Thanks Chris ! Take a look at the Arma Hobby one. It makes this look like a frog kit !

Thanks Bruce ! You'll do a top job I know it.

Thanks Matt 🍻

Thanks SMS , the Arma hobby one looks gorgeous, if I didn't have too many kits to build, I'd be getting a few more Arma kits.

Thanks José!

Cheers mate ! Played it a bit safe on this one but I liked how they came out too

Thanks VMS !

Thanks Peter, you too man !

Thanks Tiny Worlds !

Thank you! Cheers!

Thanks so much @Sprue Fascination Channel !

Thanks John ! Let me know if your engine sprue was a bit funky, it would be nice if I got the only duff one.

@@lpjmodels I've got the same kit, same box art, same everything (purchased in California) and mine has none of that flash that yours has. Unfortunately, I guess it looks like you got a lemon. However, you made it work and the final product looks amazing! Great job.

Thanks for watching Joe 😁

Cheers Sully !

Thanks Les hope you're doing well

Thanks my friend!

The arma one maybe, done two wildcats this year though so may have to wait a bit

Thanks Sera ! Gotta watch out for that naughty depth of field

@@lpjmodels more practice and I'm sure you will nail it . 😎

Thanks Peter, I feel a bit of a hack when It comes to AC I have always been geared towards vehicles but funnily just do a lot of planes 😆

That was a wierd sprue mate !

Cheers Dan much appreciated

Thanks Jeden ! I havent had an accident yet :o

Thanks Jason, 100% a bit of a safety build because I haven't been feeling it as much lately. But gotta plough through

Haha I never looked at it this way. Thanks Michael !

Thanks Dave 🍻

The Arma kit looks exquisite!

Thanks T Paul !

You did a wonderful job on this

Thanks Kiwaruna . One of the things they ( Airfix) told us on the airfix day, is that the kits get made and packed ( mostly in India) and then are never opened until the customer sees the parts. They claimed that having someone go over the sprues would add too much money to the end product. Making them even more expensive. It is something that I felt needed bringing up when I had my 1on1 chat, and this is the reply I got. I fear I'd be flogging a dead horse. I get it, but it is annoying . 😒

@@lpjmodels So theirs and Hornby's products are made in China and boxed in India? After shutting down their British factory and leaving just a tiny design office here it's a cheek they still claim to be a great British company.

@@fus149hammer5 I think the toolings are China,( not 100% on tooling but its the most logical place ) moulding in India. But the new spitfire is a completely UK project.

@@lpjmodels There's a TV series in the UK called 'Hornby A Model World' Which follows Hornby and Airfix. In it they design and update model trains, cars and planes from their catalogue. They design items in this country then send the plans via the Internet to China for manufacture. Hornby/Airfix had a large factory in the UK but shut it down and outsourced the work to China making lots of people redundant. Their claim to be a "british icon" ting pretty hollow.

@@fus149hammer5 I dont know when this was filmed, but when I was invited to the hornby HQ a few months back they stated India as the site of the mouldings. Also confirmed on the wiki page here imgur.com/a/SgkVXD7 I agree it's a bit iffy but a lot of companies outsource tooling and moulding, purely because of the cost. I think there are very few European manufacturers that have in house moulding, I'm fairly sure eduard and special hobby over in CZ have in house tooling and moulding but I'm not 100%, das werk use the takom factory, airfix armour is academy tooled and so on. I think producing the kits here completely would be prohibitively expensive. One of the things that was said about the upcoming 24th spitfire made in the UK was that the dearest part of the process having them made here funnily was the packaging. And that's probably down to having to pay a minimum hourly wage of around £9 for someone to box something instead of 50p. Which in itself is a bit rubbish for the overseas workers too.

I dont usually. Because of how mould release agents work today there is often no need unless the sprue is visibly greasy. Like the engine sprue here. Wierd, because the rest of the kit was fine

The newer stuff is better, but they still have a way to come !

Thanks Bob, it's a shame as some subjects you can't get in other manufacturers. That walrus for example.

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