Not the post, but some of yesterdays birthday gifts.
First off, my partner bought me the Airfix Do17.
And my parents got me the RS DFS-230 glider. Had been debating whether to get this one and I think they got the hint.
Also got a crate of cans of Stormtrooper beers from my sister, selection of bottles from some friends and the in-laws bought both of us tickets to see Harry Hill next year (hers is next week).
Have to say this is a first for me.
Not sure i have ever seen boxart depicting the subject of the kit having been damaged!
the do-17 comes with 4 crew? that’s impressive
It’s depicting a specific event — according to the page at the Aviation Safety Network site, there were actually five crew, one of whom appears to have been the group commander in addition to the normal crew of four. Damaged by ground fire, the pilot successfully ditched the aircraft.
there’s been some, but it is quite rare, yes.
It definitely gets your attention! I think they did something similar with the first boxing of this one. I remember it came with the markings of the Do17 that was recovered from a beach on the south coast a few years ago. Shot down by Defiants iirc.
@phil2015 yes and I think Airfix have included them all. Will have a proper look at the sprues later today. Must’ve been very cramped!
It looks like there are 4 from the instructions. I wish there were substantial crew in all their kits. I will probably need to get one of these. A few years ago I was trying to get kits of all the planes (well, most of them) participating in the Battle of Britain. This one was OOP at the time. I’ve kind of moved on, but maybe I should get it while it’s available.
I’m hoping, it being newer, it is a nice build. I was a little disappointed with the Blenheim.
It would probably be worth getting one while it’s still available. The pricing of the first issue became silly when it went oop.
Good news is that it does include BoB markings.
I’ll be doing mine in the Operation Mercury colours. Have the first one somewhere to do in BoB markings. I can count 4 crew figures and 4 seats in the instructions, so where they squeezed a 5th on that sortie is a good question!
I haven’t heard anything bad about the Airfix Dornier. The Blenheim really should’ve been good but the poorly fitting bomb bay and bulged Bolingbroke cowlings let it down a little. Just a bit annoying. Hasn’t stopped me buying several though!
I’m still hopeful that they’ll do a new Battle and Hampden to complete the early war bombers line up.
I built two Blenheims and had fit troubles with them all round the build. The first time I thought it was me…
But having said that, they turned out fairly well.
I hope you’ll post pictures when you build the Dornier.
Will do. I’ve got a little collection of Battle of Crete aircraft planned, so once I’ve got a few things finished up I’ll get cracking.
There’s an Eduard Bf-109 depicted damaged/crashed too. Can’t recall the kit.
yeah, and I remember one with a damaged, dug in spinner.
Today the postman (who did not care very good for my packages this time) brought me Kinetic Gold’s F/A-18 which will be going to be a Swiss Air Force one, and the Mojave beast from Special Hobby.
Not much, exciting really here.
Got some nice looking gun barrels for the waist guns on B-25 I’m doing. Probably a bit overkill at the scale, but I wanted something that would be a bit more durable than the kits plastic.
Strangely, despite coming from a UK retailer, it came with this credit type card from Israel taped to it as protection.
I’m wondering if it’s some sort of credit card for use on public transport or something? It’ll go in my drawer of curiosities whatever it is.
damm, you made me go out and order that book now.
Interesting!
When I get a bit of time later, I’ll pass it through the Google translate app and see what it says.
The back side is just black and it doesn’t look as if there’s a magnetic strip along it. Just a series of raised dimples.
