This year is the 50th Anniversary of the Panavia Tornado, one of this country’s great achievements, but no new Tornado in 1/48 or 1/72. Think you’ve missed the boat there. 😢
@@themajesticmagnificent386 ireally dont understand the mentality at airfix....give it a year or 2 at best and their gannet kit will be clogging up their warehouse because nobody wants it but a Tornado and /or Jaguar....either 1/72 or 1/48 would fly off the shelves...no pun intended.
Still think you should release an accurate 1/48 Sea Harrier, as you’d be class leaders as others including Tamiya have failed miserably. Come on Airfix be a world leader, and they’d fly off the shelves. Should also do a collection of special release 1/72 of Eric Winkle Brown aircraft.
Need some 1/72 jets, preferably Jaguar, Tornado, Eurofighter, with slats and flaps of course. Would settle for Venom or Vixen, otherwise it's a bad year once again. If you don't release then nobody else will.
@@ZacYates But its a kiddies easy build kit, I'm after something a little more detailed and a bit more challenging to build, ideally with poseable slats and control surfaces.
1:48 Jaguar? No.1:48 tornado? No. 1:48 harrier? No come on airfix any of these iconic cold war jets newly tooled would sell in there 1000's! How many fantastic ww2 fighters are already flooding the market. Why do we need more? I seriously wonder how many modellers are sat around praying for some manufacturer to do a bulldog. One thing I love airfix for is your history of tooling british planes. I'm sorry but if I want a bf109 I'll go to tamiya, whose version is unbeatable.......
I totally agree with your 1:48 selection especially the Jaguar. I thought that the Bulldog was the Scottish Aviation version to go with the 1:48 Chipmunk not some obscure version.
Because they dont care....i can see the meeting in the board room. Staff member :-"our customers are asking for a new Tornado or Jaguar" C.e.o. ..:- i dont care, lets give them ANOTHER Spitfire....hell lets give them FOUR Spitfires for this year and we will throw in a few MORE BF-109s too.....and then we will rerelease the Mig-17 for the THIRD time and simply change the decals and tell our customers its 'new'....and for the jet modellers let us remove all the stores on the Typhoon FGR4 starter set even though we have the tooling for those parts as our older Typhoon starter set does have them.....our customers DONT know what they want so its up to us to TELL our customers what they want".
@jaws848 not just for our sake though but theirs. Let's look at the tornado , 1st they could sell gr1 original camo with gulf war colours to boot. Then there's the gr4. I don't think there's much of a difference save for the nose on the f3, so I'm sure they could use same tool. The raf did some brilliant colour schemes and squadron markings on that jet. Then there's of course German, and Italian versions. Airfix would make a killing from me alone on that one jet. Its mind blowing!
@@ryanparkin6156 fully agree....and to add further appeal there is also a Saudi option too...both overall air defence gray (Saudi F3) and desert camo (Saudi ids).
After the announcement i went to my local model shop and bought a Revel Tornado.....sorry Airfix but don't expect me to sit around waiting in vain and posably wasting my time for ypu to announce something you should have had in your line up by now....if Airfix dont care then why should we.....sorry Airfix but you could have had my money but its your loss.
Zzzzzzz.... A real snooze-fest. Where are the 1/48 new-tools of the Sepecat Jaguar, HS Harrier, Panavia Tornado (GR1/4 & GR3!), and Eurofighter Typhoon that the market is crying out for......? All would sell well, year after year! Example, after the initial surge, the Gannet is too niche and next year you'll sell hardly any. Mark my words.
Looking forward to the B-24 Liberator CH-47 Chinook and the P.1127. I've been building models since I was 6. My first model was the NOVO P-40 Tomahawk.
This edition of Flight Deck is just a recap of some of what was covered in the 2024 launch / catalogue video. What do I want from Flight Deck? Original content. Last year there were a number of episodes that used material from other videos. Dambuster Lancaster, Ferret car etc.
I’m not buying many kits this year..But I’m so looking forward to the 1/48 Bristol Bulldog.!.Pity so many seem underwhelmed..Well let them weep..Releasing this great and fine looking Inter war aircraft is wonderful..If Dora Wings did it people would be applauding.!(No offense to Dora Wings)..I’m hoping the 1/48 Hawker Fury is released or even a new retooled..Also the new lifeboat looks splendid and tempting..Plus a good cause..So I might there as well…
New subscriber. Just saw the video about how kits are made. I've bee in the hobby for a couple years now so still a beginner. Hear in the U.S. I haven't seen any of your kits before but definitely going to look for one now. Do you sell online?
Think you could have done the later varieties of the RAF chinook now their upto the Mk6 variant. Also the choice of decal sheet is poor when you consider in 2022 it was the 40th anniversary of the chinook in RAF service and the anniversary scheme is still applied to the chinook it was applied on so a much worthy contender as a subject than the Op Granby version. Hats off to the retool but a missed opportunity in others.
@@bugler75 thank you.their aircraft should be as follows 1) 33.3% ww1 /interwar /ww2. 2) 33.3% postwar/coldwar/modern 3) 33.3 % Helicopters. Thats all facets of their aircraft line up catered for in equal measure instead of focusing too much on 1 era and only giving meagre token offerings on the other 2.
@@bugler75 while i will be the 1st to applaud airfix on their current tooling tech and quality , tooling quality and subject matter are not the same thing and from a subject matter perspective airfix are but a poor shadow of what they used to be....sorry but someone has to take the rose tinted nostalgia goggles off and call them out on their current decision making.
Our cub pack thoroughly enjoyed making the Spitfire you supplied them with through the Scout Association. However we did have problems with the propeller being lose in it's housing . Anyway I'm sure you have gained many fans of Airfix which I discovered more than 60 years ago.
Yes but they are quick build kiddie kits, a bit pointless as the kids aren't interested anyway, we need more proper kits in all scales, it's us that spend the money.
@@mh53j I ended up getting that from AK for a decent price and low shipping, have another one still on hold from Lucky Model. There’s enough new product from other companies being shipped directly to the US that I’m about to write off Airfix. A “new release” means 2 year arrival time with them.
