Aifix Valiant

[Garry Russell]

Airfix HU

1/72 Valiant to be released in 2010

[Paul K]

Will there be an FSX version ?

[DaveB]

Wonder what colour the plastic will be... green perhaps??

ATB

DaveB

[Tomliner]

1/72 Valiant to be released in 2010

Perhaps James May will build one.
I seem to remember V bomber kits made by Frog which I think were 1/96th scale.Frog certainly made some 1/96th scale airliner kits.I remember building the DC-7C 'Seven Seas' as well as the Britannia.EricT.

[Garry Russell]

Hi Eric

Yes FROG made the Victor, Vulcan and Valiant in 1/96 scale

Others in that scale...made at a time when they made most kits to fit the boxes......Lancaster, Vimy, Viscount, Britannia, Comet, Caravelle and DC 7C

Licoln International also made 1/96 of the Victor and Vulcan but the were poor models of the prototypes.

Matchbox made the Victor in 1/72, later boxed by Revel and of course Airfix make the Vulcan so a nice set comong one there me thinks

[Tomliner]

Hi Garry.I also wanted to build the Viscount but my pocket money wouldn't stretch to that at the time.I did buy several kits many years later,probably for nostalgic reasons,and probably because I could the afford to do so.However I never got round to building them,and I sold them off(along with many other goodies) when we decided to move to an apartment up here.One kit which I do remember buying in the late 60's was the Viscount in 1/96th scale in Lufthansa colours ,made by Faller of W Germany.This was another one which I never built and was sold along with the others.I remember saying to the guy who bought them all that the Viscount kit was probably by then(2007) a collectors item.ATB EricT

[Garry Russell]

The Faller Viscount was actually 1/100 scale,

The best injection moulded Viscount kit is still around under the Glencoe brand. It's a 700 and was originally made by Hawk.

A FROG KLM Viscount will set you back several hundred pounds and even rarer is the NZNAC decaled version.

[Tomliner]

The Faller Viscount was actually 1/100 scale,

Garry you are quite correct.I had forgotten that.I seem to recall that they also made a Convair 440 in the same series which I also wanted but never got round to buying for some reason.Cheers EricT

[Garry Russell]

I had the CV440 once. like the Viscount it had soft plastic engine fronts and pins so it could be motorised.

They also did a Noratlas, but I never saw that

[DelP]

Anyone got room for one of these.....

1/32 scale Vulcan



Derek