New Airfix 1/24 kit

[Quax]

Airfix have just announced a new mould 1/24 Me109 G 5/6

Paul

[digger303]

Too big for me.

[Stokesy44]

I heard there was going to be an announcement last night.

Kit looks good but I wish they had gone for something a bit more out there. Trumpy already do a 1/24 109G so this is not new ground.

I wish Airfix would do another run of their Hellcat. I really fancy it but cant get hold if it. Ooh err Missus

[RangerNeil]

I heard there was going to be an announcement last night.

Kit looks good but I wish they had gone for something a bit more out there. Trumpy already do a 1/24 109G so this is not new ground.

I wish Airfix would do another run of their Hellcat. I really fancy it but cant get hold if it. Ooh err Missus

Problem there is these days the big firms are run by marketing and bean counters who are, by nature, risk averse. Things customers would REALLY like - say a 1/24 E.E. Lightning or Hawker Hunter won't be touched. For the likes of interesting things we are down to the small limited run companies like JetMads. Sad but there it is.

[NoelSmith]

Was half expecting a Zero to compliment the Hellcat !

[Stokesy44]

I heard there was going to be an announcement last night.

Kit looks good but I wish they had gone for something a bit more out there. Trumpy already do a 1/24 109G so this is not new ground.

I wish Airfix would do another run of their Hellcat. I really fancy it but cant get hold if it. Ooh err Missus

Problem there is these days the big firms are run by marketing and bean counters who are, by nature, risk averse. Things customers would REALLY like - say a 1/24 E.E. Lightning or Hawker Hunter won't be touched. For the likes of interesting things we are down to the small limited run companies like JetMads. Sad but there it is.

Surely something like a Me 262 would have been just as popular? May be more so.

[RangerNeil]

I heard there was going to be an announcement last night.

Kit looks good but I wish they had gone for something a bit more out there. Trumpy already do a 1/24 109G so this is not new ground.

I wish Airfix would do another run of their Hellcat. I really fancy it but cant get hold if it. Ooh err Missus

Problem there is these days the big firms are run by marketing and bean counters who are, by nature, risk averse. Things customers would REALLY like - say a 1/24 E.E. Lightning or Hawker Hunter won't be touched. For the likes of interesting things we are down to the small limited run companies like JetMads. Sad but there it is.

Surely something like a Me 262 would have been just as popular? May be more so.

To the likes of us - yes. Guaranteed sales. But the marketing types aren't, as a rule, like us - bean conters even less so. They will know about Spitfires, Hurricane & Me-109's, to lesser extent Fw-190's. The likes of the Me-262 would be far less known and thus - in their eyes - too great a risk.
To use a "real life" example - back in the late 70's a design team at Ford came up with a 3 door coupe concept based on the Fiesta platform. Those of us in the engineering side and the performance car one loved it. Marketing vetoed it, bean counters refused to fund design and the project would have ended there. But Bill Ford visited the Dunton R&D centre here in the UK and one of the team members managed to get his ear and show him the design. Bill Ford immediately approved the project. Result was the Ford Puma - went from the drawing board to job #1 in 18 months ( record at the time, usual it took 4 years) and it sold like hotcakes. Heads of Marketing & Finance found themselves 8n the job market.
Unfortunately Airfix doesn't have a Bill Ford equivalent.

[NoelSmith]

Surprised that Airfix have never made a kit of the Tupolev 'Bear' long range reconnaissance strategic bomber in 1/72nd scale. Just about everyone who has even the slightest interest in aviation knows of it.
Way back, I seem to remember that Monogram made a B52 and a B36 in 1/72nd scale.

[digger303]

Problem there is these days the big firms are run by marketing and bean counters who are, by nature, risk averse. Things customers would REALLY like - say a 1/24 E.E. Lightning or Hawker Hunter won't be touched. For the likes of interesting things we are down to the small limited run companies like JetMads. Sad but there it is.

Surely something like a Me 262 would have been just as popular? May be more so.

To the likes of us - yes. Guaranteed sales. But the marketing types aren't, as a rule, like us - bean conters even less so. They will know about Spitfires, Hurricane & Me-109's, to lesser extent Fw-190's. The likes of the Me-262 would be far less known and thus - in their eyes - too great a risk.
To use a "real life" example - back in the late 70's a design team at Ford came up with a 3 door coupe concept based on the Fiesta platform. Those of us in the engineering side and the performance car one loved it. Marketing vetoed it, bean counters refused to fund design and the project would have ended there. But Bill Ford visited the Dunton R&D centre here in the UK and one of the team members managed to get his ear and show him the design. Bill Ford immediately approved the project. Result was the Ford Puma - went from the drawing board to job #1 in 18 months ( record at the time, usual it took 4 years) and it sold like hotcakes. Heads of Marketing & Finance found themselves 8n the job market.
Unfortunately Airfix doesn't have a Bill Ford equivalent.

Unfortunately it's the bean counters who have taken control of everything these days.