so i have ordered the airfix 1/72 sea harrier kit, i hope it’s a new tooled version and not the one from the 80’s. does anyone have any experience with this kit?
can anyone recommend some Argentinian aircraft kits, be they 1/72 or 1/48? also are there any good sea harriers in 1/48… i heard the kinetic kit is pig and the old Tamiya kit is awful as i built it years ago?
The Airfix A-4 Skyhawk comes with markings for an Argentinian Scooter:
https://www.scalemates.com/nl/kits/airfix-a03029a-douglas-a-4b-q-skyhawk--1189955
The current Airfix SHAR is the new tooling. Have a couple in the stash but haven’t gotten around to building it yet.
Along with the kits posted above, Italeri have also done an Aermacchi MB-339 in a Falklands boxing. Currently oop sadly. This boxing is the only one with the cannon pods. The current Frecce Tricolori boxing doesn’t have them unfortunately.
You might be able to track one down.
There are three that I’m aware of: Tamiya, Airfix, and Kinetic. The Tamiya kit is easily one of their worst 1/48 aircraft kits. I have one sidelined partially completed. I can’t say anything about the other two, aside from having the Airfix 1/48 Harrier GR.3 and Sea Harrier FA.2 in my stash. Both of those look better than the Tamiya kit. Probably the best way to get a good Sea Harrier would be to graft the nose and cockpit of the Tamiya or Airfix kit onto the fuselage and wings of the old Monogram AV-8A/C kit.
well the airfix scooter looks good and is a new tooling so i might get one, the pucara looks good as well, so I might have punt on those.
it looks like tge kinetic 1/48 is the only real viable option, so I will put on my wish list.
Oooh I had forgotten about that, nice call.
there is one of those Black Buck Vulcans near me at Wast Fortune air museum near Edinburgh. I had the privilege of sitting in the cockpit years ago.
Yes and a Victor.
Only thing to watch on the Airfix Black Buck are the pylons for the ECM pod and Shrikes for the later Black Buck aircraft. Airfix apparently got them wrong. I have got a magazine which featured that build and I think corrections, so can find that out if you need it.
I think the Airfix Nimrod also had Falklands markings, but I’m not sure how easy those are to find these days. I still can’t believe Airfix only had a limited release of that kit!
More ideas…
H.P.
@phantom_phanatic that article about the Vulcsn sounds interesting, yes I’d like to run my eyeballs over that if you don’t mind. pity I didn’t see this this morning as hobbycraft had a Vulcan for sale in Falkirk this morning.
@Frenchy the dassault mirage looks very nice even if it’s a Revell kit.
I’ll see if I can find it out. Going from memory here, but the problem seems to have been they made the pylons too big and hanging too low. Apparently the error was made by the CAD designer using photos of the Vulcan that had to divert to Rio, mistaking the undercarriage doors for the pylon shape. They should just fit directly to the Skybolt pylon.
I did start looking into this myself a number of years back, when my brother-in-law gave me his unbuilt old tool Vulcan.
