Airfix H P Victor B.2 is out!

[Ansett A330]

E-mail from Airfix this morning :

http://www.airfix.com/uk-en/handley-pag ... BZ,2RJDR,1

[Ansett A330]

Is this the first time a (mainstream) Manufacturer has had all three "V" Bombers in their range since Frog had all three in 1:96?

[hrtpaul]

Unfortunately it'll cost you a kidney or 2. Something that's annoying me with Airfix is they're putting all this awesome detail inside their kits where you can't see it. The Shackleton is the same. 99% of modellers wouldn't care if it wasn't there and the 1% that would care would scratch build that shit anyway. It increases the price of the kit without much return in the finished model. I have no drama with the detail you can see and the current Airfix kits are awesome (just look at them all in my stash). If Airfix didn't bother with the crap you can't see then their kits would be cheaper and they'd sell more. By the time I get this kit, the K.2 conversion (if one is realeased) and decals I'm probably up for close to $150-200 and I can't see that happening. Even if they release a K.2, it's still a serious outlay. I think I'll just wait for the Revell K.2 kit to become cheap as chips and build it instead. Won't be as good a kit but then I won't have spent anywhere near as much on it either.

[Ansett A330]

I thought that's what we had two kidneys (and saleable children) for?

[VH-WAL]

Unfortunately it'll cost you a kidney or 2. Something that's annoying me with Airfix is they're putting all this awesome detail inside their kits where you can't see it. The Shackleton is the same. 99% of modellers wouldn't care if it wasn't there and the 1% that would care would scratch build that shit anyway. It increases the price of the kit without much return in the finished model. I have no drama with the detail you can see and the current Airfix kits are awesome (just look at them all in my stash). If Airfix didn't bother with the crap you can't see then their kits would be cheaper and they'd sell more. By the time I get this kit, the K.2 conversion (if one is realeased) and decals I'm probably up for close to $150-200 and I can't see that happening. Even if they release a K.2, it's still a serious outlay. I think I'll just wait for the Revell K.2 kit to become cheap as chips and build it instead. Won't be as good a kit but then I won't have spent anywhere near as much on it either.

Hiya Paul,
I just bought an Airfix Victor ( being delivered to an address inn the UK for me to pick up next year) I have a Revell / Matchbox Victor I got from TOR this year now surplus to requirements it is yours for the price of postage if you want it ( not in original box it was soft and crushed so I reboxed it clipping parts off sprues to make it fit.. a builder not a collectors piece

cheers
wal

[hrtpaul]

Sold thanks Wally. PM sent

[Ansett A330]

And you've still got your Kidneys!

Just don't hold your breath if it's being delivered by Australia Post!

(Short Story and Big Gripe - after paying the money for tracking I tried to track where a Package was that I had sent overseas to my Son and nothing was showing up on the Internet when I put the code in other than "Received at ..." where I put it in. So went to the Post Office a week later and they put it in their system and it said "Received at Brisbane" when it was supposed to have been delivered already. Anyway put it down to "Snail Mail" so when it hadn't turned up in a fortnight again I went to the Post Office and the answer was "Received at Sydney". Mmmm. OK. Still slower than a Tortoise on Valium. Anyway went to the Post Office yesterday and this time the answer was "In transit to Final Destination". All I could think was "It's suppose to be going to Romania not a Movie Franchise!")