One of Their Oldest Kits? The Airfix Fairey Rotodyne Vintage Classic in 1/72 Scale - Unboxing Review

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The Fairey Rotodyne was a large compound gyroplane which attempted to mix elements of fixed and rotary wing flight for a transport aircraft capable of vertical or short take offs.
Join me on the workbench today as I take a look inside the box of the Airfix Vintage Classic Fairey Rotodyne in 1/72 scale (A04002V) to see what this old but interesting model kit is like!
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@hattrick8684 2 месяца назад

I will say, AirFix customer support is top notch. I had an issue, no question, no fuss, they took care of it. Had an issue with a Flyhawk kit, the seller blew me off, the manufacturer offered to sell me a replacement kit for the same price I paid for the original kit. 😂 AirFix has cemented me as a customer for life. Flyhawk… will be situational.

@Razer_-fe9mo 2 месяца назад

Interesting kit of an interesting aircraft

@Rollercoastermadness24 2 месяца назад

Good model kit😊

@davidhinkson8856 2 месяца назад

Over the past couple of years I have purchased model kits with parts missing from the sprue, which is something I had never experienced in the 40+ years I have been in this hobby. First was the grille from a Revell Shelby Mustang GT350H, and the second was the dashboard from the new 43rd scale E-Type Jaguar from Airfix. Thankfully customer service from both companies was excellent and I was able to get the parts in question without any hassle.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

I'm glad they were able to fix that problem for you

@KGmodels 2 месяца назад

Great review! I recentely picked up my first airfix kit,which is my first aircraft kits in over 2 years. After all your reviews,you convinced me to get an airfix kit. Can’t wait to build it up!

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Which one did you pick?

@KGmodels 2 месяца назад

Hi Matt,I picked up their 1/48 Stuka,and their 1/48 Gloster meteor FR.9,as I went to the national flight museum in Scotland and they seem to be pretty good kits,as expected from Airfix,and the museum is a nice little place for any Aviation enthusiast or anyone interested in military history :)

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

@@KGmodels I hope you enjoy!

@barrybautista4781 2 месяца назад

It is a very interesting aircraft. I was given this kit by a friend back in the mid 80's which was old when I got it. I only built it about 5 years ago some parts didn't fit very well and the decals were very fragile but I got away with it. I also left the main rotor blades detachable so i could remove them for transportation when i moved house. It did turn out fairly well though.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Leaving the rotor blades removeable was a good idea! I didn't think about that and can imagine having problems with storage

@barrybautista4781 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes Yes the model lives in the top of my wardrobe at the moment until I find somewhere to display it.

@glencwilson 2 месяца назад

Good review. Given the size of the kit it seems a reasonable price even with the quality issues. Mine has bent prop blades. Planning on building mine soon. Dealing with customer issues must be costing them money so improving QC would balance out and we would be confident in getting a complete kit. I have had whole frames missing with another frame duplicated.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing! Yes, I think that they are working on QC

@jaws848 2 месяца назад

Intresting subject

@rileyg7291 2 месяца назад

still waiting to build this one

@sweetcorn1968 2 месяца назад

This is the only 1/72 kits not for the Pond Squadron. I first made this kit almost fifty years ago and will have to get one for the memory of "helping " my Dad make it.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

good plan!

@calibear569 2 месяца назад

Great video! About the lack of the interior - it's realistic. It, being a prototype, didn't have an interior. Just an empty tube.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Nothing at all? Not even a mock up to represent what could be installed for potential buyers? I’m pretty sure the Revell version came with seats

@calibear569 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes There wasn't anything permanent. It's not that they hadn't placed cargo or research stuff or mockups but it wasn't permanent. That's how it looked: cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-3421139.jpg

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Ah that is interesting - still there is more detail in that image that Airfix never bothered to replicate in the model lol

@julianmhall 2 месяца назад

Hiya Matt.. great review :) In his unboxing review Gary Evans had the same issue as you with the propeller blades, although in his case it was both propellers and they were bent not missing. He made the point that with modern sprues fragile parts like propellers would be inside an outer frame so they couldn't hit the box and break / bend. Mind you although yours was in the bag, it does look like a factory accident and should IMHO have been discarded not despatched. The scuffs on another sprue do look like someone was clumsy - maybe the propeller was damaged in the same incident. WRT the stripes.. 'Paint or decals? That is the question. Whether to..' no OK I ran out of ideas *lol*

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Yeah, Mos also had the same problem with his props too. Having built the model I think that painting the stropes might be easier in some respects - especially with lining them up with the windows as I had issues there

@julianmhall 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes Agreed. I was thinking mask the windows and paint the stripes. The only thing I think probably would need decals is the lettering.

@Mrnobodys-models 2 месяца назад

Nice just got home from holiday in Spain first video watched I have the Battle of Britain memorial for my birthday

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

I hope you had a nice holiday

@Mrnobodys-models 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes thank you I’m building the Battle of Britain with my grandad

@KanJonathan 2 месяца назад

Would have been interesting if Airfix does a new tool of this, as a beginning of "Projects Terminated" what if line, with many victims of 1957 Defense White Paper on the way.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Interesting yes, but I doubt it would be likely

@KanJonathan 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes Dragon done a lots of What if Panzer and Luft 46 before; a Taiwan brand made many F-20 hypothetical print schemes, even produce a two seater B version. What if Brit stuff certainly an untapped market, even it may makes the brand looks "not serious".

@chrishumpal3780 2 месяца назад

Airfix might hook you up well. I bought their 1/72 Buccaneer kit. It was missing the decals. I emailed them regarding the issue. They sent me an entirely new kit.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

That's very fortunate - I've not been that lucky with my spares requests - usually they just send the parts that were missing

@emmabird9745 2 месяца назад

Hello, interesting view. Given this was a prototype only, its quite possible that there wasn't much of an interior for Airfix to copy at the time, perhaps just test gear. Then again interiors were unusual in those days. Implementing closing/openning gear doors to go with the retractable gear might be an interesting challenge. If you are interested, the remains of this aircraft are at the helicopter museum at Weston Super Mare. Their web site shows a view and also a Fairey marketing video which might give some ideas. The tip motors were Ram Jets and a bit (lot) noisey.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

It is my understanding that although this was a prototype, in order to gain interest in sales an internal seating area/cargo space would have been present to give a good demonstration to potential buyers what the capability of the aircraft could be. I feel as though omitting the internal details was just the "style" at the time and possibly a cost saving method. The tip jets were powered by compressed air provided by the engines (similar to how the Harrier would control it's flight in the hover) and not "ram jets" as such - a ram jet typically requiring the compression of fast moving air and a fuel to compress and ignite a self-sustaining thrust

@emmabird9745 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes Hi Matt. Thank you very very much, you have provoked me to do some research on an aircraft I hadn't paid enough attention to in the past. This reply has taken a while because speed reading is not my thing. With regards to the cabin I was right for the first half of its life in that it was a bare cabin with flight test instrumentation/recorders in it. You were at least half right (a bit more than that really) in that just before its appearance at the Farnborough air show the rear half of the cabin was fitted out with seats (20) and sound proofing "to an airline standard". I think the front half was reserved for the flight test stuff for ongoing work. I would say that the modeller who wishes to model a cabin might do well to look at cabin interiors of the time (BEA was to be the launch customer so thats a place to start) say in the Viscounts and Vanguards. On the tip jets, you are again at least half right, They were not ram jets, but side entry pressure jets using compressed air from the engine driven pumps (one engine supplying blades 1 and 3, the other engine supplying blades 2 and 4 giving a redundancy in the event of an engine failure) mixed with kerosene fuel fed down the leading edges. Whilst they were initially spun up with just the compressed air, take of required the fuel feed. The Harrier manoeuvre jets are purely engine bleed compressed air. The nearest analog that I can suggest for these tip jets is it is like a single combustion can from a turbo jet without the turbine. And yes they were very noisey at 110db at 500ft away!! Thats ear defender levels these days. I feel very chasened but thank you for, albeit indirectly, introducing me to research what was a very interesting concept. Its a shame it was scrapped so abruptly (a short sighted ministry decision) because it had such promise and the noise issue might have been solved in 10 years or so afterward. I don't go much for "what if" builds but I might make an exception in this case, perhaps a secondary airline loading cargo (the aircraft was designed with that role in mind as well and it bypasses the seats issue).

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

@@emmabird9745 that’s fascinating! Thanks for doing all that research so that we can all benefit from it 😊

@emmabird9745 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes Hi Matt, research is the basis of all good modelling. Glad to be able to share.

@UncleSam-bu9gz 2 месяца назад

When I saw the thumbnail, I flashed on doing a Reich version from Man in the High Castle.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

That would be cool!

@Kryten4000 2 месяца назад

Decent and fair review. However, if Airfix is going to charge premium prices for regurgitated kits then they need to get their quality control in check. You are not the first reviewer to have broken parts. That is unacceptable. With a little bit of care when inspecting and packaging the parts this problem could be eliminated.

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Yeah, I know Mos had issues with his too

@jaws848 2 месяца назад

Agreed.Airfix really need to up their qc / inspection dept.@@ModelMinutes

@neilmcclary 2 месяца назад

used to see this in woolys in the mid 60s, £20 nooooooooooooo

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

According to online currency/inflation value calculators, £20 in 1960 would be about the same as nearly £600 today

@jaws848 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes holy crap...now THAT is expensive

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

lol yeah, what I think Neil is more referring to is that £20 today seems expensive when you could probably pick it up for like 60p back in the 60's. Of course, 60p back then probably has the same buying power as £20 today, so realistically prices haven't actually "gone up" just their purchasing power has gone down

@jaws848 2 месяца назад

@@ModelMinutes ecactly spot on Mat...put it this way...and it's me coming from a motocross bike pov.... even going back to the 1980s a Yamaha YZ 125 would have cost about £1000 but in 2024 the same bike is around £4500.

@lesleyrusson1303 2 месяца назад

Hi love the videos I hope you can help. Me please ? I found a company who make conversion kits for the 1/350 scale Nimitz class aircraft carriers but as of yet don't supply the decals for the ships numbers such as 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 for the deck or brige or the names of each Nimitz class carrier in 1/350 scale I can use the decal sheet for the carrier deck I've tried to find someone who can do the decals I need can you help please best regards Les

@ModelMinutes 2 месяца назад

Sadly I don't know of any manufacturers/retailers of this particular product - it could be possible to print some out using some home decal paper though?