preview_1.htm
http://www.ipmsdeutschland.de/FirstLook/Revell/Preview_Rev_Halifax/Preview_Rev_Halifax.html
starting to collect money fom him [:P]
Looking at the first link there and then the second photo I thought great nice interior, then saw where the ejector pin marks where and thought impossible to remove. Dont they think about the pin marks??
Phil
Any updates on this M0J0?
Parts for:
B.Mk I series I
B.Mk II series I
B.Mk II series IA
GR.Mk II series IA
B.Mk V series IA
A Mk V series IA
Clear parts for all windows and hatches but the beam hatches for the B.I are engraved and require cutting out. Two noses, gun turret or all glazed nose cone. No Tempsford Z-type nose. Choice of early triangular or later rectangular tail units. Messier (MK II) or Dowty (MK V) undercarriage units. For the A, parachute hatch with windshield. Also a glider towing rig. Two types of Dalaney-Gally radiators and later Morris block radiators. Four types of exhausts. Three blade or four blade propellers. Bomb bay doors can be positioned open and bomb-bay included. H2S radar dome. Choice of two-gun or four-gun turrets on top of the fuselage. Blanking plate for no turret option. Interior details for cockpit and crew stations.
£20 $35 .
Not seen any build reviews on it as yet. I am hoping for some decals for a Norfolk based aircraft as i would love to add this to the stash.
antoni, Hannants has it for just short of £18.
Links to observations, pictures, instructions, decals and a build article. It’s available in Europe, so if you cannot wait a few months for the slow boat to get to the US, then you can buy it online at Hannants, for a premium of course.
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234908609
http://z15.invisionfree.com/72nd_Aircraft/index.php?showtopic=1251
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p…topic=79807&hl=
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go…_13249168304741
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?format=go…_13249168602172
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47751/messa…is+years+output
Hannants shows 20 available, here.
Tim
Wow…was not expecting that all of those different mark options would be available in one box, especially as the gun-nose and the glass nose looked so different…that’s good news…
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yours? done?
Yes and no…