Airfix A-4 Skyhawk

IrishAir · Post by **IrishAir** » February 28th, 2012, 5:44 pm

New boxart and info available about this kit, I'm not much of a jet person but I have to say that Argentinian scheme is tempting me.

Cheers,
Paul

peebeep · Post by **peebeep** » February 28th, 2012, 5:51 pm

Sprue shots:

peebeep

flakmonkey · Post by **flakmonkey** » February 28th, 2012, 5:53 pm

Wrong scale. Nothing to see here.

Brickie · Post by **Brickie** » February 28th, 2012, 6:29 pm

Still, I've something of a soft spot for the "scooter", so I might grab one of these at some point.

Beowulf Shaeffer · February 28th, 2012, 7:45 pm

perfect scale........................i'll take a dozen please

im a big fan of the scooter too

Dazzled · Post by **Dazzled** » February 28th, 2012, 8:27 pm

Just in time for the Falklands GB too

Dirkpitt289 · Post by **Dirkpitt289** » February 28th, 2012, 8:34 pm

I want one of these big time!

Stamford · Post by **Stamford** » February 28th, 2012, 9:40 pm

Whats the story here - this Isn´t the old Airfix series 1 jobbie is it? New mould or reissue of somebody elses?

peebeep · Post by **peebeep** » February 28th, 2012, 9:44 pm

Airfix new tooling.

peebeep

sesquipedalian · Post by **sesquipedalian** » February 28th, 2012, 10:23 pm

box art looks good

Eric Mc · Post by **Eric Mc** » February 28th, 2012, 10:58 pm

Glorious box art.

Post by **Gregers** » February 29th, 2012, 12:52 am

Looks good in the plastic. Will reserve judgement until I get one and build it though. Separate slats are a nice touch and dropping the flaps should be easy. I would have liked to see some more decal options though like Israeli and 'Jester' from Top Gun for instance, bits to make the later humpback scooters and both types of I-R probes would have been nice but from the pics it looks like a damn good effort anyways and the aftermarket boys (And Girls) should have a field day with this one.

All the best.

Greg

sesquipedalian · Post by **sesquipedalian** » February 29th, 2012, 10:53 pm

Heh. I wasn't going to ask but, as it's been mentioned already; are these really as manuoverable as TopGun would have us think ? I suppose they would be compaired to an F14 ?

Zardoz · Post by **Zardoz** » March 1st, 2012, 4:43 pm

That will definately be added to my stash. Fond memories of my Matchbox kit from back in the day had me looking on eBay for one recently.

Post by **Softscience** » March 4th, 2012, 8:26 am

Frack, I wish these new airfix kits weren't such a drag to come by in my neck of the woods. I'm just getting stuff that was released last year. Now that the company has come to terms with their trench issue, I'm actually interested in getting some of the new kits.

This one is near the top of the list.

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