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Airfix Advent Calendar?
Topic Started: Dec 1 2014, 08:07 AM (557 Views)
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Lt. Steve 'Gun Show' Harrison-Green
DevilFish
Dec 22 2014, 03:14 PM
DLG Dave
Dec 22 2014, 12:33 PM
http://www.airfix.com/shop/new-for-2015.html

The Lightning F.1 in 1:48 will be re-released too....

Box of 1:48 RAF ground crew. (Boxtop illustration is very Airfix 1960s ...caption competition for the helmeted figure in almost dead-centre anyone...?...)

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http://www.airfix.com/catalog/product/view/id/8403/category/1222/
2 questions....

1) are these going to be plastic or polythene (or whatever that aweful soft stuff is)

2) I didn't think the "wooly pully" was around in WW2...I always thought that,like the beret, it didn't make an appearance till post-war National Service days...
And, even if it was WW2, it would have been a round neck, not Vee...
The guys had jumpers but only blue knitted ones that mum usually made for them and they were permitted to wear. If they are working around an armed aircraft then all of them should be wearing helmets and not chip hats. Also none of them has a jerkin on, the leather jacket worn over Battlefield dress to provide some 'protection' and then a belt went around that. When I eventually do my 1/72 D-day Typhoon dio, all of the figures will need modifying to make them anything close to accurate.
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Lt. Steve 'Gun Show' Harrison-Green
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Dec 22 2014, 04:34 PM
DevilFish
Dec 22 2014, 03:14 PM
DLG Dave
Dec 22 2014, 12:33 PM
http://www.airfix.com/shop/new-for-2015.html

The Lightning F.1 in 1:48 will be re-released too....

Box of 1:48 RAF ground crew. (Boxtop illustration is very Airfix 1960s ...caption competition for the helmeted figure in almost dead-centre anyone...?...)

Posted Image

http://www.airfix.com/catalog/product/view/id/8403/category/1222/
2 questions....

1) are these going to be plastic or polythene (or whatever that aweful soft stuff is)

2) I didn't think the "wooly pully" was around in WW2...I always thought that,like the beret, it didn't make an appearance till post-war National Service days...
And, even if it was WW2, it would have been a round neck, not Vee...
The guys had jumpers but only blue knitted ones that mum usually made for them and they were permitted to wear. If they are working around an armed aircraft then all of them should be wearing helmets and not chip hats. Also none of them has a jerkin on, the leather jacket worn over Battlefield dress to provide some 'protection' and then a belt went around that. When I eventually do my 1/72 D-day Typhoon dio, all of the figures will need modifying to make them anything close to accurate.
Oh and RAF Regt wore Berets but that was it for the blue lot. They wore the same battle dress as the army with the blue beret. I've picked up all sorts of info over the last 2 years doing re-enacting as well as the day job in blue.
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Lt. Paul 'Red Dog' Rose
not much new that interests me.....whitley would be nice but not at that price

the 1/48 vehicles are interesting, just a shame its 1/48 instead of 1/35
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LCDR Paul "Voodoo" Carter
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Dec 22 2014, 04:37 PM
FTS
Dec 22 2014, 04:34 PM
DevilFish
Dec 22 2014, 03:14 PM
DLG Dave
Dec 22 2014, 12:33 PM
http://www.airfix.com/shop/new-for-2015.html

The Lightning F.1 in 1:48 will be re-released too....

Box of 1:48 RAF ground crew. (Boxtop illustration is very Airfix 1960s ...caption competition for the helmeted figure in almost dead-centre anyone...?...)

Posted Image

http://www.airfix.com/catalog/product/view/id/8403/category/1222/
2 questions....

1) are these going to be plastic or polythene (or whatever that aweful soft stuff is)

2) I didn't think the "wooly pully" was around in WW2...I always thought that,like the beret, it didn't make an appearance till post-war National Service days...
And, even if it was WW2, it would have been a round neck, not Vee...
The guys had jumpers but only blue knitted ones that mum usually made for them and they were permitted to wear. If they are working around an armed aircraft then all of them should be wearing helmets and not chip hats. Also none of them has a jerkin on, the leather jacket worn over Battlefield dress to provide some 'protection' and then a belt went around that. When I eventually do my 1/72 D-day Typhoon dio, all of the figures will need modifying to make them anything close to accurate.
Oh and RAF Regt wore Berets but that was it for the blue lot. They wore the same battle dress as the army with the blue beret. I've picked up all sorts of info over the last 2 years doing re-enacting as well as the day job in blue.
The research I did when doing my 1/24 Hurricane, it seems that leather jerkins were worn mainly by armourers. Other trades wore coveralls in either white, blue, black or khaki. Initially trades stuck to a certain colour, ie, fairy's wore white, heavys wore darker colours. But as the war went on then they wore whatever they could get hold of.
I've never seen pics of guys wearing helmets on aircraft, but I generally look at early war pics.
Pics I have seen of them wearing chipbags are, in my opinion, staged. Having seen a lot if pics that are obviously more natural with the guys in shirtsleeves and hatless.
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