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well not new kits but i have been moving factory units again sorting through many boxes i've had for years and came across a box of old rare kits i bought back in the early 70's including heller/frog test shots/airfix and contrail vac forms,also with them were some old kits in need of restoration,if anyone's interested i can post pics and lists of what i found all 1/72nd
Moraine Saulnier ms230 heller
klemm 35 airmodel vac-form
fdb-1 gregor can-vac
p-47d razor back airfix[1960's]
p40b frog test shot
macchi mc202 frog
me262v1 airmodel vac-form
douglas 0-35 b7 contrail vac-form
bucker bu131 jungmann airmodel vac-form
arado ar68 airmodel vac-form
arado 396 airmodel vac-form
dornier do23g airmodel vac-form
fiesler storch airfix[1960's]
fairey gordon contrail vac-form
focke-wolf 190a frog test shot

just some of the kits i've found so far,hopefully i can get to them soon and start building again once i get my modeling time back,i'm not sure if i will even get time to finish the entrys to the G.B but i might start a restoration and finished thread to cover some of these builds/restorations,

thanks for looking
 
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Right Terry, old boy, just to let you know....

Classic Airframes 1/48 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV (plus decals)....£88.00
Classic Airframes 1/48 Defiant Day Fighter....£32.34
Classic Airframes 1/48 Bristol Blenheim Mk I....£52.50
Classic Airframes 1/48 Fairey Battle....£74.50
Dragon 1/48 Junker Ju188 E-1 Avenger....£36.01
 
Thanks old boy. As I suspected,stupid prices!
The Defiant price isn't too bad, although still high. But why would someone pay £74.50 for the Battle, when Special Hobby do two very good kits at around £30 ??!!
 
The Airfix Spitfire Mk.lXc/XlVe arrived today for my GB17 build. After I removed it from it's shipping crate, large enough to ship a baby grand piano, the box seemed a tad heavy. There are three extra parts trees for, what I am assuming, some sort of conversions.



The extra parts are colored circles as follows: green-extra wheel halves not shown in the instructions, pink-what seems to be a seafire tail hook, black- extra upper wing halves without wheel well bulges, white- a third set of cannons, yellow-three pairs of wing tips, two for the models to be built, and one set that look like they are for a high altitude version, grey-not quite sure what these are but they look like inserts for a seafire version, blue-three sets of cannon covers, two are identical. Not shown is an extra propeller that seems to be identical to the other one. If anyone wants a better view of these parts, I'll take some picture when the lighting is better.



Geo
 
Good stuff guys.
Geo, at the time this kit was first released, I suspect it was easier for Airfix to just bung in the sprue trees with all the parts meant for other versions. When they released their Mosquito B.MkXVI, the box contained almost a complete FB.VI as well !
I believe this practice ceased with later kits!
 
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