Airfix Blackburn Buccaneer S.2B RAF 1/72 (A06022) REVIEW - NEW! 

Hi Mick, What year were you at Honington, out of interest?

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab 1980 to 1984, on 237 OCU.

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Hi Robert, sounds like I am only two years older myself...must have been fun though. But I wondered: Did the Buccaneer crew survive the accident?

Thanks Neil. I miss the rotating bomb bay door from the original Airfix kit, and am a tiny bit worried about the how the nose section will join (hopefully without and step or seam!) so fingers crossed! 🤞🏻

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Thanks very much Peter.

Hi John, Yes the scenes are at the school gates and playground where I used to play marbles! The room with the taped windows at the right hand side of the building on the right (Where Wilson appears from in 'The Honourable Man') is the room in which I learned to read! Check out the Matchbox Bell Huey Cobra review tonight at 5.15! 👍🏻

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab I'll set my reminder! I also have a bit of a film connection with James Bond I'll clue you in on it at some point.

@@johnf3885 Oooh! Tell us more? Also The Heinkel He111 review is on at 6pm tonight.

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Peter it's a bit wordy! My dad used to work at Hucknall colliery and he had a best mate called Robin Baily who worked for the GPO on Hucknall high street. Robin was a talented amateur actor who hated the GPO and wanted to pursue a professional career. To cut a story short my dad gave Robin £20 to fund a move to London to try his acting career. £20 was an awful lot of money to my dad as mining was very badly paid in the early '60s. They kept in touch by letter until one day he told dad he'd got a part in the new bond film You Only Live Twice! Sometime later dad got another letter asking him if he and my mum would like a weekend in London with a trip to the studios to see the set. I remember Robin Baily turning up outside our council house in a maroon Rolls Royce (borrowed from Donald Pleasance) and whisking them away. Robin had asked Donald Pleasence to ask Cubby Broccoli for permission for a set visit and he agreed. They had an amazing visit toured the volcano set and had a picture taken on the monorail with Donald Pleasance and Sean Connery, as they were prepping for the battle scenes. They later had dinner in the canteen with Donald Pleasance Sean Conner and Cubby Broccoli. They weren't allowed to take a camera on set but the studio photographer took some amazing pictures which I treasure to this day. And to cap it all off Donald Pleasence and Robin Baily took my parents to the west end to watch a show(I think it was half a sixpence)

@@johnf3885 Wow! That is a great story to have shared. Must have been brilliant! 😄 I was there (In Thetford) on the day they were filming 'The Captain's Car' Dad's Army episode, where they are greeting the French general on the steps of the town hall. I met John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, Robert raglan, & John Laurie (Who was actually drunk! 🤪) got their autographs but didn't see Arthur Lowe?🤔

There's a small Dad's Army museum in Thetford...! Don't know if you know, that several of the rooms at the Bell Hotel have named after the Dad's Army characters as well...!

Yes indeed! Sounds like about 1991?

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Feb 1990. By November I was deployed to Taif, Saidia Arabia and I moved to Redneck Farm in Elveden just before deployment.

@@davidrussell8783 I used to live in Troston. 👍🏻

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab If I recall my address correctly I was at Broadmere Cottage, Troston. Across the fence on the east side was enlisted housing for Honington. So we were in the same place. It's a small world ))

Hi John Agree with you except about the old 1/48 which I rated as my least enjoyable kit of all time! A HORROR! 😱 See: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lgg8g0t1A8s.html

Thanks Jim...lets hope Airfix take the hint and do a retool on the 1/48. I built one and it had loads of issues...see: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (the UGLY episode!) in my November vids. 👍🏻

@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab Amen. Tanmodel (Turkish make) supposedly have a 48th Buccaneer planned for this year, though only in RAF & SAAF colours it seems. Airfix would also do well to retool their 48th Sea-Harrier FA.2 (the only such kit in that size), which I'm building the incumbent iteration thereof ATM. (a decent kit with regard to accuracy & options; but the flash & visible age of the tooling make it clear why they haven't re-released the kit since the early 00's)

@@jimtaylor294 "Airfix would also do well to retool their 48th Sea-Harrier FA.2 (the only such kit in that size), " - Kinetic do one.

@@keefr22 Agreed!

Jim...Your words remind me of...LORD VADER! 😨

S.2B is the RAF modified bomber version with the deeper rotating bomb bay door. It was used in 1991 Gulf War. Flory did the Royal Navy version but said on Wednesday that he might be building this one in the future. 👍🏻

Hi Alan, I recommend Jadlam, Model Hobbies, Jumblies Models, Creative Models, and PM Models. 👍🏻

Thanks at the mo I'm doing a matchbox Me 109 and Airfix Spitfire diorama

Sounds good! 👍🏻

Hi Stephanie, I am surprised no one else has ever asked this before! 😆 Perhaps I am just your typical eccentric Englishman...The jacket, nice shirt and nice watches are just my sort of trademark when on camera...I am attempting to be 'upmarket' a little...Making a movie should be a special occasion and I want to be respectful to my audience. I definitely don't wear this stuff when I am building. 😜 Maybe I should wear a different suit next time? 🤔 (Do you watch 'The History Guy' on YT? He dresses very smartly too!) But I use the gloves as I am often handling other peoples kits or selling them on so want to preserve them as best I can without finger marks...and I don't have very attractive fingers. 😬

@Stefano No, It is 1993 decals, so still has 'Sky Pirates' Desert storm logos but not 1991 decals as such. 👍🏻

Yes, I am Airfix's biggest critic, but this seems SUPERB! 👍🏻

Oh Crumbs! Hope this won't be the same! 😨🤞🏻 Agree with you about the needed retool of the 1/48.

Yes indeed...totally agree with you. It's such a big box, it seems more like 1/48, and has 85 steps in sctructions! 😨

Given that Airfix's past 1/48 Buccaneer was top notch when new; I can see a retool being very popular if done.