Anyone out there know if a Vacuform canopy for the 1 / 72 scale Airfix Fairey Firefly is available ? I have seven Airfix Firefly kits bought some time ago from Squadron for next to nothing when they were on sale. Have the Aeromaster set of decals, the only aftermarket Firefly decal sheet available, and plan on doing all of them. Two of the seven kits have one section of the three part canopy missing. With Airfix in a fix I think these two kits may be relinquished to scrap parts unless I can locate some canopies. Counted my Airfix kits last night and have 23 of them. Military and Airliners. Debating whether to build the rest or just hang on to them. Any help would be appreciated.
This is the only one I know of: http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=FNCV1972
Although that’s a nice set, it’s more expensive from Hannants than it is to import it from New Zealand.
Try sales@modelair.co.nz. If you don’t live in NZ, then you don’t have to pay the 12.5% GST, although of course postage will exceed that. The set costs about $16NZ from Modelair includng GST, so logically, it would be $14.22NZ + postage. $3NZ = about 1GBP at the moment.
Tell Rich or Nicky that Brews sent you, and you’ll get charged even more .
You may not have to pay sales tax but you may have to pay import duties. Here in the UK if you order goods from outside the EU you may have to pay VAT on the goods and the Post Office add a fee on top of that for collecting it.
C´on!!!..just make a wood (hard) form of it and since you are talking of such a small scale use it to make it with “candle heat” technique!!!..you don´t need a vacuform box for that!!!..you plastic modellers are incredible!!!..[xx(]